Fernando Cassia wrote: > As usual the followers go overboard and engage in necrophilia. Now > they say they´re going to embalm him.
Clearly, it is something that offends your sensibility. But do you know the details on how the decision was made? One of the coolest, most self-critical heads of the Bolivarian revolution, José Vicente Rangel, has insinuated that this decision was driven by popular pressure. It is a 180 degree reversal of the original plans. Rangel, more or less said, "I know we're going to get a lot of heat for this from our critics abroad, but if we were to have a referendum on it, the outcome would be overwhelmingly in favor." I have no idea what Chávez's wishes or those of his relatives and close comrades were, but what Rangel is suggesting is that all those concerns have been overridden by the outpouring of popular mourning. These are the crowds that brought Chávez back to power in 2002, you know. I am not justifying the decision (that is completely unnecessary), but it's truly lame to criticize it without knowing the concrete factors that went into it. We still have popes, priests, rabbis, mullahs, and gurus. Will you okay social change only after all that ridiculous fetishism is abolished? _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
