The Iberian press suggests that members can advise the Venezuelan government since at least twelve years. But is not the Spanish match the first mind that Chavez does to continental Europe?
In July 2014, Pablo Iglesias, leader of the Spanish party can, sued who accused that political receiving 3.7 million euros from the Venezuelan government, which amounted to attribute the crime of illegal financing. But the suspicion that the complaint would be unfounded redo the round in the country Southern European following the publication of reports portraying several of its leaders as advisors to the chavista estate and beneficiaries of fees and perquisites nothing demeaned.
“Venezuela pays luxury living in Caracas advisers can”. So Spanish daily ABC titled note informing about the “preferential treatment” that the governments of Hugo Chavez (1999-2013) and his successor, Nicolas Maduro, gave the foundation CEPS (Centre for Political and Social Studies), to whose ranks belong champions of Pablo Iglesias and can as Luis Alegre, Bescansa Carolina, Alberto Montero and Iñigo Errejón. According to ABC, the CEPS has received about 4 million from the Venezuelan government in the last twelve years.
In January, other means Iberian revealed that the third mate, Juan Carlos Wallet, had claimed 425,150 euros through a sole proprietorship, without being accountable to your employer or state taxes. This professor of political science at the Complutense University of Madrid billed that amount to the governments of Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Venezuela to conduct, together with other professionals, feasibility report on a Latin American monetary union.
Gravel or impulse to can?
What implications can we have for the confirmation of a client relationship between the dome and the drivers of the “Bolivarian revolution”? Is this even stronger transatlantic link of what the Spanish press has exposed so far? And, if so, can this closeness become a drag can? “For we can not well publicized its link with the Venezuelan government,” says Ana Solis Landivar, a researcher at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg.
“The administration Maduro is questioned by incurring opposed to the principles that can claim to defend practices, “says political scientist. “I do not know that Caracas is bankrolling can directly but not surprise me that there was a discrete transfer funds. In Argentina there appeared a briefcase with $ 800,000 coming from Venezuela; There would be nothing unusual appeared one in Spain, “said meanwhile Ivo Hernández, professor at the University of Münster.
” What we do know is that in life, Chávez met and hired as advisors Pablo Iglesias and Juan Carlos Wallet, among many other names. Recall that, thanks to the oil boom was fortunate to enjoy Chavez could pay outrageous sums for ‘lessons’ of characters like the Italian Marxist-Leninist Chilean sociologist Marta Harnecker, the American philosopher Noam Chomsky or post-Marxist and former terrorist Antonio Negri “says Hernandez.
Remembering Wallet
“Chavez was surrounded by a few scholars to brag that their political project was an intellectual sustenance. Wallet headed the Centro Internacional Miranda, a sort of think tank based in Caracas, whose ideological baggage is not just a bad regurgitated Marxism. Wallet proposed a crazy treaty and now no one is supposedly the basis for the creation of a single Latin American currency, the sucre, in order to undermine the hegemony of the dollar, “says Hernandez.
” Those who study at the University of Heidelberg remember that purse went out there and know its very poor Marxist education. It is unfortunate that leaders can now intend to ignore the ideological baggage that poisoned the Venezuelan political agora and presented in Spain as harmless promoters of a ‘third way’ or a social democracy ‘light’ when everyone knows the commitment they had with the authoritarian Venezuelan political system, “says the professor of Münster.
Given the popularity of can, what worries many Spanish is not the mission that members of the fledgling party led to Venezuela, but they can have brought back to their country. Are we is can the Trojan Horse that Chavez is preparing to enter the Iberian Peninsula? “Although the ‘Bolivarian revolution’ real sympathy awakened out of Venezuela, it is clear that the Venezuelan government devoted much of their budget to internationalize” says Solis Landivar.
ideological affinity, economic alignment
“Many had genuine hope that the Chavez experiment succeed as a democratic socialist model key. And the ‘Bolivarian revolution’ was endorsed at abroad due to the solidarity that the international left her professed Chavez, not only for the money spent on propaganda. However, it is a fact: the foreign policy of Chávez looked financing partnerships that would lead the international legitimacy of the ‘Bolivarian revolution’, “said the expert of the GIGA
.” Another objective Chavez was exporting the ‘Bolivarian model’ which later became known as’ socialism XXI’- century Latin American countries and even outside the subcontinent. For it had the dollars generated by state oil company PDVSA. For example, in 2007, Venezuela crude sold for mayor of London with a 20 percent discount to supply its bus network; in exchange, the city had to subsidize the cost of tickets to people at social disadvantage “recalls Solis Landivar.
” That same year, Venezuela sent oil to Boston to poor families had free access to heating systems. In 2005, the Chavez government orchestrated a similar action to favor a good number of people in the Bronx, in New York. Then the relationship can chavista establishment with only a small demonstration of its strategy for the internationalization of the ‘Bolivarian revolution’ “says researcher GIGA. Is can the first mind that Chavez does to continental Europe?
Recently, Diosdado Cabello, second strongman United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and President of the National Assembly, he assured the rise to power can in Spain. Cautiously, the party led by Pablo Iglesias continues praising the Chavez feat when you can and distancing from it when not. It remains to be seen whether this tactic pays off in the near future, in the Andalusian elections in March, and in the medium term in the presidential election on November
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