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www.vheadline.com Posted: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 - 5:35:44 PM By: Oscar Heck
Opposition's desperate attempt to not lose "self-serving privileges"
VHeadline commentarist Oscar Heck writes: The Coordinadora Democratica (opposition coordinators) is inciting people, through the private media, to attend "La Firmaza" (the "signing") ... a campaign planned for February 2, 2003. This "signing" effort is intended to somehow replace the non-binding referendum, which was allegedly to take place on that same date but was cancelled by the CNE (National Electoral College).
The official binding referendum is planned for August, 2003.
As at today, the television ads read:
"La Firmaza"...... "Obligante, constitucional, legal...."
"The Signing"..."Obligatory, constitutional, legal..."
The "signing" will apparently be carried out by thousands of volunteers, members of the diminishing opposition. This "Firmaza" may perhaps be the opposition's last collective attempt to deliberately deviate and sabotage attention from the legal, democratic and constitutional elections/referendum process.
The Coordinadora Democratica ... comprised mostly of middle-to-upper class Venezuelans ... has been unsuccessful in trying to oust Chavez from power by declaring a national work stoppage that began on December 2, 2003. Since early December, the opposition has also ... through vicious and manipulated news broadcasts ... tried to discredit Chavez and incite panic amongst the Venezuelan people.
The opposition backed private television stations, avid participants in the effort to oust Chavez, are:
- Globovision, which many people now call, "Golpevision", meaning ,"coup-vision",
- Venevision, which many people now call, "Venenovision", meaning ,"poison-vision",
- TeleVen, which many people now call, "Televeneno", meaning, "tele-poison", and
- RCTV (Radio Caracas Television), which people have not yet found a new name for.
The "Coordinadora Democratica" itself is now being called by many, the "Coordinadora Demoniaca" (Demonical Coordinator).
The above-mentioned television stations, as well as most of the privately-owned Venezuelan newspapers, have been -- and still are -- co-conspirators of the Coordinadora Democratica in reporting untruths, manipulating and distorting facts and in creating outright lies.
The Coordinadora Democratica has been responsible for misleading the outside world by calling the stoppage a "strike", when in effect it was not a strike as strikes are conventionally known. Except for few cases, the stoppage was put into effect by the business owners and not by the employees, thousands of whom now find themselves without work or pay.
The Coordinadora Democratica, which continue to call itself "civilized" and "democratic," have also been responsible for attempting to mislead the outside world into believing that the stoppage was nationwide.
This is a complete lie.
The actual "stoppage" occurred mostly in Caracas, Valencia, Barquisimeto and Maracaibo ... the four major industrial cities ... outside these cities, the country was almost "business as usual," except for the unavailability of beer, soda, bottled water, gasoline, cooking gas and Harina Pan (corn flour) -- a Venezuelan staple.
- The Coordinadora Democratica was also responsible for illegal bank and school stoppages.
- The Coordinadora Democratica has been responsible for extensive sabotage (criminal in nature) of the petroleum industry in Venezuela, PDVSA (a government-run industry and main provider of operating revenue for the Venezuelan government).
Let us see how much further the Coordinadora Democratica will go in their desperate attempt to not lose their "self-serving privileges" which have kept up to 80% of the population poor for the last 40+ years.
Oscar Heck oscarheck111@hotmail.com