Hard Times in Venezuela, How to Overthrow a Military Dictatorship?

Hard Times in Venezuela, How to Overthrow a Military Dictatorship?

By: Erreh Svaia

Caprine Dispersion

“Tell Fidel Castro that when Venezuela needed freedom fighters we didn’t import them, we raised them”

Romulo Betancourt

Things are simply not going well in Venezuela, inept dictator Nicolas Maduro keeps moving the south American country toward the dark waters of authoritarian, Cuba inspired government, mortally repressing social protests with what he unashamedly calls "agua y gasecito" (water and a little gas), the truth is that nearly 100 civilians have died during the protests in actions executed by the army or by paramilitaries, the evil axis of state, drug traffic and military keeps tightening its arm on civil society's neck, the poor people hasn’t summed to the protests because they are simply afraid of losing the subsides the government bribes them with, and the once praised Venezuelan democratic system keeps dissolving as Chavismo keeps menacing turning the country into a totalitarian state fashioned after the now defunct USSR in which prices are fixed, industry is wholly nationalized, foods are rationalized and black market keeps growing up wildly.

After the OEA (American States Organization) reunion recently failed to meet a majority in order to give a strict and unanimous condemnation at Venezuela violation of human rights, the political effort seems to suffer a major setback on its various attempts, the truth is that the representatives of the countries that make almost a 90% of America's population agreed about the regrettable state of the country, declared by the organization´s president, Luis Almagro, but at the time the vote was made, small countries in the Caribbean Sea benefited from Venezuela sponsored free oil, declined to denounce the democratic crisis, a sad fact that the future of the Venezuelan people has been sold for a couple of crude barrels, but on the positive side, it's almost unanimous for the major democratic leaders of the region that something is going to really wrong in Venezuela, as Maduro has taken chances to denounce intervention from the "imperialist USA" and the CIA, he has also accused Mexico and Colombia of trying to take advantage of Venezuelan oil, with reserves for about 200 years, as Maduro declared, I guess we need to make Maduro understand that oil will not be the pricey commodity it was a decade ago, and that in less than a decade electric cars will almost make oil obsolete, again, Venezuela's people future is being sold for so little, the Chavista big bet on oil prices lasted a couple of years, but in Keynesian fashion it has brought little bonanza to the present at the big cost of the future of the country, now losing and losing its reserves.

It seems that Maduro is desperately decided to create a totalitarian state in the image of the USSR, rationalization of food, nationalization of the industry, destruction of democracy, the attack against dissidents, a one party state and the abolition of private property seems to be the final goal of the Chavista government, but Maduro might not have the final word, I think he is just a puppet of the military who runs a big business with drug traffickers and the guerrillas on the Venezuela-Colombia border, Maduro might just be a mask and as long as the struggle continues his own life might be in danger and the situation could get worse, ironically considering that a vote for Hugo Chavez was made considering that "Venezuela couldn't get worse " well, yes it got worse and things could get even worst, as the facade could come down reveling the true face of the ruthless military regime, whose only exit might be the international support and the financial surgical weakening of the regime in the same way it was done in the USSR, the problem is that it can become a very slow and painful process, and Chavistas seem to smell things becoming harder for them, as a day ago a supposed helicopter attack with bombs and guns was staged and immediately blamed by Maduro on the CIA as an attempt to create a coup, a situation that seems more likely to be self-created in order to keep justifying the violation of people´s freedom and civil rights, I think Maduro has been learning from Sultan Erdogan in Turkey, who used terror to justify taking the country from democracy to authoritarianism.