(en) Organisation Communiste Libertarie (OCL) - Venezuela - Statement on the events of February-March 2014 (fr, pt)

Now more than ever -- Autonomy, Self-Management, Direct Action and Solidarity -- 
Collective Editorial El Libertario and anarchist individuals ---- It was not necessary to 
be a genius to predict that the disastrous social and economic situation of Venezuela, 
inherited 14 years of government of Hugo Ch?vez and worsened in just over a year Nicol?s 
Maduro, was being produce a conflicting pressure ready to explode , especially when 
stopped unbridled increases in revenue from the "black gold" that supported until there is 
3 or 4 years, the claim of "oil socialism." Resources continue to be plentiful but the 
waste, incompetence, corruption and greed of those who govern are even more important.
Between narco-generals and other raptors in uniform, senior bureaucrats that cover all 
levels of greed nullity "bolibougeois", "bolichicos" [gilded youth of the Chavista elite] 
and other recipients of the benefits of CADIVI [Currency Administration Commission], the 
thick layer of castrobourgeoisie, the Cuban government and its advisers on the ground 
ready to fiddle or agents who have obtained these transnational income so lucrative thanks 
to agreements signed with the "Bolivarian revolution", the pot would break sooner or 
later, and sooner rather than later, with a population witnessed this blatant show of 
power and at the same time suffering the worst in terms of insecurity, shortage crisis 
public services and the world's highest inflation.

Only obscene insolence of official propaganda, more blindness - priced and / or 
quasi-religious - some authoritarian left always ready to worship the Beloved Leader of 
the moment, have seen in this table, s' is compounded in the eyes of all, the result of a 
real plot from some imperialism that do not like them (others posing as "friends"). 
According to this absurd story from 1999 to today, the economy has been managed in a 
brilliant strategy of building socialism with priority and immediate needs of the 
dispossessed caring, honesty in the management of public funds and social participation 
massive, active and alert, through the organs of "people power" and "social control", so 
if something goes wrong temporarily, it is the result of a conspiracy putschist Yankees 
and their local lackeys, because for most things have never been better and the future of 
this track is absolutely promising.

But since February and roughly, the street said something else because the truth of the 
story is quite different . In almost all large urban centers (and we are in a country with 
just over 85% of urban population) mass demonstrations that took place, contrary to what 
has been said about the "riots bourgeois and petty bourgeois "social content have a cross 
which found people of all conditions, because otherwise how do you explain the massive 
nature and duration of this process? In addition, if the economy (capitalist crisis of oil 
revenues and Extractivism) is the structural motivation events, there is a multiplicity of 
causes for all kinds of people are out and continue out into the streets to protest, 
causes certainly reinforced by the obvious inability of a government that does not help 
the business "manically" and now, perhaps fewer people even as production and oil revenues 
decline.

It is important to emphasize that this collective rebellion was essentially spontaneous , 
because even if there were some who sensed there the opportunity to make political capital 
(as Leopoldo L?pez and small party or Maria Corina Machado), we can say to them that if 
they were able to show the course of events, they do not run that has tripped. Similarly, 
there is a clear break in the area that previously met the lines from the electoral and 
democratic opposition and its Unidad Democr?tica of Mesa , as evidenced by events such as 
the rejection reaction by the crowd Henrique Capriles and such other officers then at 
various public events that took place during these days. We see a correlation between that 
and what happens in Chavism, where a large voter base Ch?vez voted by loyalty to Maduro 
there a year - a commitment majority upheld by giving victory to the ruling party in 
regional elections in December - and now seems indifferent to the agitated calls for her 
to express visibly its engagement with the government, so that the few pro-government 
public acts were recently not even a shadow of they were commonly when Ch?vez was wont to 
call them. Such inaction of the Chavista mass (Maduro that tried to break through a 
hysterical call it joins repression) poses one of the most critical issues of the moment, 
because depending on whether it maintains or breaks in one Either way, it may become 
decisive for what happens in the aftermath of the current situation.

Disproportionate repression was the preferred and almost single answer, so far as these 
lines are written, the Venezuelan State. seems he had no other, not anymore, at least to 
replace it as the primary option. First, because economically, the Venezuelan State is 
involved in the ups and downs of oil capitalism a more obvious way than in all other 
circumstances of the past 70 years, and has far fewer opportunities gain legitimacy and 
support by offering crumbs of the rentier carrot, and therefore, it only remains to 
distribute the blows by the National Guard "People" and paramilitary "collective" to look 
Che Guevara. Needless to say, this track has produced immediate costs and future risks: 
the paramilitaries "rojos-rojitos" ["dark red], they have the same problem with a box full 
of worms, and it is easy to open and release them, complications come to retrieve and / or 
control. As for the National Guard and the collective feeling that left his work these 
days, we can say that it has generated Venezuela flowering of propaganda, a mind and a 
conscience that militarist it now returns to anarchism boost - by bringing beyond the 
bipolarity of "good and bad" military - because we are against the very existence of 
military aircraft as supervisory bodies and social coercion .

