I have been reading a growing number of interesting posts, some very well supported by facts that are true, many of which warn of the growing threat that Donald Trump is weaving for Venezuela, but, and this is the good thing about the free and dispassionate debate, even though obviously I cannot deny how sinister it has been and may be that tangle of vermin that is hidden under what all we, in order to simplify, call the U.S. Government, I have to say --and it is said by someone who will always be to the left side and who at the time supported and believed that Chavez would take my poor and disillusioned country out of its historic misery as an oil nation-- that it has been he and all his gang of military and civilian acolytes who, with their inordinate appetite for corruption, one of the greatest in the history of humanity, laid the foundations to make a good part of the population naively think that an invasion of the Marines is the only possible solution.

It is true, the military presence of factors linked to Washington would bring terrible consequences for Venezuela and the Latin American region in the short and long term. But, in the name of truth and balance, we must also look at the "silent" occupation that other elements that also seek hegemony in the world, such as Putin's Russia, whose political action is closer to the principles of Neoliberalism with its great quota of exclusion of the poorest and the cunning China with its strange interpretation of the postulates of Marxism and its vocation of total social control. Only if we see and judge the totality of the players will we be able to understand how threatening is the poker game in which the intention is to award Venezuela... and the whole region, one of the richest in commodities in the world.

With all the pain in my heart I must say that in this war, until now unarmed, at least on a large scale, all sides have marked cards and a large dose of cynicism... Personally, I do not see that any of the parties are interested in finding a way out that would be ethically correct, but when one learns, for example, of the broad privileges enjoyed by the leaders of dangerous criminal gangs -- we call them Pranes and they control people's life in and out from jails-- as long as they support and serve those who occupy a monolithic power that is increasingly removed from democratic principles, then there is nothing left to say: Nicolás Maduro and all the leaders of Chavismo -- who count with the repudiation of the great majority of the population -- must leave the government to, at least, begin to build something that can fairly be called a State...