by Manuel
E. Yepe
Venezuela
and Brazil are the scenes of a new form of coup d’état that would
set the continent’s political calendar back to its worst times.
Meanwhile, in Argentina, the brutal model for the demolition of
democracy is set forward by the continental oligarchic right and the
hegemonic forces of US imperialism who wish to impose their model in
the region.
As we can
see in the previews that test the memory of the peoples in the
continent, it is difficult to accept that the new types of coups are
actually softer and more covert than those which Latin America
suffered for so long.
What has
been shown so far in Argentina is no less cruel, in terms of contempt
for the masses, than the coups carried out by the bloodthirsty
dictatorships that sprouted in time of Operation Condor.
In Venezuela
the president of the opposition majority in the National Assembly,
Henry Ramos, openly declares that in view of the severity of the
economic crisis, he fails to see Maduro concluding his term and adds
they should put an end to Nicolas Maduro’s legitimate government
within six months. Such statements did not compel the Secretary
General of the Organization of American States, Luis Almagro, to
formulate even the mildest rejection to such a coup-like declaration.
This indicates they are returning to the era of open and brutal coups
in the backyard of the United States of America.
Meanwhile,
in Argentina, the newly-elected president, Mauricio Macri, moves
forward the implementation of his “democratic model” with a
brutal demolition of all the advances the nation had made after the
collapse it suffered as a result of the neo-liberal economic and
political crisis from which it had been rescued by the consecutive
popular governments of Nestor Kirchner and Cristina Fernandez de
Kirchner.
Argentinean
writer, journalist, and researcher Stella Calloni, explains that the
current coup in Argentina began the same day Macri took office. He is
an extreme right businessman who, since 2007 (according to Wikileaks)
offered his services to the US embassy in Buenos Aires.
“The
coup offensive began with decrees that allowed for the intervention
of institutions and absolutely illegal measures, such as the
appointment by decree of two judges to the Supreme Court. All
economic measures favor the powerful and mark a path of exclusion for
the common people,” says Calloni.
Violating
the constitution and the laws, and ruling by Necessity and Urgency
Decrees(NUDs) since December 2015, Macri took a road that evidently
seeks to deliver the country to the global hegemonic power and the
destruction of a work that had earned Argentina worldwide admiration
and respect. He is delivering the country to the sinister designs of
the International Monetary Fund and other agencies, banks and foreign
institutions. All his economic actions favor the powerful and mark a
path of exclusion for the population.
“The
negative opposition in Congress is part of the ongoing coup the US
and its local puppets are carrying out against Venezuela,”
Calloni says.
While the
United States and its network of partners and local employees –with
applause from the hegemonic power– support Macri’s
unconstitutional decrees, in Venezuela, the decree of “economic
emergency” signed by President Nicolas Maduro, was rejected by the
legislative opposition with the acquiescence of the same power.
Never before
was the right more willing to violate the Constitution and call to
sedition, warned former Venezuelan Vice-President and journalist Jose
Vicente Rangel. “Seldom in our country had a coup been announced
so clearly and at the same time so elusively; the option would be the
presidential recall, but this option –within our constitution– is
only tangentially alluded to.”
According to
Rangel, the opposition sails in two rivers by affirming, on the one
hand, that within six months Nicolas Maduro will leave –by peaceful
and constitutional means–Miraflores Palace (seat of government)
and, on the other, that they will not even wait that long to oust the
Venezuelan president.
“The
right has grown presumptuous after its legislative victory of last
December 6. But they still remember the failed coup of 2002: a
resounding failure that made them switch to peaceful methods –as
the ones they are apparently trying to use now– to overthrow the
socialist power. But neither the soft blows, the carnival costumes
used to confuse, or the violent coups can occur with impunity,”
concludes José Vicente Rangel.
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