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March 18, 2015 at 6:01 am
john zande
I can’t see a coup happening. Chavez purged the officer corps and installed Chavista’s. If there’s going to be any military uprising it will have to be led by minor officers, Captains, and that means small units, which means messiness. What no one pays attention to is the so-called Zone in Reclamation, or 1/3 of western Guyana, which the Venezuelans believe is theirs. It’s riddled with oil, and a “diversion” might just be seen by Maduro as the only way out of the mess…to orchestrating a war with Guyana. Hugo did this, he attacked and sunk Guyana vessels, but no one took the bait. That’s not to say the ‘plan” is still not in the top draw. This would be bad as it would call the UK to come and defend her territory. In-turn, that would mean Australia, NZ and Canada would also be at war with Venezuela.
Either way, it’s not going to end well. There will be blood.
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March 18, 2015 at 8:13 am
robert browning
Yes blood will spill. The well armed West ( capitalists ) will always want control of the natural resources. Loved Chavez only wish he could have found a way exorcise their influence. He was too nice and the only side playing by the rules…
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March 18, 2015 at 8:44 am
john zande
Robert
By “playing by the rules” do you mean shutting down the free media, stacking the supreme court and military with Chavista’s?
Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m as left-leaning as it comes, I salute the health, housing and education efforts he enacted, but Hugo’s overall plan was atrocious and destined to fail. There was no backbone to it. There was nothing “real” to build upon. His only saving grace was he died before it all fell apart.
The Chileans, on the other hand, are doing things right. They recognised the systems corruption and have started with education, making every teacher sit an exam. Those who fail are out. University spending is up, training new teachers, with better salaries. They have recognised that this is a generational program and are restructuring at a fundamental level… slowly but with purpose and a clear vision.
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March 18, 2015 at 12:35 pm
The Arbourist
@JZ
I cheered for Chavez, especially during the GWB years as someone who was calling the emperor, almost daily, for his lack of clothes. In the UN, on Al Jazerra, heck sometimes even on CNN he would be decrying the amazing wrongitude of American imperial policy while the rest of the respectable media clucked along trying to justify their respectability despite the square circles they had to defend.
Chavez is no saint, but I’m not sure we can point to an elected official who is. His revolution started cracked much of imperial domination of the Southern Cone, allowing many countries the opportunities at self governance that would not have been possible with the old status-quo.
I hope the paroxysms of violence in Venezuela are not leading toward another coup, the people of the country deserve better.
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March 18, 2015 at 1:05 pm
john zande
Oh, don’t get me wrong Arb, I pissed myself laughing every time Hugo mentioned the sulfa-smelling Bush. And you’re right about his attempts to break the rotten structure that was in place. My gripe has always been that he shat over the freedom of press, and seeded institutions that should be thoroughly independent with his own cronies. Those are the actions of a dictator, although Hugo wasn’t a dictator. The elections were all fair. My second gripe is that he didn’t lay the foundation for real change, and that has threatened all the good (housing, health and education) which was done. He didn’t diversify their economy when he could have. He invested badly, like in a giant arms industry which has since failed.
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