tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post6142235457030086717..comments2024-03-26T00:37:34.943+01:00Comments on Venezuela News And Views: Death in Venezuela: a regime that does not value human lifeDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12128609182544333477noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-44620816308582617172011-02-20T17:25:24.804+01:002011-02-20T17:25:24.804+01:00Half Empty,
What an interesting hobby you have!I ...Half Empty,<br /><br />What an interesting hobby you have!I am sure you are learning a lot.<br /><br />Chavez is an authoritarian who rules differently than some other dictators do.He takes the natural tendency of the country( chaos), and increases it to his advantage.In this way he doesn't have to have iron clad rules to defend his power.In Belarus for example it is easier for most people to see a dictatorship and it is easier for the world to criticize Lukachenko .But by allowing crime to go out of control in Venezuela, people are too fearful and too busy surviving and become submissive: meanwhile Chavez doesn't look like the culprit.I mean after all it is also the fault of the criminals, no?And maybe even the opposition have their hand in it as well ;)<br /><br />As for objective data..just imagine, it does not show the holistic truth of the country.<br /><br />I can't think of another country similar to this, maybe there is but I don't know of it.He( or rather his advisers) uses the Venezuelan idiosyncrasy of anarchy to his own advantagefirepighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15158275219887987252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-87284538246560178482011-02-19T10:47:44.376+01:002011-02-19T10:47:44.376+01:00which is so hard to find in a system like that of ...<i>which is so hard to find in a system like that of Venezuela</i><br /><br />Which leads me to ask a question I've been pondering on for some time. Has there ever been anything like what is now in place in Venezuela? A hard-soft, sentimentalist-coldhearted, dictatorship-anarchy? Or is the seeming dicotomies a product of the internet? I've never set foot in Venezuela, I've picked what very little I know of your country from English blogs such has this one, the one I first started reading more years ago than I can believe. It's a strange hobby/obsession I have. :)<br /><br />I've amazed a few people at the odd dinner party tho. heh heh.<br /><br />Thanks Daniel and good luck to you and yours.HalfEmptyhttp://www.ninme.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-34371136874363432572011-02-19T09:59:21.708+01:002011-02-19T09:59:21.708+01:00This effort will only be in vain if people keep ra...This effort will only be in vain if people keep rationalising about it instead of supporting it wholeheartedly.<br /><br />After 19 days it is obvious these young people mean business, the international media are taking notice, the OAS has debated about it, and here we are still thinking if it will be of any use? They have a concrete goal: free the political prisoners. Isn't that a goal worth supporting? What is "the best way to proceed"? Leave them alone, yet again?<br /><br />We have no other choice than to support them, massively.<br /><br />Gold.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-34235164614312906952011-02-18T19:06:09.012+01:002011-02-18T19:06:09.012+01:00Daniel,
Thank you for your post. You may have al...Daniel,<br /><br />Thank you for your post. You may have already seen the article on The Economist "Criminals or Dissidents?" about judge Afiuni, jailed politicians and the students on hunger strike. Their sacrifice at the hands of Chavez is known to the international community, but I have to agree with you that a hunger strike is not the best way to proceed. <br /><br />http://www.economist.com/node/18184396?story_id=18184396Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-26948953362754737292011-02-18T18:53:38.287+01:002011-02-18T18:53:38.287+01:00"For all practical purposes these people leav..."For all practical purposes these people leaving Venezuela in search of better hopes under other skies should be also accounted with the "death toll" of the people we will never see again."<br /><br />And for these people it is often felt like a little death as well.The other day we had lunch with a guy from Nicaragua who was exiled years ago for not going along with the Sandinista corruption.He expressed something that is very true to us, and I relate quite well to it, which is that the pain of exile is a pain that never goes away.<br /><br />It is incalculable the amount of pain and destruction Chavismo has reeked on Venezuela, and there are still people out there who are so perfectionist that they are more afraid of who might follow Chavez than they are about getting Chavez out.Should we be afraid of the pain caused by standing up against Chavismo and just accept the pain of his destruction ?only because in some people's opinion it is not yet as bad as Egypt?How bad it is, is a subjective evaluation rather than an objective one.<br /><br />The problem I see is that many people have come to rely too much on objective proof which is so hard to find in a system like that of Venezuela.Venezuela also has not had 30 years of Chavez.But 30 years of Chavez will only bring 30 more years of death and destruction whereas to accept death on behalf of getting him out seems more sane to me.The insanity of a country that is as fearful as Venezuela, is what gives power to Chavez.Without it , he is nothing.<br /><br />It is only through foresight and not through proof they we can avoid being stuck indefinitely .When we get all the proof some people need, it will be way too late.For those who think that risking one's life is not worth it,perhaps they should sit back and enjoy their time.Everything is a choice.<br /><br />Having said that, I think it is a shame that more older folks do not step up and leave this task to those with a life time ahead of them.Shameful !!firepigettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17348890269608169297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-84248811726202897982011-02-18T14:03:45.537+01:002011-02-18T14:03:45.537+01:00And you may observe that in an unusual act of deli...And you may observe that in an unusual act of delicateness I have not even mentioned the obvious necrophilia of chavismo in the main body of this post..Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12128609182544333477noreply@blogger.com