When people thought that the maduro regime could not fall any lower in the ranking of outrageously ridiculous things, they came up with this PR stunt.
Venezuela’s tyrant is now a super hero. He does not even need to attend in person the most important parade in the history of the country: July 5th, Independence Day. Instead, he can have an inflatable Super Mustache doll represent him and make hundreds of “generals” salute the charade with the respect they deny the whole nation.
I remember as a child watching the Independence Day parade on television every year. Everyone did. It was a family event. It was a sober and solemn history class that narrated the struggle of our founding fathers to achieve the Independence of our country and of other countries in the continent (Colombia, Perú, Bolivia…)
Since the chavez era, the military parades started to degrade down to freak shows; outrageous displays of megalomania that surprise every year with something increasingly stupid. At the same time, it shows how powerful and untouchable they must feel to come up with things that anywhere else in the world might cost a president their seat.
Three years ago they shocked the country when they had their militia, an already questionable paramilitary structure, march holding CLAP boxes. CLAP stands for local committee for supply ad production. There is not such a thing as “production” involved in the products distributed in those boxes (bags for most of the country) given that most products are imported from a variety of places, from Mexico to Turkey and an intricate network of corruption has marred the allegedly generous program that was meant to defeat poverty and hunger.
maduro keeps running a freak show where everyone holds their laughter and just follows orders. From his minister of defense to international heads of state who, no matter how much they say they opposed to abuses and human right violations, now they start giving concessions in the name of diplomacy and business. They are just feeding the ego of a clown that now has a cartoon show to prove that ridicule, violence and corruption can be sugar-coated and still sell.
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