The end of Chavez?
Yes, I know he’s been dead for a while. But his legacy lingered on in the Maduro government in power.
But maybe, just maybe, the people of Venezuela have finally become fed up and have rejected the socialist dream, which has been mugged by reality:
Venezuela’s opposition party has claimed the majority of seats in the National Assembly in elections held Sunday, the first major shift in power in the legislative branch since the late President Hugo Chavez took office in 1999.
The Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) took 99 seats to just 46 for the United Social Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Tibisay Lucena, president of Consejo Nacional Electoral announced.
“Venezuela, we won!” said opposition key figure Henrique Capriles, governor of the state of Miranda. “I always told you all, this was the way! Humility, maturity and serenity. Long live the people of Venezuela!”
The election results are seen as a major setback to the ruling party. This is the first time in 17 years that Chavismo has not won a nationwide election in Venezuela.
It seems that, with sufficient personal experience of Chavez-style socialism and the suffering it has engendered (which has been considerable), the people finally decided they’d had enough.
For now. Because leftism is always seductive, and once those people who have personally experienced its woes become older and a new generation takes their place, the lesson must sometimes be learned all over again. Maduro knows:
President Nicolas Maduro took to the airwaves and announced that he accepted the loss of his majority, but pledged not to give up on the mission of deceased Hugo Chavez to create a socialist state.
But for today, let’s celebrate!
Perhaps it’s the end of Chavismo. Regardless, it’s an improvement.
The socialists always claim they can create heaven on earth and the people always fall for it. The socialists tell people that we can all live in luxury at the expense of somebody else, and people like that idea.
See Argentina.
The End of Chavez?
Perhaps.
“Maduro’s Mad Refugee Gambit on the Eve Of Venezuela’s Vote”
The shaky Venezuelan strongman struggling to hold on to power has found Colombian refugees convenient scapegoats.
I recall meeting Venezuelan immigrants, seeking refuge from Chavismo in 2000.
They aren’t going back.
Ir will take blood. Much blood. Blood of the Chavesmos.
And after order has been restored, a year or two later, force of arms or economic wars between venezuela and its Bolivarian neighbors: Our oil price to YOU is 2x brent price.It’s payback time.
I would suggest: be careful with making generalizations about the left. It’s not that simple.
Of course, Chavez and Maduro belong to the classic left South American populism, which is poisonous. Sadly, I should say that this is exactly the path that US’s left is taking. But Lula was left too, and he has been the best president of Brasil. Next to Brasil, you have Paraguay, and there you have José Mujica, leftist too, who was president of Paraguay between 2010 and 2015, highly popular and famous for being a very natural person. Of course, he has basque origins, and that makes a difference. Here you have a recent interview with english subtitles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GX6a2WEA1Q
In general, leftists that started as blue collars in hard industries use to be honest politicians. That was the case with Lula (former metal worker) or Mujica (farmer). The problem is that most of left is what we call in spanish “revolucionarios de salé³n”. In english, revolutionaries of living room, meaning people who never worked hard.
Go to youtube and find the clips of Maduro on Venezuela Contigo. It does not sound like he’s going to quietly admit defeat.
Or, per Stalin, “How many divisions does the National Assembly have?”