The Devil's Excrement

Case 4: Accused of being a spy for imperialism by Teodoro Petkoff in Tal Cual

Ms. Ana Kosa was fired from Fogade on June 15th. 2004. She had worked there for four years, since March 2000. In May 2004, a little before her firing, she was sent by Fogade to do an apprenticeship at the OAS in subjects related to her specialty. When she came back, she was kicked out. She does not know if they consulted the list of Adolfo Tascón, but she does know the reason for her firing: she was accused of…

”being a spy for imperialism”. For the frame of mind that prevails in Fogade, after its leadership was assumed by the summa cum laude lawyer Jesus Caldera Infante, there could be no doubt that Mrs. Kosa had to be a CIA agent. How could it not be for a person, like Mrs. Kosa, who worked for 21 years at the US Embassy as part of the local personnel? It is obvious that if she quit the US Embassy in 1999 was because she received instructions from Langley, Virginia, to infiltrate the Venezuelan civil service and perform spying functions for the empire. Moreover, a woman with 21 years at the US Embassy had to be a CIA star. Of course! Romulito Henriquez, Caldera’s predecessor, never noticed that he had been penetrated. For the shrewd lawyer from Trujillo state, former member of COPEI, this detail did not escape him, thus, a few days alter his arrival at his new position he signed the letter firing Ms. Kosa. The new Board of the organization could breathe easier. The eyes of the empire were no longer looking over them. Although its is probable that they also disconnected the DirecTV set box, just in case Deputy Pedro Carreño was right when he alerted about the bidirectional screen through which the big Brother from the North had us under surveillance.

Here we are facing a pure and simple witch hunt. Arthur Miller, the great American dramatist, wrote one of his best pieces, The witches of Salem, just in the middle of the McCarthy frenzy in the mid-fifties of the last century. Recalling the hanging of the women accused of being witches in that Maine (??) town three hundred years earlier, Miller made a lucid argument against intolerance, against prejudices and against social segregation. It was his way of calling attention to north American society to the terrible harassment of Senator Joe McCarthy against those who in his list, like in the Tascòn list, appeared as communists. It was men like Miller who made possible that that nation from the entrails of its deep democratic tradition reacted and got rid of the fearsome McCarthy. The gringos defeated their own version of fascism in democratic fashion. . In this diminished hours, Arthur Millar is also talking to us and in particular to Venezuelan intellectuals.

This entry was posted on April 13, 2005 at 12:24 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.