The uncomfortable campaign of Chavismo in keys of a destroyed Venezuela

The chavismo, unlike previous elections, faces the campaign for the regional and local elections of November 21 in a Venezuela destroyed dodging uncomfortable issues.

These uncomfortable issues for the Chavista regime are the extradition of the Colombian businessman Álex Saab – alleged front man of the illegitimate president Nicolás Maduro – which obscures its objective of showing itself as a solid bloc that has everything under control.

Next, the keys that reveal the insecurities in the Chavista leadership:

Extradition of Álex Saab

After more than a year of arrest in Cape Verde, Saab was extradited to the United States on October 16 to answer for a money laundering case linked to the Local Supply and Production Committees of Venezuela (CLAP), a system created by Maduro in 2016, which the US Treasury Department points out to be a scheme for the businessman to obtain “substantial profits.”

The Venezuelan regime rejected the accusations and the procedure and tried, by all means, that Saab was not extradited, but the effort was in vain.

The 49-year-old businessman’s name appeared in the media when former Venezuelan prosecutor Luisa Ortega Díaz accused him in 2017 of being one of Maduro’s front men and, since then, he began to be closely watched by the United States.

More extraditions on the way

The National Court of Spain accepted the extradition to the United States of former Venezuelan general Hugo Carvajal – known as El Pollo -, former Venezuelan minister Claudia Díaz and her husband, Adrián Velásquez, former bodyguard of the late President Hugo Chávez (1999-2013).

Díaz and Velásquez are accused of a money laundering crime for having allegedly favored the Venezuelan businessman Raúl Gorrín in a plot to exchange foreign currency, which earned him hundreds of millions of dollars.

For his part, Carvajal, former head of the Military Counterintelligence Directorate of Venezuela, is accused of alleged drug trafficking crimes.

The former general, arrested last September in Madrid, testified before a judge of the Spanish National Court, where he pointed out to Juan Carlos Monedero, co-founder of the Spanish party Podemos, of receiving alleged payments from Maduro, when he was already in charge of the Government, and that came from the coffers of the state-owned Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA).

Formal ICC investigation

The International Criminal Court (ICC) decided to formally open an investigation to Venezuela for the alleged commission of crimes against humanity, since at least April 2017, during the demonstrations, and mistreatment of opponents in some prisons.

“(The Prosecutor’s Office) has determined that an investigation should be opened to establish the truth in accordance with the Rome Statute,” highlighted a document signed between the ICC and the Executive at the end of the visit of the court’s prosecutor, Karim Khan, to the country. last November 3.

The Venezuelan government subsequently issued a statement in which it ratified its commitment to the Rome Statute, the constitutive instrument of the ICC, but disagreed with the ICC’s decision, arguing that there was no preliminary examination or right to defense.

General discontent

Venezuelans constantly complain about the decline in the quality of life with failures in basic services, high inflation and low wages.

Recently, several Venezuelan unions protested in Caracas to demand that the Government improve their working conditions, especially those related to wages.

The serious crisis that led to this situation in what was one of the richest countries in Latin America caused a part of the population to emigrate, considering that in Venezuela there are no possibilities for improvement or a political change that the majority, according to various surveys they cry out.

Division in Chavismo

The ruling party showed its cracks last year, when the Communist Party, Unified Tendencies to Reach the Organized Revolutionary Action Movement (Tupamaro) and Patria Para Todos (PPT) distanced themselves from Chavismo, considering that the trend they were following was moving away every more time to the left to go to a liberal policy system.

But the differences were more noticeable this year, when in the primaries of the ruling party to elect the candidates for governors and mayors, the leaders clashed openly and even the vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, had to ask ” unity ”and demanded that offenses and attacks between colleagues be avoided.

On Twitter, the militants of the Government party also expressed their discontent, after the senior leadership left out several of those who were elected and imposed others in several states, who did not achieve first place or who had not even been postulates.