Maduro Came Out of a Time Machine

By Juancarlos Vargas // El Universal

Originally published in Spanish on May30, 2013

In spite of the recent declarations of Elias Jaua about the intention of the Venezuelan government to reestablish the relations with the Ambassadors of the United States, Nicolas Maduro continues with his anti-American and anti-imperialist speech as it was during the Cold War, in fact, recently during a meeting with the president Evo Morales, he pointed out that United States intends to take again the FTTA project in order to weaken the Bolivarian revolution and ALBA.

Once again, Maduro intends to put off the attention to the multiple internal problems that are affecting the country, including the signs on the illegitimacy of the regime, food shortages, insecurity, high inflation, new H1N1 outbreak, lack of toilette paper, the impact of the new editorial line of Globovision, internal struggles in the ruling party that came to light through the audio of Mario Silva, all of which translates into a serious problem of ungovernable.

The foreign policy of Nicolas Maduro looks misguided because while Hugo Chavez was characterized by privileging the president to president relations and establishing alliances with countries considered key to the revolution; Maduro shown illegitimate before the international community, disoriented, erratic, prone to authoritarianism and deficiencies that he pretends  to fill by resorting to Havana.

The uncertainty and economic crisis that exist in Venezuela has impacted ALBA, Petrocaribe, UNASUR and CELAC. The sustainability of these initiatives is in discussion.  Moreover, Maduro has been unable to assume a regional leadership; on the contrary, he has consistently led rants with the United States government and the former president of Colombia Alvaro Uribe, as well as the governments of Peru and Spain, showing that his foreign policy is characterized by the practice of confrontations which are obsoletes as a result of the dynamics of the growing interdependence, globalization and universalism that has experienced the international community.

The anti-American speech is not limited to Maduro only, apparently he has given instructions to his closest associates to speak out against the U.S. government and report that there are unveiling destabilizing plans from the State Department and the CIA.  This imperialist line has been retaken by Eva Golinger who is an expert on such matters.  She from el Correo del Orinoco journal, English version, has attempted to establish links between the CIA and Henrique Capriles, Leopoldo Lopez, General (R) Rivero and the American citizen Timothy Tracy.

Maduro lacks of foreign policy is evidently, once again proves that he is not ready to govern, striving to implement actions of the Cold War up to the point that he seems to get out of a time machine that transported him to the sixties.  If he pursues with this foreign policy, Venezuela will be isolated, and we will be away of the international cooperation and will make us vulnerable in forums such as UN and OAS, placing Venezuela in the international community in a similar situation that currently characterizes Iran and North Korea.

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