The word revolution derives historically from the discoveries of Copernicus, who established that the earth revolves around the sun, thus transforming the way we see the universe and our place in it. The social political revolution is a fundamental change in the power structure. Revolutions tend to be peaceful or violent when confronting conservative groups of the previous regime. This is the case of the Bolivarian Revolution that emerged after the change of government from Caldera to Chavez in 1998. Chavez in his electoral campaign never announced a change from capitalism to socialism. After several years he said it publicly without direct intervention of the people because he was never consulted in a referendum on this important issue.
Aristotle described two types of political revolutions: Complete change from one constitution to another or modification from an existing constitution. For Venezuela for almost two decades according to these last two governments we are in a revolution baptized as Bolivarian and that is turning violent because Venezuela is and has been capitalist par excellence and the conservative sectors are opposed to a socialism where liberal capitalism changed State capitalism that is what prevails in the country. There is no change towards socialism and less inspired by what happened in Cuba. The United States is the one who really opposes and the traditionalist governments of the nations of the South and Central America. We saw this with the group from Lima in South America that groups Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Peru, Brazil and Colombia, who oppose the Bolivarian socialist revolution. In Central America, the countries that oppose the Bolivarian Socialist Revolution are all but Nicaragua and Cuba. The Caricom of the Caribbean region supported Venezuela's oil policies through Petrocaribe, because it eliminated the intermediation of the transnationals (7 sisters) that sold them the most expensive Venezuelan oil, with extra profit for those US oil transnationals. That is why Caricom supports Venezuela. This situation disgusts the US hegemony and aims to destroy Petrocaribe.
That is why Obama and Trump declared Venezuela as an unusual threat to US security. Of course, they feel affected because they lost those clients they had as intermediaries of the sale of Venezuelan oil. They also consider Venezuela a bad example for the continent subjugated to US hegemony as the backyard. On the other hand, Venezuela is indispensable for the resurgence of the US for oil, gold, gas, coltan, rhodium and finally, for the largest reserves of water in the world of the AlterDo Chao aquifer (5,000 feet of depth) shared by Venezuela. Brazil (Edo Roraima).
Revolutions of global impact would be, for example, the liberal bourgeois Revolution of the Thirteen Colonies of the USA that ended the North-South War. The French Revolution was a social and political conflict, with periods of violence in France and by extension to other European nations. Concluded with the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen. The independence revolutions of Latin America of the nineteenth century where the Liberator Simon Bolivar had a special leading role with participation in the liberation of Spain of 5 + 1 nations. He failed with the liberation of the Floridian Republic, which in 1817 lasted only three months. Bolivar defeated Andrew Jackson Commander of the Union Army with 250 men in several skirmishes that took him from these lands of Florida. When Simón Bolívar returned to Venezuela, Andrew Jackson declared a bandit to General McGregor, president of that nascent nation, eliminating the Constitution written by Germán Rocio and the tricolor flag like Venezuela. The history of the winners indicates that the US bought Spain for what was the Floridian Republic without mentioning what really happened. They hid in history this transcendent fact of foundation and independence of Florida from Spain made by Simón Bolívar. Despite what happened, Simón Bolivar achieved independence from Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Panama.
The October Revolution or Bolshevik in Russia that was a communist socialist proletarian revolution had the Russian civil war. The Chinese revolution that also had the Chinese civil war and ended with the proclamation of the People's Republic of China in 1949 with Mao Tse Tung through the Chinese Communist Party. All these revolutions took place violently and we believe that the Bolivarian revolution is heading towards this unfortunate fate. The Bolivarian revolution aims to change the social orientation of all Latin America to establish a single socialist bloc that confronts the US neoliberal capitalist hegemony.
What are the results so far? What are the real results for the Venezuelan people?
I am not a politician by profession, although I am a citizen with a political opinion. The term revolution in the discourse of politicians in these two decades who neglected to take care of the results for the people. The tests abound. Certainly the intentions of the present leaders have been noble and very applauded, especially by the failure of the last governments Carlos Andres Perez and Rafael Caldera of the so-called fourth republic. But the results of the fifth republic have been disastrous as we can see it in recent years. Wrong economic policies, falling GDP, rising inflation, falling income, scarcity, falling quality of life, falling education, falling health services, widespread corruption, manifest insecurity. The emigration to many countries of America and Europe of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans and the current famine is the best demonstration with facts of failure. The road to hell is full of good intentions.
What have been the errors of the Bolivarian revolution?
There are many other cases to illustrate the failure of the Bolivarian revolution for the consequences against the country and its inhabitants. Our purpose in this paper is to illustrate the errors of failed revolutions and the virtues of successful revolutions. The latter are those whose authors and leaders who promote it know the interests that affect and skilfully negotiate internal and external affected by these revolutions.
Examples of victory of revolutions we have in Russia and China, who with much work, persistence and negotiation managed to economically defeat the US in recent times. Its success lay in the great capacity for negotiation, persistence in work and humility in its public actions. Examples of failures of recent revolutions are in the hemisphere where Chile and Cuba are two of the main examples.
The main big mistake was to face a war without bullets against a giant like the USA with chances of losing. He goes to wars to win, not to lose. It is the case of having confronted the US as an enemy of the country. Although the government and its operators, the large American companies backed by Washington are not little sisters of charity. Those transnationals and the United States showed great economic and media power, without allude to the military power which is indisputable. You can not face a giant like the US without negotiating. You can not be the icon of the change of the international status quo wielding a socialist revolution without bargaining power, without skilled interlocutors, without efficient diplomats because they affected the totality of US interests. One can not, for example, face a man against twenty in a fist fight. The consequences are obvious and that error that will cost the departure of Miraflores power with the danger of giving way to a right-wing dictatorship. Presidents Obama and Trump declared Venezuela an unusual threat to US security.
