TRAITORS

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TRAITORS "Among the vices of man, betrayal is the most abject" Aeschylus (460 BC) "I forgive all those who did me wrong, or who wanted to do it, with the exception of those who betrayed us to save their skin ..."

Mikkel Manouchian (Resistant French before being shot) What is a traitor? In reality, it is he who hides his face in the shadows, who crosses the corners looking back to see that nobody is following him, that he looks hunched and exhibits a grimace like a smile, that he sleeps with sweaty shocks. A traitor has a black ball, thick with fat as a heart. A traitor is a slippery, cowardly, immoral type. He does not act out of conviction but out of convenience in safeguarding his ambitions or rewards while defending the interests of a nation to the detriment of his homeland convinced of the final victory of his protector. A traitor lives uneasy and agitated. A traitor will never admit his betrayal. He does not understand why he suffers from inexplicable torments. A traitor appears as a savior of the country to which he betrays by order of his master. He wants to destroy entire cities, forests, bridges, temples. A traitor loses shame, cauterizes remorse, suffocates dignity. He becomes an abominable criminal.

A traitor lives under the contempt of all, even those who induced him to betray, and death like a rat infected with bubonic plague. He dies alone and desperate like Hippias, walled off like Pausanias, hanged like Vidkun Quisling or in front of a firing squad like Pierre Laval and Arnaldo Ochoa.

ATHENS HIPPIAS

Three crucial battles sealed the fate of Europe and the so-called Western civilization: Marathon, Salamis and Platea​. In all three the Hellenes fought against the Persian Empire, the Mayos and most powerful empire of that time. His greatest ambition was to occupy Greece and Laconia. Many heroes stood out in that fierce fight against the attempted domination of the so-called Medos, among them Phidippides, who ran 42 kilometers to request the help of the Spartans. History does not forget the exploits, not only of the general drivers of these great battles, but of the heroism of a combative people, that filled with ardent patriot fiercely fought against the attempt of domination of the Persians. Among them the same Aeschylus who distinguished himself by his courage and his firm decision to defend the country until his last drop of blood. Aeschylus, inspired by this experience, wrote one of his most famous theatrical pieces: "Los Persas". But in the midst of that patriotic fervor there arose the stinking stain of betrayal: Hippias of Athens, who should not be confused with the great Sophist philosopher Hippias of Elis, who reflected on the nature of beauty. Hippias had arisen from the hosts of those Greek enemies of the nascent Helena democracy. Perfidious and ambitious, he did not hesitate to ally with the enemies of Greece to conquer the power he had lost. The Persians promised to replace him in power and immediately became one of the architects of the invasion of the Greek peninsula in the belief that this battle, that of Marathon, would be brief and easy. Hippias confided to the Persian king Darius I confidential information against his own country and

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recommended that the best place for conquest was to land in Marathon. The Persian king, enthusiastic about Hiplasia's condemnation, put together an army of more than 300,000 men and 600 ships and launched into conquest confident of the military superiority of his army. He considered that the Athenians with just a little more than 10 thousand Hoplites to defend themselves could easily be crushed. The hosts of DarĂ­o and Hippias never managed to disembark in Greek earth. They were defeated by the sagacity, bravery and capacity of sacrifice of a people swelling with patriotism. Hippias fled to the land of his foramen, humiliated and despised by his own protector for failure. His treason did not help him. History hardly remembers, it associates with the most vile proceeding in front of a heroic people. Hippias died as a servant more to the order of his Persian masters, without glory and with the nauseous and indelible stain of betrayal.

PAUSANIAS

The Persian threat was constantly clinging to Greece and Lacedaemon as a curse of Zeus. An Empire that controlled Asia Minor, Mesopotamia and Egypt. After the battle of Marathon and Salamis the Persian army was weakened. But soon they undertook a new colonizing attack.

