radical opponents hope that I have not read my blog immediately deleted my feed readers. And I hope that I have visited Chavez do not think that I finally saw the light. No, my people, I remain as opposition as I have always been. I disagree with much of what the government of Hugo Chavez is doing to my country, unless the ads I've heard this week.
But do not fall for flattery: Venezuela has not attracted the vast majority of their governments, at least in time that I have memory. (We will try to ignore that old saying that every people has the government it deserves.) Even so, each government has given us something good, something we should try to rescue to make sure never to retreat to what we before.
I limit myself here to what I've seen, not economic or sociological meters that I can not presume to know because I am no expert on it. Not intend to advertise what I consider to populism or insufficient, as I said, I do not support this government. But I'm the miserable opposition simply think that everything this government does is bad, just because. Deny that it has done good things for all the country is something that many opposition politicians should take into account to make a contrary choice in 2012, or else we will have the same President for a long, long time.
- We have made an effort to understand policy. Every election, every decree, every move of killing and, yes, unfortunately each chain reminds us that politics has gotten into our lives as never before. Like it or not, we must understand how policy moves to the lowest level, and there are more ways available to participate in any government. The trouble is that most people prefer to avoid meddling in politics by negative that is attached, making the same tricks that have been dragging for so long is repeated ad nauseum. Thank God for the student movements of either side ...
- History be interesting again. Ezequiel Zamora? "Maisanta? Does the Federal War? Were these names that you knew without a problem before 1998? Good for you. We still have much, we still fall strikeouts with the vast majority of questions about wars, dates, and other founding fathers, but Manuel Caballero books , Iturrieta Elías Pino, Rafael Arráiz Lucca and Inés Quintero compete with international bestsellers. People are looking back, whether to finally understand this, to deny what they hear on the official announcements or by genuine curiosity. And that is healthy, and that "those who do not understand history are condemned to repeat it."
- appreciate most about us. In many cases, has been out of obligation or because the spring Act has increased the presence of Venezuelan music on radio and television's own talent, or because of the exchange control restrictions have forced us to do more national tourism. But what was discovered or rediscovered, in many cases, beautiful. Huascar Barradas became a common name, the New Wave sound again right in the twilight of life Aldemaro teacher, and many began to know that Venezuela was much more than Margarita, Puerto La Cruz, Merida and large cities. Of course this should also appeared neofolklore, who has failed more than once (avoid listening version of "Thief of Your Love" Gualberto Ibarreto made by La Puta Electrica), has left mixed feelings (not yet know how Rafael feel about the "Chicken" Brito) or indeed have been brilliant (thanks to this album , an entire generation back to listening to Simon Diaz), plus much more serious things .
- More attention to journalism. Now, I admit it is not clear whether it is good only for the journalists themselves, or the public. And considering that I am part of the guild, it is difficult to say that I have been benefited. Certainly, journalists (sometimes the entire media) assumed the role of opposition politicians were not exercising, and many paid dearly, either with their lives (in the case of Jorge Tortoza ), exile (Patricia Poleo ) or loss of credibility (I'm not treading on the hose to a fellow bomber @ @). But that has the public become more critical mass, when hearing the news. The ideal is to consult various media and determine the source of a story to determine what had really happened, but the number of people who follow blindly half will not stay that way forever.
- The world is a mystery a little lower. Among the rolls with the government of George W. Bush, alliances with the governments of Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua and, of course, Cuba, the love / hate relationship with Colombia, the drama way Security Council at the UN in 2006, a wink that sometimes come to FARC (which almost cost us dearly all) ... It seems at last understand that Venezuela is not an island in the world, and similarly with historians, international lawyers now have their shining moment, as Julio César Pineda, Fernando Gerbasi, Elsa Cardozo, Maruja Tarre and many others. The fact that we have been in the midst of one of the most important U.S. elections helped to try to understand this world and our place in it a little more.
- We have a little more social conscience. We need much, but we have ten years in which the needs of the poor are much more present in our lives. More than anything, we began to understand that for too many years, the classes underprivileged of our country have had their requests fulfilled by governments, and even if it has not done so completely, they certainly have a president that speaks to them face to face. Whether you call populist measures, charity or manipulation, but the missions work at a basic level, it is giving them the attention they had received very poorly (to say the least) in the past. (And I'm not debating whether to provide the best service or not, simply that it provides.) Additionally, Community Service Act of Higher Education Student has been considered one of the few laws that brings a real benefit to all involved as it approaches the future generations to the needs of the poorest in the city, which could become more socially conscious professionals in the future. Of course, this brings us to the eternal figure of "father state" I have criticized both, but that's for another day.
- radicals: an endangered species . In my family there must be a member in every family. Is calling you to tell "and will fall" or "We won this," or "cheated us." That is convinced that Chavez is in power at the point of cheating and terror. That should not vote for him or his family. Another, despite all the work that has happened, can not believe that there are more family members to support it. Yet, when Chavez family was attacked by an opposition as radical as him, the more moderate left to defend. The same can be said for the rest of the country, especially after what we experienced the April 11, 2002 , the year where all the radicals were in front. There we saw the result of both radicalism. Seeing things in black and white have not given us a result, fortunately, we want to see the shades of gray are beginning to make ourselves heard.
- We are essentially democratic . Métanselo in mind: Chavez is a dictator. Fidel Castro is a dictator Robert Mugabe is a dictator, Aleksandr Lukashenko is a dictator, in my personal opinion, but not Hugo Chavez. Chavez would be, as Teodoro Petkoff, a autocrat, one who concentrates all power in his hands, believing that he and only he can lead a nation. And gústenle or not, man has won almost all elections that have been submitted. And with one exception , Venezuelans have come to vote. That seems so simple, involves a great truth: we do not want to experience something even close to what we had in 1958 when another was a dictator in power, when people could not speak out against the government without being killed immediately. Sure, here stands one against the government and immediately was attacked verbally, but you can still talk. Do not tell me no, please.
If there is anything more than what I've forgotten, please leave it in the comments. But I would like to contribute a little to move beyond entrenched positions, it is shown that even in a country so polarized there is room to see how good the contrary, there is no need to call "enemy" for it. I want to hear your opinions, tell me I'm crazy, yes, that is how we should think, whatever. But by God, let's talk.
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