Permanent member of the National Academy of History, writer, columnist, and university professor, Elías Pino Iturrieta uses abundant adjectives to evaluate the path taken by the opposition leadership, which he suggests “to get in touch with reality”. In recent weeks, he has won a legion of detractors for confronting the staunch defenders of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, whom some Venezuelans see as the last chance to overthrow Chavismo, to the point of thinking that if he fails to get re-elected, the interim government of Juan Guaidó will suffer a major blow.
-In your article “Venezuelan Trumpism” you say that some leaders sold the illusion of a US invasion and put aside the internal fight for power. What is the reason for it? Political laziness or is it just that everything is exhausted and we see a “redeemer” in the United States?
