Alma Guillermoprieto: Chavismo After Chávez

In any event, the new epithet for Capriles and his followers is “murderers,” a serious charge and a political mistake, considering that they represent half of the electorate. Last week, Iris Varela, a long-time Chávez protégé known for her flame-red hair and fiery temper (she is called “Little Match”) went on television to denounce Capriles. She called him an inciter to riot, a murderer, and a drug addict whose “pokey-outy eyes full of hate” (ojos puyuos llenos de odio) were the result of hallucinogen intake. Capriles has not been accused of any crime, but Varela told him that she had a jail-cell waiting for him. “And I assure you that nothing will happen to you in that cell…not like those jails we inherited from the bourgeoisie.” This, from a woman who supervises a notorious jail system in which hundreds of prisoners were killed in the course of vendettas, riots, and fires last year.

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