Sentimental X-Ray of Chavismo (III): The Immense Fatigue
By Reinaldo Iturizza
Character is for man his destiny.
Heraclitus
When you decide to dedicate your life to the titanic mission of national liberation, of social revolution, of the emancipation of the human species, you must learn to deal with triumphs and failures. With the triumphs to avoid the risk of becoming vain and, eventually, to adapt to the new circumstances, lowering the flags. With the failures, which will be many, to gather enough strength to continue fighting.
It should be understood that a task of such nature will almost always go against the grain or, as Walter Benjamin would say, against the grain of history, having to deal with a common sense made to measure the order of things that is intended to change radically. It also supposes the willingness to assume the consequences that derive from facing criminal powers, motivated fundamentally by the desire for profit, and willing to do everything in order not to go back a millimeter.
They go back, of course, in those luminous moments of history in which the people manage to advance through the struggle, flashy episodes in which time seems to stop, and then take a leap of decades or centuries in a matter of days or years. But when these powers manage to recover the initiative, retake part of the lost ground, even go forward, trampling everything in their path, the people suffer the thicket of times that seem interminable, labyrinthine, without exit.
Now that the Bolivarian revolution is going through a difficult and tiring moment, it is opportune to recall one of the many episodes in which Hugo Chávez was about to give up and step aside.
In 1997, both Chávez and a small part of the Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement Two Hundred (MBR-200) were convinced of the unfeasibility of taking power by armed means, so they had to start considering the idea of participating in the presidential elections. of 1998.
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