Luis Alberto López Rafaschieri and José Alberto López Rafaschieri
www.morochos.net
After his failure in the violent 1992 coup, Hugo Chavez changed his strategy, he put on a mask, speaking of democracy, quoting Rousseau, Montesquieu, and criticizing the Cuban dictatorship to gain the trust of millions, but in 1999, after winning the presidency, Chavez began a campaign of discrimination, hatred and political fanaticism to prepare the ground for his autocratic project. It was the first time Chavez got into serious trouble being an extremist, was saved by pretending to be an innocent victim, and then returned to his original path. The mutation demon-angel-demon proved successful to fool Venezuelans.
With four years in office, the radicalism of Chavez's project caused a political crisis in 2002, triggering the confusing events of April 11. Chavez was removed from power for two days, then he was returned by the military. Chavez was almost crying on national television, taking out a crucifix, apologizing, and calling for the reconciliation of the divided Venezuela; winning time and preparing the resumption of the path of intolerance. The sequence demon-angel-demon gave good results again for the Chavista revolution.
Time passes in Venezuela under increasingly extremist speeches and actions of the government. Chavez himself encouraged his followers to radicalize "the process", but El Comandante is allegedly ill in 2011, it's time to be an angel again, and recover the popularity lost due to so many conflicts and few solutions. Newly, we see him about to cry on national television talking about his cancer, to appear, a week after, doing physical exercises and predicting his return. And what return?, one where it would be less hate?, where electricity rationing would be over and fanaticism would be put aside to make room for the national welfare? It is almost impossible to imagine a return of Chavez without more of the same, whether he was coming back from prison, a failed coup or an alleged disease.
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