What will Chavez in Venezuela
WHAT WILL Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Letter For Lohri Invitation
Hugo Chavez Venezuela's new Juan Carlos Echeverry
. TIME columnist.
Reshape legislate and educate, that of democracy and property.
surprising therefore that the package is ready to take on Venezuela President Chávez, as patronizing expressed by members of the Liberal Party in Colombia. Gossip say that the Polo Democrático yes there is concern about the new course Venezuela. No wonder. Make leftist politics in Colombia is going to get harder now that reveal the true claims del vecino.
Lo que se avecina en Venezuela es como sigue: gobernar por decreto, a través de la denominada Ley Habilitante, que debe ser aprobada en la Asamblea Nacional. Esto se ha interpretado como un afán de Chávez, que prefiere obviar la discusión y el escrutinio que implica el curso normal legislativo. De tal forma que, por decreto, se empezará a (re)estatizar sectores hoy considerados estratégicos, como comunicaciones, energía y petróleos. ¿Qué impide que esta lista crezca en el futuro? La Ley Habilitante también deberá crear un marco legal para las nacionalizaciones futuras.
El segundo frente será la educación, donde se espera atacar valores individuales e instalar in the minds of children a new ideology. It is natural that if in the future will require curtailing political freedoms and individual, as in Cuba, the country that seeks to emulate, considered indispensable to throw the tell people that this is what is right. Must convince the new Venezuela that the values \u200b\u200bof the person, their inclination to have their own political views, to form its knowledge and belief, being industrious and enterprising new business and defend what has been gained from the work itself is wrong ideology.
The third front is what they call the "new geometry of power ', which basically seeks to replace the mechanisms traditional local and regional representation, it is the mayors and governors, so called "explosion of communal power." Since democracy is the mechanism to change governments according to the choice of the majority, and these in turn are volatile, the recent 'community councils' will become the regional power vehicles, replacing traditional councils. That is, redefine democracy in a more convenient for the central executive.
The fourth front is economic policy, which will pass a constitutional amendment to abolish the Central Bank's independence and give more discretion to the Executive. New staff are believers in the power of public expenditure and administrative measures to plan the course of the economy: price controls, import substitution, tax incentives, regulations, subsidized interest rates and directed credit. This recipe has already been tried over and over again in Latin America in the 60's and did not work. The result will be inflation, shortages, black market, trapping state revenues by privileged actors, corruption and stagnation of the private sector. But to them, the latter do not care.
Executive power in Venezuela does not want counterweights or balances. Not support alternative truths that dispute the favor of public. Not discuss the philosophy and detail of the reforms and wants to win the consciousness of future generations to tip them to repeat a creed. This is hardly the dawn is coming for Latin America.
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The government seeks to change the shape of regulation, the way we educate, how local and regional democracy, the form of ownership of key sectors and how to manage the economy. This must be why so Colombian liberalism seem editorial changes. On the left, however, we do not like and understand its scope, he fears that around here learned their lesson in the flesh of others. Juan Carlos Echeverry
Published in the edition of El Tiempo January 17/2007 Hello
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