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The opposition media has been up to its usual skulduggery, splashing headlines that a group of former allies are calling on President Chavez to resign.Looking at some of the names, I am not at all surprised.
Just take a good look.
One of the signatories is Colonel (ret.) Luis Alfonso Davila, one time Chavista foreign and interior minister. Sinister at the best of times with farms and other business interests in Anzoategui State, I have him down as a caudillo (warlord), who from the very beginning made things difficult for any state governor, mayor or official in Anzoategui where the Colonel held sway through control over the Movimiento Quinta Republica (MVR).
Then, we have the President's comrades-in-arms, leaders of the February 4, 1992 (4F) failed military rebellion, Yoel Acosta and Jesus Urdaneta. Acosta has been a very naive and vacillating personality, seemingly without many political convictions and who never lived up to expectations. I remember seeing the emotional encounter when Chavez handed Acosta and Urdaneta the banner of the parachute battalion in 1999. Sad.
Jesus Urdaneta was another rebel that disappointed me. He didn't cut the mustard as chief of the State Political & Security (DISIP) Police and once again, if my memory doesn't fail me, never rendered account of DISIP abuses during the 1999-2000 Vargas disaster. His choice of associates and business undertakings didn't help his cause either, making the Lt.Colonel hard to understand and a big disappointment.
General (ret.) Raul Baduel is another disappointment like Urdaneta and Acosta Chirinos because of his zig-zagging political wavering. I read two days ago that he denied signing any document calling on Chavez to resign.
If that is true, then document signed by the above called the Constitutional Poll can be thrown into the waste-paper bin as useless, if one takes into consideration that it comes amidst opposition student protests and riots, Internet and social networking rumor-mills, international media spins that the government is about to fall and of, course the 18th anniversary of 4F.
It is just another piece in the latest conspiracy jigsaw puzzle.
If they did sign such a piece of paper, then shame on them, when they claim that Chavez has not responded to the people's demands and betrayed Simon Bolivar's independence project.
The document is a groundless tirade and speaks volumes of those who put their signature to question the motives behind February 4, 1992 and support the latest push to overthrow President Chavez.
Their comrade-in-arms, Francisco Arias Cardenas has been more dignified in admitting errors of judgment and taking up his position again to carry through the original aims of the rebellion and a revolution based on Simon Bolivar's ideas.
