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| por Rafael Michelena |
Miguel Rodriguez can’t quite believe what
he’s planning to do on Dec. 6. A father of six, the 47-year-old farmer in
Venezuela’s central state of Aragua has voted for the late Hugo Chavez, or for
Chavez’s followers and initiatives, in all 17 elections since Chavez was first
elected president in 1998. But Rodriguez is breaking his streak this year,
abandoning Chavez’s anointed successor, President Nicolas Maduro, and vowing to
vote for Chavez’s opponents in the Dec. 6 congressional elections. “I believed
in Chavez and the revolution,” says Rodriguez, looking over his fields, which
now lay fallow. “But now there is nothing to buy. I can’t plant crops because
there are shortages of seeds, fertilizers and insecticides. My wife has to wait
in line three hours to buy two packets of corn meal. Prices are soaring, as is
crime. And Maduro does nothing at all. We can’t go on like this. He is
destroying the country.” More…
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