Venezuela's Ruling Elite Cannot Fool All the People All the Time

For 16 years, the members of the "revolutionary" elite entrenched in power in Venezuela, believing that all their crimes will go unpunished, have imposed a political model that has brought the country closer to an economic abyss, social anarchy and a dictatorship. Meanwhile, using the economic power of an era of high oil prices, they bought allegiances around the world, from governments, international bodies and political, artistic, and intellectual personalities. But, the members of that elite seem not to know this: nothing lasts forever. As Abraham Lincoln put it once, "You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time." And it seems that, just as the era of high oil prices came to an end, so did the blindness and silence of the international community in the face of the destruction of Venezuela in the hands of a communist regime. More…