Secondly, after the experience of 2002, Ch?vez was obsessed by what was for him the 
greatest risk of being ousted, the way the coup , and therefore, he prepared mechanisms to 
meet it. The emphasis on weapons, training and coordination of paramilitary comes from 
there, and also the insistence of propaganda first speaking of "economic putsch" and a 
"putsch in progress" , now "slow putsch", all denied by the paradoxical ridiculous when, 
in the midst of these so-called putchs, this government victim extends the duration of the 
Carnival holidays and calls for its celebration. In addition, this well-written and 
learned scenario required to present unequivocal potential adversary as fascist face of 
popular majorities, which have a side galvanized explicit support for the regime on the 
part of large segments of the community, while the other, he would have won significant 
support at the international level. But in the end, the facts, their sequence and - no 
less important - the clumsy actions of Nicol?s Maduro and his band of stooges, meant that 
the repressive aspect is one that is especially noticed with a deterioration consistent 
policy credibility of the regime, which continues to invoke the Big Bad Wolf for a 
military coup that nobody sees, feels or does not feel. Days and weeks have passed without 
one way any evidence or indisputable evidence, except gossip and rumors, an army major and 
unconstitutional to remove him from power share (because it is a coup!), while adjectives 
like "fascist" and the announcement of the next "imperialist aggression" were quick to 
shame the most timid maduristes or more discrete, while the rest of the people have taken 
as a pretext for new jokes.

So, what is clear: no coup is the agenda in the immediate shot would mean a decisive break 
with the beneficiary of the regime elite as listed above in the first paragraph: it would 
be absurd they run themselves. Despite all the difficulties and obtuse management of the 
management team, there are still margins for that, within capitalism and capitalists 
applying adjustment measures, on which all who practice or compete for the power State 
agree, the heirs of Chavez - with or without Maduro - can regain full governability. Maybe 
the pitch on "socialism", the "communal power" and "popular power" may continue to be used 
or not (minor detail), but in any case we must believe that bolibourgeois and "manically" 
power will take a route other than that which gives them guarantees and impunity. Now, 
more than under the direction of Chavez, everything indicates that this route is through 
political agreements with the opposition, and Venezuela, it means giving greater access to 
oil wealth. They did with Lorenzo Mendoza and this sector of the bourgeoisie who, during 
recent years, forgot to venture into production for live now prodigal breasts CADIVI and 
speculation on exchange rates money. There are also agreements with international 
financial officers and expensive Chinese who help them out of the quagmire, but on their 
own terms.

From our side, before they are needed, we put forward a clear rejection of austerity 
measures to come when once again those below, those always going to pay the piper, as is 
the custom in neoliberal capitalism or state capitalism in this. We will continue to fight 
to build real alternatives autonomy for majorities, those who somehow have announced in 
the force, the enthusiasm and ingenuity that have been expressed in so many forms in these 
events. Part of this work was to accompany these events, to present evidence and 
denunciations (complaints) of the repressive brutality of the state and than to know what 
is within our grasp to understand and analyze what were these events . But the most 
important thing is to continue to work to ensure that the greatest number of people, 
wherever we have a presence and impact, begin together to design and build solutions to 
the problems that affect them, solutions that are them and no officers whose main priority 
is their own profits and those of their closest friends.

Autonomy, self-management, Direct Action and Solidarity!

Venezuela, March 6, 2014

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Source: here 
http://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.fr/2014/03/declaracion-ante-los-eventos-de-febrero.html

Translation: OCLibertaire

Complement

An element that adds to ridicule and dangerous political cretinism hysterical campaign 
against the imperialist "putsch" Yankees, Colombian paramilitaries and "fascist", this 
short excerpt from a text Sim?n Rodr?guez Porras, a member of PSL (Partido Socialismo y 
Libertad, Trotskyist) in the left opposition to the regime.

The government has recourse to the expedient of pretending to be the victim of a coup 
running and compare the current situation with that of April 2002. However, it is 
impossible to rationally support such a comparison. It is indeed recorded any statement 
against the government or any defect in the armed forces, including the hierarchy - 
generals and senior officers - is fully aligned with the government and the fraction of 
the bourgeois who runs the state. The latter is mainly consisting of a better known by the 
population under the nickname "bolibourgeoisie" new rich area, many of whom are also 
military themselves.

Most leaders do not share the MUD slogan of "resignation" driven VP [the party of the hard 
right Voluntad Popular Leopoldo L?pez] and polemicize publicly Leopoldo L?pez. FEDECAMARAS 
does not call for a strike, nor the trade union bureaucracy related to the MUD. In the 
midst of the crisis, the most powerful capitalist country, Gustavo Cisneros, has announced 
its support to the government, while transnational Repsol has signed a financing agreement 
PDVSA 1.2 billion. The hierarchy of the Catholic Church fails to throw oil on the fire and 
instead supports the plans of "pacification" of the government. ("?Qu? est? pasando in 
Venezuela?" laclase.info, February 23, 2014)

If true "golpe" in progress, many of these levers (employers, trade union bureaucracy 
right very present in the oil sector, most of the parties, the Catholic hierarchy, part of 
the state apparatus and armed forces ...) were operated to destabilize the situation. 
There has been nothing.

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