Asdrúbal Aguiar, writing for El Universal, gives a fascinating (and frightening) review of dictator Hugo Chavez and the monstrous agenda he is setting for Venezuela...and beyond.Last Wednesday, August 15th, Hugo Chávez Frías, the soldier, as he identified himself for the occasion, a sort of walking corpse of the history that refuses to be buried, appeared, inspired by Marxist Socialism, and announced that he will impose this ideology in the country, despite the opposition of Venezuelan citizens.
In another of his never-ending speeches, seasoned with his crazy ideas and rambling remarks, Chávez presented the National Assembly with his proposal of "Bolivarian constitutional reform" and confessed he had consulted the dictators of Cuba and Belarus, and also Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega.
He asked them to help him find the proper way to duplicate the Marxist model, but this time free from the flaws and failures which brought about its collapse by the close of the 20th century.
Ortega, of course! He had to explain why he had failed as leader of the Sandinista Revolution and had lost power, despite the support of Jimmy Carter, to Violeta de Chamorro.
So, as it is expressed in the text of the constitutional reform, Chávez will embark on the construction of a new Socialist state and a Socialist society in Venezuela, which will be novel because of their historical nuance and perhaps their style, i.e. the so-called attempt to "humanize" the dictatorship of the proletariat, but that will carry the old taint of the inevitable: the consolidation of the state's omnipotence, the total dominance over the society by the autocrat and through every men's and women's servitude to a single and only-one Socialist thought and to the one that is being imposed dictatorially...
I suggest you read the entire piece carefully. And my thanks to Blog for Cuba for pointing the way to the Aguiar article.