Darius I had died and at the head of the Persian Empire was his son, Xerxes. Again a new battle is being prepared: that of Plataea where an unfavorable confrontation is repeated for the Greeks and Spartans in this case. According to Herodotus the Persians had 240,000 men against the Greek / Spartan coalition of only 38 to 40,000 soldiers. Again the numerical superiority makes Xerxes think that victory will inevitably be on his side. Each army, however, has its boss. The Greeks are led by Aristides and the Spartans by Pausanias. The battle of Plataea was a great victory for the Hellenes that sealed the Persian defeat and the beginning of the end of that almighty empire. But the betrayal did not stop. Pausanias had already distinguished himself by being a despot. Once the war was over, he claimed victory alone. The Persian spies were experts in bribery to turn the Greeks and Spartans into collaborators after the war. Pausanias was one of them. His attitude towards the Persian Empire was very evident that very soon it became submission. After the war began with the return of the prisoners belonging to the Persian nobility, then to the adoption of typically Persian customs, and finally the commitment to marry the daughter of one of the men of confidence of King Xerxes. Those steps were interpreted, not as contacts of a Spartan king, but as a submissive conduct, whose intentions were no other than to propose a coalition with the still powerful Persian Empire. All these outrages led to his dismissal and prosecution. Pausanias took refuge among the Persians and from there began to conspire against his own state He returned clandestinely and participated in the organization of the revolt of the Hilotas, species of Spartan serfs, against their homeland. He was sentenced to death. When he was about to be captured, he tried to flee again to the Persian Empire, but was surrounded and took refuge in a temple of the goddess Athena, where he was walled up to die of hunger. They took him out agonizing, cadaverous, asking for water, and buried him very close to avoid the sacrilege.

VIDKUN QUISLING

World War II left 60 million dead and almost all of Europe in rubble. The Nazi concentration camps were filled with communists, socialists, social democrats, Jews, gypsies and homosexuals.

The parties of the extreme right took advantage of the military power exhibited by the German militarist oligarchy that had put at the head of that nation a group of criminal and schizophrenic

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fanatics such as Adolf Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels, Mengele and Bormann. The French historian Raymond Cartier in his book World War II argues that the ambitions of the German bourgeoisie consisted mainly in extirpating the proletarian power implanted in the Soviet Union and appropriating the oil fields of the Caucasus. The Bolshevik Revolution made them tremble. But before it had to bend to the bourgeoisie of those countries that still vacillated before the scope of that "liberating" company, to then give the final blow to the USSR. It was necessary the collaboration of the fascist parties or European philonazists to realize that great operation. One of the first steps taken by the German militarist oligarchy was not to go immediately to the USSR, before deciding to occupy Western Europe. Norway was one of the first victims. And the fascist party, the Nasjonal Samling, was ready to hand over the country to a foreign nation. The year 1940 arrived and the hordes of Hitler occupied the country. Vidkun Quisling was put at the command of the Nazi party that helped him to give a coup d'etat. He was appointed Minister President by the invaders. Under his government all political parties, trade unions and all independent organizations were banned. A brutal repression against the Communists was unleashed and anti-Semitic laws were introduced. Vidkun Quisling celebrated every crime of the Nazis as a particular victory. He was complicit in the execution of communist leader Viggo Hansteen and trade unionist Rolf Wickstrøm, both shot by the SS in 1941. The Reichskommissar (Reich Commissioner), Josef Terboven, was the one who ruled the country in the face of full submission and the complicit gaze of the traitor . Quisling received the head of the SS and war criminal, Heinrich Himmler, in Oslo, and became an active part of Hitler's "Final Solution". He authorized the SS to persecute and deport Jews and Communists to the extermination camps. At the end of the war in 1945 he was prosecuted for high treason to the fatherland and condemned to death. He asked for clemency before the firing squad that ended his crimes and disgusting life.

His name remained in history as a synonym for traitor, the most infamous and despicable remoquete that anyone can carry.

PIERRE LAVAL

During the Nazi occupation in France, a poster inviting to capture the members of the Resistance accused of terrorists was circulated. The poster insulted that group of patriots, led by the mache Mikkel Manouchian, signaling them as the "armed criminals". The French poet Louis Aragon dedicated a poem to those heroes, and the singer Leo Ferré one of his most famous songs: "L'Affiche Rouge". The newspaper of the French Communist Party, "L'Humanité" appeared weekly ridiculing the brutal Nazi repression and the French collaborators. After the invasion of the Wehrmacht, the traitorous Marshal Philippe Pétain takes power and names the traitor mayor, Pierre Laval, a declared fascist, as Head of Government, who knelt before the German invaders.

Laval met directly with Hitler on several occasions and handed France into the hands of the invader. More than half a million French were enslaved and sent to Germany to work under the mandate of Pierre Laval's collaborationist government. The French Maquis fought tirelessly against the occupier who had already shown his bestiality with persecution, torture and assassinations. An estimated 15,000 communist militants were executed, according to the French historian and researcher, Jean Touchard. German imperialism had ceded a piece of its own

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country to occupied France where Pierre Laval, together with Pétain, established what was called the Vichy Government. Pierre Laval is appointed Prime Minister of the puppet regime of Vichy.

