London, 13.01.2013 – Here’s the latest video from Diego Arria. Before sharing my thoughts, I should mention that I was hired and worked with Diego during the 2006 presidential campaign. Since then, I’ve maintained what can be described as a cordial, albeit distant, relationship with him. In October 2011, Diego visited London and we discussed his role in the primary elections. From the very beginning, I thought—and I remember telling him—I saw his role as the perfect chancellor, given his extensive diplomatic experience, which even led him to be an assistant to then-Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan. Anyone with a minimal understanding of diplomacy and international geopolitics knows that reaching such positions in multilateral institutions like the UN requires a significant amount of finesse, moderation, and skill. I thought, and I recall telling him, that his candidacy in the primaries wouldn’t go far. Diego responded with something interesting, more or less saying, “I know, but someone has to speak out about what the established opposition has failed to challenge regarding Chavez.”
That said, I find it incredible that Diego Arria is labeled as radical. It is unacceptable to argue that demanding adherence to constitutional principles is a radical stance. It’s an insult to intelligence, and those—both opponents and chavistas—who label people like Diego as radicals for demanding respect for the constitution should be publicly shamed and ridiculed for what they are: collaborators of the regime. Venezuela can no longer tolerate manichean and irresponsible attitudes. Venezuela has had enough of every kind of freeloaders, exploiters, parasitic pedophiles, drug traffickers, intellectual eunuchs, spineless sycophants, and traitors maintaining the status quo for personal interests, to the detriment of national welfare.
It is absolutely unacceptable that Chavez transferred sovereignty to Cuban dictators, and that matters exclusively concerning our society are being decided by those wretched communists. This is intolerable. And it is not a result of actions from just last week or last month. This transfer of sovereignty began the day Chavez went through the so-called “formalism” of being sworn in in January 1999. Since then, we have become a Cuban colony. I dare say that no chavista, those ignorant souls who still believe in the traitor, has ever been asked if they agree to cede their right to decide their future to Cuban dictators. This has been a personal and unique decision of the Mussolini of Sabaneta. And let’s say it openly and responsibly, it is a betrayal to the homeland. Hugo Chavez is a traitor to Venezuela, its institutions, its people, its republican customs, its democracy, and its independence struggle. Hugo Chavez is a traitor to Bolivar, about whom many things can be said, both good and bad, but he was never a traitor to the nation. Quite the opposite.
Traitor, traitor, and turncoat—what adjectives define the leader of the majority of Venezuelans. I hope the greatest instigator of hate our country has seen since Boves dies soon, and I hope he suffers at least a fraction of the torment and misery he has imposed on Venezuela, before leaving this world. Divine justice exists; Chavez has placed himself in the hands of his “caretakers” and the so-called best medicine, and they are ending his life. Thank goodness. Individuals like Chavez do not deserve respect or consideration from anyone. His bad deeds far outweigh any good he may have done. Action and reaction; what goes around comes around. This isn’t radicalism; it’s justice. Just as Chavez is worthy of nothing but contempt, those who collaborate with him, whether chavistas or opposition, must be excluded from any efforts to build a free, sovereign, and democratic society. The self-determination of a people cannot be founded by traitors.