By Jaime Ortega.
Nicolas Maduro found yesterday one of its main political dreams : to have an enabling law that grants him superpowers and allows him to rule by decree for one year. A law equated to his predecessor , Hugo Chavez.
” Today more than ever the Enabling act will be a weapon of justice and protection for our working people ,” his party encouraged Maduro. The 98 Chavez parliamentarians , who joined the now famous 99 deputy from the opposition , approved in the first reading in congress the much awaited law which in the history of Venezuela is linked only to powerful presidents . Next Tuesday the act will be confirmed in a second round and ” delivered to the president in a march with the people “, said Diosdado Cabello, president of the Assembly.
The path chosen by Maduro policies is marked by the Supreme Commander . On Wednesday , even Maduro dressed in military uniform to get on one of the ” powerful tanks of our Bolivarian army , the army of liberators ” and pointed a gun towards sophisticated bourgeois in the imaginary horizons.
With the same style , as if he drove the country from a tank, the president meets the first week of civil-military offensive against ” economic war parasitic bourgeoisie ” . Maduro used the new powers to enact a law on prices, costs and profits in order to ” lower prices in all areas , at least 50 % in all hefty price .”
Magical Surrealism
As so often in the magical surrealism shown Venezuela’s political class , the government shut already in 2011 , and Chavez launched a cost law which established the fight against inflation . The results are plain to see : 5.1 % inflation in October for annual skied above 50%.
Chavez prepared a historical discourse that become his ever usual proselytizing party with revolutionary songs and dressed in T-shirts with the slogan “I am 99 ” , referring to the Deputy for they lacked the necessary majority. This took away the immunity of opposition Maria Aranguren , with the complicity of Attorney and Supreme. Even swore secretly to substitute Carlos Flores, who finally showed his face to the country after weeks in a military hideout.
He voted in a blue shirt, without the same shirt as his peers , with a couple of cries against and acclaimed for his new political fellow travelers.
Chavista deputies lied to people’s consciousness : none of them were the 99 , as Carlos Flores sold his vote to make Chavez win. And not content to forcefully past their resolutions they blackmailed the law that grants full powers to allow social disputes. They insulted ( ” paramilitaries ” , ” thugs ” ) and threatened , even the deputy Ricardo Sanguino called on people to ” identify and locate ” who opposed the adoption of the law as desired by the president.
And it was the only blatant lie. The soldier Pedro Carreño , parliamentary group leader of Chavez , showed a picture of Henrique Capriles with the “owner” of Daka , the first store operated and looted with appliances to demonstrate the support of the opposition speculators. Hours earlier, he had denied Capriles own image , as he is a Mexican senator.
The government MPs used the session to emphasize the relationship with speculators opponents detained in recent days. Figueroa ‘s response was so overwhelming that public television cut the signal when the deputy supermarkets wielded the premiums in state : 128% rice, eggs 141% , 146 % lentils … A TV designed to serve the interests of Chavez supporters.
