Opposition

After eleven days out of the public spotlight since he returned from Cuba, President Hugo Chavez appeared live on public television yesterday during a ministers’ council meeting and criticised the opposition candidate, said that he will register as a presidential candidate in June, and announced that the new anti-crime mission will also be launched in June.

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Over the weekend, Venezuela’s anti-Chavez minority confirmed reports that one of their own recently met with right-wing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and promised to re-establish ties with Israel if the opposition is somehow successful in this year’s presidential election. 

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The head of Venezuela’s National Intelligence Services (Sebin), Miguel Rodriguez, revealed last Sunday further details of a plan by right-wing opposition activists to destabilize the nation’s political environment in an interview broadcast on the private television station Televen. 

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Marea Socialista (Socialist Tide), a radical current within the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, argue that the construction of a collective leadership is necessary for the deepening of the Bolivarian revolution in the coming period. 

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Members of the Venezuelan opposition in London stormed premises of the Venezuelan Embassy last Friday 13 April to express their disagreement with the government of Venezuela.

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According to Latin American polling companies such as Datanalisis and Consultores 21, this year’s presidential elections in Venezuela will be a close-knit affair, and opposition candidate Capriles Radonski has decided he believes them, despite others polls giving Chavez 30% more of the vote. Venezuelanalysis.com argues that this could be part of the opposition's strategy.

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Venezuelan’s National Telecommunication Commission (Conatel) has taken rightwing news station Globovision to the Supreme Court for not paying a Bs 9.3 million (US$ 2.2 million ) fine by the due date, 1 January 2012.

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A coalition of Venezuelan social movements have rejected reports in a private Venezuelan newspaper linking them to paramilitary groups as false. The movements have denounced the allegations as “an unprecedented offensive by the domestic counterrevolution, that forms part of the electoral and conspiratorial campaign of [Venezuelan presidential opposition candidate] Capriles Radonski”.

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On Saturday evening it was reported that Karen Berendique, daughter of the Chilean Consul in Venezuela was killed and shot by police.  This act of police brutality and malpractice highlights more than ever the need for a humanistic police force with respect for human rights throughout the country.

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“We’re telling the opposition that they are crazy, they haven’t reviewed the figures on the protagonistic role of women, and they haven’t even done their homework in order to be able follow up this line of argument. Women are more present than ever in Hugo Chavez’s government. Furthermore, our Comandante has said that women are at the vanguard, without their participation, there will be no socialist revolution”.

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