By Luis Manuel Aguana
And why not? In a
country with distorted values and extraordinarily badly governed by a capo
wanted by international justice, with a price on his head of 15 million
dollars, why should Wilexis Alexander Acevedo Monasterios not aspire to be
president, considering that one of the largest neighborhoods in Latin America,
the José Félix Ribas neighborhood in Petare, cries out in favor of him? At
least that pran put order in José Félix Ribas with a mini army armed to the
teeth, and that's saying something.
And don't get me wrong. It's not that I want
Wilexis or any other malandro to occupy the Prime Magistrate's office, it's
that they already do. But if you are going to be there, at least behave like
Wilexis and dedicate yourself to protecting the people, as Wilexis apparently
does in the José Félix Ribas neighborhood, as described by journalist Rafael
Flores Esparza in La Razón: "Since
it took power and "control" of the area, Wilexis is seen as a kind of
Robin Hood of its neighborhood, an image similar to the one the citizens of
Medellin had of drug trafficker Pablo Escobar: the one who takes from the rich
and gives to the poor, and provides them with security” (see in Spanish Wilexis se apodera de José Féliz Ribas #Petare, in https://www.larazon.net/2020/05/wilexis-se-apodera-del-jose-felix-ribas/).
But it doesn't stop there. And
that's basically what struck me when I wrote this note. It is not that the
regime is persecuting Wilexis because of his status as a delinquent or a
scourge in the aforementioned Caracas neighborhood. No. It is persecuting him
because he is not a thug in the service of the regime! As described by
journalist Esparza, Wilexis "has
between 150 and 200 men under his command, most of them under 30" and
"they are armed with shotguns and pistols, as well as radio transmitters
to communicate instantly everything that is happening”.
How can one understand such an army under the command of a criminal?
Well, they are armed to the teeth on behalf of the regime to control the
popular districts and deliver the CLAP bags in the main cities of the country.
But Wilexis "jumped the logging bandwagon" politically: "The pran was designated by Mayor José
Vicente Rangel Ávalos as the justice of the peace in the area, but in January
the logging bandwagon jumped when he recognized Juan Guaidó as the president in
charge, a betrayal that generated a hunt against him by the Special Action
Forces”. That cannot be forgiven. And what dissident gang in the mafia has
to be liquidated.
Wilexis no longer responds to the regime's instructions and is now being
pursued with all the institutional strength of the rest of the official thugs.
Imagine, an individual owner of a small army of 200 soldiers, armed with
automatic weapons, ammunition and communications and also super protected by
his people of the neighborhood. Getting him out of there will not be an easy
task for the regime: "His gang is sufficiently armed with AR-15s, FALs,
Mini Uzi and even shotguns and grenades. What's up?
That is what any Transitional Government will face once the regime
falls. There will be a nationalization of the fiefdoms controlled by these
prans throughout the country. Wilexis visualized that since last year and
decided to anticipate the political situation after the fall of the regime. But
he may not live long enough to tell the tale.
But there is a situation that needs to be studied here, which is none
other than the type of control that the regime exercises over these criminal
groups. It's the same as with criminal organizations. They are assigned a
territory for their exploitation, they are armed and expect loyalty. If someone
betrays them, they get killed. It's not a government that is pursuing Wilexis
to bring it to justice for its crimes. No. It's their partners who have stopped
receiving their share. This is the clear proof that in Venezuela there is no
longer a government but Pablo Escobar ruling. If Wilexis were to defeat the
hordes of the regime with those 200 boys armed to the teeth and expand his base
of influence, then he would be in charge. It is not another thing that is posed
with the recent armed incursion in Macuto. It's as simple as that. The law of
the strongest. And why couldn't that happen?
Wilexis could manage, in a state of affairs as distorted as those in
Venezuela, to reach Miraflores and take over the Presidency of the Republic.
So, isn't it a clean sweep? The regime has set out to govern Venezuelans, not
the usual democratic scheme of public powers, but the same scheme that Pablo
Escobar would have had in Colombia if he had been President. Criminals and
their bosses-prans in control of the country within a pyramidal structure. This
scheme has the structural weakness that each fiefdom can rise up with the saint
and alms as Wilexis is doing. And if it has enough power and guts, it can eat
anyone who confronts it. That's what happens among criminal gangs. That was the
scheme imposed by Chavez to protect his criminal revolution and now we are
seeing the results.
If tomorrow the regime
finds a pran or chief with enough power to confront them in their element,
violence, will knock them off that pedestal where they are and put them on.
That is the instability of the countries of Africa. That's what 21st Century
Socialism has led to.
I would like the official opposition to face
the mirror of Wilexis and land. It is not with agreements with the Wilexis of
Venezuela that we will get out of this problem. It is by managing to put the
strength that only exists outside the country and the little that remains
inside it, at the service of the Venezuelans, that we will be able to regain
our freedom. And that is not achieved by betraying those who understand that
the solution lies in opposing institutional violence to the criminal violence
of the regime, in order to bring order back to Venezuela and recover power for
democracy. Otherwise, they will go looking for a territory to dispute with the
Pran who control Venezuela with the Wilexis who are in the way. Good luck with
that. Maybe when Wilexis gets it, he'll be President...
Caracas, May 8, 2020
Email: luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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