Normality reaches new levels in Venezuela
*for a wider definition of the term please contact vice president Jose Vicente
Rangel
By Aleksander Boyd
- The first coupster of the country's democratic history refers to any dissenting
voice as such
- In spite of being a democratic state, the armed forces have permeated the
public administration to levels only seen in dictatorships
- Guerrilla leaders enjoy protection from the state (FARC meeting in Caracas)
- International convicts enter the country with diplomatic passports (Wladimiro
Montesinos)
- The armed forces seize control of the police due to its disobedience of presidential
mandates
- The president in national TV dishonours the justices of the Supreme Court.
Their rulings are not to be observed by pro government parties
- 18.000 employees are sacked for political reasons
- The person who asked for the president's resignation and made it public is
promoted to Interior Minister
- Venezuela has today the only democratically elected president in Latin America
who has been sued for crimes against humanity in the International Criminal
Court
- The police forces of the country -especially those of Caracas- are subject
to constant attacks by government funded armed militia groups with the leniency
of the president and the help of the armed forces
- Assassins caught in the act are declared heroes by the president
- In spite of the dramatic levels of unemployment, the nationalistic president
invites and promotes foreign workers
- Justice is administered only to those opposing the government. Grave crimes
such as the massacre of last April continue to be unpunished
- The state is actively engaged in blocking the administration of justice
- Explosive artefacts are used on a constant basis to deter opposition leaders
(explosion of a bomb outside Enrique Mendoza's house)
- Outspoken journalists are attacked repeatedly (the most recent example being
Marta Colomina)
- Despite having the second highest crime statistics of the continent, the president
orders the intervention of the largest police force of Caracas
- Nearly 34.000 Venezuelans have been killed since the president took office.
By this time next year 11.000 more will have lost their lives (at the present
rate)
- The national assembly meets in parks
- High government officials have criminal records, including the president
- The biggest obstacle for democratic processes is the president
- Irresponsible oil production is destroying the only revenue generating enterprise
of the country
- The nationalistic president offers the total control of the state's oil company
to the US for an annual fee
- People have been assassinated in the vicinity of the presidential palace while
the president addresses the nation from it
- The president and many of its immediate collaborators incite violence
- Language of hate is constantly used by the president
- Invasions and seizure of private property is promoted from the presidency
- The president and his armed militia groups are directly responsible for more
than 55 political assassinations
- The president forbids reconnaissance flights to the DEA
- Humanitarian aid is held at ransom by custom authorities
- Humanitarian aid is used for political propaganda
- The Church is declared enemy of the state
- Unarmed civilians are shot by the armed forces
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