*Venezuela* - *The Reason of State,*
*a "pragmatic" absolutely wrong*
/*Néstor Kohan*/
[La Haine: http://lahaine.org/
*/The facts -/* are already known. They quickly extradited, without further investigation and without having even for a moment doubt his account. All of our solidarity with the journalist and fellow Joaqu í n Pérez Becerra. I expect very hard times. The Colombian mafia and corrupt bourgeoisie and his friends from the North that the head does not condone nor have mercy: interrogation, torture, harassment, frames, judgments announced in breaking the law, imprisonment, isolation.
*/First reaction -/* Surprise, indignation, disgust, hate, sadness. So many questions.
*/Second reaction -/* Analyze the reasons and goals.
*/What do you look for the Colombian government?/* */-/* With this new operation, the government of Santos is shown for what it is: an absolute continuation of the Uribe government (despite what some may think naive, Santos is convinced that an innocent Red Riding Hood "and not the one who bombed Ecuador and, as head of the Ministry of Defence at the time of Uribe, responsible for thousands of corpses buried in mass graves.
*/What aims?/* */Is threefold:/*
1. /Arouse fear./ The obvious question that we all begin to ask (some have already written, others have only thought of in a whisper) is: "Who's next? If one who has a Swedish passport and has lived for decades in Sweden ("paradise" of social imaginary, a country "civil" and pluralistic far from the Third World) ends up trapped like an animal by those bloodthirsty beasts, what reserves to those of us who live in Latin America, where surveillance, threats, repression and death around the corner?
2. /Hitting any dissent./ Not just directly against the communist insurgency forces - secretary, blocks, and fronts of the FARC-EP combatants or activists of the underground Communist Party, ELN forces, etc.. - But against the whole of dissidents, including even the most isolated intellectual who lives at the other end of the planet and who has dared to write a note to warn of the violation of human rights, mass graves containing thousands of bodies killed and miles like animals, without a tomb, a name, with their hands tied and tortured victims of harassment, or who have withdrawn from the bonds of the Colombian government and its main institutions with drug trafficking, paramilitaries, the dirty trade and economic crime.
In this global persecution of dissidents fit: from ridiculous lawsuits against Senator Piedad Córdoba (which as far as I know it does not turn his gun on his shoulder, but preaching peace and calling for dialogue), the trial of journalist Manuel Olate ( whose worst sin was to write a service) from public death threats against filmmakers who have the audacity to press the "play" of a projector to watch a documentary film festivals, the persecution of some young Nordic does not remember if the Danish or Norwegian, who dare to print the logo on a shirt of the uprising in Colombia (the shirts with the image of Che and his beret, and Subcomandante Marcos are fashionable, while those with the symbols of the FARC- EP are "terrorists"?). The examples are many, can not recall them all. But they are always the same lines. Looked at collectively they are ridiculous, grotesque, bizarre, irrational and deeply reactionary. This is the regime in Colombia, improperly called "democratic".
3. /Prevent international solidarity./ Ensure that the Colombian dissidents feel isolated and lonely, that nobody in the world - even if you live in Europe - has the courage to say anything for fear of being watched, persecuted, demonized, to reach the extreme case to be extradited. Ensure that all silent. Curious that until the last lower his gaze and softly put his hands up. What do you silent and still, because the trafficking and the murders continue. And if anyone dared to disagree - we have made the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church or the Secretary of the UN, Riki Martin or Shakira, Calle 13 or squid - could eventually be included in the magic computer of Raul Reyes [allusion to the computer assigned to Raúl Reyes after his assassination, and where for months were found "evidence" of involvement of Chavez and all over the world. NdT].
This is Colombia today, and this has been in recent decades. This is nothing new. Angers, makes me want to vomit, but it is not new.
*And the government of Venezuela?* *-* What then is the news of extradition of the journalist Joaqu í n Pérez Bacerra? What we tore deeply is what has made the Venezuelan government.
Even this is a novelty, because there have been unprecedented in recent times. But this case is outrageous. A shame. It exceeds all limits. In these two days I have written a lot of friends who live in Venezuela or Venezuelans. All letters, e-mail communications and start the same way: "I am very sad," "I do not understand anything," and many other similar phrases.
Why has this happened? We try to go beyond the specific case that if, in a few months, the U.S. invaded another country and killed 100,000 more people, if they exploded another nuclear power plant or an earthquake occurs, few would remember.
How to explain the inexplicable, at least for those of us who defend the Bolivarian process and consider President Hugo Chavez Bolivarian a partner and a leading political leaders of Latin American revolution of our times?
What has happened has a specific name: "Reason of State". The dominance of allegedly ruthless interests "geostrategic" that normal people probably do not understand, but you should also give priority to violating the most elementary principles and revolutionary solidarity,
*/The Reason of State!/* */Scary cancer that devours everything -/* always invoked when you make concessions to historical enemies, unclean pacts with the torturers, when you surrender to the most popular flags and viscerally dear to the people, the ones that have allowed Venezuela to defeat a coup The CIA and the whole sordid right for over a decade.
That the "reason of state" smell of fecal matter few would dispute the nostrils. However, many defend it because they think and believe, naively, that is realistic, pragmatic, and that - and what ordinary people would not understand, because they carried away by their passions - in the long run, serve the revolutionary cause.
Is that so? We suspect not!. Each time a process of transition to a different, non-capitalist, that attempts to achieve profound social changes, began to give precedence to the "reason of state", things have gone badly, very badly, very badly.
"If you give him a hand, take my arm," says a popular proverb. If you grant them 10% to 50% link the enemy, and once he is made, pointing to 100%. Give this reporter for the Colombian government not only goes against the ethics of revolutionary, not only violates the standards of the ideal of the Bolivarian and socialist internationalism, but it is a very serious political and strategic error. Comrade Hugo Chavez and the process that drives it are greatly weakened. The enemy knows that he can now point as well. If you have folded your hand, now you can break your arm.
Remember, in 1986, the Sandinista commander Tomas Borge - then surrounded by prestige among many young people - who said in an interview in Argentina: "Civilizing the bourgeoisie." Yes? Really? Very soon thereafter, in 1990, the Nicaraguan bourgeoisie has come to "civilize" the original Sandinista revolution.
The commander Hugo Chávez "civilizzerà" the Colombian paramilitaries in this way or dealing with its historical enemies (even if I recommended this or that friend prestigious in the past has been able to lead the Latin American revolution). On this there is no doubt.
We hope you take urgent action to this policy of "reason of state", not only because it profoundly affects the Bolivarian and revolutionary consciousness of our peoples, not only because it stains the ethics of the revolution, because it slaughters the popular confidence, because it turns the red flag of socialism and communism in a dull and gray cloth, but because it is too inefficient. It is not realistic. It is not pragmatic. No need to lead to failure if not. And this is not what we seek, is not it?
/[I had received many other writings of this kind, and very few justifications reticent, but I thought it was just what I put on the site./ /This text, which I was reported as normal by the precious/ Boletín solidario /Montevideo, I was struck, however, both for the lucidity with which he analyzes the logic of the protagonists, and because Néstor Kohan is one of the most brilliant and at the same time strict Marxist Latin American , Guevara convinced, and very popular in Cuba and Venezuela, but not to the point of having to sacrifice francs to express opinions on management teams when they are wrong./ /Kohan is the author of many interesting books, usually downloaded from the site/ of La Haine:http://lahaine.org/
The translation is Tweety Pierini. (Am 1 May 2011) [and Google]
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