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Alejandro Tagliavini

In Venezuela, where a million liters of gasoline is worth nearly as much as a tuna can, the salary of a university nurse barely exceeds one dollar a month. And although the armed forces do not have big salaries, they are favored by the government since the basic salary of a private army can be up to 8.3 times higher than that of a private army. A nurse and that of a colonel up to 24.8 times.

That makes Maduro feel secure in power, just as Ortega in Nicaragua faced a popular uprising that began against a pension reform that the government then left ineffective. However, the satiety and nepotism of the presidential wedding provoked a bloody protest that lasted three months. In front of the 150 dead that the repression has left in Venezuela throughout the year, there are already 350 in just three months in Nicaragua

The opposition accuses them of being dictatorial and demands to advance the March 2021 elections of the Catholic Church to seek a dialogue and to put an end to the attacks against the defenseless populations who crush a regime that resists the loss of power accumulated over the past decade and who uses the military, police and paramilitary forces with impunity against the protesters, and that does not even respect the temples.

Vice-President and wife of Ortega, badures that the government is acting to free the roadblocks and to "restore peace" and that the demonstrations respond to "a terrorist plan", the excuse to fashion today to justify any war

"Those who believe themselves strong and victorious are deceived into taking the lives of others," said the auxiliary bishop of Managua. In short, the world is divided between those who want to impose an "order" and those who demand respect for the pre-existing order. Some badume that there is no natural order in the cosmos and that, therefore, it must be designed and enforced by one government, and that the others simply require that the only one in the world. existing natural order is respected.

* Board Member, Center for Global Prosperity, Oakland, California