Many see the crisis between Venezuela and Colombia as a simple incident, a likely mistake by Chávez in confronting President Uribe, who is likely to be a formidable opponent. I don’t. While I think the Granda case may have taken Chavez initially by surprise, I also think once he acted and spoke on the case, it was a well thought out reaction: It is time to export the Bolivarian revolution, we now control Venezuela. This idea is shared by Fernando Londoño, the former Minister of Interior and Justice of Colombia as shown by his article in El Tiempo a couple of days ago.
Is not because of Granda by Fernando Londoño Hoyos
“He who humiliates himself to avoid war, will have the humiliation and will have the war” (Churchill)
The grotesque Granda case would be the cause of our problem with Venezuela in the same measure that the war of independence would have been due to the insolence with which the chapeton refused to lend the flower vase to the party to honor Antonio Villavicencio. History organizes imitations of flower vases to distract simple souls. Thus, beyond the facts and its idiotic interpretations, we are forced to penetrate the profound historical logic which explains why what is happening to us is happening.
From the Ministry of Interior and Justice we warned that the key to our relationship with Chavez could be found in the Sao Paulo Forum, and in the communist conspiracy that was being brewed there for the takeover of the Continent. It was improper to invade someone else’s space, but at least we are consoled by the fact that we did it without subterfuge: Chavez wants to organize for us a coup d’ etat, similar to the one he could have staged in Venezuela with the ballot boxes and he has recently ratified with fraud.
The attempt is an old one. The octogenarian muse of comrade the President, has had an old appetite for Colombia. When a member of the Communist youth, he came to Bogotá to sabotage the Pan-American Conference with the murder of Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, he was already dominated by his geopolitical obsession. That is why he armed the FARC, the ELN, the M-19 and all of the groups of bandits that have whipped the nation with the preaching of a popular revolution. And now, in that languishing autumn that his friend Garcia Marquez predicted for him, he finds that he can revive those dreams of revolution in Colombia.
And it serves him for his purposes an ignorant charlatan, who lacks any moral scruples, owner of a country lined with gold. Chavez never read Das Kapital and he would not understand it if he read it, he doe not have the give and take with a Hegel and his very complex dialectic and he despises a Feurbach, not because he objects his historical materialism, but because he gets tangled when he pronounces the last name. But he is a communist, he is “Bolivarian”, he has the weapons, the dollars, the flatterers, the cynicism and perhaps the gall to be the perfect instrument for the little Cuban Dictator.
Chavez and Castro know that there are no Dictatorships without weapons. That’s why they love the FARC and that is why they are concerned that we will end up defeating them, as will fatally occur if a powerful ally dos not come to aid them. Like themselves, distracting the energies of Colombia in an international conflict, while their languishing allies catch a new air and while over a country in chaos the absurd take over by an extreme left Government, could unexpectedly happen
Thus, examining the Granda theme, it gains all of its fabulous importance. It allows Chavez to trick his internal public opinion and use and take advantage of the incident to press the anti-patriotic and traitorous opposition, which is what all tyrants always wanted. The Deputies, who stood up to applaud his ridiculous speech, will not do so well from today on. Censorship of the press has found the ideal pretext for the persecution of managers, those worms that buy Colombian products, will now be done in the name of the blemished sovereignty of Venezuela.
Once the borders to civilized and creative traffic are closed, they will open widely the doors to the weapons, the bombs, the propaganda and the money to aid the extreme left. The petrodollars will sprout without shame to back strikes and protests. And the Bolivarian Congresses, with ample delegations of the FARC, will repeat without rest.
The matter at hand is very grave and never has the country been in a bigger danger. But Churchill’s’ maxim that we remember above fits like a glove. President Uribe knows it and Colombians will have to surround him, without forgetting that we don’t have a conflict with our Venezuelan brothers, victims with us of the sick delirium of the two survivors of a species that many thought extinct: that of the Caribbean Dictator with communist delusions.
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