Venezuela: Cambio de régimen / Regime change
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An intentional plan : to finish off everything that allows society to live independently
MARIA CORINA MACHADO | EL UNIVERSAL
Saturday May 10, 2014 12:00 AM
These days I heard a fellow UNIDAD opposition MUD say that the goal of the protests should be solving problems and not trade Maduro. If we lived in a democracy, it would be a startling statement; the logical aim of an opposition is to reach power constitutionally asap. But Venezuela is a dictatorship. It is a regime that to remain in power and to dominate society needs society ruined, divided, terrorized and dependent on the state. A regime that does not want to solve the problems.
The institutional, economic and moral destruction that we suffer is not only due to the infinite incompetence and corruption of the regime, there are part of a deliberate plan: to finish off everything that allows society to live independently, to demand its rights, to defend itself. Thus the relentless attack against trade unions , universities, the media, businesses, professional associations, neighborhood associations, political parties, NGOs and even churches .
Is our goal is to increase the allotted preferential dollars or have an economy without controls ? Is our goal that they allow to import a little bit more newsprint or that there is full freedom of expression and the return the concessions wrested from free TV and radio? Is our goal to raise a little bit salaries or is it that public and private companies be competitive and pay worthy wages growing up apace with productivity?
Who can believe that the regime led by Maduro will stop judicial decisions made in Miraflores Palace? Who can believe that the regime shall respect the right to property and end expropriations? Who can believe that the regime will disarm paramilitary groups ? That it will expel the Cubans from the army? That it will stop the gifts to foreign clients? That public employees will cease to be political prisoners? That citizens can protest peacefully without being repressed ?
More at: http://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.nl/2014/05/an-excruciating-summary-of-what-are.html
Spanish original: http://www.eluniversal.com/opinion/140510/cambio-de-regimen