The Devil's Excrement

It did not
take very long, but my prediction
even before I had read the reports by the international observers, was quite
precise when I said the day before the reports came out:

“Watch for reports from the OAS and EU observers today. Will they say
what they think? Will the Chavez Government turn against them tomorrow? Will
they become puppies of imperialism after today?”

It did not take any special foresight on my part, this is why Chavez is no
Democrat, his fascist military background is just too strong and dominating, he
is as intolerant as they come, either you are 100% with him or you are his
enemy as the international observers found out today when
Chavez said basically that he is Hugo Chavez so he can do what he wants and
they are just conspirators (like all his enemies). Here is a summary:

He accused the observers of lying, accusing both the Organization of American States
of “acting against the interests of the people and democracy”.

Chávez stated that the observers “lent” themselves to a “destabilization
play against the country”, criticizing the “surprising” agreement
between the two groups of observers and the similarity to the stuff that comes
out of Washington everyday against Venezuela.

He said the observers “are all part of the world right, of the extreme
right”, thus Chavez said, “I denounce this conspiracy, one more time,
and some of them lent themselves to it”

Chavez also said that the observers should not get involved in internal matters
of the country and they only were supposed to say if the process was
transparent or not. “I have been accused that I was exposed to radio and
TV. And what do they want for me to shut up? I spend all my time talking to my
country” (Don’t we know it!)

Thus, Chavez has done to the EU and OAS observers what it did to all
Venezuelans that have opposed him, to accuse them of conspiring against his
noble cause, of being rightwing and working for the US. What makes this even more laughable
is the fact that as long as observers had gone along with the elections in the
past Chavez praised them to no end, but now they have simply become their enemies.
This has happened to most of Chavez military mates who staged the coup with
him, most of the political groups that backed him in 1998 and the personalities
that helped him get to power. Once they did not offer their absolute backing
without discussion, they became enemies in what I call the Chavez praying mantis
effect.

Curiously, these statements will make headlines all over the world, making many
wonder why they thought the headlines said that the elections were clean as
distorted by Forero
in the New York Times or the Associated
Press. They will wonder now what is going on here, something definitely
rotten in Venezuela.
Thanks Hugo for raising the issue and reacting inappropriately to the observer’s
criticism!

This entry was posted on December 10, 2005 at 12:39 am and is filed under Venezuela.