By Carlos Aznarez on April 22, 2017
It is time for those who make checks and balances about diplomacy to take out the Uruguayan president and his team from the “progressive” list. Recently Tabaré Vázquez and his chancellor Rodolfo Nin Novoa did not hesitate to be critical of the difficult role that Nicolás Maduro finds himself in his fight against those who seek to destabilize Bolivarian Venezuela. They, who as members of the Broad Front, received from Venezuela much attention and benefits during the Chavez government, including 20 million dollars in aid intended to repair hospitals or aimed to fund companies that had been recovered by their workers.
There is a lot of double talk coming from Uruguayan leaders now in regard to their relations with Venezuela and Cuba. On one hand they fill their mouths with revolutionary rhetoric and on the other they make contemptuous statements against both revolutionary projects.
It has not gone without notice that in the last years Uruguayan diplomacy has aligned itself with the most reactionary governments of the continent. They have grown close to Macri and Bachelet, made agreements with Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia, and with Horacio Cartes, of Paraguay,thet support the Pacific Alliance, and above all, they have a scummy behavior inside Mercosur, trying to expel Venezuela or to apply sanctions at the request of the U.S. All this coincides with the brutal onslaught that the other Uruguayan , Luis Almagro, is leading in the OAS.
Tabaré and Nin Novoa did not hesitate at the time to attack Venezuela, and like they left something out, this week they signed onto another interventionist statement along with the pro imperialist allies of the region (Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, México, Panamá, Paraguay and Perú). This particular mediatic attack condemned “the violence that is being unleashed in Venezuela” and urged Maduro’s government to “set dates to fulfill with the electoral agenda, free the political prisoners and guarantee the separation of constitutional powers”.
In synchrony with Macri, Tabaré ignores on purpose the fact that if there is violence in Venezuela it is the one created and spread with a fiery persistence emanating from the radicalized cores of the ultra right led by pro-coup representative Leopoldo López. With their faces covered, burning everything in their path, setting chains to decapitate bikers, attacking an infant hospital, assassinating civilians with snipers. There are a lot of videos and photographs that document the events, but the OAS and Almagro’s mobster gang are still talking about “peaceful demonstrations”. They took these ideas from the same manual that was followed to start the terrorist invasion of Syria, and the statements of these leaders are in synchrony with what NATO countries call “soft opposition”, in reference to the Al Nusra Front and their lethal methods.
As a good friend of Washington’s, Tabaré is disrespecting one of the most legitimate projects created by popular vote. When the Uruguayan oncologist, and friend of the Moon religious sect, established intimate relations with Zionism and claimed that Venezuela “is a drama”, instead of explaining the real situation that country is having to endure, he chose to align with those who are trying once again to generate power to deliver Venezuela’s natural resources over to the US and the European Union. Drama is being used to deliberately confuse the murderers of the Venezuelan people with those who are resisting day by day so that the country does not transform into another star on the American flag. Tabare also is deceitfully supporting declarations that are still trying to invent a dictatorship in one of the most participatory, popular democracies in all of Latin America and the Caribbean.
To sum up, Tabaré, is proceeding with the typical resentment of a groveling mediocre leader. One who is incapable of moving towards the left and has now definitively abandoned it. He is from those who never have and never will be able to reunite huge loyal crowds like the ones you see in Venezuela in favor of their president and his process. He is one of those who hides behind empty slogans about “dialogue” and “mutual respect” but then represses any dissenting behavior at home. Those like Tabaré and Mujica, who did not pursue the murderers of their people, even though they had a congressional majority. In fact, they even minimized and pitied these brutal murderers of the last dictatorship as “poor old men”.
Tabaré and his government may keep signing resolutions against Venezuela and refusing to talk to Maduro, but it is absolutely clear that the time of their double talk is over. They have now gone over and they are definitely the executioners’ soldiers that wants to impose their rightist policies over the continent.
Source: The Dawn