Recently, when we attended an event at an institution that is supposedly under government management, I was surprised to listen to speeches by some high-ranking officials that were openly against Chavez. On the other hand, many 'dressed-in-red' officials at the Maracaibo Mayor's Office, and in some national government organizations, changed their political standpoints right after Manuel Rosales won the Mayoralty, to the point that they even put "No is No" stickers in their car windows. The national government must initiate a process of repossession of Rosales' assets and holdings in Venezuela and abroad to avoid the transfer of accounts and ownership to other names. It may be a good idea to take advantage of the currently cooperative attitude of the United States of America to reclaim that which belongs to the Venezuelan State and the Venezuelan people.
After his escape to Peru, through Colombia, Manuel Rosales has left a whole clutch of people who decry his departure but who also celebrate that he is at large thanks to the same lawyers of Fujimori and Montesinos. And there are some who regret his departure since they realize that the opposition is now seriously lacking true leadership. They act under the following premise: "In a country of blind people, the one with one good eye will be King."
Their one-eyed leader has left, he never got to be King ... but he got to be Zulia's Governor, once, and lately Mayor of Maracaibo.
Others, such as Ledezma and his allied Mayors and cry-baby Governors, weep with happiness because, since Rosales has left, the cat's away and like the mice (rodents) they are, they see upcoming opportunities in political leadership and impossible dreams of candidacies. The rest, who can do nothing, are happy just because one of them has just exited stage left!
Obed Juan Vizcaino Najera
obedvizcaino@gmail.com
Maracaibo-Venezuela
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