Maduro's old age

The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, during the opening ceremony of the judicial year, on January 27, in Caracas. Rayner Peña R (EFE)

The literary imagination in our America many times gave us "memories" of a real tyrant or a lie.

The resource has turned out to be very fertile;

Comparing these titles does not seem idle, on the contrary, it is something that can still nurture gatherings,

on Latin American studies and festival talks.

This comes to mind because every time it seems like a sure thing that Nicolás Maduro, the unsinkable Maduro, will be an unavoidable guest at the celebrations that will illuminate Lima on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the battle of Ayacucho, something that Hugo Chávez would have wanted to live to see.

Imagining the summit of Latin American leaders in Lima 2024 does not require a complex predictive model: the entire beast of the region will be there, Lula, Díaz-Canel and AMLO will be there! Who can guarantee that Daniel Ortega will not be there too?

One can already imagine the gala reception at the Casa de Pizarro, which, surely, will no longer be called that, but (a Quechua word fits here) Pachamama.

Everything, in effect, seems to indicate that by then, at the end of that year, Maduro will hardly have been re-elected in a contest with Henri Falcón.

The US sanctions will not have moved, nor will the offer of a ten million dollar reward, which, for his capture, has been offered by the US State Department's anti-narcotics program since 2020.

However, it is foreseeable that with the rise in global demand and the rebound in oil prices, added to the successful technology transfer between Tehran and Caracas, as a result of Iran having been able to successfully weather half a century of US sanctions, Maduro will be able to see the immediate future with relief.

The depredation of our Amazon will give the regime additional reasons for confidence.

Juan Guaidó will already have – understandably, he is a human being! – desisted from conquering the Top 100 of Tik-tok, although it could well happen that his fictional government commemorates the first five-year “interim” with a tour – authorized by Washington and tolerated slyly by Maduro—by the countries that host the so-called Venezuelan diaspora which, according to bleak forecasts by experts, will already be around eight million.

In Lima 2024, Nicolás Maduro, already 62 years old and in power for a decade, winner of all the snares laid against him by the Yankee empire, Diosdado Cabello and the erratic Venezuelan opposition, will receive from the Latin American leftist family the treatment dispensed to the veterans who, despite their macabre trajectory as systematic human rights violators and due to the Fidelista merit of having persevered in evil, are already on the way to being tutelary figures, counselors of the tribe.

He will be ready for the round of conversations with, let's say, Ignacio Ramonet, which will support the first volume of his autobiography.

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