tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21674624.post5238814855669149261..comments2024-02-21T05:16:22.788-05:00Comments on Two Weeks Notice: A Latin American Politics Blog: The Venezuelan Assassination SagaGreg Weekshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15765114859595124082noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21674624.post-75401992214206032772014-07-04T11:51:49.344-04:002014-07-04T11:51:49.344-04:00I agree, these types of things will only be fully ...I agree, these types of things will only be fully believed by the hard core of chavistas (and some international fellow travelers), but until pollsters decide to ask people if they believe in the magnicidio plot, we really don’t know. I think that for sure they are much less believable and less effective now than when Chávez claimed that the CIA was out to get him. Given the history of the CIA, those claims could at least seem probable at the time. But with Maduro, it’s a much harder sell. Why then do they still use this rhetoric and even take them to new levels of absurdity? Conspiracy theories are a complete world-view that goes together well with anti-imperialism and a revolutionary siege mentality. It is a good and easy way of explaining evils, errors, and blaming others for mistakes. It makes it easy to “understand” why the arrival of the utopia is taking so long: a conspiracy is delaying it. Besides, the Venezuelan government has been claiming conspiracies are responsible for every wrong for so long now, that I think they find it very hard to come up with a new story. Hugo Pérez Hernáizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16039916071112107508noreply@blogger.com