The Cubanization of Venezuela – Communist takeover moving right along

Cuba’s Castro dictatorship is moving right along with the complete Cubanization of Venezuela. Most recently, it is giving citizens a taste of life in a Cubanized Venezuela by providing them with a taste of the apagones (power outages) that will plague the nation with more frequency as the Castro regime steals and plunders all their resources. While some may think the total takeover of one nation by another aggressive nation is a complicated process, it is actually quite simple. The Cubans are doing in Venezuela what they did in Cuba: Making it a communist dictatorship.

Enrique Standish in PanAmPost:

Venezuela Finally Turns Communist

Maduro Follows Leninist Dogma to the Letter

When Hugo Chávez was running in his first successful presidential campaign, back in 1998, he was asked point blank in several television interviews whether or not he was a communist. His reply was identical to the one given by Fidel Castro to Princeton University students during his visit to the United States in 1959: “I am a humanist.” Years later, on consolidating total power in his own hands, Chávez again emulated Fidel and confessed to being “a convinced follower of Marxist-Leninist ideology.”

During his 14-year rule in Venezuela, Chávez followed a strategy of introducing socialism in stages. The first stage entailed obtaining total control of all institutions of the Venezuelan state. Thus, during the first four years, he concentrated his efforts in changing the Constitution, packing the Supreme Court, installing soviet-style political commissars in army units, and changing the national identity card and the electoral system to ensure his reelection through manipulation of voter-rolls. During this stage, Chávez was not interested in antagonizing the private sector or the business community. He had enough on his plate, and knew he could not tackle all enemies at once.

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Just as Hitler’s final destruction of the Jewish middle class during Kristallnacht did not occur until five years after his ascension to power in Germany, in Venezuela, Chávez reassured the business community that he was not really interested in their demise. Throughout this period, “Chavismo” seemed very similar to Argentina’s “Peronismo.”

In September 2001, Chávez began his offensive for the “Second Stage of the Process for the Revolution,” as he called his march towards a totalitarian state. That month, he openly broke with the United States by calling the US bombing of Afghan targets “an act of terrorism equal to 9/11.” He then proceeded to pass 49 laws directed against the private sector. These laws eliminated private participation in the oil business, allowed for confiscation without payment of private lands, suspended constitutional guarantees for business owners, and established “military security zones” in major metropolitan areas — a de facto confiscation of prime real estate in Venezuela’s major cities. At the same time, he launched an all out attack against the country’s independent labor unions, persecuting and even imprisoning several prominent leaders.

These actions galvanized the opposition, as Chávez expected, and resulted in mass protests and two national General Strikes. He expected these reactions and was prepared for the challenge.

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1 thought on “The Cubanization of Venezuela – Communist takeover moving right along”

  1. Don’t worry. It only looks terrible. Venezuela is different from Cuba. These people were too stupid for words, but yes, that’s the Latrine way.

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