Friends,
there is something very, very important we have to take into consideration
when talking about the Venezuelan "opposition". Venezuela, at this point of its
modern, democratic history, does not have a genuine, political and
democratic opposition, reason for which I always put this term in
quotation marks. The old, corrupt leadership of the country's Trade Union
Central "CTV" under Carlos Ortega, discredited amongst most of
the Venezuelan workers, has, in tight agreement and cooperation
not only with the president of the Employers Federation FEDECAMARAS, but also
with the upper management of the State's oil industry PDVSA, as well as with the
military leaders of last April's failed coup d'état - who were absolved by a
scandalous sentence of bribed Venezuelan Supreme Court magistrates - as
well as in unison and with the active support of Venezuela's commercial TV
stations and printed media, been canalizing the discontent of all those,
who for one reason or the other are in disagreement with the government of Hugo
Chávez and who, in the total absence of a genuine, political opposition,
have joined this antidemocratic and outright fascist movement, that is hellbent
to overthrow the democratically elected government by all means available -
being supported in its antidemocratic goals from abroad, diplomatically and
financially.
This kind of "opposition" has a pseudo-political one-point-only
agenda: the ousting of president Chávez by all means, and that's about it. There
is not even a minimum programme of what could be called an
alternative, political agenda countering the government's political
and economic programme for the nation, and worse even, this "opposition" does
not have political speakers, neither does it have a minimum consensus (other
than ousting the president) for a common, political platform, nor credible
politicians, and in the meantime there is not even a single spark of
democratic attitude left anymore. I have not seen one, single "politician" of
all those political splinter groups that make up the so-called Coordinadora
Democrática ("democratic coordination"), who would have had the decency
and fundamentally democratic stand to publicly distance him/herself or
their fraction from the openly undemocratic, putschist objectives and means
pushed forward by the spearheads of another edition of past April's coup
d'état: Trade Union Central, Employers Federation, big Oil Business
Management and putschist military leaders. No one of the "political
leaders" of this mistakenly called "opposition", of this cynically called
"Democractic Coordination", has publicly spoken out in favour of democracy and
the constitution - absolutely nobody.
The discourse held at their rallies with all those fatally mislead
"opposition" supporters - perhaps and in the best case victims of
the insane, incessant media campaign - is an open discourse of
contempt, hate, racism, ridicule and violence directed against a
democratically elected government, and does not posess any genuine, political
content whatsoever!!
This "opposition", obsessed with regaining political power, goes
as far in their total absence of goals and programmes as to hope for and
actively promote a foreign intervention in Venezuela - foreign intervention the
whole, ancient political caste of this country or "ancién regime", that
have plundered this nation's resources for the past 40 years, and who have been
categorically and democratically destituted in the 1999 elections, aspires may
finally restore them in their old position.
This is, what has yet to be analysed and reflected by the ineffable,
international mass disinformation media.
Jutta.
