Two Fall Events

Two Fall Events / Rafael Leon Rodriguez
Rafael Leon Rodriguez, Translator: @hachhe

Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías won the Venezuelan elections as was expected,
but only by 10 percentage points; translated to voters figure is assumed
he will have to govern with an opposition that showed support from the
45% of the electorate: six million one hundred and fifty thousand
electors against approximately seven million four hundred thousand
Chavistas. And the 20% of the citizens able to vote didn't do so.

In the previous election in 2006 the opposition got the 37% of the
votes. This means either these are the last elections won by Chávez or
these were the last Venezuelan elections at all. Anyway the totalitarian
formula is always win-win and the so called XXI Century Socialism won't
be the exception.

Two days before these elections, in Granma Province, the trial was held
against the Spanish citizen Ángel Francisco Carromero Barrios, charged
with murder while he was driving his vehicle on the public way.
Carromero who was driving the car that crashed last July 22 when Oswaldo
Payá Sardiñas and Harold Cepero lost their lives, remains under arrest
until the sentence. Scarce or none information of the trial was known by
the Cuban people, only reports from some who tried to get near and
weren't allowed, including Payá Sardiñas' children. Others were detained
to keep them away.

Both events, close in time, have something in common, a thread, which is
the lack of information or disinformation with which the officials
despise their citizens. Nobody knows the details of the trial against
Carromero as no one knew the characteristic of the Venezuelan
opposition's proposal. In Cuba we only heard Chavez's speeches in his
political campaign. Not the ones of the opposition leader, Capriles. The
conspirators of silence didn't give details of the resolution adopted by
the Council of the American Christian Democratic Organization (ODCA), on
August 31st and September 1st in Chile, where an investigation of the
deaths of Payá and Harold Cepero was asked of the competent organization
the United Nations, with the support of the four Cuban organizations of
the ODCA. Not by chance do totalitarian regimes understand freedom of
the press as a contradiction of the democratic system, as for them the
information is nothing more than a tool for control and repression.

Translated by: @Hachhe

October 16 2012

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