After the demonstration of civility that gave the revolutionary people that gathered on Thursday on the Bolivar Avenue in Caracas to support the Bolivarian Revolution, and the failure of the violent plans that pretended to activate the self-called Board of Unity (MUD) to overthrow the President of the Republic, Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela gave a lesson in responsibility and showed that it does not need foreign advisers to manage its internal affairs, said on Sunday journalist José Vicente Rangel.
During his Sunday program “José Vicente Hoy” (José Vicente Today), broadcast by Televen, Rangel said that “the march of the MUD on September 1 was convened with the same format that the opposition made 14 years ago, on April 11, 2002, thinking it could be a mechanical repetition of that event “which left 19 dead and 72 people wounded by gunfire among supporters of the Government and the opposition.
The political analyst said the staff of the MUD deceived its followers by giving epic features to the call for mobilization on September 11, which ultimately were not met.
“The announcement that one million people would march on Caracas to take over the city generated huge expectations”, said Rangel, while indicating that “The euphoria unleashed on the opposition group, the hope of that it would finally be overthrown President Maduro contrasted with the message of their leaders on that it was not the goal of the mobilization, but to make a democratic civic act, respectful of the Constitution”.
“Was it credible this version (by the MUD)?” asked Rangel, “Of course not,”, and noted that the statements by actors of the opposition left no doubt about the subversive nature of their plans.
“The march was not an expression of the right to demonstrate, but the determination to seize the opportunity to overthrow the constitutional President Nicolas Maduro, as it happened on April 11th (2002) with President Hugo Chavez (…) .The country was ready for a train wreck that day, a multitudinary opposition march and an equal counter-march by the Chavismo presaged a bloody outcome, “said the journalist.
However, he noted that, unlike the events of the coup of April 2002, the revolutionary forces had learned the lesson and for the opposition march to achieve its goal it had to face “a Government prepared to meet the challenge, and a Chavismo that had the organized control of the streets”.
“There was a march, but not the one they had expected, loaded with violence, the march of a million people to take over Caracas did not even remotely met that figure, and therefore they did not took over the city”, and therefore “what prevailed was the aspiration of the majority of Venezuelans to clarify their differences peacefully, the will to live above polarization, the rejection of a bloodshed, feelings which were crucial to the frustration of the violent ones who were there”, said the journalist.
In this regard, Rangel said the decision by the MUD of not reaching the downtown of Caracas as they had promised can have two readings among its followers: Either an act of wisdom, or a sign of weakness.
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