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***The Venezuelan armed forces
have helped to establish a state of terror in the country
In addition to prominent
members of the Venezuelan armed forces being accused and, even, sanctioned by
the U.S. government for their association with with drug
trafficking. Besides the President of the National Assembly, Captain Diosdado
Cabello, being accused by a former body guard who escaped to the U.S., of being
the head of the drug cartel called “The Cartel of the Suns” (the suns refer to
the symbols of military rankings which are worn by officers in their
epaulettes). In addition to the deeply unconstitutional posture of the Minister
of Defense, General V. Padrino Lopez, who has declared his unconditional
loyalty to the revolution, the Venezuelan Armed Forces have recently structured
a military plan ostensibly designed to fight smuggling and hoarding of good in
the country, but which is – in reality – a powerful instrument of repression
against the Venezuelan private sector. This secret plan, leaked to daily
newspaper “El Nacional” has 22 pages and is signed by General Padrino Lopez and
consists of a directive to the National Commander of the Venezuelan National
Guard, Major General Gabriel Oviedo for the establishment of the plan.
In this plan it is assumed that
private owners of industry, commercial distributors, merchants and, even, the
so-called members of the informal economy or street peddlers, are part of a
vast net of enemies of the state and that, as such, should be the object of
vigilance, repression and harsh treatment. The plan calls for the installation
of 24 military regional commands, plus a Central Command of the so-called People’s
Guards (a paramilitary organization), plus a Coastal Vigilance Command, and an
Air force group. There are also divisions for Mining Vigilance and Special
police, all with the objective of “maintaining the domestic order and counter
the attacks of what President Maduro likes to call “The Economic War”.
The plan is also designed to "fight" petroleum illegal product extraction from Venezuela into Colombia as well
as hoarding, which they most blame merchants for. Paradoxically, it is the National Guard the
organization that most Venezuelans blame for the illegal extraction of oil
products across the Venezuelan borders, working in combination with corrupt
petroleum company managers. Recently, two of these managers, brother and
sister, have been detained, being caught red handed in smuggling activities.
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These military and
para-military organizations will conduct vigilance and follow up operations,
will supervise the production activities of the industries, will conduct investigations
about imports, storage and distribution of basic foods, among other activities.
In addition to these structures the plan includes the use in intelligence operations of the so-called “Cooperating Patriots”,
allied to the revolution. This is no more than a spy organization, similar to
the Cuban “Defenders of the Revolution”, informers, stool pigeons. Venezuelan
society has become degraded, engaged in an abominable class struggle promoted
by the regime. The stool pigeons are instructed to denounce suspicious activity
of any kind, which opens the doors to a state of terror.
The Plan also calls for an Intelligence
Central Room for the follow up and processing of all the material generated by
the informers, possibly with the help of Cuban "advisers".
This plan is already being
implemented and one of its first actions was the closure of the popular markets
“Dia a Dia”, Day to Day, and the imprisonment of their main directors, a group
of middle class Venezuelans who have an excellent reputation as honest
merchants. The legal representative of this company says there is no justification
for this measure, except as an act of harassment of the private sector. All activities of this company had been duly
authorized by the government prior to its abrupt take over.
This military-paramilitary organization
is part of the police state which the current Venezuelan political regime has
installed in the country. Venezuelans are under a despicable dictatorship,
which is supported by a group of the military involved in drug trafficking.
Venezuela has become a rogue
state and the international community and democratic governments of the world
should no longer delude themselves about its abusive, corrupt and illegitimate nature.
I have collected much background information about the corruption, the abuse of power and
the illegitimacy of this regime, in case anyone is interested.
Only good guys,
please.
Gustavo Coronel
The communists are now ready again to commit massacres. They have made that intention clear. The people have no physical means to fight this tyranny. The only hope may be to flee and establish opposition movements in other countries like Colombia.
ResponderEliminar
ResponderEliminarI think I agree with Anónimo directly above me.
It may be that the time has come to give up on the process of peaceful change in Venezuela and to establish an opposition movement from outside the country--Colombia is the obvious location--to pursue justifiable goals using means other than dialog, which has become a joke under the guidance of UNASUR.
And it may be worth commenting here that, as things deteriorate in Venezuela, the culpability of UNASUR for failing to hold the Venezuelan government accountable to a process of genuine dialog should be remembered.
Venezuela has been kidnapped by a group of civilians and militaroids, all un worthy of Simon Bolivar's freedom legacy.
ResponderEliminarThe extremely corrupt, criminal and un-patriotic team has stolen the wealth of the nation, has created personal insecurity and scarcity in this apparently rich nation. They all cover each other's back by abusing the law for their dark purposes. The military and the high ranking chavistas give themselves high pay raises, well above the national average so they can keep the power by buying loyalties. Most disappointing of all has been the automatic solidarity of most of the Latin American governments to this Criminal regime. We can only appeal to them and to the civilized world to help us get rid of these criminals.