This week several
government officials have insisted on blaming the opposition and the Empire for
Venezuela’s economic troubles.
The Vice-president, Jorge
Arreaza, announced yesterday that a food warehouse in Anzoátegui had been
raided by the government because it contained tons of hoarded goods. He linked
the owners of the deposit to members of the opposition party Voluntad Popular and said this was
evidence that the opposition is pushing for “an economic coup d’état” which
would “reedit the political violence that caused 43 deaths last year.”
The President of the
National Assembly, Diosdado
Cabello, backed Arreaza’s version. He said that the warehouse raided by the
government is “directly linked to the company Diamante Trading Investment LTD,
represented by Peggy Carolina Ordaz Quijada, militant of the party Voluntad Popular.”
Cabello also accused
the Venezuelan Catholic Church of “having engaged the parties of the right to
try to topple the government,” the student leaders of having “received orders
to agitate in the street,” the opposition of bringing into the country “reporters
with experience in war conflicts,” opposition leader María Corina Machado of stablishing
“a laboratory to send text messages to militaries inciting them to take over
public institutions, and “the right” of “hiring mercenaries to bring them into
Venezuela.” All this in the context of a “non-conventional war against our people,”
which Cabello has denominated the “La
Salida 2 plan.”
Addressing a crowd of
followers in Plaza Venezuela, Cabello
also explained that the scarcity of basic goods is the responsibility of business
owners that refuse to produce. “The right” is to blame, according to Cabello,
for the current scarcity levels: “do you know why you have to suffer long lines
[to buy food]? Because of the right!”
Cabello
also said that the opposition is planning more protests: “you can be sure
that everything is ready for a social explosion [incited by the oppositions], (…)
but it won’t happen, because the only one that has the right to take to the
streets is the socialist people.”
Continuing his
extended tour of several countries this week, President
Maduro has repeatedly claimed that capitalism, the United States, or the
Empire, are conspiring to bring down oil prices in an attempt to destroy the
OPEC and specially hurt Venezuela.
As to events back
home, Maduro has declared that “the Venezuelan people have been ambushed with
this issue of affecting supply, [this is related to] rumor we have dealt with
peacefully. There [in Venezuela] what we have is our people being taken care of
by our government, coming out of this ambush, while I am in this middle of this
tour, for the benefit of the people.”
He
has asked the people however to be patient in the face of the effects of
this “ambush by the parasitic bourgeoisie,” and to work for an “economic renaissance
in 2015.”
This has also been a
week of intense conspiracy rumors: social media has been active with information
about plans
from inside chavismo for a coup d’état against Maduro.
(A curious tweet by Communication
and Information Minister Jaqueline Faria)
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