Chavismo is in the phase of denial, determined to show the world a nonexistent normality . The organization of his counter-march yesterday in downtown Caracas was hasty and disappointed again: they barely mobilized hundreds of militiamen and discouraged public employees , despite having dozens of state buses. They did not fill more than three blocks from the city.
Nicolás Maduro and his Communications Minister, Jorge Rodríguez, mounted an event with businessmen the night before, the launch of the „country brand Venezuela“ to promote tourism and foreign investment in the most violent country with the highest inflation in the world. .
The Bolivarian leader changed his semimilitary clothing of recent days by a black suit with a screen in the background, as if the presentation of a Latin American and socialist iPhone was involved. As if the crisis did not exist. “ There is no other country in the world with greater opportunities, with greater advantages for reproductive investment , today, than our beloved Venezuela,“ he said.
His disconnection goes so far that in an interview he offered to the BBC he did not know how much a kilo of cheese costs (the same as the one month minimum wage) . In the interview, Maduro accused the Western media of lying and attacking Venezuela, and assured that the country’s problems are the fault of the US economic blockade. The Bolivarian leader also denied other evidence: the number of countries that have recognized Guaidó, more than fifty. For Maduro, there are only a dozen.
„Venezuela is not a country of hunger, it has very high levels of nutrients and access to food,“ he said, calling the opposition’s attempt to „show“ the country humanitarian aid waiting at the border.
Vice President Delcy Rodriguez went further to ensure that humanitarian aid arrived from the US is contaminated and is carcinogenic. “ This humanitarian aid is contaminated and poisoned, it is carcinogenic, as it has been shown by different scientific studies of that supposed discarded food of the United States that seeks through chemicals to poison our population.“ We could say that biological weapons are what they want with that humanitarian aid, „assured the revolutionary leader.
During the march, the faithful followers of Chavism also insisted on appearing normal. „Here we are celebrating that Venezuela is free with Maduro, in Haiti there is a commotion and nobody sees there, is it because there is no oil there? “ Said Pedro Velasquez, 28 years old.
