PUERTO PADRE, Cuba.- Barricaded in the powers of the State As if they were their own shields and not safeguards of the entire nation, after the presidential elections of July 28 and for which there have been deaths, injuries, imprisonments and political persecutions, with crimes against humanity, Nicolás Maduro has taken the position of a unique, indispensable citizen, intending to perpetuate himself in power and not only in Venezuela, where he has made judicial and legislative authorities serve him as aides, but his egolatry transcends the Venezuelan borders, to psychopathically attack WhatsApp and Tik Tok, as if they were natural persons and not public tools in the hands of citizens to contend with him, so it is useful to ask: Is Nicolás Maduro leading Venezuela towards totalitarianism…? Let’s see.
Politically motivated crimes, disappearances of people, kidnappings, forced exiles and, in short, violations of the human rights of the population by a dictatorial regime, whether personalistic, such as Franco’s Spain or Cuba, after the coup d’état of March 10, 1952 by Batista, or a dictatorship led by a military or civil-military junta such as Chile in the time of Pinochet, do not necessarily occur as totalitarian regimes for the sole reason that they are unconstitutional and violate universal rights.
And it may even happen, as happened in the dictatorships of Franco, Batista and Pinochet, that there was a configuration —or the outline of its representation— of a civil society that, sociopolitically speaking, is made up of the rule of law that is obligatory for both rulers and governed, a public administration that must respond to citizens, a public space for debate and trade unions, guilds, civic or other associations, such as social movements, all of this in a market economy that acts as a system of regulation not only of the economy, but also of the highest national interests.
But we have not seen the genesis of democracies that we have seen emerge even in the cruelest right-wing dictatorships – and that have been the beginning of their end – in self-proclaimed communist totalitarian regimes. “dictatorships of the proletariat”, euphemism to mask a vulgar personalist dictatorship based on a single, monopolistic party, which Lenin and Stalin used to perpetuate themselves in power for life in the extinct Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), as well as the brothers Fidel and Raúl Castro and their followers of the Communist Party in Cuba, in whose nation, with every vestige of independent civil society destroyed and supplanted by pro-totalitarian regime organizations, it is very difficult to foresee a transition to democracy in the short term.
John Paul II said that “the totalitarian State tends to absorb into itself the nation, society, the family, religious communities and the people themselves,” then, to achieve this total “absorption” and as investigated and demonstrated by many academics, including Carl Friedrich and Zbigniew Brzezinski, totalitarian dictatorships develop an ideology with millenarian pretensions even before taking power, as in this case of Venezuela, where Hugo Chavez and his followers referred to a 30- or 40-year process for the consolidation of what they would call “21st-century socialism.”
And to that end, take ownership not only of the State but also of the nation and of each person themselves, they create a mass party, which in the Venezuelan case is not yet unique, because, simulating a democracy, they admit a multiplicity of political parties, but when the communists lose at the polls, as on July 28, then we see that their true goal is the power of a single party; and for that purpose, the attainment and maintenance of totalitarian power, the regime thus designed implements a system of terror, physical and psychological, which in the case of Venezuela – as we see these days – is executed through the socialist party, the so-called “collectives”, the political and military police and the administration of the State with its legislative and judicial powers as a whole.
It is not idle then that for the concretization of psychological terror, the totalitarian State controls, or tries to control, all the mass media, and this is how we have seen Nicolás Maduro, personally, undertake it against WhatsApp and Tik Tok. In order to achieve totalitarian power, then, the centralized control of the national economy remains, which in this case is Venezuelan oil in the hands of the State, and the control of all combat weapons, which Nicolás Maduro has, to this day, through the control of the general staff, headed by General Padrino and through him, of the entire Army.
There is no doubt about it: Venezuela is now on the path to becoming consolidated as a totalitarian regime, similar to that of Cuba. And if the majority of the Venezuelan people, as we saw at the polls on Sunday, July 28, and with the help of the international community, fail to stop the totalitarianism led by Nicolás Maduro —just as Cuban Castro-communism was not stopped due to underestimation in the 1960s, reproducing itself throughout the world— then, before any other nation in the world and merely because of the geostrategic conceptions of its allies Russia, China or Iran, we will see the Americas, yes, the countries that make up North America, Central America, South America and the Antilles, besieged on their own soil and according to the interests of the moment, by the natural enemy of democracy: totalitarianism, and in this case, exercised by communists from Venezuela.
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