Alberto Barreda in today’s El Nacional (page A-12) expresses something
I have always believed in about the Venezuelan military, which becomes
even more important in the context of the new reserves and the
assymetric war:
“It it not an epistemological whim. The truth is that I can not stop
thinking that armies, in general, are symbols of backwardness in our
civilization, an expression of human misery, of the inability to face
and resolve differences in a different way. The history of humanity can
be a detailed registry of the adminsitration of violence, of its
controls, of its domination. Armies are the last powerful reresentation
of a kingdom that should by now be, more than anything, an antiquity.”
The Devil's Excrement 
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