By Carlos Aznarez on July 30, 2017
I am writing this article from my guts and with all the objectivity that this particular time demands due to the current period that the continent finds itself in. I am also very moved by this new demonstration of wisdom, courage and enthusiasm that the Bolivarian people has just given to the continent.
The enemies of peace in recent months have tried everything to avoid the arrival of this amazing day in Venezuela. Is there any type of murder and terror that the opposition did not try to generate? An opposition that today has been crushed by tons of votes from those who they were trying to paralyze in their homes to prevent them from coming out to fulfill the historical mandate to defeat them.
They resorted to absolutely everything – from killing through starving people with food shortages, to stopping the availability of basic medicines for the elderly and children, all to bring chivismo to its knees. In the districts and humble communities, in every city long lines of people could be seen, desperate to get milk, flour or even toilet paper, meanwhile in the affluent neighborhoods in the Eastern towns they flaunted all their surplus of these items boasting they had more than what they needed. Criminals!!
When this terrible economic war was not enough for them, they mobilized millions of dollars that flowed in from Miami and other Western power centers adverse to the Revolution that they were trying to bury forever. They wanted to generate another type of guarimbas, one more lethal, more destructive, and more unimaginable for anyone with any common decency.
They burned alive their own neighbors, they lynched people with pitchforks, or attacked them with baseball bats, eerily reminiscent of the KKK in the US. They killed everywhere, and took “pride” in doing it because to do so kept them in line with the hegemonic media. Criminals!
And even today, desperate because people are not responding to their call to remain home, they destroyed voting machines and used explosives right in the heart of plaza Altamira against the Bolivarian national guards there to insure peace. Their program is always one of sowing terror and they felt empowered until recently when the Bolivarian Armed Forces reclaimed the streets to defend the people.
Despite the international pressure, today they don’t know how to explain to their masters what went wrong with all the support they had. All of them were there on the train of interference and destabilization. From Trump with his economic sanctions and blockade, to the maneuvers of Almagro, the OAS, Macri, Temer, Bachelet, Kuzinsky, Cartes, Rajoy, and Felipe González. They all had signed up to be possible ‘new builders’ of a destroyed Venezuela while cheering the local ISIS like puppies. They had an image of Libya and Iraq but today Venezuela looks more like the defiant victorious Syria of Bashar and its people’s army.
Finally, they arrived to this last week by bomb to bomb, from fire to fire, from international threat to each provocative speech. They put everything they had and more so Caracas would burn from all sides and that some States would be fragmented in “Balkan” style provinces to face the “tyrannical” Government of Maduro. CNN could not stand it and continues to lie, “El País” and former Spanish Prime Minister Felipe González, called for a military coup. Pathetic!
All the wasted resources to make people not vote. It looks like a joke, coming from those who fill their mouth with the word ‘democracy’ but now oppose the voting right of a sovereign people.
However, the famous “D day” of the MUD was postponed, the general strike was scratched for lack of support, barricades of fear were reduced to their neighborhoods where they had destroyed so much that even their own neighbors who before opened their doors up to them so they could recharge their Molotov cocktails with gasoline, began to scold them and move away from any association. This fiasco of this “resistance” movement should have known better than to try to take possession of that sacred word belonging to the people of the Patria Grande.
And then this Sunday of joy for participatory democracy arrived. The people went out to vote early overflowed some centers such as the Caracas polyhedron, they crossed rivers and walked through the mountains (as in Tachira) to avoid violence, they were helping each other, hand in hand, making the symbol of brotherhood that mercenaries from the MUD will never know. That sublime dignity, which is forged not in the power of money, but in what eternal Commander Hugo Chávez repeated over and over: “love is paid with love”.
The vote became massive, and the mass swept across all the deaths and destruction that tried to install the Empire and its local disciples. This Sunday is one of glory. It is satisfying enough just to see the impotence in the faces of the “communicators” of the system. The Revolution has been reaffirmed, the leadership of those at the bottom, the communal powers, the indestructible strength of the unity of people and army, the mandate of Nicolas Maduro and above all the legacy of Hugo Chávez Frías. All those elements were combined so that the women and men of Venezuela felt more Bolivarian than ever and went out in mass to vote to prove it. They won, joyful and rebellious, an authentic resistance to enforce peace.
Starting tomorrow, a new stage begins, the enemy will regroup and start designing new schematic of evil acts, but its wings are clipped, and those who came out today to continue their support for the Revolution, will demand to deepen it, to correct the mistakes, to eliminate the bureaucracy, and the corrupt barriers. They’ll want more socialism. With everything that happened today, who would have the nerve to tell them it is not the right time and they should wait?
Source: Resumen Latinoamericano