Interview with Maduro

[ocpagu]

Folha - What will chavism without Chávez be like, as he was a formulator, strategist and government spokesman?

Nicolás Maduro - President Chávez founded a revolutionary mass movement in Venezuela. He gave it an ideology and a constituion. Our revolutionary process has a constitution. He gave us doctrines and principles. He left us a political testament, a national agenda, with short-, middle- and long-term goals. He raised the majority of people to such a level of participation that made them the protagonists, as had never occurred in Venezuela's history. We are prepared to carry on with the revolution. He educated the people. He educated us for a project.

But 44% of Venezuelans, who voted for the opposing party in the 2012 presidential elections, don't agree with this project. What will happen in the short and middle term if you lose the elections?

We´ve accepted all elections that we lost. Venezuela has opposing governors and mayors. It has 40% opposition. If they win, which I doubt will occur in the 21st century, well, then they will take office. And they would have to decide what to do with country. Venezuela has conscious citizens and the solid bases of an independent country on its way to socialism.

You often speak of unity. But there are several chavist groups. Do you think a division can occur, as it did with peronism in Argentina?

The national revolutionary movement is united around the image, spirituality and ideology of Chávez. Around his national project. A major country. It is united around the collective management that he built. And around Chávez's appointment of myself as the conductor of the revolution in this phase. We are united.

Will there be turnover in chavist leadership without Chávez's distinctive leadership?

Not even a prophet, a wizard, a fortune teller knows what fate has in store for us. What I can tell you is that we are solid, united in this historical moment. And the world must know that this collective management has undergone several trials by fire. We are ready for victory on April 14 and to govern our country very well.

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http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/world/1258723-exclusive-interview-with-chavezs-heir.shtml

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Funny interview. Poor Folha, I think they were not prepared...

My favorite part:

"Q: Capriles says he has no access to radio stations because those which cover the opposition are suppressed. Don't you think it is important for different voices to be heard?"

"A: Well, they have 80% of the media. If you go anywhere in Barinas and buy the newspaper, you will see that they are private and against the government. Regional TV channels, radio stations, between 80% and 90% of them are against the government. The opposition has all the media, and we have just one: the people's consciousness, which defeats the opposition every day."

[naaman fletcher]

1. His answer about the opposition was very fair minded as well. Nt

[Judi Lynn]

2. Very interesting. Is the author's paper one of the right-wing publications?

She was aggressive, but she had to use old questions we've heard already too often. She was clearly, in my view, supportive of right-wing control of everything, forever, and dismissive of everyone else, which would be the vast majority!

Glad to see Maduro's answers. He's completely capable, and pointed out some deliberately overlooked facts the media avoid when trying to drive in their right-wing talking points.

Glad to have read this.

[ocpagu]

3. Yes, it is! Traditionally right-wing.

"Folha de S. Paulo" supported the right wing coup in 1964, and supported the military dictatorship for years (they used to lend the company's cars to transport people to torture chambers. Their cars were frequently attacked by those opposing the regime).





They've also recently defended that the Brazilian dictatorship was a "ditabranda" - Portuguese equivalente of "dictablanda" ("a word used by political scientists to describe a dictatorship in which civil liberties are allegedly preserved rather than destroyed&quot .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictablanda

And they make strong opposition to all the Latin American left.

The journalist doing the interview, Monica Bérgamo, used to work for Veja, that quasi-fascist magazine allied with a criminal gambling organization.

[Judi Lynn]

4. Even participating physically by offering use of company vehicles to transport victims,

they could never get lower than that without doing the torturing themselves. No wonder when people found out they burned their death-mobiles. It's a damned shame the people in charge of Folha de Sao Paulo didn't get tried and sent to prison themselves after the dictatorship. They certainly did everything possible to deserve it.

It's kind of you to supply missing facts about these clowns. That goes a long way in explaining the combative attitude of the "journalist." It a clean world, the writer wouldn't manipulate an interview to try to attack the person being interviewed, no matter how many right-wing "journalists" do it now.

[center]

Monica Bergamo, who wants
to be be considered a writer.
She's actually a "righter."[/center]