Venezuelan army: companies and political power in exchange for the protection of Nicolás Maduro – 26/01/2019

Omar Lugo Director of the Venezuelan portal The stimulus. Special for Clarin

"The military power has spoken"Nicolás Maduro said on Jan. 24 in front of all ruling leaders, arguing his tenure began Jan. 10 after an election that banned major opposition parties and leaders. Before and during the elections of May 20, 2018, journalists, NGOs and politicians felt that the public was the advantage of President Chavez: the purchase of votes; attacks on opponents, campaign in polling stations and historic abstention.

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This election was convened by a constituent badembly created by Maduro to replace Parliament and govern with supreme "original and plenipotentiary" powers.

Legislative power was won by the opposition in December 2015, and soon after, its functions were progressively canceled by the Supreme Court and its electors.

The Court is also composed of activists and former deputies of the United Socialist Party in Venezuela, in power. Its constitutional chamber is the interpreter of the Constitution and laws. This is the legalist trench woven by Chavismo to reign over the desire of millions of Venezuelans immersed in the worst social tragedy of the last 150 years since the Federal War.

Chavez's power is based on the daily death of children and adults due to lack of medicines, chronic hunger, mbadive migration, crime, collapse of water, electricity and electricity services. gas, hyperinflation and the worst economic depression in American history. How do you keep power with this record and the rejection of 80% of the population?

Maduro has clear public support of the military leaders. To appease rumors of an internal fracture and imminent war, generals and admirals appeared on public television in their best and unarmed clothes. They made it a day after MP Juan Guaidó was sworn in front of a crowd in the streets of Caracas as "acting president" and received clear support from the American and European powers.

The armed support of Maduro is the real power. The army controls Petróleos de Venezuela, distributing food and medicine; ports, airports and deposits of gold, diamonds, coltan, iron and aluminum. They also have an average financial system, taxes, agricultural businesses, construction, part of the foreign service and the purchase of weapons in Russia, China and Iran. These companies are camouflaged with the rhetoric of patriotism and sovereignty.

In addition, they dominate public order, stifle blood and fire demonstrations, prosecute dissidents, and charge treason and terrorism. Is it possible then for Guaidó to steer the last train towards a historic change?

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Last Friday, 48 hours after his oath, he reappeared in public, on a small square in Chacao, east of Caracas. He met with reporters and asked "the termination of the usurpation of the presidency by Maduro, a transitional government and free elections".

In a country with the worst Internet of the Americas, no media, no radio and no television, he asked his supporters to download an amnesty law approved by Parliament, print it and distribute it to the people. military. The men in uniform were the target of his speech because Guaidó is also clear that they are Maduro's food, in addition to Moscow, Tehran, Istanbul and Beijing, of course.

Until this Friday, no uniform had appeared to capture the deputy.