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My take on the situation in Venezuela

Apr 25, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
I don’t see any peaceful way Venezuela’s incumbent government is going to give up power. Venezuela’s going to look like Syria. In any society where citizens vote for, and then come to depend on government benefits, government can do anything to those citizens. History is full of examples like Russia, Hitler’s Germany, Cuba, China and now Venezuela.
Voters will always vote for those who pay them and will rarely question what is done as long as the benefits flow. It’s even possible for a workers’ paradise to survive for a while, but they only survive until a repressive leader comes to power. Liberals and progressives do not want to accept that and they even pretend it’s not true. It is after all what they were taught in their liberal based colleges and universities. But that feigned or wishful ignorance is part of the strategy. Do you believe them?
No different from any other form of corruption, that incumbent government is using the country’s chronic shortages as a kind of cynical leverage over military officers, securing their loyalty by making them fear the loss of their privileges. We certainly don’t have a crystal ball, but the observation that many soldiers prefer to wear civilian clothes because their uniform is an embarrassment seems telling.
There seems to be no view from the center in the country, and the current situation cannot hold. Will the resolution involve complete chaos and war of all-against-all, or will some degree of sense within the military provide a way forward? I’m going to hope for the latter.
Rooplall Dudhnath

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