Pharaonic constructions of Baruta and urban zoning changes in Chacao, including in El Hatillo.
Luis Fuenmayor Toro
Different scandals occur in practically all governments, with political consequences depending on their nature and intensity. Those affected always try to ignore the facts, to reduce the negative effects on the administration in question. That the Maduro government does so, in the current scandalous case of PDVSA, is therefore not surprising. Neither do the various explanations that arise on the subject. One might then think that large corruption can no longer be allowed, and less so in the oil sector, since these greatly aggravate the current situation, hinder recovery and endanger the commercialization of crude oil. The latter could explain the support of the gringo government for the supposed clean-up measures taken by Maduro.
A serious government, faced with difficulties of this type, would truthfully report on the case, point out the alleged perpetrators and explain the immediate and mediate measures to be taken, to avoid its repetition in the future, without fanfare or demagogic harangues. Nothing difficult, despite the fact that the opposition will always try to take advantage of what happened, which is not abnormal or anything to be scandalized. In Venezuela, the problem is that the government has no credibility. His deceptions of years turned Venezuelans into disbelievers. And this fact, even if it upsets some government hierarch, exists and denying it does not make it disappear. It also happens with a good part of the opposition, whose misguided behavior has led to almost zero credibility.
Faced with the situation that occurred in PDVSA, the Maduro government, to minimize the damage and even to take advantage of it and go on the offensive, launches an aggressive discourse against corruption and about the ethical nature of the pseudo-revolution. He presents his actions as a program to clean up the public administration, and even takes action against some judges and a mayor from his own party, whose crimes do not seem to have any connection with what happened in PDVSA, nor do they have the same economic impact. The only relationship is that the judges are senior officials in the administration of justice, but the crime was having released a criminal for money. The mayor’s crime is his intimate relationship with the band “El tren de los llanos”, something for which he had been denounced months ago without paying attention to the complaint.
No one in their right mind can criticize government actions against corruption, but they can be analyzed and judged and come to the conclusion that they are not really motivated by the fight against corruption, nor are they part of any coherent program developed and implemented to that end. effect. It would seem that the main thing is an internal purge motivated by the fight for control of the state apparatus, at least in the case of former oil minister Tareck el Aissami. This, I repeat, does not mean that there are no criminal activities within the team of the aforementioned former minister, but rather that they are being used in the aforementioned internal struggle. In fact, El Aissami himself resigned from his position and indicated that he supported the measures carried out.
We must not ignore the fact that the anti-corruption actions will surely be extended to leaders and opposition groups, to make clear their participation in the cases currently underway. In fact, it was already clearly pointed out by Jorge Rodríguez, President of the National Assembly. The pharaonic constructions of Baruta and the changes in urban zoning in Chacao, including in El Hatillo, also denounced by their communities, are going to be investigated. The government wins by presenting itself as a champion of the fight against corruption, “whoever falls falls”. He wins by clearing his political backyard of uncomfortable competitors. He also wins by removing from the stage or placing at his services leaders and groups that oppose him and that today are presented as alternatives of power. We are living through a fierce start to the campaign for 2024.
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