TOMORROW FINALLY IS TODAY IN SOUTH AMERICA

America’s Trump, Brazil’s Bolsonaro, Venezuela’s Guaidó

The old joke about Brazil – “It’s the country of tomorrow, and always will be” – applies to a tragic degree to the entire continent of South America.  So much potential never realized, with the single exception of Chile.

Suddenly, literally overnight – meaning last night, Wednesday January 23 – the tomorrow that never comes has arrived at long last.

It’s like a massive earthquake with the pressure building up between two tectonic plates, building up, building up, then suddenly the plates slip with the surface of the earth shifting dramatically in an instant.

That just happened in Venezuela.  In the blink of an eye, after Dictator Maduro gets himself re-inaugurated on January 10;  the President of the National Assembly – 35 year-old Juan Guaidó who had assumed office just 5 days earlier – declares on January 15 that Maduro’s presidency is illegitimate and demands he resign; Maduro refuses – so yesterday (1/23) in front of a million people cheering for him in downtown Caracas, he swears himself in as President of Venezuela.

Within minutes – literally minutes– the governments of Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Columbia, Peru and others formally recognized Juan Guaidó as the legitimate President of Venezuela and Maduro as illegitimate, as did the United States of America in a White House statement:

What has happened is far bigger than Venezuela.  It’s the death of Marxism in South America.  And it’s thanks to President Donald Trump.

For he and his pro-capitalist economic policies of lowering taxes and taking a meat-axe to government regulations – resulting in the greatest jobs-and-growth boom in decades if not ever in the US – inspired Jair Bolsonaro to embrace the same resulting in his shocking-to-the-Left presidential victory in Brazil.

When the 800-pound gorilla of South America decides to go Capitalist Right, and to go after its enemies like Maduro, just about everyone else follows.

The question now is:  Is this the death of the Castro dictatorship in Cuba?

Realize that it is Communist Cuba that has kept the Chavez-Maduro dictatorship in power.  It is the Cuban Secret Police (SDE, State Security) who run the country, with some 27,000 agents, posing as police, doctors, teachers, etc. in place.

As the Wall Street Journal notes:

“Venezuela is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Cuba’s 59-year-old military dictatorship. Without the full support of Cuba’s sophisticated intelligence and advanced police-state methods, Venezuela’s chavismo would have been overthrown years ago.”

They won’t go peacefully.  The Anti-Communist Revolution in Venezuela just started in the last 24 hours.  It will end successfully only if every Cuban SDE agent either suffers mortal vigilante justice or runs for their lives back to Cuba.

Note how every dirtbag dictator on the planet is supporting Maduro: Putin’s Russia, the Chicoms,  Turkey’s Erdogan, Iran’s Mullahs.

Note also they’ve been greasing the palms of all the generals in the Venny Military to guarantee their support for Maduro, which they did today (1/24):  Venezuela’s Military Backs Maduro.  On the other hand, the soldiers and junior officers have been neither bribed nor paid, are starving and hate Maduro.

Despite all of this, it’s hard to see Maduro surviving politically (and physically unless he escapes and lands in exile in Havana) with the massive international alliance against him, including his giant neighbor Brazil.

Further, yesterday (1/23), Maduro ordered all US diplomats to leave the country within 72 hours.  Secretary of State Pompeo promptly issued a statement declaring the US will not comply:

“The United States maintains diplomatic relations with Venezuela and will conduct our relations with Venezuela through the government of interim President Guaido, who has invited our mission to remain in Venezuela. The United States does not recognize the Maduro regime as the government of Venezuela. Accordingly the United States does not consider former president Nicolas Maduro to have the legal authority to break diplomatic relations with the United States or to declare our diplomats persona non grata.

 

We call on the Venezuelan military and security forces to continue protecting the welfare and well-being of all Venezuelan citizens, as well as U.S. and other foreign citizens in Venezuela… The United States will take appropriate actions to hold accountable anyone who endangers the safety and security of our mission and its personnel.”

Note the undeniable implication of that last sentence.  Arrest and hold our diplos hostage and we send in the Marines.  And they won’t be alone.  No doubt whatever Brazilian and Columbian military forces will be with them.

Bottom line.  It may get messy, but Maduro and his Chavista regime is toast.  With it, so is Marxism and Leftism as an ideological force in South America.  Tin-pot dictator of Bolivia, Evo Morales, will do a quick el foldo.  Then come those of Ecuador. That’s just mopping-up.

Make no mistake.  Immediately after this, the Castro regime will be in the laser-dot gunsights of Trump and Bolsonaro.  This impossibly communist evil on our doorstep 90 miles away has been crushing the freedom of the Cuban people for sixty years – since January 1959.

It is far past time to sweep it into the dustbin of history.  That moment is soon to come.  Tomorrow is finally becoming today.