Via Publiuspundit
I learn about this
article in the Miami Herald about Venezuelans seeking political asylum in
the US
in increasing numbers, something that extends to people emigrating looking for opportunities
and safer places to live in. Which ties with this
note published today in Tal Cual, which you may think was written a few years
ago…but read on…
Talking to a sharp and loose-tongued intellectual like Ibsen
Martinez we were evaluation g the unsettling situation of political debate. For
the reporter and writer what is notable is what he calls “the abomination of
ideas”, which translates into non confrontation and the search for any type of
transaction. Thus, Venezuelans have no interest in complex ideas. They lean towards
simplicity. They evade polemics because he does not care or because he assigns
this little importance. The consequence? The stratification of politics, the complete
domination by the apparatchik, the demobilization of society. Nor the civil
society nor the political one functions. Or both function in the same way. Thus,
anyone that has an opinion is transformed into a great provocateur and
information turns into routine. The ills affecting Venezuela are so many and the
things that happen so grave that that we have lost our ability to be amazed,
and of course, to be able to respond. This explains why in the last two years
more than 100 thousand Venezuelans have moved to the US of which 60 thousand are
illegal.
The author?…None other than now Vice-President José Vicente Rangel
Los hechos y
los días ( El Universal )
16 de febrero de 1997
He could have fooled me!
The Devil's Excrement 
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