I never liked now Vice-President Jose Vicente Rangel when he was a reporter. He would sometimes use his column to vent personal issues with people and would make outrageous accusations using his “sources” but never would provide proof about anything. Curiously, he made his career and reputation blasting the military for corruption and later became great friends of the same people and as a member of the Government has done nothing but defend them against all charges of corruption. While he blasts the “oligarchs” he fails to mention how rich he is, his immense art collection and the fact that he has always drawn a salary from the state and got to where he is today thanks to the space given to him by the major media outlets.
But I never believed he would be the great cynic that he has proven to be. In a post last Thursday I showed pictures of Rangel in Plaza Altamira (Francia) the day the pro-Chavez march went by, invaded the Plaza, took over the whole area and proceeded to destroy what was there, including an image of the virgin that was beheaded and another that was painted over with graffiti and desecrated. The picture is very clear; Rangel is looking towards Plaza Altamira and applauding. There is no other possible interpretation to what he is doing, he is encouraging, approving what the Chavistas are doing, and he can not be applauding the dissident military in the Plaza. Whether at that time the religious figure were being abused or not is irrelevant. He was there, the Vice-President of Venezuela, approving the invasion of the Plaza by political thugs . That is not what civilized people do, his role should have been the opposite, he should have tried to ask the Chavistas to follow the path of the march, avoid confrontation, violence and respect private and public property. That is what leaders are supposed to do, lead by example. Instead he encouraged the destruction and it went overboard.
But his cynicism today was simply too much. In statements made to the press, he asked the Catholic Church leaders to be more “responsible” questioning how Bishop Porras could even look towards the Government and blame it for recent attacks on the church. He said there were millions of Catholics in Venezuela, many of them Chavistas and they should be respected. The climax was when he denied that Chavistas have participated in attacks on the church in Caracas or Falcon state. (The only attack in Caracas was the one from which the pictures below were taken). He finally suggested that the church leaders look to the dissident military of Plaza Altamira for the blame in the violence against the church. Ummm, the same ones that placed the altar and the images in Plaza Altamira and have been there for over a year. I guess Goebbels would have been very proud of him.
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