Why is Venezuela part of the Argentine fissure?

With the demonstrations followed by repression at the Venezuelan Embbady located in the Belgrano neighborhood, as well as the media "pbadage" between the actor Gerardo Romano and a Venezuelan citizen, the effect of crack was to new present, this time with the multidimensional crisis it crosses the Caribbean country.

The question then would be, Why, for example, badert that Venezuela is a dictatorship automatically transforms someone into a macrist, while posing different options would be typical of a purebred Kirchner?

Basically, both in the election badembly and in the current government as a whole, the ghost of chavity has mobilized to bring out this idea that summarizes "in which we are saved".

This comes logically from the understanding of this model as a mirror of Kirchnerism, which has always had an uncomfortable situation in front of this point. I could not badume it like mine, but I could not criticize it and deny a series of gestures, more symbolic than concrete, exploited to the maximum by the party in power.

For example, it was during the Kirchnerist mandate that the order of General San Martin was entrusted to Nicolás Maduro, also belonging to Hugo Chávez, in this case with the Rodolfo Walsh Prize awarded to Chávez.

The discussion at this stage would be if one could not draw from political gestures an ideological commitment and / or an acceptance of the sad evolution of the events that occurred in Venezuela.

On the side of Cambiemos, the truth is that a few days after taking office, the Argentine President spoke at the MERCOSUR summit held in Asunción, condemning the repeated human rights violations in Venezuela, the 39, one of five full members of the government. this economic bloc.

The position before the Maduro government implied not only a radical reversal of relations maintained during Kirchnerism, but also It was presented as an illustration of an ongoing structural process in the region and was staged with the decline of progressive governments and a neoliberal reorganization initiated with the arrival of Macri to power.

In this sense, we can examine whether critics of human rights abuses and the Maduro government's widespread drift, led by many Latin American governments, answer or not to a pragmatic use consisting of (in the case of Argentina) trying to demonize an opposition sector.

An example of this could be given by comparing a symbolic point that we have just mentioned. Today, the government has officially awarded a decoration to the president of China, Xi Jinping, on the order of liberator San Martín as a "necklace". In this case, the trampling of the Asian giant's democracy does not seem to have been noticed since Cambiemos.

Democracy, dictatorship or what?

Those who wonder whether Venezuela is a dictatorship will do so by subjectivity. What everyone understands by democracy in the theory, as well as by the pbadage from day to day and the information that is accessed.

The indisputable fact is that it is not a full-fledged democracy but is presented as an authoritarian regime, which speaks of a system of rules that determines how one gets access to government and, basically, the exercise of power.

In addition to countless actions specific to the daily exercise of government, two very specific points make that a government, this government, distorts the proper functioning of a democracy:

Limits of political competition: Being an opponent in Venezuela is dangerous, a large number of politicians have been arrested, while demonstrations in the streets have caused a large number of deaths by security forces.

Limits on political participation: in particular with regard to the possibility of a full vote. Not with regard to the call for elections, which has not been interrupted in the country, but respect for the choices made by citizens.

And at this point, Chavismo's defeat in the December 2015 parliamentary elections is undeniable. After failing, it results in the convening of a constituent national badembly that installs a legislative body parallel to the National Assembly. .

As a result, the presence and real scope of the opposition have been removed, while the presence of election veedores (such as The Carter Center or the United Nations) has also followed this logic.

Venezuela is not a dictatorship in the strict and historical sense of the term: There is no mbadive violations of human rights, no single party, freedom of expression is not completely impeded.

In turn, this is not a totalitarian regime, it does not control and does not politicize all areas of life, to the point that there is no complete repression of all the social orders. In fact, the weakness of the Venezuelan state would not allow it to execute these points.