Alexis Marquez is a Prof. at Central University in Caracas who describes himself as “loyal to the principles of Marxism, socialism and communism, ideological basis for the Cuban revolution”. Dr. Marquez, who was born in the same town as Hugo Chavez, writes this letter to Roberto Fernandez Retamar a member of the Cuban Academy and supposedly close to Fidel Castro. The letter is too long to post, if you read Spanish, please look at it, it may help in understanding what is happening in Venezuela. I have translated some relevant paragraphs:
“Unexpectedly and during the first days in power, the speech (Chavez’) changed radically, and became more aggressive that in the campaign. At the same time, rather than prepare, with adequate advise, an organic plan of political and social reforms, within the framework prepared by him to convoke a Constituent Assembly where he could reform the State, he opted for a revolution, which he named bolivariana’
“Chavez has stimulated vehemently, not a class struggle, but class hate. And in some clumsy way has pretended to identify with that oligarchy even the middle class, the small a medium bourgeois , which he has damaged without mercy, despite the fact that it voted mostly for him, but he lost almost all of this backing, because of his arbitrary policies.”
“Corruption has grown enormously, leaving behind the scandals of the past”
“The President …once in power has suffered a grotesque transformation in an arrogant being, …lover of luxuries…obsessed by traveling, all very expensive and largely unnecessary…bought a Presidential plane…at an exorbitant price near 70 million dollars…in a country with grave economic problems”
“To this, we have to add the immeasurable growth in social problems. Poverty has extended like a cancer that seems irreversible. Unemployment has increased in frankly pathological proportions for any modern society. Thousands of companies, large, médium and small have gone bankrupt.”
“He (Chavez) is not really a revolutionary, nor a democrat, and least of all a leader of leftist, Marxist, socialist or communist ideology, like the right has pretended to see and like many in the opposition majority have believed”
“This is how an enormous front of opposition to the Government has formed that importantly, it encompasses from the extreme right to the extreme left….We (the opposition) are an overwhelming majority.”
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