In 1944 with the liberation of France, his time came. He was captured, judged by collaboration with the enemy and treason. It was so much the hatred that this wretch aroused, that the French people turned to the courts that judged him to ask for his head. Pierre Laval even believed that he would be acquitted and would continue his political career as a leader of the extreme right after the war without paying his treason. Finally he was sentenced to death and shot.

JUAN GUAIDÓ Historically, as we have seen, empires always seek submissive collaborators within the ranks of fascist or neo-fascist far-right parties. Venezuela has not been the exception. These parties open the doors to the oppressor and deliver the country to the highest bidder in exchange for political, but mainly economic, prebends. The Venezuelan neofascist Voluntad Popular party has been selected by US imperialism as the spearhead to take over again the largest certified oil reserves on the planet, and other riches of our country. Voluntad Popular has shown signs of a servility without limits to US interests like no other party in Venezuela. He was able to import mercenaries and paramilitaries for the 2002 coup against Comandante Chavez, reprinting the violence on several occasions in order to overthrow the democratically elected government, with balances of the dead and wounded, burned public transport units, schools, nurseries children and universities consumed under fire, and to burn alive more than 19 Venezuelans just for being black or mulatto, that is to say, poor or chavistas. The first step taken by this party was to ignore the elections of May 20, 2018, a plan conceived by US imperialism to subsequently attempt a coup d'état. It was a premeditated plan, ordered by Washington and carried out by the submissive attitude of these far-right parties, with Voluntad Popular on the front row. The goal of the US government is to overthrow a "dictator and restore democracy", euphemisms to hide the authentic appetites of the US, said by John Bolton himself, who has expressed clearly that it is about putting its hands on the oil . You can not invalidate an election by the whim of three parties and less by order of a foreign government, when it is known that 6 candidates and 16 parties participated and the alleged dictator took more than 67% of the votes. From the bosom of Popular Will it was logical that a traitor was chosen. It did not appear out of nowhere, it's a guy that the Americans have been preparing for a long time. Juan Guaidó is a subject without a political past, obscure, without charisma or political preparation, is a salaried agitator, whose only merit was showing the buttocks in a violent street demonstration and known only to receive instructions in the US and Yugoslavia for destabilizing action, to overthrow a government by force. He was carefully selected to attempt a coup, as Quisling did in Norway under the leadership of the National Sozialistische Partei Deutschland (Nazi Party) in Germany in 1940. He jumped from anonymity to the celebrity for standing next to the aggressor against him. his homeland, such as Hippias, Pausanias or Pierre Laval. He became an accomplice to the booby trap of "humanitarian aid" on the border with Colombia that failed miserably. He bet on the criminal plans with the envoy of the empire, Marcos Rubio, and with the puppet of the paramilitary drug lord Álvaro Uribe, Iván Duque. But the most despicable and infamous subordination of this subject is the plea

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for foreign troops to trample our land and start the total devastation of the country under the Yankee bombs, as has happened in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria. Can you doubt that this individual is a traitor?

All these renegades are always presented by their masters as fierce conquerors of freedom and democracy. To each of their misdeeds wield a justification: free their homeland, restore democracy, protect their people, give better living conditions to their population, but do not tell that behind them is the proven looter, and in this case This is the bomber of Vietnam, Iraq, Laos and Cambodia; the same one that assaulted Cuba and was defeated in Bahía de Cochino; the one who bombed Hanoi, after inventing an incident in Tonkin Bay, which never existed; the one who created the "death squads" in El Salvador; the one that delivered arms to the Contras in Nicaragua disguised as "humanitarian aid" and blocked Corinto Bay; the one who struck against Jacobo Árbenz in Guatemala, against Joao Goulart in Brazil, against Perón in Argentina, against Salvador Allende in Chile; the one who assassinated Presidents Jaime Roldós and Omar Torrijos; the one that left a million dead in Iraq; the one who trained, armed and financed an army of mercenaries called the Islamic State to try to take over Syria; the one that tried to give a coup d'etat in 2002 in Venezuela against the Commander Hugo Chávez and currently sustains a permanent aggression, a brutal harassment with an economic and financial siege against Venezuela. It is with this power with which this repulsive traitor has allied itself.

There is no death penalty in our country, but the laws are severe against all these crimes and like Hippias, Pausanias, Quisling and Laval, this miserable traitor must one day face justice.

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