Cesar
Millan was elected city councilor for the alliance between Chavez’ MVR and MAS
in 2000 for the Sucre municipality of Caracas.
Millan began denouncing irregularities and the Mayor (who just happens to be
the VP’s son) and the other pro-Chavze councilmen began having problems with
him.
In
September of 2001, the Comptroller removed him from office after the City
Council had suspended him in his function for being associated with a group
opposing the Mayor. But Millan believed in the law, knew that nobody could take
away what the electors had given him and went to the First Circuit Administrative
Court (Coincidentally the one in which Judge Perkins Rocha who wrote the article
below was part of). To ask for an injunction to be reinstated in his elected
position. The Court ruled in his favor.
Unfortunately,
the City Council of Sucre refuse to even acknowledge the injunction issued by
the Administrative Court.
So, Millan, ever the believer in the system, went to the Venezuelan Supreme
Court to ask for an injunction to be reinstated in his position. The Supreme
Court also ruled in his favor and asked the City Council to reinstate him. But .he
was not reinstated. The Courts decisions were simply ignored.
Millan continued his battle by going to the
Electoral Council and asking that the election for the Circuit that he had been
elected to for four years be suspended, since he had been unable to fill the
mandate of the voters. He presented his request in May, the elections took
place on August 7th. and Millan has yet to hear from the CNE. This
is also a clear violation of the administrative procedures law that says any
public office that your request something from has to respond to you within
fifteen days.
But
who do
you go to in these cases? Decisions in this case seem to come directly
from the top, how else can the VP’s son manage to ignore decisions by
teh Supreme Court without anything happening to him? Of course,
Chavez’s supporters will likely use the common excuse these days to
justify the incompetence of the Government: I bet Chavez does not
know anything about this!
This is
what happens when independent powers disappear. This is what happens when
autocrats pull all of the strings of power in a country or a society. Is this democratic?
Wait until it affects you, no matter if you are pro or against Chavez!
The Devil's Excrement 
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