Chapter 461 461 Chavez's Ambition
At a time when the United States is worried about the deterioration of Russia's security situation, which will cause turmoil throughout Europe and even the world, Latin America, which they have always regarded as their backyard, is also surging.
A coup d'état is brewing in Venezuela, and his protagonist is the famous anti-American fighter Hugo? Chavez. On the other hand, Chávez's coup d'état against the incompetent rule of a corrupt government ultimately failed due to weakness and the mutineers. Although he was seen as a savior by the poor of Venezuela through this coup, he spent years in prison until 1999, when he became president of Venezuela and began his own socialist reforms.
Qi Yiming actually noticed the pivotal role of Chavez for a long time, and three or four years ago, a Red Police spy disguised as a businessman formed a friendship with Chavez and gave him a large number of books such as "Mao Xuan" translated into Spanish. Chávez was fascinated by this, and he admired and agreed with such famous phrases as "imperialism is a paper tiger", "strategically defying the enemy", and "the party commands the gun", and even could say a quotation from the first volume of the "Selected Works".
Later, this "Chinese friend" presented him with the Spanish version of "Qi Xuan", that is, Comrade Qi Jingren's theoretical works on socialist construction in the new period, as well as the expectations and prospects for the development of the world's red cause in the future. After reading it, Chavez felt that it had a huge resonance, and believed that Mao Xuan was an important achievement in guiding people to oppose imperialism, aggression, and capitalism in the first half of this century, and that Qi Xuan pointed out the direction for the future social development of the world.
In particular, China's growing strength in recent years has made Chavez believe that it is precisely by following the right line that China has achieved rapid development. On the contrary, Chávez has always been a staunch anti-American fighter and is very dissatisfied with China's military alliance with the United States. However, his Chinese friend explained it this way: "We Chinese pay attention to the spirit of harmony and difference, although the United States is a decadent and outdated capitalist country, which will one day go to extinction, but blindly forcible confrontation may lead to the loss of innocent lives, and it is even more detrimental to our development of our red cause; moreover, it is very necessary to use the strength of the United States to maintain world peace and promote development at this stage; only when the global productive forces develop to a certain stage can we finally reflect the superiority of our socialism!" ”
This Chinese friend is not often in Venezuela, but every time he goes to Venezuela, he has an all-night long talk with Chavez, and Chávez even half-jokingly said to his Chinese friend Liu Jun: "If one day I become president, I must invite you to come to Venezuela to be my prime minister!" ”
Mr. Liu's disguised identity is a senior executive of a large Chinese state-owned enterprise with overseas investment, and his main business is in Latin America. In fact, the cadres of China's large state-owned enterprises have considerable political power, and they often do what they do to become officials somewhere. Chavez also knew this and suspected that Liu Jun was some form of spy. But Chávez does not feel that he has anything to win over as an ordinary mid-level military officer, and it is impossible for the Chinese to know in advance that he may become the president of Venezuela in the future.
But Chinese just know what will happen in the future, so they made such a human investment in advance.
Chávez has heard a lot of stories about CPC's anti-corruption struggle and the protection of people's rights and interests in China, and the new No. 1 Chinese leader is officially from the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the organ of the anti-corruption struggle, compared with the current chaotic and corrupt government in Venezuela, Chávez can feel the dissatisfaction of the people and hope that something can change.
In a meeting with Mr. Liu, Mr. Chávez opened up for the first time about his trusted friend: "Liu, Venezuela is like a purgatory now, where the rich spend their days drinking and the poor can't even afford to raise their own children. Officials blatantly embezzle government funds, and social resources are monopolized in the hands of a few so-called elites. I can't bear to let my country sink like this again, all countries in this world are pursuing progress, if we can't keep up, Venezuela will always be a poor and backward country in the future, and our citizens will not be looked down upon. ”
Liu Jun was quite surprised and asked, "Then Ugo, what do you want to do?" ”
Chavez squinted his eyes, his chubby face showed a hint of shrewdness and boldness, and said: "A coup d'état to drive down all those incompetent and corrupt guys, and make Venezuela a socialist country from now on!" ”
Mr. Liu would have liked to let Mr. Chavez do so, but he couldn't appear to be too eager, and he was speaking as a friend of Mr. Chávez, not as an agent of China's Strategic Security Agency. So he thought for a while and said, "But you have to think about it, you are still unknown in the country, and no one knows you." Venezuela's Western-like political system, which has been a multi-party system for many years, is suddenly reversed and may be subject to very much pressure, both from some vested interests in Venezuela and from Western countries that are keen to export values.
