José Alberto López Rafaschieri and Luis Alberto López Rafaschieri
www.morochos.net
Every time Chavez has needed an ideologist to formalize the theoretical underpinnings of his political project (supposedly indigenous, African-American, anti-imperialist and friend of the marginalized), it is noteworthy that, contrary to what the bolivarian revolution preaches, he has always appealed to North American, German or British intellectuals.
When Chavez wanted someone to explain that he had been the victim of a coup in April 2002 and that his socialist revolution lived under constant threat from the United States, he did not seek an Amazonian Indian, he instructed Eva Golinger, American journalist and lawyer, to capture everything in a book - "The Chavez Code" - and in other publications.
Later, he needed someone to tell the world what the Venezuelan XXI Century Socialism is, and Chavez do not seek any national academic to entrust the task, but ordered to call the German sociologist Heinz Dieterich.
Sometime after, in 2009, Chavez decided that a film would revive faith in his leadership, but he doesn't seek the help of Venezuelan or Latin American filmmakers. He tried again with an Anglo-Saxon, Oliver Stone, who made for him a piece of political propaganda called "South of the Border."
Then comes 2010, chavismo gets fewer votes than the opposition in the September parliamentary elections, and this time, Chavez thinks he needs a thinker to develop a document for: 1) questioning the opposition victory, 2) re-selling the neocastrista project to Venezuelans, and 3) giving to the party the lines of action for the immediate future. But again, "el comandante" does not consider prudent to assign the task to any mulatto, so he sent for the Welsh Alan Woods.
There is clearly a racist pattern in Chavez when choosing his ideologist, especially considering that, in none of the cases cited, the Venezuelan president has hired black intellectuals from those lands, all of them are Anglo-Saxons with well-defined Caucasians features. Why he never resorts to Negroid people or Venezuelans as Professor Carlos Escarra, for example, for these assignments? Could it be that, in the logic of Chavez, the northern white is better creating ideas?
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While I would welcome commentary from any of the non-Anglo sources you reference, I prefer to think that Chavez is wary of them being prone, not to fail at making sense in the true sense, but at making sense in a way the the Powers that Be, the ultimate enemies of the Bolivarian Revolution, would recognize.
ReplyDeleteI tend to think he sees the battle as truly global, and by appealing to the English idiom, he is more likely to be successful in blocking or blunting the US power structure, i.e., the Rogue Network within the US government that has been responsible for the murder of the Kennedys and Martin King, the False Flag terror attacks on 9/11, 7/7, OKC, as well as all of the wars of conquest in the past half century.
Truly philosophical and poetic souls would appreciate the viewpoint of indigenous speakers, but the power-obsessed apparatchiks of the CIA, and their neighbors and their children, to whom appeal for sanity may well be made and to good effect, having seen the error of their parents' ways, these might completely miss the subtleties that would be immediately apparent to the indigenous community.
Even our own minorities have a hard time getting traction in the corridors of power.
I suggest you give el presidente a little more credit for his insight, and forgive him for his internationalism.
“Internationalism”, why to justify Chavez's Anglo-Saxonism with that idea? Others have exported their political movements without discarding local intellectuals. Jefferson did it, French did it, Soviets did it, Nazis did it, etc.
ReplyDeleteChavez has a racial bias when selecting theorist for his “revolution”, that is irrefutable.