One of the sad aspects of the “Chavez revolution” is the split it has created in a society which had few things that divided it. The divisions go beyond social strata, affecting families in a country where the family concept is too important. Most keep it inside and long for the day that some form of reconciliation may take place, others choose to express it now and do what they think is morally right. I know Nicolas Bianco, the author of the following note which appeared today in El Nacional page A-2 (by subscription only), it must be really hard to decide you have to come out and be that tough on your own sibling. It must also feel really good to speak up:
The accomplices of the dictatorship by Nicolas Bianco
Venezuela and its civil society suffer today the rigors of the “ferocious phase” of the military dictatorship. With total impunity, the high military command conveniently distributed over the whole territory of the country and the “civil commands” entrenched in the Ministries, in the public institutions of all types, in the “powers of the state”, in the financial axis, in the foreign service, and as if this was not enough, backed in the streets by the circles of terror, apply without pause the tools of crime, theft, dismantling and treason.
These acts, of unquestionable dictatorial ancestry, generated with precision in “laboratories of systematic strategies” constitute a novel format which differentiates it from the classical dictatorships that produced so much desolation and death during the Twentieth Century in Latin America and the Caribbean. Not only in the spying and in the multiple electronic manipulations, in the endless access to the national treasury, but also in the “management of cynicism and lies” that characterizes these new formats, whose first trial was the regimen virtually directed by the tragic Fujimori-Montesinos duo.
Without any doubt, the confrontations and doctrinary dissidences or the imperialistic cohabitations have been left behind. The exploitation of the “patriotic, religious and leftists” speeches and the levels of complicity and accomplices strengthen that mortal armory. What is more recent, is the prevalence of transnational sources of complicity, the levels of which oscillate from the mega banks, to the drug traffickers and to the professional and paid intellectuals.
It is also quite painful, at the same time, the process of the accomplices that belongs to your own family or to that of fraternal friendship, and today they are part of a horrendous variance of the “useful idiots” of yesteryear. Blinded by their own hate or thirst for revenge against some executors of the damaging actions of the IVth. Republic, or anesthetized by the speech of the “savior” of the current regime who fed the spaces of hope, they now stand like a formidable obstacle in the way of the fight by our courageous civil society.
It is quiet clear that civil society will eradicate the current dictatorship and will exile with full decision the pretension of some to “go back to the past” and it will make sure that this will be the case, in the transition Government, as well as in public powers, the universities and the unions. Even sectors like the military one, the private one, and the ecclesiastic one will have to show a very clear disposition to unconditional cooperation with the vast majorities of our population that await with anxiety a better destiny.
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