It now turns out that if you are happy about the fall of Maduro, it is because you are in favor of Trump, and if you are afraid of the atrocities committed by Trump, it is because you are a communist, a chavista, a sanchista and a lost zapatrino. No, man, no. They treat us like children, or rather like stupid children. It’s not like that. The explanation for all this madness lies, better than anyone, in Francis Ford Coppola.
Maduro is a gangster. It always has been. His so-called leftism is nothing more than a light layer of paint that comes off as soon as you scratch a little with your fingernail. This individual stole elections, he imprisoned and tortured those who opposed him, he created huge self-defense bands paid for with oil money, he allowed Venezuela’s military leaders (who kept him in power) to fly freely in exchange for his loyalty. It has created a state in which corruption is not a scourge of the system but of the system itself. He is not a left-wing politician; He is a gangster who has always behaved very similarly to the Corleone family, whom Coppola portrayed so well in his masterful trilogy. The godfather.
Trump is another gangster. His fortune was maintained, or saved, thanks to the New York mafia, as his former collaborators say. When he lost the presidency in 2021, he staged a coup in which his supporters stormed the Capitol, blackmailed officials and judges, and threatened dozens of his own aides, such as Vice President Mike Pence, to prevent him from being fired. He didn’t succeed. When he regained power, he again behaved like he is: a compulsive liar, an egomaniac, an unscrupulous guy and a tyrant who betrayed Ukrainewho broke an alliance of more than a century with Europe and who intends to go down in history as a great man. This is not the case. He’s a Sonny Corleone. Or a Barzini, a Tattaglia, a Sollozo, an Altobello. A Coppola character.
None of them care the least about democracy, peace and international law. Like the Corleones, like Hyman Roth, like Licio Lucchesi, they seek only power and the intimidation (or death) of those who oppose them. And with very similar methods. Kidnapping Maduro, invading another country in one fell swoop, This is a purely mafia-like act that puts us all in dangerbecause it is clear that it is Trump and no one else who decides what can and cannot be done, where, when and for what reasons, if any; International laws don’t care.
This operation, which put an end to a tyrant, was not carried out to restore democracy in Venezuela. Trump has proven a hundred times that he does not believe in democracy, and neither does Maduro. Neither the Corleones, nor the Rosatos, nor the Pentangeli. It was done (and Trump said it, without the slightest shame) control the country’s resources, mainly oil which they have, so abundant and so difficult to refine. If Trump wanted to restore democracy, María Corina Machado would be president of Venezuela today. But, as Trump’s aides said (who? Tessio, Clemenza?), Corina accepted the Nobel Peace Prize that the orange president claimed for himself. And this sickly and wicked person will never forgive such an offense.
We are not facing a question of right or left, let’s not be stupid. We are at the beginning of a very dangerous situation in which the law no longer matters; a situation that we find almost entirely in Coppola’s films. Maduro has been eliminated (politically, at least for the moment) as has Fredo Corleone.. And Trump need only say what Fredo’s brother Michael said in the second part of the trilogy: “If history has taught us anything, it’s that anyone can be eliminated.” »
The scary thing is that we’re all in this “anyone.”
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