Héctor Rodríguez, the young and young card of Maduro to maintain the power

The governor of Miranda participates in negotiations with the opposition, with whom he has a good dialogue

CARACAS.- Governor Héctor Rodríguez arrived yesterday from the Barbados Islands to sit next to his chief,

Nicolás Maduro.

Since becoming president of the country in 2013, Chávez's son has told his family that the former student leader would be his dolphin and that he would protect him in the meantime. revolution. He proved it by appointing him Minister of Youth in his first cabinet and confirmed it by promoting it in 2014 as a portfolio of education, key to chauvinist propaganda.

Maduro reaffirmed his commitment to presenting him this week in front of the country as a key negotiator who is held with the opposition through the mediation of Norway. As he was the anointed of his estate, while it is actually the second card of the power game with which Maduro intends to remain at the helm of the country to n & # 39; Any price.

A "winning horse", as defined by Luis Salamanca, former rector of the National Electoral Council, for any medium-term (2020) or long-term (2025) scenario, which Maduro would be training to consider him as a candidate offering future possibilities. But without forgetting that the first letter of the "president of the people" is himself.

Rodriguez accepted the challenge of his boss and responded as expected to those who support his brilliant political career: "I have the perception that Venezuelans and political parties of the country can reach an agreement of peaceful coexistence, normality in the democratic game, where we recognize each other, we have felt on the part of the opposition the will to work for the people ".

A whole presidential accolade when hours before Diosdado Cabello, number two of the chavismo and eternal alternative to the palace of Miraflores, had strongly attracted the media attention of the white hope of the madurismo. Without mentioning it, the president of the Constituent Assembly put special emphasis on the "hopeless companions" of the revolution who say that "the government is going to Barbados because there will be presidential elections and that the candidates are X and Y ", with clear reference to Rodríguez and the president in charge,

Juan Guaidó

"Here, there is no presidential election, here the president calls Nicolás Maduro and he has only six months (in his second presidency)," added the head Bolivarian radicals.

"We finally have the proof of the confrontation between Maduro and Cabello: it seems to me that Maduro asks Cabello to prepare because that (Rodriguez) will be your opponent if you finally want to be a candidate", summarizes Salamanca.
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A favorite opponent of diplomats in Caracas, which places him at the antipodes of the radicals, both economically and politically. The same as the one presented during the three rounds of negotiations in Oslo and Barbados, which led him to insist on reaching agreements to confirm the electoral route, in collusion with Stalin González, deputy speaker of the Parliament of the United States. opposition and former antagonist of university struggles.

Caracas, as a whole, knows that Rodriguez has had links with opposition leaders who, in 2007, defeated Chavez in the constitutional referendum. Some, like Stalin González, consider him a friend.

The governor, born 37 years ago on the coast of Rio Chico, where he goes whenever he can, he knew that he had to sell what he was proposing for the first time. ;to come up. Rodríguez has since 2014 a group of "boliburguesía" businessmen who have chosen him as a candidate for the future, the only way to make Chavismo more and more competitive.

His political partners fully supported Maduro's decision to appoint him deputy and leader of the caucus chavist in Parliament in 2016. A few weeks in which he also showed that if it became necessary, he would become radically ready to strike, as when met the deputy Rafael Guzmán.

When the chavismo of the Assembly retreated, she prepared to defeat opposition in one of her most powerful fiefdoms, the Miranda government, under the control of Henrique Capriles. The state apparatus and the famous electoral tours of the revolution conspired with their new image to regain power. An electoral victory for everything that consolidated the presidential road map of the coordinator and founder of the Youth of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV).

National desperation and the movements of all political sectors have sparked rumors in Caracas, although there is no evidence to suggest that Rodriguez will be the electoral candidate of Chavismo in the presidential elections. "It surprises me when some focus their interest on alternative Chavismo candidates for an election and evaluate their qualities, from the point of view of opposition.The truth is that it's not even clear that there will be elections and even less that Maduro will not be, "said Luis Vicente. León, president of Datanálisis.

A bath of
realpolitik in which Salamanca introduces another certainty, evident in the polls, in which Rodriguez does not appear or does not appear at a distance: "Any election, even if rigged or manipulated, would be won by an adversary, a unitary candidate like Guaidó. would stay in this environment would be a fraud.