By
Luis Manuel Aguana
I
have been struck by the fact that in a country with a system of
epidemiological statistics that has been completely destroyed
intentionally, the main spokespersons for the regime of Nicolás
Maduro Moros appear overnight to tell the world that in Venezuela
there are X, Y, Z or W proven cases of COVID-19 virus infection, and
they believe them! On what basis? How could the world - and we -
believe that this is true? And it is clear that it is not. In
Venezuela, the regime cannot be believed in any objective way,
especially in the sensitive case of health statistics. They have been
persecuting doctors who say or insinuate anything related to the
subject since the COVID-19 crisis began worldwide.
And
indeed in a country where we do not know the real cases of deaths
from malaria, because the regime hides the figures and lies to
international health organizations, this being an endemic well known
by our countries for decades, how do the usurpers come out overnight
and say with all propriety that there are X proven cases of COVID-19
throughout the country, a completely new disease, having a network of
epidemiological information destroyed, no doctors, no hospitals
equipped, nothing? The answer is that they simply do not know, and
will never know. I imagine that every morning Jorge Rodriguez gets up
and invents a number to elaborate the medical part for the
consumption of the assholes.
But
even if they do not know the real figures, there are people dying,
not because of the new disease but because of the destruction they
themselves have caused to the Venezuelan health system which has put
us in the situation, not now but for years, of a humanitarian crisis
which we are suffering from before the appearance of this Chinese
virus which kills only people, without the regime still recognising
it, criminally preventing humanitarian aid. They are then simply
applying the same isolation measures to us that other countries are
applying to their citizens, without taking the slightest account of
the specifics of our very great poverty resulting from our
humanitarian crisis. In other words, the Nicolas Maduro Moros regime
is applying a genocidal quarantine, which in our case will be worse
than the disease.
With
no water or electricity throughout the country, no fuel, no food to
buy at the lowest minimum wage on the planet, the regime wants
Venezuelans to stay home and hope that COVID-19 does not spread. The
average Venezuelan survives with two or three jobs just to be able to
eat, and for that they are forced to go out into the streets. That
has no political color. It is a situation that has affected all of us
who live in Venezuela. And even though the regime has manipulated the
delivery of food politically with its Carnet de la Patria, the
average Venezuelan has survived the six-digit inflation caused by
them because of their working-class vocation. Now this cannot be done
after the measures the regime has taken. And I wonder, is it possible
that the regime has solved the old paradox of keeping the woman drunk
and the barrel full of wine at the same time?
I
say this because even the Socialist Pedro Sanchez understood that to
keep the economy of Spain alive it was necessary to inject more than
200 billion euros "to save the country from the economic and
social crisis resulting from the health emergency of the coronavirus,
(see in Spanish
Rescate económico: el gobierno quiere sortear la crisis del
COVID-2019 con 200.000 millones”, in
https://www.lavozdelsur.es/rescate-economico-el-gobierno-quiere-sortear-la-crisis-del-covid-2019-con-200-000-millones/),
so
what can we expect with this regime that makes us hungry for a
minimum wage of $3 a month?
The
regime of Nicolás Maduro Moros, through the work of the COVID-19 is
then in an extremely serious dilemma if it intends to preserve its
stability: either it lets the Venezuelans continue to resolve
themselves as they have been doing up to now, which means that they
have the necessary mobility to do so, thus creating the conditions
for the voracious propagation of the COVID-19, which only God knows
how far it has gone in Venezuela, or it puts up the money to continue
in their homes, as the socialist Pedro Sánchez is doing. Since I
believe that they cannot do either one or the other, they will have
to start dealing with the disobedience to that genocidal quarantine
because nobody commits suicide just because the regime orders them
to, no matter how much of a follower of the regime they are. And
that's the scenario we're going to start seeing in the next few days,
if it hasn't already started.
What
will Padrino and the rest of his armed thugs do? Order them to shoot
at a hungry and sick people? Possibly, they've done it before. But
will they be able to do so consistently and simultaneously throughout
the country, and especially against THEIR OWN PEOPLE? That's a good
question. And we're not just talking about opponents anymore, but
anyone who wants to simply feed their family. That includes the
people who still call themselves "chavistas". Because,
either they are starved in their homes, without water and without
light, or they are killed by the virus or the regime outside on the
streets trying to make a living. That decision will be theirs alone,
and I don't think that Venezuelans are suicidal and will let
themselves be killed passively.
Because
of an external condition, a pandemic, the herd of lambs that
Venezuelans have become will now be wondering if they decide to go to
a slaughterhouse to maintain a genocidal quarantine, staying at home
without having a way to sustain themselves there, or decide if it is
worth risking your life in the face of the virus and the regime. I
believe that a people driven to that extreme will not hesitate to
take that risk. It's a matter of life and death, and the odds are in
favor of that risk because if they manage to survive the COVID-19,
they will have the energy to take the regime on... It's time for the
pillars that still support the regime to rethink. There is no escape
from the dilemma. If I may say so, Maduro is not worth that...
Caracas,
March 18, 2020
Email:
luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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