History teaches.
He's just talking to empty halls.
In Venezuela, the old play is being repeated: the powerful wear the mask of the savior, holding international law in one hand and a knife in the other. When the show is over, all that remains is blood and a UN statement — written in neutral, i.e. dead, language.
International law has not been abolished; it is simply being recycled. Like paper. Useful when convenient, useless when inconvenient. Sanctions are called «humanitarian,» interventions are called «restoring democracy,» and people are called «collateral damage.» Language has learned to wash its hands better than Pilate.
We were once told that modern capitalism no longer needs weapons—psychology, advertising, and manipulation are enough. Elytis feared this. But history laughed. The weapons are here. Bodies are falling as always. And wars still smell of gunpowder, not PowerPoint.
Venezuela did not «fail.» It failed to obey. And that, in the world of empires, is the only unforgivable sin. Anyone who does not kneel must be taught. If they do not learn through hunger, they will learn through fire.
And, of course, the faithful disciples of subservience rush to the rescue. Statements, handshakes, convenient silences. When a government has learned to listen to phone calls instead of its people, there is no need to ask whose side it will take.
We live in an age of monsters. Not because they suddenly appeared, but because they stopped hiding. Trumpism is not a parenthesis; it is a warning. It speaks openly of nuclear power, of a world ruled like a security company.
Faced with this barbarity, there are no saviors. Neither from the West nor from the East. Russia and China are not an alternative morality; they are another geography of power. Anyone who expects salvation from empires is simply changing masters.
The only answer is old and always difficult: resistance. An internationalist, anti-imperialist movement, with workers at the helm.
Venezuela is a sovereign country.
Its people do not need guardians.
History will tell.
The question is whether we will be merely a footnote of silence.
or a proposal for resistance.
