TEÓDULO LÓPEZ MELÉNDEZ, Writer and Journalist - Caracas, Venezuela
The government is behaving as if has won the consultation on it reforms constitutional of December 2. No more, no less. It has returned the defiant and lowering language, the indiscriminate allotment of intimidations, the shameless exercise of the coercion.
The armed bands have appeared again: attack to the manifestation of the opposition in Barquisimeto, assault to the Legislative Town council of Carabobo, bomb against the statue of Washington in Caracas, aggressions against the Apostolic Nunciate.
The unchaste exercise of the power has returned to stop eventual applicants to positions of popular election.
There is confusion around the decision of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice declaring or not declaring (Mendoza's lawyers are some clumsy of more mark) that there is not anything to decide in the demand interposed against a decision of the General Controllership that leaves outside of game to Enrique Mendoza, Leopoldo López and Antonio Ledesma, for the time being.
As to the opposition the only thing that seems to interest him is the regional elections of November there is necessity to notice him that all cocktail attempts against the probable results of that date. These launchings to the lack of political rights conspire against the results of the state Miranda and of the Governorship Mayor.
In the international plane the things don't go better. The crisis with Exxon (they will pay, but with moving revolutionary screams), the growing external pressure, the evident crumbling of PDVSA and the warlike rhetoric with Colombia continue on the mat.
The general (R) Raúl Isaías Baduel spoke twice this recently concluded week (in an occasion at an international agency of news and a second to the station Union Radio) and in none of two o'clock he mentioned its idea of summoning to a Constituent National Assembly. The Venezuelans are entitled to wonder if Baduel abandoned its idea or if it could not simply get signatures that endorsed it.
The transfer of the Metropolitan Police of the biggest Governorship to the Ministry of the Interior has been discovered that we will have a “subversive police”, what embodies a contradiction in itself. Or it is subverted or he puts on order, but the really interesting thing is that Rodríguez's declarations Chacín captures to fullness the concept of a guerilla State. The Venezuelan is a State that subverts and it bears it to admit that not even the current territory where he inhabits the Venezuelan nation it is defensible and conservable ante a widespread subversive process.
Right now we are before a worse situation that the existent one before treating the government the defeat of passed December 2. Meanwhile the students pick up signatures to take them to the OAS in defense of the freedom of speech. In front of this I waste of energy one doesn't have left it more than to say that boy you can be, what is not acceptable is to be pendejo.
The opposition is dedicated to investigate if the Pharaoh Tutankamon was poisoned. It didn't lack more. If the delirious government wants to take until the last consequences the previous conclusions on Bolívar's murder like effect of a conspiracy between Santander and the Empire that, not by chance, he had two ships there close, the opposition should be devoted to same tools and to insist-against the opinions of all the archaeologists - that the Pharaoh yes it was it, although the truth is that he died for a not well cured fractured leg. They are the same as the famous Howard Crankcase when seeing the interior of the tumba. "Veo wonderful things for the first time", what guessed right to say went. It is this way the opposition looking inside the regional elections. He looks and he says: “I see wonderful things.”
Meanwhile the country collapses, he/she crumbles to the contact of the air the same as the mummies. The situation is very serious, The regional elections will be in a tomb if the things continue for this road. The opposition is looking to the interior of a tomb where you don't go but wealth, for the only reason that it has not still been plundered, the tomb means. The government learned the lesson of the 2D, electorally clearing is, because in the practice political cotidiana hace just the opposite to the result. This is, it continues ahead with their arms project, with their totalitarian project, with their unhinged project and inviable.
When one notices pressed the loose opposition an attack, but of attacks one doesn't live because this he is not a normal government to which opposition is made on behalf of Its Majesty the Queen, like in the hated Albión to whose embassy the PPT will protest or, better, to make the ridicule. No, we face a government “subversive and guerilla fighter”, as well the splendid Secretary of the Interior has said it.
This seems the tomb of Tutankamon, full with wealth and of curses. What everything seems to indicate is that we don't need archaeologists but citizens. The panorama of today's Venezuela cannot be sadder and depressing. The mediocrity campea, the blunder presides over us, the inability is apparent, the destructive process of the republic follows its course. If a civic bud, a civic insurgencia, doesn't take place a civic awakening, a civic decision, they won't be wealth, only curses, in the tomb of Tutankamon.
