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By Guillermo Casanova on Jun 1, 2008 | In Politics, Opinion, Venezuela, News, Crime | Send feedback »
Damn You! If you still believe Venezuela is an exemplary country, a role model because of Hugo Chavez and his Revolution. Did you read Animal Farm and 1984 by George Orwell? or The Process by Kafka? Well take the worst that happens in those books and put them all together in a blender, add some latin flavor and what you get is “La Revolución Bolivariana” (The Bolivarian Revolution).
Last week a new law was imposed on Venezuela, the Law on the National Intelligence and Counterintelligence System.
With this law, you have to “collaborate” with police without any judicial orders or prior trial. Everybody has to become a whistle-blower in favor of the revolution and against “Imperialism”. If you don’t become a snitch, you will get 2-4 years in prison or up to 6 years if you work for the government.
The real danger here is that with this new law, you are not presumed innocent until proven otherwise; you are guilty at once… like in the USSR, like in Cuba, like in North Korea.
Worst yet, Hugo Chávez has continually called his political opponents in Venezuela “Imperialists", “Oligarchs", “CIA agents", which means the law has only one goal: silence opposition or jail opponents to Chávez and his revolution.
This law resembles very much what happens in Cuba with the Revolution Defense Committees. They decide who is a counter-revolutionary and turn the defenseless suspects to the G2 (Cuban intelligence service).
Also, Cilia Flores, who acts as President of Venezuela’s National Assembly, recently said that there are “lots” of CIA agents in Venezuela and that “the long arm of the law” would reach them.
As an example of what will happen, whenever there is a popular protest in Venezuela, like when taxi drivers protest and block main avenues protesting against insecurity and the increasing number of drivers robbed and murdered, immediately a government speaker affirms, more than suggests, that the protest was promoted, provoked, infiltrated by the Empire and the CIA…
With the new law, there is no need to speak anymore, just jail whoever another driver believes is a CIA agent, or doesn’t believe so but is coerced to say so or else would go to jail for not “collaborating” with political police.
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