Ricardo Bello on Fri, 12 Apr 2002 21:50:47 +0200 (CEST) |
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<nettime> Chavez is out |
Chavez is out, he was surrounded by the army and will now stand trial for his corrupt and criminal behavior. Receiving hundred of thousands of peaceful people with snipers and guns finally made everyone see him as he really was. Several Cuban planes left the International Airport at the first hours of the morning. The most violent leaders of chavismo have not yet been captured, but the head of the transitional junta, a respected business man, has told the press that he will rule according to the law: no executions nor vengeance,. New elections will be held, presumably, next December. We have recover our country! It was the first time in many decades that we saw thousand of young men choosing exile, we almost began to see ourselves like a new generation of Cubans, living in Miami, Ąthanks God no!, not for Miami or Cubans I mean, but the lives of the exiles. Shops and stores are open again, the national strike is over. The Financial Times report http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT32ZRBZWZC&live=true&tagid=IXLYK5HZ8CC is not entirely correct. The march was larger than half a million, the biggest peaceful march on our history. My three sister were there (the most apolitical of all), everyone try to go, spontaneously. And it seems there are between thirty or forty dead and hundreds of wounded, it was a massacre and the snipers were trained, as everyone knew, in Cuba. This was a radical government, attack on private enterprise was a main policy and control of the press one of his obsessions. The main damage, however, was to install class struggle and hate as a mean to dissolve Venezuelan society. Maybe the parallel seem a little wild, but I was reading last week John F. Avedon´s book In Exile from the Land of Snows, and what the Chinese did to destroy Tibetan society and values were the same. The use of hate as destroyer. The Cold War, Chavez thought, was still running. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net