Since yesterday national networks are not allowed to make publicity for any candidate. Venevision, Televen, Globovision and Vale TV adhere 100% to that ruling. The ones who do not, are the state networks VTV, TeleSur, VIVE, Avila TV and ANTV. They keep on broadcasting political ads cunningly using the figure of Hugo Chavez in clear reference to its avatar Nicolas Maduro.
The opposition party alliance MUD has already denounced this. But it is expected the electoral committee CNE won't do anything about this, as they haven't done anything about the more than 100 denunciations against the government abuses of the campaign.
Colombian ex-president Pastrana has made clear what other foreign politicians have not: the Venezuelan elections are rifed with government abuse, using state recourses and the help of strawmen on key juridical posts to force their way, bent their own laws and rules and at the same time enforcing them on their opponents. Capriles has fought an uphill battle right from the start, and in view of this, his progress has been admirable and hope-giving.
Witout becoming stereotypical, let me draw a picture for you what Venezuela would look like if Maduro wins these elections without fraud. It will beome a new, updated version of the Castrist dictatorship on Cuba. Already Maduro's henchmen in judge robes are moving to prepare criminal prosecutions against all head figures of the opposition. It is to be expected that if Maduro wins, most if not all of the opposition leaders will end up in jail on bogus and trumped-up charges of whatever the law gives as options. Venezuela will slither down more and more in squalid poverty reminiscent of that in communist-rules countries like the former East Block, Byelorussia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Zimbabwe and as an extreme example, North Korea. Repression will become stronger and even brutal, its enforcement in the hands of red-shirted gangs with the police looking the other way - something that is already happening for years. Dissent is already punished for years by not being hired in any state job, and if the Chavist government keep on following its master plan laid down in 2004, no private employment will be possible in the future. The message in a Socialist Venezuela will then be: adapt or die.
It has angered me that journalists that I have spoken with in Venezuela, even one reporting to one of the biggest global networks, haven't paid any heed to my words, that sadly have become truth over the years. The picture of Cuba as a benevolent Marxist state pushed to extremes by US imperialism is fabricated by the Castrist regime to hide its true monstrosity from the world. I have tasted this system here, designed to castrate whole populations as they have done it on Cuba, and it is my sincere hope that the world will wake up and realize that no appeasement, no compromise will do to effect any change to those countries. This system, expert in mind manipulation, must be exposed, denounced like nazism in its day, and barred for ever from taking part in political life. The case of the FARC in Colombia is exemplary. Disguising as sheep, the wolves try to make their way into Colombian politics only to take them over eventually and install their own brand of Marxist despotic rule.
Do I sound like Margaret Thatcher? To those people, the Cold War isn't over yet. You are warned.
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