VenEconomy: The government's numbers don't tally, and it's by no means certain that, on September 26, it will manage to keep the control over parliament it needs in order to impose communism.
That is what is behind the government's strategy of customizing its attacks on and persecution of any sector or organization that has sufficient credibility to combat its Castro-Chavista communism.
Some of the most recent attacks have been aimed at the Catholic Church. During the Independence Day celebrations on July 5, Hugo Chavez launched a merciless and irrational attack on Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, the Archbishop of Caracas, whom he accused of following the orders of the "‘squalid ones' (opposition) and wannabe Yankees" in order to use communism to generate "fear among the people." Chavez claimed that the Cardinal was a "troglodyte" and "unworthy to call himself a cardinal of the Catholic Church." It was not long before other branches of government controlled by Chavismo, among them the Ombudsman's Office and the Chavista benches in the National Assembly, played chorus to the President's disparaging epithets.
At its 94th Ordinary Plenary Assembly, the Venezuelan Synod came out in defense of Cardinal Urosa, issuing a declaration of principles, "Democracy and Participation: a Commitment of All," in which it described as "absolutely unacceptable the imposition of a socialist state inspired by the Cuban communist regime and that is being put in place by means of laws and events that ignore the will of the people and the present Constitution." In response to the declaration, on Wednesday, July 14, the President ordered the Ministry for Foreign Affairs to review the Convention between the Vatican State and the Venezuelan State, signed in 1964.
Non-government organizations are another target of the revolutionaries' fury. The attack on NGOs came from the Necessary Journalism Movement (sympathetic to the government), which requested the Public Prosecutor's Office to investigate "alleged foreign financing of some NGOs, journalists working for private media, political parties or sectors of the opposition" with a view to backing "a destabilization campaign" in an election year.
It seems that the "grounds" for this investigation are some declassified documents made public by the Chavista lawyer Eva Golinger, which "reveal" that the US Department of State and other US government agencies had allegedly donated $4 million to several Venezuelan NGOs, including the prestigious Instituto de Prensa y Sociedad and Espacio Publico.
And the cherry on the cake is the latest attack on the country's autonomous and experimental universities mounted by the Minister for University Education Edgardo Ramirez, who has requested the Public Prosecutor's Office to open an investigation of the Universidad Central de Venezuela, Universidad de Los Andes, Universidad de Oriente, Universidad de Carabobo, and Universidad del Zulia.
The purpose of the investigation is to determine the use to which these universities have put funds for paying the pensions of professors, employees and workers that the Venezuelan State has allocated to them since the 1970s.
Just as all democratic institutions and sectors were destroyed in Fidel Castro's Cuba, the communist regime being promoted by Chavez will not rest until it has completely swept away any vestige of democratic institutions still remaining in Venezuela.
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Originally published by VHeadline on July 20, 2010
Link: http://vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=94532
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