Please, first the definitions. In a country where we love to look for new meanings to things and permanently enrich the language, there is nothing more direct and enlightening than to put the correct adjective to the person or situation, and that this defines it in its full extent.
According to the blog "De cualquier vaina", "In the -sometimes abusive- Venezuelan humor, bate quebrao -in unhealthy mockery- is the name given to the person who fails to do things well to contribute to his own personal cause or to that of the community. In English, the gringos -a little more politically correct than us- would say he/she does not deliver to express the lack of competence in performing some specific action" (see in Spanish What is a Bate Quebrao?, in https://decualquiervaina.blogspot.com/2010/01/que-es-un-bate-quebrao.html) (highlighted our).
A mi juicio, la anterior definición, describe a cabalidad el comportamiento aborrecible de personajes de las candidaturas de la oposición oficial que ya comenzaron a tejer un plan para apoderarse de la candidatura presidencial de la oposición, sin contar con el aval del pueblo opositor venezolano.
In order to be prepared for the eventuality that the winning candidate in the primaries is disqualified by the regime, the National Primary Commission (CNP), at the request of the pre-candidate Henrique Capriles, approved the discussion of a regulation that decides the substitution of the candidate most voted by the opposition people if he/she is "disqualified" by the regime (vsee in Spanish, Maduradas, Unitary opposition platform to discuss Henrique Capriles' proposal on substitution of candidates for primaries, in https://maduradas.com/plataforma-unitaria-la-oposicion-discutiria-propuesta-henrique-capriles-sustitucion-candidatos-las-primarias/).
What kind of nonsense is that? Can the NPC or the so-called opposition parties decide who is the winning candidate over the will of Venezuelans, just because the regime illegally vetoed candidates for the presidential election? Isn't it supposed that in the event that Venezuelans elect a disqualified candidate, all those parties become one to defend the right of that candidate to participate in that election? Strictly logically, in principle, the mere fact of even considering such proposal goes against the decision made by the CNP, that disqualified candidates should participate in that primary election.
Perhaps they should call this regulation "Norms to prevent Maria Corina Machado (MCM) from being the opposition candidate", because according to two different pollsters of August 2023, all candidates added together do not reach more than 20% of the preferences of the Venezuelan opposition against 80% for MCM (see in Spanish Voting Intention, Power and Strategy, at https://twitter.com/krlozgalindz/status/1696573476516098213/photo/1, and Polianalítica, en https://twitter.com/polianalitica/status/1696562852033712322).
Anything approved by the CNP to substitute the electoral preference of Venezuelans in those primaries must be rejected by the country, making invalid by the facts the very reason why that Commission was constituted, and therefore it should be immediately dismantled if they decide that contradiction. If these primaries were to be held, whoever the winning candidate is, he/she will be the representative of the Venezuelan opposition against the regime, even if the broken bats that play the game do not like it and block, together with Maduro, the possibility of participating in the presidential election, which is a very different thing.
One thing is a presidential candidate disqualified by illegal procedures, winner of a primary election, and a very different thing is a pre-candidate disqualified from a primary election. This is known by the regime and its dedicated opposition, who desperately seek to close the way to an option that says it is willing to go "to the end" in spite of such persecution.
The first milestone to be able to reach this "until the end" is that these primary elections actually take place to crown the candidate with the highest option in the polls. If this regulation of the parties surrendered to the regime, which has no validity in the face of the decision of the Venezuelan people in primaries, becomes a reality, the candidate they end up deciding will not only be a puppet that will not be accepted by the people, due to the crude set-up, but they will turn that presidential election into a farce worse than that of May 2018, which caused the rejection reaction of the International Community and the consequent illegitimacy of the regime, so they will lose what they anxiously seek, which is nothing else than to wash their face in front of the world.
In other words, this consensus among bates quebraos will produce the opposite effect to the one they seek, because as the same definition indicates, a bate quebrao "does not manage to do things right to contribute to his own personal cause or to that of the collectivity". In the case of their own cause, because the people will end up burying them by making that election illegitimate and in the case of the collectivity, even less because it goes against the interests of those who desire a change and believed in good faith in a system of opposition election that ends up by that decision, in a fraud, finally demonstrating "the lack of competence in carrying out a specific action". More broken bats can not be...
This reaction of the collaborationist parties of the G3 and its daughter, the CNP, to approve a regulation consensual among bates quebraos made me remember the extraordinary interventions of Teodoro Petkoff in his editorials in Tal Cual, and which gave rise to the definition expressed above, precisely because Teodoro titled his editorial of January 26, 2010, "Bate quebrado", referring to Chávez and the closing of RCTV as useless actions. The editorial ended as follows:
"The closing of RCTV aims, of course, to reduce almost to nothing the possibility of television communication of any opinion different from that of the Power. It will be useless. They will have to ban the Internet, Twitter, cell phones, SMS and all the fantastic communication paraphernalia of these times, in order to silence this people. But, beyond this, over and above the totalitarian vocation of the regime, which would like a silent and resigned society, what comforts and fills with hope is the indomitable presence of a country that will not be silenced, that responds and fights. "We will pay for this in September", says an anonymous voice in some newspaper. A voice of the common people. Pure popular wisdom of those who know that early mornings don't mean early mornings and that the game is only over when it is over". (see in Spanish Editorial de Tal Cual, Bate quebrado, por Teodoro Petkoff, 26 de enero de 2010, https://talcualdigital.com/bate-quebrado-por-teodoro-petkoff/).
As in that opportunity, the approval of such "substitute" regulation will be useless. Maduro and his broken bats of the official opposition will be able to whistle in the dark to scare away the fear produced by the popular decision to leave them with the presidential candidacy of MCM. Good luck with that. It is that indomitable presence of a country that will not be silenced, that responds and fights, as Petkoff said. The Venezuelan baseball language expressed in that definition is full of popular wisdom. They no longer convince or give "a stick to anyone" and "even if they come in square boxes, the balls will still be round" and the game, as Yogi Berra said and rightly remembered by Teodoro, is only over when it is over, and if it is with broken bats, even more so!
Caracas, September 1st, 2023
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