Venezuela, ready for the revolution – Infobae

Nicolas Maduro

Venezuela is ruled by a criminal mafia. And there are five leaders of that criminal organization that they claim to call the government, or they were because one supposedly resigned and is missing. Like all mafia, these reckonings are violent and the results are known later when there is a clear winner. But to understand this dirty business and the implications of this ‘resignation’, it is necessary to explain how power is divided in the Venezuelan criminal kleptocracy.

At the head of power, at least the most visible, are Maduro, his son Nicolasito (they also have their Nicolás there) and his wife Cilia Florez. Then there are the Rodríguez brothers, Jorge and Delcy, apparently close to Maduro. The third is Diosdado Cabello, close to the military and the cartel of the suns, the fourth is Vladimir Padrino López, Minister of Defense highly trusted by the Cubans and the Russians. And finally, there is or was, the resigned and disappeared Minister of Energy and Oil Tareck El Aissami, very close to Iran and Hezbollah.

The government’s narrative is that he resigned due to acts of corruption at PDVSA. And they also arrested many civil servants, judges and the military around them, which clearly shows that it is a purge of power. This is how dictatorships work. They accuse of whatever, and corruption is just an excuse because all of the aforementioned are billionaires due to the systemic corruption that exists in Venezuela, to settle the dispute that exists for power. This is how Castro did it many times, just like Lenin or Stalin. Nothing new there.

What is new is that this break with one of the criminal clan has several implications and possible effects. It is already said that all this was the work of Jorge Rodríguez, who for years has been undermining the Turk, as they say to El Assaimi, and now seems to have finished his work. However, those who know Tareck believe that there will easily be retaliation, especially against the Rodriguez brothers. El Aissami’s closeness to Hezbollah and Iran give him the ability to negotiate a way out, if he is not already dead.

Former Venezuelan Oil Minister, Tareck El Aissami (REUTERS/Leonardo Fernández Viloria/File photo)

The worst thing about El Assaimi is his bloodthirsty vocation, and saying this about the circle of power in Venezuela is already brutal. Those who least want him to be alive to make opposition are Maduro and his combo and for that reason he is either dead or is heading for a very controlled exile in the Middle East. And prison for corruption? It would be a joke because they all deserve to be there, but it could be with an immense risk for the criminal system that rules Venezuela today.

But things don’t stop there. El Aissami’s job was to increase oil production and therefore the income of the misnamed government of Venezuela. This did not happen. Russia sells its oil at a discount to the same customers and production has only gone down. And the laundering that was going to be done through a state-owned crypto asset company apparently disappeared more than 3 billion dollars.

Added to this economic disaster is the political voracity of El Assaimi, who has always wanted to replace Maduro. This apparently was what really motivated the purge of him. And the Cuban experts in this type of operation managed to do it without El Assaimi, a person with tentacles everywhere, noticing what was running up his leg.

The last element is still missing and it is: What else can happen? As the owner of El Nacional from Caracas, Miguel Enrique Otero, said in an interview, this fracture of power occurs at a critical political and economic moment for Venezuela.

Today the government cannot pay the military, a week ago it asked them to become entrepreneurs, and neither can the 4 million civil servants who are paid 20 dollars a month (listen friends of the CUT). With inflation of more than 400 percent, that 80 percent of Venezuelans who live below the poverty line can no longer do it.

Diosdado Cabello with Nicolás Maduro

Demanding social protests are multiplying everywhere and the situation is only going to get worse. Furthermore, opposition parties in the midst of a primary campaign are mobilizing their supporters, adding yet another ingredient to this breeding ground for an Arab Spring-like explosion.

What could be the spark that sparks something like the Middle East and gets these criminals out of power? Is it the repression that is coming at this moment of weakness of the mafia at the top? Or the desperate soldiers who decide not to go any further with this project that enriched a few generals and officers and impoverished all the troops. It will be that the demanding protests and the Sri Lankan-style policies come together and the centers of power are taken over.

Maybe nothing will happen. But never have the internal conditions been so ready for an incident to generate the necessary rejection that triggers an unstoppable movement to remove these corrupt gangsters from power. The opposition should consider this as an alternative, since nobody believes that these primaries will lead to a free election in 2024. Everything is given. Venezuelans who have already liberated the continent once have a second chance to do so. God bless you and give you courage and certainty so that you assume that this is the thing. Let’s hope.

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