Can Venezuela Be Saved?
- 6 years ago
Can Venezuela Be Saved?
The Venezuelan government routinely disparages him as a right-wing reactionary from the ruling class who wants to reverse the social progress of chavismo
and restore the landed aristocracy; the Venezuelan right, meanwhile, considers López a neo-Marxist, whose proposal to distribute the country’s oil wealth among the people would only deepen the chavista agenda.
Members of the Venezuelan National Assembly gathered in front of the house, along with local media
and citizens, to protest the invasion and threats by the Venezuelan government that López will be returned to military prison.
On the evening of Feb. 15, Maduro took this a step further, interrupting television and radio broadcasts to announce
that the party López founded in 2009 is not a political organization but a “violent fascist group” operating “outside the law.” When I spoke with López the next morning, he said that 87 party leaders were already in prison.
“Last night around 7:30, they came to my house — more than 30 officers of the political police,” he said.
The Venezuelan government routinely disparages him as a right-wing reactionary from the ruling class who wants to reverse the social progress of chavismo
and restore the landed aristocracy; the Venezuelan right, meanwhile, considers López a neo-Marxist, whose proposal to distribute the country’s oil wealth among the people would only deepen the chavista agenda.
Members of the Venezuelan National Assembly gathered in front of the house, along with local media
and citizens, to protest the invasion and threats by the Venezuelan government that López will be returned to military prison.
On the evening of Feb. 15, Maduro took this a step further, interrupting television and radio broadcasts to announce
that the party López founded in 2009 is not a political organization but a “violent fascist group” operating “outside the law.” When I spoke with López the next morning, he said that 87 party leaders were already in prison.
“Last night around 7:30, they came to my house — more than 30 officers of the political police,” he said.