Ana Julia Jatar and the smell of dictatosrhip

March 18, 2004

Analyst Ana Julia Jatar closes her article in Descifrado entitled: “Three against three million” by saying something which resonates with my current thinking and goes along what I was saying in my last post yesterday:


“For this Government it is clear that because it ahs a hard time mobilizing the million of citizens that it would need to win the electoral battle, it has decided to concentrate its efforts in the votes of those that it is easier to control.


 


For the citizens it must be clear that they no longer have a Supreme Court and thus, no judicial power. That is why it should not surprise us that yesterday the new strategy by the Government, that of judicial terror, became evident, ordering the detention of Mayor Enrique Capriles Radonski and threatening to jail other public servants elected by popular vote.


 


Today the smell of dictatorship is much stronger, we Venezuelans have been left without referees, and the worst part, without justice”

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