The second major error of the Bolivarian revolution is the lack of supervision of the government over the projects, plans, trust personnel, institutions and others that the government controls. Someone once said: A camel is a horse made without supervision, it is ugly and humpy, it walks crooked, but it walks. Certainly, this example of poor management demonstrates the consequences of improvisation, lack of supervision and of course the results of negotiation incompetence.
In all human spheres, sometimes the revolutions when they are carried in extremis lead to the extermination of the revolutionary leader either by isolation or by exit from power, although posterity recognizes the achievements. This is highlighted by the story with cases like Simón Bolívar with loss of the republic and separation of Venezuela from Colombia. According to the historian Jorge Mier Hoffman Bolívar was shot on 06-12-1830 at the La Ciénaga ranch due to the conspiracy of US President Andrew Jackson, Mariano Montilla and Santander. The story was supposedly changed to the death of Simón Bolívar for tuberculosis at Quinta San Pedro Alejandrino because the story was written by the winners. The historian Jorge Mier Hoffman demonstrated it with two volumes of his work The letter that will change history, which cost him his life for a hired killer less than three years ago.
Mahatma Ghandi who achieved the independence of India from England, was killed in New Delhi. Nelson Mandela whose recognition emerged as President of South Africa, came after 28 years in prison for fighting against the aparheit
In the field of music we have a striking example. If any composer was a revolutionary, it was Ludwig Van Beethoven. His production was extensive, including symphonies, piano and violin concertos, quartets, sonatas, songs and an opera. His music marked a break between the before and after Beethoven. His work affected the production of notable composers of the time who opposed Beethoven in his style. How did Beethoven end? He died almost in misery. Despite having financial actions, he wrote to his friends in London to ask for some money. After his death, his fame increased because his music impacted the world for two hundred years reaching the present time.
In the field of invention and technology we have a pathetic example, Nikola Tesla who was an inventor, mechanical, electrical and physical engineer of Serbian origin. Despite being the author of numerous inventions, many of them plagiarized by Americans, created a revolution. It consisted of creating a global system for the transmission of electrical energy without cables based on the electrical conductivity of the earth. The Tesla proposal worked by transmitting energy by various natural means and the subsequent use of the current transmitted between the two points to power electrical devices. Tesla claimed to have demonstrated wireless power transmission in early 1891. However, he was never able to put it into practice in an efficient way. Electricity was free for everyone and this did not suit J.P. Morgan, or Tomas Alva Edison or George Westinghouse. With the Westinghouse Electric Company he found a strong opponent of free wireless transmission because they saw the highly lucrative business of charging electricity and manufacturing cables, generators, transformer stations, etc.
What were Tesla's mistakes?
His main mistake was that he did not know how to negotiate. The revolution of his inventions was going to impact the world and affect the business of alternating electricity transmission with cables. Engaged Tesla in showing the superiority of alternating current over Edison's direct current, what is known as "war of currents" was established. In 1893 a public display of alternating current was made in Chicago, demonstrating its superiority over Edison's direct current. That same year Tesla managed to transmit electromagnetic energy without wires, building the first radio transmitter. He filed the corresponding patent in 1897. Two years later Guglielmo Marconi achieved his first radio broadcast. Marconi registered his patent in 1900 and was rejected as a copy of Tesla's patent. Then a litigation between the company of Marconi and Tesla began. However, Thomas A. Edison tried to combat Tesla's theory through a campaign to promote to the public the danger they faced when using this type of current. Harold P. Brown, an employee of Thomas Edison was hired to investigate electrocution and thus developed the electric chair.
How did Tesla finish? Of course, they did not electrocute but they isolated him in such a way that Tesla died ruined and alone in New York. As soon as he died, the FBI entered his house and appropriated all the notes with inventions still to-day. There is currently a demand for the genius of Tesla, especially in the US, which he chose to generate that immense work that has not yet been explored and exploited. Tesla is compared to Albert Einstein in the scope of his production.
For several years, I alerted the governments of Chavez and Maduro on www.aporrea.org about the consequences of the absence of efficient and effective economic measures for Venezuela. We demonstrated the importance of revaluing our monetary sign and establishing it as our own currency, and they were empty words for deaf dialogues. The current government of Maduro ignored, took the incomplete solution of Petro as an oil-backed cryptoactive, but without establishing a currency for Venezuela. These mistakes are paid dearly, we are suffering the consequences of all Venezuelans because the leaders eat full and have the medicines they require as well as protected against manifest insecurity. They have a lot of money coming from the embezzlement and corruption that they fostered due to the lack of justice and the bad example.
In Venezuela the First Republic (1810-1812) was lost because it had a fiduciary currency, paper without backing. Simon Bolivar said "the issuance of papers without other support than the strength of being a government, was one of the causes of the fall of the Republic." I warned many times with writings on this website that the 5th Republic (1999-present) could be lost for the same reasons. Venezuela has long required a currency of its own and great strength such as the Bolivar Oro. The government did not attend the maxims of Simón Bolívar El Libertador. History repeats itself.
There is no error, this is their plan, this is the plan of chavez, poverty, chaos, corruption, this was made with their hands, they know what they do and how to do it, there was no mistakes
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