There is no doubt that it is very necessary to reform the social system, but if you act hastily, you will not be able to achieve your original goal of making Venezuela better, and it may cause a division of the domestic class, which will cast a shadow on Venezuela's development. ”
Chavez didn't think about these issues, so he came to his trusted friend Liu Jun to discuss, and he asked, "Then what do you think we should do?" ”
"It is difficult and difficult to move into one-party socialism, but if a system similar to social democracy is introduced, many people will let their guard down. A very important condition is that Venezuela has a large number of poor people, and these people are your potential voters, and as long as your policies can benefit these people, it is not a problem to stay in power. Moreover, Venezuela is still inseparable from the so-called elite and middle class, they have the knowledge and technology, and the development of the country cannot completely rely on the lower strata of the people, and it is very important for the development of Venezuela to be able to encircle these people and disseminate correct ideas and understandings to them. And if you change the social system too drastically at once, it is very likely that you will push them directly to the opposite side of you. ”
Chavez nodded, thinking that Liu Jun was right, and motioned for him to continue.
"I believe that the development and application of the political system is very related to a specific historical period and the degree of development of the productive forces, so we have always put forward a concept in China, that is, the political system must adapt to the national conditions. What suits China is not necessarily what suits Venezuela. What does Venezuela need most right now? A clean and efficient government, a visionary and robust economic development plan, a policy that will lift the majority of the country's poor out of poverty, and an increase in the level of education for the people will ensure that there will be no shortage of talent for the future of Venezuela's economy.
In short, if you can do three things well: anti-corruption, economic planning, and education, as long as you can do these three things well, Venezuela will have the conditions and foundations to further develop a higher social form, and grow into a rich and healthy regional power is just around the corner. ”
Chávez couldn't help but bow his head and said: "That's right, I think all those neoliberal economic theories are all designed to allow the capital of developed countries to freely plunder the economic interests of our third world countries, Venezuela has rich resources, but most of the profits are taken by foreign capitalists, and the people of Venezuela do not get any benefits from it." If our coup d'état is successful, I will pursue a more prudent and planned economic policy, especially in the oil industry, and we need development contracts that are more favorable to us, although not completely excluding investment by foreign companies, but must be reasonable and conducive to the development of our country! ”
Liu Jun's eyes lit up, because of the dominant position of Britain and the United States and other countries in Venezuela, Chinese enterprises in Venezuela economic activities are not very much, now at most do a little small-scale subcontract, and large-scale oil field projects can not be obtained at all, if can support Chavez to come to power, and make it worse than Western countries, China has the opportunity to become the largest investor in Venezuela.
"Ugo, this is actually a matter of the future, and now it seems that you should think about how you can get power." Liu Jun said with concern.
Speaking of this, Chavez was also a little nervous and disappointed, he said: "I can now persuade five infantry battalions to follow me to carry out this coup, but this amount of troops is really insufficient, and it is even more inconspicuous if you walk to major cities in the country, but rashly contacting other military commanders may expose the news that we are going to carry out a coup." ”
Liu Jun said: "This matter must be careful and meticulous, and you must also strictly control and monitor your subordinates, although some people are on your ship, but it is inevitable that they are not sincere, if they choose to defect at the critical moment, then it will be difficult for your revolution to succeed." It is necessary to strengthen the control of the minds and the surveillance of these people. Also, as for the problem of your lack of troops, I have a way, maybe you can use it. ”
Chavez was overjoyed when he heard this, and said, "Liu, can you convince the Chinese military to support me?" ”
Liu Jun smiled bitterly: "This is unlikely, and it is unlikely that the official will directly participate in the politics of other countries." However, I know of a very strong military force that is not an official government, and you may have heard of it, a company called Nishiki ......."
Chavez slapped the table and exclaimed, "Are you saying it's that mercenary group in Papua New Guinea that even has its own aircraft carrier?" ”
Liu Jun nodded and smiled: "To be exact, it is an amphibious assault ship, but yes, it is this mercenary organization." ”