By Humberto Fontova
Friday, February 14, 2014
"Venezuela and its revolution will endure under the
proven leadership of Vice President Maduro." (Sean Penn, March 5, 2013.)
To say nothing of the “proven” –and particularly, the
enduring--”leadership” of Maduro’s colonial overlords in Havana, of whom Sean
Penn is also extremely fond. “I had the privilege to introduce my children to
comandante Fidel Castro!” (Sean Penn, arm in arm with “great friend” Hugo
Chavez, Caracas Feb. 13, 2012.)
Protests rocked Venezuela this week. Hundreds of
Venezuelans were arrested by Cuban-trained police and at least three were shot
dead by Cuban-trained paramilitary storm-troopers. As we go to press Caracas is
under a military clampdown with government troops guarding most public
buildings and patrolling the streets.
In brief Venezuelans have had it with the corruption,
shortages, censorship, 56% inflation rate, crime and general privations brought
on by the late Hugo Chavez’ “Bolivarian Revolution,” especially as implemented
by Chavez’ successor Nicholas Maduro, who won last October’s elections--most
non-Hollywood observers believe—by stealing them.
Now Maduro and his cronies are stealing the country
blind. It’s all under the guise of something the Chavistas call “21th Century
Socialism,” mind you. But it still amounts to the government stealing
businesses and replacing the owners and managers with vengeful, bumbling and
rapacious government hacks. So the results exactly mimic those of old-fogey
20th century socialism. Here’s a nation sitting atop the world’s largest oil
reserves and earning $100 BILLION in oil revenues annually—while its citizens
can’t find toilet paper in any stores.
But no matter how hard daily life becomes for
Venezuelans, no matter how menacingly looms the prospect of national
bankruptcy, no matter how drastically oil production drops--President Maduro
keeps shipping 100,000 barrels of oil to Castro’s Cuba daily. Venezuelan
subsidies to Cuba last year were estimated to total $10 billion. That’s more
than double what the Soviets used to send.
So, as you might imagine, the Castro regime’s interest in
the Maduro regime’s “durability” probably exceeds even Sean Penn’s interest. To
that end around 50,000 Cubans infest Venezuela. The media (especially those
networks and agencies bestowed Havana bureaus) all claim these Cubans are all
“doctors and teachers.” Actual Venezuelans know better. In fact the Venezuelan
secret police is essentially controlled by KGB-trained Cubans. Maduro’s very
platoon of bodyguards is headed by Cubans. This is the type of “teaching” most
valued by such as Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro, who the Castro regime
took under their wing as far back as the 1990’s. Maduro’s Quisling-esque
qualities shone even then.
The thousands of young Venezuelans (mostly college
students) who took to Venezuela’s streets this week demanded, essentially, that
the Venezuelan government abide by the Venezuelan constitution and end their
pathetic subservience to the Castros.
“We are not Cuba!” chanted Venezuelan demonstrators in
front of a hotel hosting Cuban baseball players last week, before being
arrested. Another dig came from the leader of the Venezuelan opposition party
behind most of this week’s protests Leopoldo Lopez. Venezuela’s rubber stamp
judiciary recently issued an arrest warrant against him. So the 42 year old
Harvard-educated firebrand Tweeted back: “Come on, Maduro. You don’t have the
guts to arrest me. Or are you waiting your orders from Havana?”
In fact as we go to press, Lopez has not been arrested.
The order has not come from Maduro’s colonial overlords. The Cuban leadership,
let’s not forget, is very keen on the pitfalls of “making martyrs”-- for the
opposition, that is. Fidel himself rode to power on the strength of his own
martyrdom at Batista’s hands. That this martyrdom was mostly bogus mattered
little when such as the New York Times were spreading the hoax on it’s
front-page.
Sure, the Venezuelan regime rants and raves about “Yankee
Imperialism!” But the Venezuelan people fully recognize their genuine imperial
masters. On Canada’s Sun News this week one Townhall writer went so far as to
claim that “Maduro can’t even sneak to the toilet with Raul Castro’s
permission!”
Most Venezuelans blame the Maduro government’s dirty
work, including the three dead demonstrators, on paramilitary storm-troopers
called “colectivos” (collectives) “Chavez called them (the colectivos) the
armed wing of his Revolution,” revealed Anthony Daquíne ex-security assesor of
Venezuela's Interior Ministry. "In essence they are paramilitary groups.
The leaders of the collectives have traveled to Cuba for socialist education
and military training."
Hugo Chavez’ inspirational debt to Ernesto “Che” Guevara
is such that he titled his regime's socio-economic model, "Mision Che
Guevara.” So unsurprisingly, many of these Cuban-trained storm-troopers regard
Che Guevara with great affection, even as their inspiration.
“Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of
governmental mandates! Instead they must dedicate themselves to study, work and
military service! The very spirit of rebellion is reprehensible!" raved
Che Guevara in a famous speech in 1961.
"My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of
gunpowder and blood. Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while
slaughtering any vencido that falls in my hands” raved Ernesto Guevara in a
book later known as The Motorcycle Diaries. The Spanish world vencido, by the
way, translates into defeated, hence surrendered, hence defenseless.
So, indeed, what could be more fitting than murdering
unarmed youngsters while worshiping Che Guevara?
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