Hugo créa terror/Hugo engenders terror

Hugo créa terror/Hugo engenders terror -- TAL CUAL
¨A aquellos a quienes expropiemos sus tierras, le poderemos dar un papel que diga: cobrele a Chavez en el año 203o¨
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“To those from whom we expropriate their land, perhaps I will give them a paper saying: ‘In 2030, charge Chávez’.” Perhaps the president wanted to make a joke (a bad one) with this, but there is no doubt that his subconscious betrayed him and that he vented a pent-up desire.

Deep down inside, it could be be-lieved that he wanted to confiscate and not expropriate. In fact, when he refers to the payment for the properties to be expropriated he lets slip, unwillingly, that he will pay when and how he likes.
Chávez has no idea of the hornet’s nest he is raising. The issue of property is among the strongest feelings that motivate a human being. It is as or more powerful than love. That is why everything that concerns it has to be dealt with extreme caution, particularly by governments. When Chávez leaves doubt whether or not land owners or “intervened” factories will be reimbursed, he is in the first place letting slip the idea that those properties could be confiscated, that is to say, taken from their owners. And secondly, he is clearly violating the Constitution and laws, where confiscation is specifically forbidden. From there the fears that today blanket even the humble inhabitants of the popular barrios, not to mention the middle class.
The application of the Land Law, with unnecessary military action and arrogant and aggressive rhetoric, giving the impression that it is all being done within the margin of the law itself, has done nothing but generate in the country an atmosphere of fear about the future of property in general.
To make matters worse, the last statements of the president about the “abandoned spaces” in cities, which it would be necessary to “keep an eye on” in order to “expropriate them”, they say to build houses, are increasing anxiety in all civilian settings.
Chávez, with that infantile ultra-leftism, is fomenting an even bigger uncertainty that, among other things, conspires openly against employment creation and the fight against poverty. In a country where nobody knows what to expect in the future and where even the cooperatives are requested to forget profit, it is impossible to create employment sources because nobody gives a hoot if they don’t know what could happen to their investment. The result will be more poverty.
What is true is that there is pertinence in the eradication of the “latifundio” or in the creation of new forms of social and economic organization. However, disregarding the search for possible understanding, produces a trauma more psychological than political and will clash, even, with the resistance of those dispossessed, who having nothing but their small domestic properties, feel, however that “the government” could snatch it.
Some may think that they are putting the rich in their place, but others could believe that the thing doesn’t stop there and what begins with intervening militarily in Polar ends up with confiscating and nationalizing the newspaper kiosks. In social and political life, reality matters a lot less than people think it does. For that reason so many revolution attempts have failed.