WHEN ARE WE GOING TO SAY SOMETHING?

Very little has been said about Cuban interference in Venezuela's domestic affairs and the flagrant violations of human rights orchestrated by Caracas's puppet regime.

Much has been said about American interventionism in the western hemisphere, but the gradual cubanization of Venezuela, the identification system in the hands of Cuban intelligence officers and the infiltration of Cuban military personnel in that country's armed forces seems to be a subject of little significance for the American mainstream media.

Venezuela reached this critical point due to the ineptness of its populist leaders, to the proven incapability of communist economic planning to provide a modicum of well-being as well as the rampant corruption among the elite of the "Chavista" movement. The notion that the US government is plotting to overthrow Maduro, Chavez's handpicked successor, is not only inaccurate and irrational but flat out false. Chavez's obsession to undermine the American predominance in the continent led him to resort to measures as ill-conceived as practically giving away his country's oil at ridiculously low prices to over a dozen Caribbean countries. It has been repeatedly reported that 45% of the Dominican Republic's energy is provided by Venezuela and the current administration, as well as the previous one, is in no mind to face a sudden economic crisis in the region. In fact, the White House and the State Department have outrageously looked the other way while hundreds of youths are slaughtered, imprisoned, tortured, and humiliated in Tachira and other states of the South American nation.

In their traditionally myopic vision of reality, Hollywood and academia, with very few exceptions, continue to ignore the plight of the Venezuelan students and to diminish their heroism by labeling it as US induced counter revolution. The comfort and privilege of wealth and freedom seem to have blindfolded this segment of our society to the point of denial. Viewing this tragedy as part of the left/right confrontation they fail to address the issue with honesty and obfuscate the origin, nature and trends of this attempt on the part of large sections of the Venezuelan people to shake the yoke of oppression.