Mr. Maduro, I am enveloped and driven by a superb energy and leave you a message, on behalf of millions of angry hearts, a simple message: We want you to go away!

All of this has been more than enough. We are tired of your evilness, your abuses, your cynicism, your humiliations and want you to know that we are all swathed with your "mistakes". We demand to return to the Venezuela that our parents left us, where the people lived in peace, harmony and freedom.

You, Mr. Maduro, and your small army of thieves, have enclosed Venezuela in a bubble of falsehood, deceit and corruption, and believe that you have control of our lives; that we are content to live like Cubans and that we have been bent and on our knees. You are wrong! We will show you that you are wrong. By the way, do not forget December 6, 2015 since that was the warning given by the Venezuelan people who already felt aggrieved and cheated; in front of this, your attitude and behavior has deepened even more those feelings.

During many years, too many years, there was an ocean of tears, of pleading voices, timid cries demanding freedom and much indifference..., but when you and your mercenary TSJ (Supreme Court) usurped the National Assembly’s functions and blatantly violated the Constitution, you gave the initial kick-off to your own finale.

 

You, Mr. Maduro, confused, thought that we are gentle lambs, easy to manipulate, but the Venezuelan people may be meek but not stupid, tolerant but not idiots. Now it is no longer a timid shout, there is no supplication, it is the mighty roar of the people that is heard everywhere and even if you want play deaf, even if you say what you say, even if you want to cover it up with ten TV broadcasts a day, you will hear the people roaring, even in your dreams ... and upon awakening you will continue to hear it.

 

For whom and what has your government served for? What do we have today? Today we have trampled people, yes trampled and soiled with your vulgar and violent language, by your teargas, by your bullets; We have seen your rude attempts to divide and confront us, but the people are not divided, they are united as one man that will face you and your mercenaries.

You and Chávez tried to distort and disappear the Venezuelan essence, but failed. Here, Mr. Maduro, the Venezuelans want to be Venezuelans, we don’t want to be Cubans, we don’t want to be what you and your scoundrels want us to be.

So much talking about our “Homeland”, of Bolivar and his dream... Did all of that make us a better country? Where are the results of the thousands of agreements signed, the thousands of TV and radio broadcasts that tried to convince us of your lies and falsehoods, the hundreds of trips that were made around the world, the wasted and stolen money?

Where, Mr. Maduro, are the results? Chavez, you and your group aspired to crush and overwhelm the morality of those who did not accept docilely and dissented the political rehearsal, that farce called "Socialism of the 21st Century." You sought to banish us within our own country, since according to you we are neither opponents nor adversaries, we are the enemy; You do not even consider that we are citizens with rights, but pariahs in our own country or as your mentor Fidel Castro said, we are "worms”; Still echoing in my ears are the words of the architect who designed and erected this disaster, Chávez, when he said: "To my enemies not even water"... But we see, we know and feel, daily, the results of your epic contribution as a ruler who has shown no concern about the lives and welfare of Venezuelans: suffocating inflation, insufficient food, deaths due to lack of medicine, insecurity, injustice, arbitrary detentions, disrespect of the Constitution; Systematic elimination of democracy and now aiming to abolish all vestiges of our Freedom.

 

What an irony Mr. Maduro, is it that you do not see it, do not understand it or are just pretending not to accept it? The whole nation is clear, the world no longer has doubts; You were more exposed than the unarmed and helpless young man who climbed naked onto one of your tanks, with his body scarred by the pellets of the peace of your revolution; Yes, a single naked young man who bravely faced your mercenaries, while you as a coward hide behind the rifles of the military. Shame on you!

Don’t you think that it is time for you to admit that the result of your Presidency has been less than mediocre, insignificant and useless; That you and your little group of thieves have already stolen enough? You’ve played with our present, with the life and the future of all Venezuelans and it is time that you understand that you will have to respect the will of the majority and leave the country still, since we do know how to take the country to the 21st Century, without needing to be disarrayed with that grotesque thing, invented by Chávez, called "Socialism of the 21st century".

 

Today I try to find answers to my questions and I do not find them; Nobody finds them... The only answers are the consequences of your vulgar, inefficient and immoral management against every citizen, unless they belong to the "Nomenclature". The only answer everyone has is: You have to leave!

 

Already tired of having to cope with so many injustices, of hearing so many lies, of suffering and living a miserable existence, you Mr. Maduro and your little tribe of barbarians live like kings, while stripping our country and stealing our money; the children of this ordeal are rising over the teargas and are letting their screams be heard in the streets, in the silence of the night, on the walls, on the same blood that was spilled and is falling in defense of our country. Your hollow words, your incoherencies, those so often repeated phrases without substance, are repudiated and rejected. And meanwhile you are capitulating revenge with brutality and viciousness; But do not be mistaken, our voices will not be silenced and thus history has already begun to interview them.

In your world of anti-values, which is present in the stench of your bungling, has left as a sequel a nauseating group of thieves and criminals, who invaded the unpolluted air we breathed before. As Head of State you have disrespected and insulted Venezuela by appointing thieves, drug traffickers and human rights violators as Ministers; An unforgivable affront! Clean the grime that you sprinkled upon us, the same one that has the pestilence of your viscera and let us live our lives. We do not need you and no one who is decent wants you to govern.

What good is your anti-imperialist and anti-colonialist propaganda when, in exchange, you and Chávez handed over our country, on a silver platter, to the Castro’s? Yes, those same Castro’s; Parasitic dictators, who tried to assail our country and our resources a little more than 50 years ago. Do we have to forget Machurucuto, the attempted invasion, the early warning of a betrayal? Chavez and you made it come true... you both betrayed Venezuela. Yes, you betrayed Venezuela and handed over our country, on a silver platter to Cuba. Not satisfied with that, you also handed over the Esequibo, a claim that was ratified in 1966 as our territory; Handed over by Chávez to once again please Castro. The damage that both of you caused us is inconceivable! An unforgivable treachery... Mr. Maduro, you will be tried as a foreign agent and history will point out Chavez, not as Head of State, he will be designated as the executioner and traitor who agreed to surrender his country without having fired a shot, a single bullet! Your deeds, Mr. Maduro and those of Chávez have taught us the true meaning of "treason to our homeland".

Mr. Maduro, for years, day after day, you have deceived your followers with false and permanent announcements of an "economic war", of "the Marines" that were coming to invade us from the "Empire" and in the meantime... you secretly, as always, contributed $ 500,000 (Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) to the "Empire" so that the "evil Yankee Imperialists" could celebrate and welcome their brand new president. An outstanding cynicism!

 

We are not free, but we will soon be and we will recover everything that has been taken from us and what has been done to us.

 

The decency, strength and determination of the noble Venezuelan people is and will be news in the world; Standing proudly to fill in the deep pigpen of injustices, persecutions, deaths and betrayals that you and Chavez left behind. The strength of our people is the fruitful water of the soul; The answer to every death, every wounded, every tear, every abuse.

All of this will be shaped as a pathetic historical anecdote... as another of those characters who was forced out by their people, to leave power, with his hands stained with blood.

© Noris Roberts