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VenEconomy: From coup to coup
Who said that Hugo Chávez doesn’t learn from his mistakes?
Since the aborted coup d’état of February 4, 1992, Chávez has been perfecting his coupster technique, and today, he is an expert in carrying out coups against constituted branches of government legitimately elected by the people.
This week, taking things to new extremes, two new coups were mounted against regional governments elected by the people. The targets this time were the mayor of SucreMunicipality, Zulia state, Jorge Barboza, and the governor of Táchira state, César Pérez Vivas, both elected as representatives of the democratic alliance.
The coup against Mayor Jorge Barboza was implemented by means of a decision handed down by the malleable Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ). The Electoral Chamber of the TSJ decided to 1) annul the vote report issued by the National Electoral Council during the 2008 elections and also the proclamation appointing Barboza as mayor; 2) order the CNE to hold new elections, without the participation of Jorge Barboza; and 3) appoint as acting mayor Humberto Franka -a member of the PSUV, President Chávez’s party- instead of the chairman of the municipal council, as established by law. The appointment of a member of the PSUV as stand-in who, to add insult to injury, was the person who lost to Barboza in the 2008 elections, is a legal aberration and a coup against democracy.
This “legal” coup was the TSJ’s response to the objection filed by the defeated candidate, former Mayor Franka, who claimed that the elected mayor was jointly liable for the nonpayment of Bs.F.1,200 in municipal taxes by the owner of the house where Barboza lived as a tenant.
The coup against the governor of Táchira was carried out by arbitrarily implementing the recently Federal Government Council Law. Deputies and officers of the President’s PSUV -led by Rafael Ramírez, vice-president of PSUV-West, minister of energy and oil, and president of the collapsed PDVSA- set up a “Revolutionary Government Council” on César Pérez Vivas’s doorstep. This new parallel superstructure has been allocated Bs.F.300 million, funds that should have been transferred to the Táchira State Government via the now extinct FIDES.
In Táchira, they are using a modus operandi similar to the one employed against Caracas Metropolitan Mayor Antonio Ledesma. In 2009, the government invented a parallel authority in the Federal District, appointing Jacqueline Farías, an officer of the PSUV, as its head and left the Metropolitan Mayoralty an empty shell and bankrupt.
Everything indicates that, in Venezuela, with this climate of antidemocratic barbarism and violations of human rights, the will of the people will only be respected when it suits Chávez and his communist project.
VenEconomy has been a Venezuela's leading specialized publisher on financial, political and economic data since 1982. VenEconomy's Points of View on the issues of the day, as seen by VenEconomy during the last week. Petroleumworld does not necessarily share these views.
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