By Jaime Ortega.
” We will never serve the bourgeoisie and the stateless imperial class .” Broadcast from morning to night on the new Star channel Chavez : TVFanb ( Television of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces ) .
Programs like the ‘ Teachings of Chavez ‘, ‘ Training the military ‘ or ‘ Cooking with the troops ‘ , which broadcast the ” true and balanced paradoxes of society influenced by disinformation.” The channel reports grids overloaded with weapons , shooting and bombings, amidst the “peace process ” launched by the government to divert attention from the wave of savage violence against Venezuelans with a total of 24,763 homicides committed in 2013.
A heightened advocacy of militarism , with soldiers emerging from large puddles to emulate Rambo . The same militarism advancing steadily towards the seizure of political and economic power of Venezuela’s cause. This again has again become clear after the last ministerial reform set by Nicolas Maduro.
The military, which already controlled the Ministries of Security and Defense have now copied the same economic portfolios following the example of the Cuban Revolution , where generals and colonels handled at will government agencies and fundamental mixed enterprises with foreign corporations.
Post-Chavez era comes with a worsening crisis that has returned to empty the shelves across the country , coincidentally on the same days that the Cuban deputy minister of industry announced for March saying new waves of hunger would eventually strike back.
The main ministries
The new super minister of Economy , Finance and Public Banking is General Rodolfo Marco Torres, a faithful follower of Marxist doctrines of Jorge Giordani , Chavez’s economic guru.
Beside him are Maj. Gen. Wilmer Barrientos in Industry , Major General Hebert García Plaza in Transportation and Water , who also chairs the Supreme Body of Economics, the Lieutenant Jesse Chacón in Energy and Colonel Felix Osorio as head of Power.
Despite its obvious failure in the fight against violence , General Miguel Rodriguez Torres remains at the forefront of Interior. And gaining political weight to place confidence on the men in charge of intelligence institutions . Defense remains in military hands, something traditional among Venezuela’s political class.
Maj. Gen. Luis Motta Dominguez, former commander of the National Guard and also minister of state for the development of the central region, has rejoined the central government in a key position : Mayor of national fair prices.
” Usurers , speculators and swindlers to buy sandals is what is coming to the state of Joropo ” he threatened via social media after the adoption of the new Law of Fair Prices , which provides up to 10 years in prison for any speculation plot against the government.
Seven -powerful military ministers and 10 deputy ministers, in addition to the 11 of the 23 governors of the country and a good bunch of mayors and other public officials in the administration have also joined.
Most of the generation of Hugo Chavez , who led them during the bloody coups of 1992, have remained in the seats. And at the front, Captain Diosdado Cabello , president of the Assembly and leader of the military wing of Chavez is also involved in the new government.
Besides him, the lieutenant Pedro Carreño has become the head of the aggressive bloc Chavez directed on the Parliament . Before the last cabinet reshuffled , the newspaper ‘ The National ‘ appointed had posted 368 for eight and a half of Maduro’s military government , who beat and thrashed of his predecessor months. That is 1,246 Chávez elected fellow soldiers for 15 years.
Military power
” The most powerful men in the country have a military uniform. Those that seized power ” confirms Rocío San Miguel , director of Watch Program.
” The Government run by Maduro is more of a dictatorship than an election. No uniformed scrupulous had ever controlled political power in Venezuela but he has, like his predecessor,” said José Machillanda , Doctor of Political and Military Science .
It’s not enough for them to control television and state radio, they want full power. Also have their bank ( Banfanb ) , carrier ( Emiltra , which aims to “ensure” the transfer of loads into and out of the territory, and thus ” defend the socialist fatherland ” ) , construction and agricultural corporation ( Agrofanb , that allows the military to manufacture their own food ) .
