"Diplomatic
gossip, classified in official jargon as 'Confidential' or 'Top Secret,' isn't
the exclusive domain of the CIA or FBI, and therefore is not genuinely a gringo
phenomenon. … What if Wikileaks had access to the secrets of the Chavez
revolution, and raided, for example, files on the spending of the so-called 'secret
presidential fund,' or records of the phone calls of our Comandante-Presidente
to Havana during moments of electoral crisis?"
As punishing rains pound our
country and lay bare the improvisations of a government more preoccupied with
Marxist ideology than the problems of the people, the revelations of Wikileaks
fall like thunderbolts beyond our borders. They have turned the antiseptic halls
of diplomacy upside down and have brought to light, with surprisingly ghoulish
delight and not the best intentions, messages that the U.S. State Department hoarded
in its archives.
One thing, however, is clear:
diplomatic gossip, classified in official jargon as “Confidential” or “Top
Secret,” isn't the exclusive domain of the CIA or FBI, and therefore is not
genuinely a gringo phenomena. It is obvious that such a vast collection of
information, including the biometric data of presidential candidates in
Paraguay, reports on the sexual libido of [Italy Prime Minister] Berlusconi or
speculation on which Latin American leaders are crazier than Mrs. Christina Kirchner
[Argentine president] constitute a planet-wide scandal that will even further
constrain Mr. Obama’s freedom to maneuver - already greatly diminished after
the recent legislative elections.
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But what if Wikileaks had access
to the secrets of the Chavez revolution, and raided, for example, files on the
spending of the so-called 'secret presidential fund,' the archives of the Attorney
general, offices of the comptroller or records of the phone calls of our Comandante-Presidente
to Havana during moments of electoral crisis?
A question that anyone who
reads the Venezuelan press is entitled to ask, is what would happen if
Wikileaks had access to the secrets of Chavez revolution, and raided, for
example, records on the spending of the so-called “secret presidential fund,”
or the archives of the State Attorney and Comptroller, or records of the phone
calls of our comandante-president to Havana at the moments of electoral
crisis, or those surrounding the burying of complaints of Mayor Antonio Ledezma to the
office of Comptroller
GeneralClodosbaldo Russián, in which he
describes the condition former Mayor Juan Barreto left Caracas
City Hall.
Who isn't curious to know,
for instance, what WikiLeaks might uncover in the communications between senior
Cuban officials and the Castro brothers, and what they really think of a
revolution in which its former leaders, who used to live in Catia, have moved
to walled residences at the opposite end of town. What do they think of the
weekly spending on clothing, eyeglasses and women's hairdressing by National
Assembly Speaker Cilia Flores, National Electoral Council President Tibisay Lucena, and Supreme Court President Luisa Estela Morales,
while the local councils in the district of Petare must hold vigils at the
gates of the ministry to “cut their funding” so they can repair their sewers
before the rain gets worse? And oh, to know once and for all the truth about
the Anderson
case, and why the prosecutor's ill-fated family insist on blaming others rather
than those who ended up behind bars!
[Editor's
Note: State Prosecutor Danilo Anderson
died instantly when a bomb blew up his car as he drove through Caracas on the
night of November 18, 2004. At the time of his death, he was leading an
investigation into people he suspected were involved in the political crisis in
which President Hugo Chavez briefly left office in April 2002. Anderson is said
to have thought that as many as 400 people, many top members of the Venezuelan
business community, backed what he believed to be an attempt to stage a
fully-blown coup d’etat against President Chavez.]
I confess that the idea of
declassifying - as [news editor] Eva Golinger says in her Castilian Spanish - the
confidential material from the Anderson trial, the excessive number of zeros in
PSUV [ruling party] bank
accounts of party members who made the deal of the year with PDVAL [a government-owned company
that distributes food and energy] and about the generals who always have
“homeland, socialism or death” on their lips. That would be the greatest
contribution by Wikileaks to the land of Bolívarian politics!
Those who are now living
without roofs over their heads would be very grateful.
