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December 11th, 2015 
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nsnbc : The situation in Venezuela is becoming increasingly volatile. Following the crushing defeat of the ruling PDSV in parliamentary elections and a re-shuffle of the Cabinet, the PDSV mobilizes “street parliaments” to “maintain the achievements of the Bolivarian revolution”.
Venezuela’s opposition Democratic Roundtable (MUD) has gained a “super majority” in this month parliamentary elections. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro (PDSV) asked the Cabinet to resign to facilitate a re-shuffle that could “help preserve some of the Bolivarian revolutions achievements”.
Members of the opposition, for their part, have questioned whether Maduro’s proposed re-shuffle aims at entrenching the role of the PDSV beyond constitutional provisions.
The situation in the Latin American country is tense, with both the MUD and PDSV fearing everything from a return to violent clashes to attempted coup d’État from either side.
Suspicions among MUD supporters grew even more on Wednesday, after thousands of PDSV supporters gathered at the Miaflores Presidential Palace as part of an effort to organizing “peoples streets parliaments” in response to the PDSV’s crushing defeat in this last Sunday’s elections.
Grassroots organizations and NGOs supportive of or linked to the PDSV called on President Maduro to protect and carry out the agenda of the “grassroots movements”. Prominent activist Douglas Aponte, for example, demanded that Maduro “govern the people and that he replace the executive leadership in the ministerial cabinet”.
Aponte’s statement is consistent with Maduro’s declaration that he asked the Cabinet to resign, to facilitate a re-shuffle, and to implement steps for the “renovation of the revolution”, including the approval of new legislation to defend social gains as well as measures to increase workers’ and communal control, such as the turning over the National Assembly TV and radio stations to the workers.
Maduro delivered an unannounced address, standing on the hood of a car, taking personal responsibility for the defeat, saying:
“We will get out of this quagmire where the economic war and our own errors have landed us– where bureaucracy and corruption have enveloped the revolutionary policies. … “I want a debate over revolutionary strategy in order to turn this crisis into a revolutionary crisis that allows us to experience another 4th of February, another 13th of April, a rebirth of this popular force in the Bolivarian Revolution”.
The statement was a reference to the failed 1992 uprising against oligarchical structures of the Fourth Republic and the 2002 popular uprising that reversed the coup against President Hugo Chavez. Earlier this year the PDSV government, for its part, accused prominent MUD members of an attempted coup d’Ètat with support from the United States.
The situation in Venezuela is not becoming less volatile or complicated as long as both the United States as well as Cuba have significant influence over Venezuelan domestic and foreign affairs, aggravating divisions in the population, rather than facilitating a peaceful transition of power and a “Venezuelan” policy.
CH/L – nsnbc 11.12.2015
Source Article from http://nsnbc.me/2015/12/11/volatile-situation-in-venezuela-after-defeat-of-pdsv/
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