The Jamaican Tory can no longer keep silent on this issue
that has been making headlines around the world recently, which has to do with
the crisis going on in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, as we all must be
aware of by now, the country has been rocked by a series of riots and clashes between
the citizens and government forces, for those who may not have been following
the story, the whole crisis began early last month with a nationwide student
protest over a various number of issues, mainly security, the breakdown of law
and order and the poor state of the economy all of which have been blamed on Venezuela’s current President,
Nicholas Maduro.
There are many speculations as to what the root cause of the
crisis may be as well as reasons as to why it escalated so quickly, but anyone who has
followed political and historical happenings in that country would know that
this was bound to happen, I don’t mean to sound harsh or judgmental but the
truth is that you reap what you sow and that is exactly what is happening here.
Ever since the late 1990s Venezuela has been under the spell of a personality
cult led by the late El Caudillo
Presidente Hugo Chavez, a man known
for his eccentrics and twisted charisma
that captured people's hearts almost in the same way that Hitler’s Nazism did to
Germany in the 1930s . Under his rule he introduced what he called Bolivarian Socialism
or Socialism for the 21st century, both of which were nothing more
than code words for saying that he was introducing his own special brand of
Communism into the country, his schemed worked brilliantly and from that time
up until early in 2013 he was basically untouchable...or so he thought, but alas not even he as
mighty as he thought he was could escape from the cold hands of death. That of course leads us to his successor, the
current President Maduro, virtually known for most of his career as Chavez’s
main henchman, far less creative or charismatic with hardly an original thought
in him; Senor Maduro had big shoes to fill.
All throughout Chavez’s years, Venezuela was infested by the
host of social and economic problems but Chavez being a master of propaganda
gave the impression that things were fast improving for the people in his
country, it seems as though however his successor was not nearly as good an
expert illusionist as he was hence the reason why many social problems are now coming
to the fore and the new administration (which is really a continuation of the Chavez
regime) almost a year in power still has no clue as to how solve this country’s
problems or at least pretend that they are doing so in a manner that will satisfy
the people, hence the open revolt.
As I mentioned earlier, I’m not surprised that this is happening;
only that it didn’t happen sooner. Socialism no matter how you try to spin it
or brand it, never works and the kind of socialism attempted in Venezuela was
that of the worst order, now the people of Venezuela are finally beginning to
see through their government’s deception, the "Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela" no longer looks like an invincible machine now that Chavez is no longer around to
lead them, the big question is how long will this go on? It’s already seen as a
major humanitarian crisis (even though now the eyes of the world are fixed on
the Ukraine Crisis, which I will deal with in due course), how will the
Venezuela’s neighbours in Latin America respond?, what about the Petro-Caribe
deal signed between Venezuela and several Caricom states?, what implication will
it have for the continuation of this arrangement? All these and more are extremely important
questions to ponder in this crisis where the end is not yet in sight.
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