In recent weeks the regime of Nicolás Maduro has carried out actions not only wrong and constant violation of rights and freedoms; They have also shown a kind of paranoia that leaves a lot to think about.
Either he is completely cornered, and the actions are desperate, or he is so sure of his power and the presidential chair that he does not care to show that in Venezuela there is an installed dictatorship. In any case, Nicolás Maduro will go down in the history of the South American country as a dictator, but very unintelligent.
Nobody knows what is going to happen in the South American country, and nobody, nor Nicolás Maduro has his future insured; but as the days go by and he acts irrationally he is filling out a file worthy of life imprisonment.
In just one month, the dictatorship left evidence of extrajudicial executions, arbitrary and desperate detentions, political disqualifications without precedent, annulment of parties and violation of civil rights embodied in international treaties. The most recent "unbalanced" and paranoid action is the arrest of lawyer Enrique Aristeguieta Gramcko, a tough critic of the 85-year-old dictatorship.
What threat could Mr. Aristeguieta represent for Maduro as if he had decided to kidnap him in the middle of the night of last Friday, February 2 through the political police?
For the dictator must fear the knowledge of the lawyer after his experience in defeating tyrannies; this, because it was part of the Patriotic Board, organization that orchestrated in 1958 the overthrow of the dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez.
With this detention, the Venezuelan dictatorship would be in violation of Article 231 of the Organic Code of Criminal Procedure that prohibits the deprivation of liberty of persons over 70 years of age. O Nicolás Maduro fears being overthrown, or wants to send a message to his most vocal dissidence represented by the #SoyVenezuela organization headed by María Corina Machado to which Aristeguieta Gramcko also belongs.
But the arrest of Mr. Aristiguieta is just one of the most recent actions of cowardice of a dictatorship that runs out of ideas.
What better example of despair, paranoia and cruelty than the extrajudicial execution of Captain Óscar Pérez and his group?
The pilot and former officer of the Scientific and Criminal Investigations Corps (CICPC), Óscar Pérez, who rebelled against the dictatorship in Venezuela, was killed with high-caliber weapons and war weapons despite his intention to surrender peacefully. To the extrajudicial executions of which Venezuela and the world were witnesses "live and direct"; all post-mortem abuses worthy of being condemned in any international court are added.
Óscar Pérez and all his team received at least eight shots, including one of grace in the head. As this is the case, the assumptions of self-defense were ruled out. An extrajudicial execution was applied, according to the terms established by the Minnesota Protocol of the United Nations Organization.
Added to this is the violation of all the norms of due process, since not only those killed were buried without the permission of their relatives at the time and place the regime imposed; It also completely demolished the refuge where Pérez was murdered to erase any evidence.
On the other hand, the impromptu, hasty and unconstitutional call to presidential elections without guarantees can not be ignored.
Although the Constitution of Venezuela establishes that the elections must be convened six months in advance, the chavismo through the illegitimate Constituent Assembly ordered the CNE to hold the presidential elections in the first four months of the year. With this advance of elections, the regime takes the Venezuelan opposition unprepared and begins to use all its resources at their convenience.
In order to attend the electoral appeal, the regime makes sure to "get out of the way" the parties and leaders that bother it the most: it annulled the opposition card of the Unity Table (MUD), it disqualified presidential candidates such as Henrique Capriles, and even one of his former ministers, Miguel Rodríguez Torres. In addition to annul political parties like Voluntad Popular by Leopoldo López.
The call to elections went so badly for the regime, that countries in the region such as the United States and other members of the Lima Group made it clear that they will not recognize the results of those elections and therefore whoever gets elected.
And is that the recent acts of the regime are so erratic and irrational, which has been able to deceive and ridicule ahead of their own "friends." On January 31, the representative of the regime in the dialogue with the opposition, Jorge Rodríguez, announced that a "pre-agreement" had been reached; But minutes later, the president of the Dominican Republic, Danilo Medina, came out to deny it.
There is no greater evidence that the Nicolás Maduro regime is completely cornered or paranoid, and especially now after US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made it clear to the world that the Donald Trump government is investing great efforts to that the Venezuelan dictatorship comes out of power.
When Chavez Socialism falls one day, Nicolás Maduro and all its officials will have to respond to justice and pay for each of their crimes; meanwhile they continue to fill a file that they will never be able to escape, even if they are given asylum in Havana ...