The Devil's Excrement

I said that Chavez march on Saturday was large, but certainly smaller than the opposition march. I did not want to say much more than that since, at this point, I think that all that really matters is that we have a referendum and count each other. Obviously, if Chavez were as popular as he thinks, it would be to his advantage to have the referendum take place. By winning it, he could truly say, for once, that he had a mandate for his revolution. But he knows he does not. He never has. When people voted for him in 1998, they were voting for a change, not a revolution. He promised to eradicate corruption, reduce crime and improve the lot of the poor. He has done neither. Instead he set the country in a path of hate and his fake revolution, without any content, where holding on to political life and protecting your corrupt friends is now the main objective. That is why opposition marches are larger. Proof is above. This is a picture of one of the six opposition marches on Wednesday of last week. This was not the largest of the six. You can see how big it was. If you look carefully way back at your right there are still people there flowing in from the right. This march lasted more than two hours very much just like that. But what is interesting is that in the newspaper pictures you can see that Chavez’ rally thinned out once you got beyond the Museum of Science. The picture above, static like that, has more people than in Chavez’ rally. But this is irrelevant anyway, let’s have a referendum and let’s see where the millions of Chavistas are. If they win, we shut up, if we win, the revolution is dead. That is the problem, Chavez does not want his personal dream to be over, but his personal dream is a nightmare to over 80% of the Venezuela population. Unfortunately for him, for the other 20%, close to five years later is still only a hope and nothing tangible yet, despite billions of dollars in oil income, despite controlling the whole economic and the whole political system (Except the Central Bank and the opposition). As simple as that.  

I said that Chavez march on Saturday was large, but certainly smaller than the opposition march. I did not want to say much more than that since, at this point, I think that all that really matters is that we have a referendum and count each other. Obviously, if Chavez were as popular as he thinks, it would be to his advantage to have the referendum take place. By winning it, he could truly say, for once, that he had a mandate for his revolution. But he knows he does not. He never has. When people voted for him in 1998, they were voting for a change, not a revolution. He promised to eradicate corruption, reduce crime and improve the lot of the poor. He has done neither. Instead he set the country in a path of hate and his fake revolution, without any content, where holding on to political life and protecting your corrupt friends is now the main objective. That is why opposition marches are larger. Proof is above. This is a picture of one of the six opposition marches on Wednesday of last week. This was not the largest of the six. You can see how big it was. If you look carefully way back at your right there are still people there flowing in from the right. This march lasted more than two hours very much just like that. But what is interesting is that in the newspaper pictures you can see that Chavez’ rally thinned out once you got beyond the Museum of Science. The picture above, static like that, has more people than in Chavez’ rally. But this is irrelevant anyway, let’s have a referendum and let’s see where the millions of Chavistas are. If they win, we shut up, if we win, the revolution is dead. That is the problem, Chavez does not want his personal dream to be over, but his personal dream is a nightmare to over 80% of the Venezuela population. Unfortunately for him, for the other 20%, close to five years later is still only a hope and nothing tangible yet, despite billions of dollars in oil income, despite controlling the whole economic and the whole political system (Except the Central Bank and the opposition). As simple as that.