* Faced with the recent demonstration of criminalizing policy against the autonomous social movements by the Venezuelan government, a member of the drafting of the Libertarian position that exposes the anarchist collective to the issue.
When this text is written Lusbi Portillo, a professor at the University of Zulia (Maracaibo), environmental activist and permanent solidarity with the indigenous movement, is in hiding to protect his life and physical integrity. After the events of October 13 in the Sierra de Perija, where Yukpas killed two and wounded five others in the degeneration of a conflict whose background motivation is the demarcation of indigenous lands. Police officials claimed that the region was imminent issuance of an arrest warrant against the university on a charge of possession of drugs. " It is not the first time that the teacher is criminalized for their active support of the claims of native peoples, but to the evolution of events, in which the investigation of events has been decreed "reason of state" by the authorities - decided to take preventive measures with their place in the underground.
Environmentalist enhanced its role in indigenous struggles reacting to the government announcement, made by the President of the Republic on 13 November 2003: triple coal exploitation in Zulia to carry 36 million metric tons annually. The first "error" Lusbi Portillo, from the perspective of immobilizing polarization that has monopolized the national political scene, has been to keep up its values \u200b\u200band demands despite the official discourse which promised to meet them at some future time. Despite their own expectations and personal sympathies, Portillo mortgaged their claims or accept degrade in the hierarchy of priorities, while preserving their autonomy as social initiative, which kept its convening power to the problems of their business despite the electoral situations.
A second "mistake" Lusbi Portillo has been to reason with their own heads. Unlike other intellectuals and academics whose speech has been degraded to the level of taste and tinted domes of government and the opposition, Portillo blends elements of research and activism to generate a thought that motivates him to act accordingly. Thus it has been able to diagnose the roots of public and private policies that affect the nature and way of life of indigenous peoples, making a correct assessment of the consequences the progressive coupling of Venezuela to the main trends in the global economy. Thus the development plan relates to the Zulia region promoted within the proposed Regional Infrastructure Initiative (IIRSA), an integration which aims to optimize the flow of energy resources and increasing regional competitiveness to satisfy demand international. In dozens of papers and lectures, Portillo has shown that the IIRSA project conveniently muted by limited polarized debate, represents the flip side of a policy publicly condemned the current government train: The Free Trade Area of \u200b\u200bthe Americas ( FTAA). This sharp depth review of the role assigned to the country by major global economic players, including other so-called development policies "endogenous" as Puerto America, the Southern Gas Pipeline, the operating reserve and development Imataca Orinoco axis -Apure, lets see what is really behind the capitalist myth that proclaims the current occupant of the Palace of Miraflores.
A third "error" Lusbi Portillo has been that, in the context of their immediate demands, the preservation of the environment and the rights of indigenous peoples, has established partnerships and relationships with grassroots initiatives of all kinds, which precondition is not your own definition to President Chavez, but their degree of solidarity with nature and indigenous communities in the country. Portillo has thus been the central node of an ad hoc network variable geometry, not without conflicts and fluctuations, has developed one of the few experiences in the country which has resisted the deployment Manichaeism to try to build and express their own perspective , giving an example of how to disassemble the demagoguery of those who feed the false dilemma, "Chavez vs. Chavez opponents" to domesticate social struggles and build electoral purpose limelight.
All of the above "weaknesses" are condemning the Lusbi Portillo ostracism and isolation, precisely one of the goals set by any policy that criminalizes protests belligerent and independent of social activists. After he repeatedly threatened to previous warnings, two women, the lawyers Luisa Ortega Diaz (Attorney General's Office) and Gabriela Ramirez (Ombudsman) - will be jointly responsible for any injury to liberty, personal integrity and life of Lusbi Portillo, an activist whose biggest mistake was to keep up their ancient beliefs in a time marked by opportunistic ethics and values \u200b\u200bfor air conditioning sleepy. Solidarity with Lusbi Portillo.
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