Venezuela begs to be liberated

After the abrupt and more than truthful theft of the elections in Venezuela, the criminal regime presided over by Nicolas Maduro has taken it upon itself to further oppress the repressed Venezuelan people, who are crying out, sobbing to be freed and liberated from such an evil.

The socialism of the 21st century, transformed into the most putrid viciousness of being, now exalts itself to hold on to power at the cost of everything possible and inhuman. Hundreds of people have been imprisoned, tortured, jailed, disappeared and even killed. Venezuela does not want to continue with its nefarious government, which by means of petty and surreptitious trickery has gone to unbelievable lengths to take power in a country that, like Colombia, has great natural wealth, although it is precisely oil that makes Venezuela an immensely rich country. Venezuela is ahead of Saudi Arabia and Iran in terms of reserves of black gold.

It is unfortunate that Hugo Chávez took power once, because after that he would never be returned to democracy, at least not peacefully. But is Colombia approaching Venezuela’s reality? I would say yes and no. But, just the fact that there is such a possibility creates real alarms.

The Maduro regime had great support and continues to have it from such a deplorable nation as Iran, which is a key ally for the former to stay in power. There has been no democracy in Iran since the 1970s, and there has been no democracy in Venezuela for at least two decades. Moreover, Venezuela is both economically and state-owned by undemocratic foreign nations and likewise supports all terrorist and guerrilla groups, from Farc and Eln to Hezbollah and Hamas in the Middle East, and all other radical extremist groups that have demonstrated savagery.

It is not for nothing that the trade union Manos Limpias has just filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court against the former Spanish president, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, accusing him of crimes against humanity for his association with Nicolás Maduro.

As if that were not enough, the government in Colombia does not reproach what happened in Venezuela, for clear reasons. The fear is that history will repeat itself, but this time in our country, and that, based on what happened there, they will want to replicate the same practices. Electronic voting is therefore an enormous risk for democracies. And, beyond that, as the Venezuelan general Francisco de Miranda once said: ‘Among the various ways of killing liberty, there is none more murderous for the republic than the impunity of crime or the proscription of virtue’. Both Miranda and his friend and compatriot Simón Bolívar would do all they could to free their nation and neighbouring nations from tyranny and embustery.

For example, Israel, which has been a vital partner and ally in Colombia’s neighbourhood, is no longer so, thanks to the Colombian president’s efforts to destroy these bilateral relations, which are more than 50 years old. Colombia’s coal sales to Israel were worth approximately 500 million dollars to the South American nation.

Thus, Venezuela, which is already well aligned with the axis of evil, headed by Iran, in one way or another dragged Colombia to the same place. Gustavo Petro was an ally of Hugo Chávez in Colombia, and now he is an ally of Nicolás Maduro.
Unfortunately for Venezuelans, the days of terror are not yet over, and no one knows when they will cease or if it will ever happen in the near future that this regime of terror, which uses violence to maintain itself and is driven by major corruption, will fall.

Likewise, the international community does not pay much attention to the Venezuelan case, which could become a major focus of the new wars that have already been waged both in Europe and in the Middle East, specifically Russia with Ukraine, and Israel against Hamas and its allies.

Venezuela and Colombia should not be neglected for a moment, both of which are alienated by incipient but tenacious dictatorships such as Daniel Ortega’s in Nicaragua and the older one in Cuba.

Defending democracy should not be something to be overlooked or ignored, it should be a constant duty of democratic and economically developed countries, even if the enemies of democracy, and defenders of tyranny and terror repudiate it, in the natural defense of their repugnant vision as a mission.

@rosenthaaldavid