TEÓDULO LÓPEZ MELÉNDEZ, Writer and Journalist - Caracas, Venezuela
If the president chews coca the opposition he chews poppy. The leaf of coca is oval and of her cocaine is extracted that serves, anesthetic además, de of the mucous membranes. The poppy has leaves abrazadoras of those that the opium is extracted that serves, además, para to delight.
The opposition walks delighted with the regional elections. The regional elections are far, very far, and it is necessary to not only have calendar precandidatos. The government follows his road-one tortuous, mistaken, pugnaz - but it follows his road. We will be permanently subjected to the initiatives of the régimen si non elencamos the immediate fights with appropriate answers.
Him that we limit in good it not leaves with the Colombian State but with the FARC it is a statement of extreme graveness. It is it, equally, the ordinance-laws that they go going out with authorizations to condemn big distribution chains and of production of foods, that that, of being summed up, a bordering shortage could take place with the famine. And they will come more.
The control that they will represent the regional elections is at great distance and it is necessary to implement methods for the flange immediate contentiva. We are sleeping kind of a nap and proclaiming the analysis on what will be the great official defeat in November, while the government hits every day. The official actions are, slowly, putting to the regional ones in the true distance and restoring on the table Raúl's thesis Isaías Baduel of summoning to a Constituent National Assembly.
That position sounded strange because it was made immediately after the country rejected a reformation and that Assembly is summoned, in fact, to reform the Constitution. Nevertheless, the step of the days goes materializing the offensive that Baduel previó and that we all knew he would come, very in spite of those that believed in “reconciliation” and frenazo. The gallop toward the abyss of the nation that maintains the former-omnipotent finger outlines, at this time and in a closing way, the necessity of a flange and there am here that to scarce month and half the proposal of Baduel should be analyzed again carefully and thoroughness.
The regional elections are becoming a narcotic embelesador that is not able to cover the bitterness of the day by day. The analysis of where you can win it is passing at a second plane and it cannot be the primary objective of analysis. In front of the disheveled offensive that of being speaking of precandidatos sounds to music relajante when the sonar of the trumpets explodes the eardrums. It is necessary to implement options of immediate contention. My initial proposal was to fix as objective to the Assembly Nacional, pero those cloyed they seem not even to have considered it.
He has absolute reason Antonio Ledesma when he gets the attention on the paralysis opponent and he calls to be mobilized against the arms career and against the winds guerreristas. I don't share the thesis completely that the government's movements are not more than a curtain of smoke to distract of the serious and urgent internal matters and to cause a nationalist reaction. There are purposes that you/they go beyond that that generic and unworriedly they have been given in calling “curtains of smoke”. AND as for a nationalist reaction it is a foolishness, since the Venezuelan town doesn't want war neither it is anticolombiano.
Rather just the opposite: he has looked at Colombia, it sympathizes with the neighboring country in their fight against the FARC, their rulers' admira la serenity and it welcomes with affection the sentence of Uribe on not responding for “I respect to the Venezuelan town”. The editorial of the newspaper from Caracas “The National one” titled “Alive Colombia” it represents to fullness the true feeling of what this town feels toward the brother of to the side. Raúl Isaías Baduel who has lent invalorables services to the country, continues making it with its constant observations on the feeling of the Armed forces of Venezuela toward that hypothetical and capricious warlike conflict.
Of here to the regional elections there is a long distance. The opposition cannot chew poppy, he has to be mobilized, to leave to the street to manifest its I reject to the arms waste, among other many things. The government is bolted, he will make of his, it will continue with the destruction of the country in these long months that separate us of the electoral consultation. We cannot continue delighted. There are daily battles that to complete.
The regional elections are becoming opium. It is necessary to shake to the country. It is necessary to take out the country to the street to protest for a thousand reasons. It is urgent the national mobilization. The first great mobilization should be-as well Ledesma plates it - against the arms career and I eat warning that we won't tolerate any warlike adventure with a country like Colombia with which only fits integration, exchange, solidarity and profundización of the fraternity.
Reason to protest they have more than enough and they are plentiful. The second great manifestation should be on the internal politics-not already for the external one that anguishes for the serious implications that it outlines of death and destruction -, against the official ineptitude, against the desabastecimiento and the inflation. One behind another. If the leaders chew poppy the Venezuelans we should chew anger.
