Sunday, December 18, 2011

Chavez, death and the little cold war by Carlos A Montaner

At the foot of the grave, it is assumed that most humans spend the balance of his life, forgive enemies, apologize to the aggrieved persons and try to rectify mistakes. Less Hugo Chavez. Even the serious illness that afflicts, and probably settled in the short to medium term, has succeeded in changing their behavior. This time it is a metaphor: "Genius and figure, to the grave."

In effect, the great Latin American crisis of 2012 and rears its head. The Hugo Chavez unleashed its dangerous ties to Iran, both in the field of nuclear weapons in collaboration with Islamic terrorist groups. If Chavez dies in the coming months, regardless of the economic and social chaos that will leave his countrymen, that will be his legacy: a conflict with Washington, Israel, with the interests of their own people and unnecessary upheaval throughout Latin America . U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez and Republican Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, both key figures in the supervision of foreign policy and Washington have called for a thorough investigation of the Venezuelan war activities as a prelude to the formulation of measures get serious avert that risk. With American security is not played. Especially in an election year.

Chavez, irresponsibly, has put his chancery, his intelligence agencies and the military segment, which includes many narco-serving Tehran and Hezbollah terrorists. This collaboration, ABC reported from Madrid, has gone so far as to turn Caracas at the headquarters of a terrorist summit in which he also participated Hamas. In this dark journey, accompanied heartedly by Raul Castro ("these are things of Fidel," Raul used to say with some despair, according to Gen. Quevedo told the highest-ranking Cuban defector in recent times), in various ways crawl conflict with Ecuador, Bolivia and Nicaragua, his merry farce satellites in the XXI century socialism.

Why Chavez is acting in a manner so reckless? It is the result of three factors fatally twisted. First, his messianic character. He thinks he is destined to transform the world. He lives in a magical universe. There is going to die of cancer. Their opponents are a collection of idiots. United States and Europe will collapse. He is invulnerable. Second, his crazy vision of social reality and history. Intellectually, it is a poor devil is, essentially, in the nonsense of The Open Veins of Latin America, Eduardo Galeano pamphlet is often prescribed to spray and pray. Third, his disastrous contact with Fidel Castro, who conveyed his strategic thinking and tactics of struggle against "Yankee imperialism" learned from the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

Chavez with Fidel, his putative father, are ready to succeed where he failed and betrayed Moscow revolutionaries worldwide. There is nothing new in the alliance between Chavez and the Persian theocracy. In 2002, Fidel Castro, an official visit to Tehran, he said, fiercely and publicly, that Cuba and Iran would "knees" to the United States. Chavez has done nothing but take up these plans and embrace any dictator (Gaddafi, Mugabe, Lukashenko, Assad, Ahmadinejad does not matter), as recommended by the KGB when he planned to conquer the world without a trace of principle or ideological coherence, provided that the satrap coincide in the hatred of the West, especially the United States, and condemned economic freedom.

What can stop this revolutionary spasm? Naturally, the action of responsible countries can articulate containment measures (which do not count, unfortunately, Latin Americans), but is likely to happen this time what the Spanish on the time of tardofranquismo called "biological solution ". Fidel is more dead than alive and spends his rare moments of lucidity to contemplate, wistfully, as his brother Raul slowly but progressively dismantled its political and social experiment failed half a century, while Chavez suffered a serious cancer that has been scattered by the several bones and viscera. Missing these two characters, the little cold war soon extinguished. For once, nature seems to militate on the side of freedom.

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