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Venezuela. Open the cemeteries of representative democracy.


Gregory Souchay


It is one thing to know that people lived a dictatorship. It is quite another to hear witnesses. January 23, 1958, the Venezuelan people hunting the dictatorship of Marcos Perez Jimenez and established the Fourth Republic of Venezuela, based on representative democracy. Apparent since the major political parties AD (Democratic Action), COPEI (Christian Democrats) and URD (Republican Independent Union) signed in October 1958 the pact of Punto Fijo. This provides the dominant parties undertake not to amend the constitution to establish a government of national unity and unifying their political agendas. Is automatically excluded from the pact the Venezuelan Communist Party, however, important center of fight against dictatorship. This agreement will in fact endorse a bipartisan between AD and COPEI, which lasted for nearly 40 years. A year after the election of the president, Romulo Betancourt, the Cuban revolution broke out, which leads some to the left to follow the Cuban example, to go underground and train guerrillas. "Representative democracy" is in practice an extremely repressive regime, to bring up the tanks and the army in the Central University of Venezuela, home to protest in 1969. In the 70s, the Communist Party, the second largest American Latin after that of Cuba, will be declared illegal and it will also enter into armed struggle. This framework is both punitive and antisocial will lead to events such as those Cantaura.