A Great Victory for Democracy in Venezuela

The Opposition’ s on December 6’s Parliamentary election, (99 seats the Opposition and 46 seats the government party PSUV), marks the beginning of a new era for Venezuela. The current National Assembly, headed by the Narco-boss Diosdado Cabelllo, must move aside to make way for the new National Assembly and start picking up the pieces. The systematic destruction of Venezuela was started by a traitor named Hugo Chavez and continues today with Nicolas Maduro.

 There were a few main factors that forced this dramatic victory for the Opposition:  the economic reality that is facing the country (now practically in ruins) combined with the International pressure that forced the regime to respect the will of the people. Their votes were respected this time. The disoriented dictatorship will have to abide by the dictates of a new National Assembly. Restoring the institutions of government, today sequestered by the regime, and recuperating the economy, now shambled by an inept regime, will not be an easy task.  We can’t forget that Venezuela also faces other challenges: Drug trafficking and Terrorism that circulate freely in the country. Success in the Parliamentary is a good start but we all, including the international community, need to pitch in to help Venezuela create task forces to clean the county and restore Democracy again

Nicolas Maduro is Deceiving the World while he Steals the Parliamentary Elections

In his quest to stay in power Nicolas Maduro has done everything, from repressing dissidents, incarcerating opposition leaders and student protesters, to even standing in front of the United Nations announcing possible violent acts from the Opposition “to alter the Parliamentary elections.”  

He has vowed to demonstrate his “vocation for a democratic and peaceful elections”, while in practice to Human Right Watch, uses the judicial system as a tool to penalize the Opposition. A case in point is the one of Political leader Leopoldo Lopez who was sentenced to 14 years in prison for leading peaceful protests against the regime. Seventy-eight others have also paid a huge price for protesting the regime, with torture and jail time.

Nicolas Maduro and his oppressive government, in another  move to maintain complete control of the electoral process, has prematurely retired 13 Supreme Court judges. The reason for this blatant disregard for the Venezuelan Democratic process is so he can replace those judges with those in favor of the regime and without the intervention of the Opposition. Maduro did the same a year ago, when 14 judges were replaced before of their scheduled retirement.

of their retirement.   At that time these judges were appointed bypassing any input from the opposition.

Maduro has also paralyzed the Opposition by banning them from running for parliamentary elections.  To top it all, Maduro has rejected foreign observers as was proposed by the the OAS, to observe the December electoral process in Venezuela. I will continue asking the same question:  Can a country where there is no transparency and the institutions of government are sequestered, have fair elections this December 6, 2015?

Master of Distraction

While Venezuela deepens and deepens into an abysm of economic depression, and devastating lack of products and an out of control delinquency,  Nicolas Maduro came to the United Nations with a large entourage to discuss the disagreement with Guyana in an effort to distract the UN and the rest of the world. Under any circumstance we minimize the protecting of the Venezuelan land, but the situation in Venezuela is so critical and hungry is spreading like a wild fire that is prompting people through out the country to breaking into food storage places, an supermarkets desperate to find food. Maduro who lacks respect for the Venezuelan continues accusing the opposition of wedging an economic war to tumble the government.  Everyone knows that is Maduro’s government who has got a tied control of the dollar in Venezuelan, restringing the few private companies left continue producing. In the mean time the prices are out of control for the few goods available and the country has fallen into a hyperinflation.

It is very difficult to believe that Venezuela, a rich oil country has its citizen scrambling for food and is forcing people to break the law in this lawless country run by an inept government that has been keen in human right violations and the continues blaming game that Nicolas Maduro inherited from his predecessor Hugo Chavez.

Meanwhile, Venezuelan political prisoners like Leopoldo Lopez, Daniel Ceballo, Antonio Ledezma, as well as many Students are still the victims of this tyrant regime.  This, is in addition to the constant harassment and human right violations against former Assemblywoman, Maria Corina Machado, other opposition leaders and the average citizens. There is no solutions in sight. 

Once again the Venezuelan opposition units for change in Venezuela, against the Maduro regime.
February 2014, marked the beginning of massive protests around the country which led to hundreds of deaths, abuses and tortures. 2015 may marked the end of the Socialism of the XXI Century in Venezuela.