The indigenous Venezuela discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1498, becomes one of the provinces of Spain a while later, for the empire the way to manage the “mainland”. The management, in charge from Juan Martin de Ampúes, in 1527, to Francisco Dávila Orejón y Gastón, 1674, by an approximate number of 40 governors. In 1811 a “Patriotic Society” made up of Simon Bolívar and Francisco de Miranda is credited with having been the forerunner of “the liberating providence”. A long journey illustrates with respect to more than one attempt to consolidate the dream: 1. First Republic (1810-1812), 2. Second (1813-1814), 3. Third (1817-1819), 4. A qualified as Gran Colombia (1819-1830) and not counting time correctly a 5th, that of 2022, in the opinion of his mentors, “the First Socialist Republic”, also, “Bolivarian Republic”. Y,
It is in this context that “the 2 Octobers” inserted in the decades from 1930 to 2022 are used, revealing real attempts to materialize such dreams. The first is the “October Revolution”, which is led by Rómulo Betancourt, convinced that the “methodology” should be “real, pragmatic and sincere”, for which he coordinates civilians and military on the need to put an end to a process that was not understood where it was going, for which only a coordination of the armed forces and civilians would facilitate political modernization. That “October” must be described, therefore, as the starting point of the modernization of a territory in which anarchy and its terrible consequences reigned. That is, the bad abundant and the good very little. The other key piece in the strategy was Democratic Action, “The People’s Party”, the one with the white card, the one of the militants that the genius described with the maxim “adeco is adeco until he dies”. That man imbued with courage, faith and hope, a regular reader and without a doubt of ample intelligence and capacity for work, led Venezuela as a consequence of that “revolutionary October” to clean and fair elections, through which the people chose as President the novelist Rómulo Gallegos, unfortunately, deposed by a “coup d’état” led by the military under the banner of the so-called “democratic Caesarism”, whose theorists toasted the military chiefs on a silver platter. The Betancurian attempt of that “first October” succumbed to the conviction that the countries that had made the mistake of becoming independent from Spain would have to be governed with “the stick.”
In the long exile of 10 years, the leader of that “first October” does not decline, but on the contrary, he wages a titanic struggle against the dictatorship that replaces Gallegos, which ends up overthrown by popular reactions stimulated by heroic gestures of officers military disgusted by the curtailment of civil rights by the dictatorial government. Betancourt returns to the country and summons him, being elected President, in accordance with the democratic Constitution of 1961. He begins an arduous path typified because in every corner there were enemies enlightened by the Castrocommunism of Cuba. He ends the constitutional five-year term and the gallant former president takes refuge in Bern, to heal the wounds of a few attacks, but without ceasing to be attentive to the liberal and electoral democracy that he had established. God was kind because it dies before what would end in the disaster of 2022, in whose pot there is no fellow citizen who has put his hands on us. Venezuela today, a kind of circus doll that anyone used to throw and always fell firm. The doll disappeared, but, in addition, no one appears to buzz it.
The other famous “October” refers to President Carlos Andrés Pérez, Rómulo’s apprentice, the walker, the gocho for ’88, CAP, Prime Minister twice, Vice President of the Socialist International. A diversity of annotations reveal the assimilation capacity of this “October titan”, among others, “The external debt is not a financial problem, it is a political one, reason to treat it as a common action of the countries of the Region”, “The search for a society that not only consecrates a representative democracy, merely formal, of simple civic and political scope, but an authentic participatory democracy of economic and social content”, “Very serious events have occurred in recent times to raise our alarm to its maximum intensity. And so the North American prestige deteriorates, day by day, alienating the good will of the democratic forces that observe with concern the course of relations between Latin America and the United States”, “It is a propitious moment for reflection and for considered analysis not only on the universal economic order, but also on the destiny of all the peoples affected by this world system of economic and political relations”. Unconstitutionally ousted from a second presidency obtained by popular vote, he predicted what was going to happen to Venezuela by issuing a prescient judgment. The people have turned to remember him on the centenary of his birth and those who accompanied him in the cabinet of that five-year period that unfortunately could not end. He looks amazed from where he is, for having fallen short in what he predicted with his regarding him to his beloved Venezuela.
For some, accustomed to sheltering us in a nice mockery, we should think if a comfortable relationship with the Spanish would not have been more favorable, given the benefits of the “Mother Country”, not only with respect to culture, but also, in food, wines and other pleasant stimulants. Today we ask ourselves: dreams, fantasies, illusions? Answers, between chimera and fear. Could it be that this is how we were for the rupture, but also throughout from 1810 to the present day? The questions, it should be noted, are not exclusive to this humble commentator, since they appear in written sources from serious analysts, who have analyzed the attempts in pursuit of a State modeled in the light of institutional modernism. That is, a true Nation, not only constitutionally speaking, but concomitant with acceptable levels of economic and social development. In a few words, “a sincere, objective and efficient democracy.
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