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Related: About this forumVenezuela: "Run Oligarchy Run"
Run Oligarchy, RunBy REINALDO ITURRIZA LOPEZ SABER Y PODER, December 3rd 2012
(Reinaldo Iturriza is a respected Venezuelan political and sports commentator.)
On June 25th, 2012, a few days before the beginning of the 2012 presidential campaign, opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was visiting the community of El Cartanal in Valle del Tuy, Caracas. The objective was to continue with her slanderous work against the social missions, trying to poke holes in the revolutions base of support.
With this goal in mind, Machado made up a belligerent story about the women of the community who, in order to buy food in the government supermarket Mercal, have to wait several hours in the sun and rain, uncovered, and on their arms they identify them with a number. (LINK)
Thats right: numbers on their arms. Like in the Nazi concentration camps. Totalitarianism!
They are subjected to constant humiliation, division, anguish, and permanent discrimination, (LINK) said Machado showing off her characteristic histrionics.
There is plenty of audiovisual evidence of Machados visit. Take a look for yourself and search for it on the internet: you wont find the slightest proof of what the parliamentarian claimed, even though several cameras were following her and could have easily filmed it.
Typical.
Now, heres another interesting event: theres a video (LINK**) going around the internet with part of Miranda governor Capriles Radonskis visit to the same community of El Cartanal on November 3rd, 2012, just one day after the massive turnout for PSUV gubernatorial candidate Elias Jauas visit. You can see governor Capriles all alone, running down the street of a working-class neighborhood, surrounded by nothing more than his bodyguards, cameramen, and photographers.
What was Capriles Radonski running from? And where were all the people of the community?
In Octobers elections, 74.47 percent (LINK) of the population of El Cartanal voted for Chavez.
Do you get what Im saying?
That is how the oligarchy behaves: the Venezuelan people start to have access to low-cost food and they complain, they are perturbed, they get uncomfortable. The people celebrate and make jokes and they frown, just like Machado does in the National Assembly. Her unforgettable scowl provokes laughter. Thats why when she laughs and says nice things the people get suspicious. Thats why we dont believe her stories.
Thats why when the people walk, Capriles Radonski takes off running.
They are so much alike, Capriles Radonski and Maria Corina Machado. She has always been warning us of Castro-communism, while he has managed to avoid doing the same for some time, but recently we have seen how he failed in his attempt. (LINK)
There is a small degree of difference between them, but they are of the same nature.
The pertinent question is, mainly for the anti-Chavez electorate, if we will have to settle for this kind of discredited, anachronistic leadership that talks to us as if we lived in the 1950s when Joseph McCarthy persecuted communists in the United States and Marcos Pérez Jiménez did the same here in Venezuela.
The candidates of the red party, (LINK) is what Capriles Radonski likes to repeat, and the phrase is supposed to produce the same effect as McCarthys red scare. As Venezuelan satirist Carola Chavez would say, How embarrassing for that guy.
And what can we say about this claim (LINK) that the government has a Castro-communist plan to eliminate the state governors and municipalities as Capriles Radonski claimed on November 11th in a public event? If that were the case, why go to the trouble of having elections?
Why go to the trouble of having primary elections if later you are not going to recognize the results? Was that what opposition party Primero Justicia had planned all along? To ignore the popular will of the opposition electorate, a majority of whom voted for Carlos Ocariz as candidate for governor of Miranda, and not Capriles Radonski?
When you ask the right questions, they pretend they dont understand. Maria Corina Machado practices her Cheshire-cat smile and Capriles Radonski takes off running.
Run oligarchy, run.
On December 16th lets do like the people of El Cartanal did on October 7th, with an turnout of more than 80 percent (LINK) : lets vote overwhelmingly in favor of the candidate of the revolution, which is the candidate of democracya democracy that we will have to keep strengthening and deepening so that we dont have to keep putting up with a political class that has never believed in the will of the people.
Translated by Chris Carlson for Venezuelanalysis.com
http://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/7520
(en espanol) http://saberypoder.blogspot.com/2012/12/corre-oligarquia-corre.html
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Nice to get some sassy leftist political commentary from Venezuela!
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**(The vid of rightwing presidential--now gubernatorial--candidate, Capriles Radonskis, is hilarious. Such a contrast with the PSUV (Chavez party) candidate, Elias Jaua! Of course this is highly partisan, biased, selective footage of Capriles but i think hilarious ridicule has its place. John Stewart has made a career out of it. Elias Jaua could well be the next leftist president of Venezuela! Take a look!)
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Venezuela: "Run Oligarchy Run" (Original Post)
Peace Patriot
Dec 2012
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Judi Lynn
(160,516 posts)1. Oh, my god. Don't know whether to laugh or howl after seeing that clip of Capriles running away
from the poor neighborhood. I think the right touch would have been for someone to let out a pack of dogs to chase along behind Capriles and his bodyguards as they tried to flee from poverty as if it were contageous. Maybe they went there because they wanted the people they loathe and fear to vote for them. What a clever idea. No one would see through that, oh, you betcha.
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Thanks for the great article. Loved the well chosen videos.
joshcryer
(62,269 posts)2. You fall for propaganda far too easily.
Here's actual video of his visit there:
He certainly does not have as many supporters as Elias in that area, but he's not doing as bad as the video makes out.