TEÓDULO LÓPEZ MELÉNDEZ, Writer and Journalist - Caracas, Venezuela
The anecdotic thing is generally irrelevant, something curious, an incidental event, something without importance that we count and on the one which in not few opportunities joke. This Venezuelan government that has played us in luck plays anecdotes to newspaper. Let us see a couple, illustrative to more not to be able to, he stops then to be in charge of of that opposed: the “specialist in intelligence” Ramón Rodríguez Chacín said solemn in press wheel that he had the coordinates where the FARC would give to the hostages, but that he would not not even say them to anybody to the Red Cruz and that he would only give already them to the pilot of the helicopter in flight.
Once in the place of the events it fastened their telephone satelital to communicate with “its” major in boss. After Raúl's history Reyes to one what he has left to say - by way of anecdote - it is that absolutely nobody found out of where it was Rodríguez Chacín, nobody raked the call, nobody found out the exact point where the FARC was giving to the four former-parliamentarian in perfect state after a “walk of 230 kilometers”. he Goes “specialist in intelligence”. The other curiosity is the solemn tiresome speech to the nation of the Secretary of the Defense where “he informed” of the military mobilization to face the designs of the empire.
Then it was accused to the means of disclosing-in “betrayal to the homeland” - the secret movements military Venezuelans. The boss of the South Command of the United States has said that monitorea the movements of Venezuelan and Ecuadorian troops, so that they know where each tanqueta is, where each soldier, where each canyon. I remember perfectly when it continued, from Lisbon, the war of The Malvinas in the BBC of London, because the station specified with details the movements of the fleet sent by Mrs. Thatcher and he/she announced every time that an Argentinean airplane guessed right on a ship of the Real British Armada.
The anecdotic thing is daily part of the national life. As the offer of Lina's Rum angry groups foquistas of placing two thousand men in the “battle front”. Now we know that they have two thousand weapons, two thousand payees, two thousand urban guerillas fighters. The anecdotic thing begins to stop to be it when we see that the main characters control a gobierno.
The anecdotic thing becomes tragedy when we check that the war continues that the war is against the population of this country that we have a government in war against its own nation. This matter stops to be laughable when we have a government observed by the chancelleries of the world with apprehension, commiseration and astonishment. This matter stops to be he fears in jest when he thinks about-independently that they prosper or not - that the Boss of the state of this country will be accused before the International Penal Court and when he begins to repeat that Venezuela a state narcoterrorista should be declared.
No, this is not part of the anecdote, this is part of the danger. This is not matter of the Reader Digest with that of “the laugh certain remedy”. Nobody can laugh when a Boss of State alleges that he could declare terrorist to Pedro Carmona Estanga and to bombard his apartment in Bogotá. That, in a president's mouth, is not an anecdote, it is a threat of death.
Of the danger they are part the constant abuses to those that you our military somete a. Of the danger they are part the internal incidences of this hurt event that the international diplomacy has known to put in the freezer, because to put in the freezer the hot thing so that he/she cools down it is the paper of the diplomacy. And those internal incidences are varied and full with danger: he has been given a slap to the possibility of democratic alternation for via electoral, what should not discourage, in the most minimum thing, a total participation in the regional elections of next November.
Even this way, the element is present. The government has sowed, with his military maneuvers and his warlike arrogance, it has sowed as never, the collective belief that it doesn't go out with votes, although it is defeated in regional elections or parliamentarian. That siembra is fundamental part of the danger. That is to play with fire and the one that plays with fire pee is made in the bed (Hungarian proverb).
Dispositions that violate the university autonomy to the flat being their own admission norms, laws that come out-or better than they enter -, desabastecimiento while the government shows with pride in official propaganda-I marry unusual - that the ports are packed with foods and that there is “zero shortage.”
The massive imports of food now are reason of pride; frankly to think about again if to laugh or to cry. I abuse official of chains, grandiloquent speeches, behavior disheveled in the international plane, application of the reformation defeated by way of the qualification. That said: the war is internal.
This is not a country that he lives placidly in democracy. This is a country in war, an intern, a merciless one, one that doesn't allow moments of peace or it grants seconds of truce. We are not, because, gentlemen candidates that rain and they swarm as yellow butterflies, in “such a beautiful night as this”. Here telephones satelitales are not needed to know that the night is dark and stormy.
Here it is necessary go to vote massively in November and to leave aside the abstentionist buds that like Egyptian plague begins again to arise, but it is necessary to make it low conscience of what we really live. Here it simply is not of “unit and good candidates”. Here it is simply that the electoral cracks that the régime allows take advantage, not more. If doesn't take advantage of them we would be stupid, like we would be stupid if thinks that the country lapses in the “democratic normality.”
For that reason it bothers me in a special way the artificial argument before the case of those “disabled” when he should have given an overwhelming political answer. In Mexico López Obrador was not limited had enunciated legalistic when they wanted to disable it as presidential candidate but rather an immense multitude placed forcing the bar and imposing the relevancy of her candidacy.
Here those “disabled” they proclaim that it should be the Supreme Tribunal the one that should decide, while their president leaves had appeared to proclaim the well that the mobilization of troops was, surely to avoid that they retire it before time or they execrate it to have voted “No” against the constitutional reformation. He has the lady invoices that to pay.
In this country where they intermingle the anecdotic thing and the danger, we should know that we won't go out of the danger with anecdotes.
tlopezmelendez@cantv.net
