A-Infos (en) Anarkismo.net: Venezuela on the brink of a nervous breakdown by Bruno Lima Rocha (pt) [machine translation]

In January 2009 I published right here two texts about the Venezuelan experience, gained 
being there and going through the process of intense social Caracas and its metropolitan 
area. The recent changes are visible. Until the late 1990s, the youth of the country 
called itself "chewing gum", and its cultural matrix Miami (Florida). At the turn of the 
century, the liturgy policy passed by liberator Simon Bolivar and his contemporaries, as 
Sucre and Boves. In other words, millions of people were beginning to feel the citizens 
while symbolically merged with the Chavez Bolivarian movement. And therein lies the 
problem long term. ---- In the short term, there was no symptom of "problems" since Chavez 
appeared strong health and with increasing popularity, winning consecutive elections and 
referendums (except for one).

At the time, impressed me the statistics favorable to the government of Hugo Chavez in 
promoting the benefits of late modernity, such as missions of health, education (basic, 
adult, technical and higher education), housing and public transport (deploying lifts in 
slum areas ). In the matter of admission and income, the process (as they are also called 
the nearly fifteen years of chavismo) even patina. The same occurs in primary production 
and in sensitive sectors such as pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals beyond the oil 
industry, their specialty.

The positive impression to provide a real improvement in the quality of life of people 
"accustomed" to naturalize inequality and structural corruption, came against organized a 
new political practices. As we see in Brazil, is less likely to promote entry and the 
social conditions that transform a political culture. Today, Venezuelans pay the price for 
having been more than Chavista Bolivarian for not structuring a solid political party and 
movement entreverar popular with some subordination to the transitional government 
hierarchies.

The impasse is visible. Any connoisseur of Venezuela knows that most people will not 
accept back to the above conditions, when the oligarchic pact concentrated more than 80% 
of GDP in less than 20% of the population. At the same time, it is impossible to suppose a 
process of social transformation in the long run depending on a charismatic leader and his 
followers, in fact, rival each other. While that may be new presidential elections, it is 
possible that the winner in the ballot box not ratify institutionally victory.
Bruno Lima Rocha

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