Democracia o capitalismo chino frente a la covid-19 en Venezuela Democracy or Chinese capitalism against covid-19 in Venezuela
Abstract
El presente ensayo se propone, desde una perspectiva teorica metodologica, contextual y sociopolitica, abordar la pandemia de la COVID-19 en Venezuela. Se analiza el origen del nuevo virus en la cultura china y su posterior expansion mundial en un sistema economico capitalista. Se asume que el autoritarismo chino fue eficiente para establecer controles sanitarios pero su sistema comunista retraso la aplicacion de esas medidas, pues impidio la libertad de informacion oportuna sobre la enfermedad emergente. El desgobierno y el desmantelamiento del Estado venezolano por parte del socialismo del siglo XXI, creo condiciones de mayor vulnerabilidad ante la pandemia. Un regimen autoritario y centralista, no garantiza las mejores condiciones para afrontar una emergencia sanitaria de grandes proporciones si ha colapsado el sistema de salud, propiciado la diaspora de profesionales sanitarios, quebrado la industria petrolera y demas empresas estatales, propagado la hiperinflacion, aumentado la economia informal, destruido el aparato burocratico y desinvertido en la educacion. Se concluye que la ayuda humanitaria internacional es indispensable para Venezuela, precedida de un acuerdo politico, un parentesis democratico y de gobernabilidad, que erradique la posverdad comunista y permita coyunturalmente superar el desgobierno y la corrupcion, como garantias para la administracion efectiva de los recursos recibidos via cooperacion internacional. La ausencia de acuerdos basicos para crear condiciones minimas que permitan sobrellevar a la poblacion las medidas de confinamiento, conllevaria mayores calamidades que las producidas por la propia pandemia. This essay intends, from a contextual and sociopolitical theoretical methodological perspective, to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela. The origin of the new virus in Chinese culture and its subsequent world expansion in a capitalist economic system are analyzed. It is assumed that Chinese authoritarianism was efficient in establishing sanitary controls, but its communist system delayed the application of these measures, as it prevented the freedom of timely information about the emerging disease. The misgovernment and the dismantling of the Venezuelan state by socialism of 21st century created conditions of greater vulnerability to the pandemic. An authoritarian and centralist regime does not guarantee the best conditions to face a major health emergency if the health system has collapsed, fostered the diaspora of health professionals, broken the oil industry and other state companies, spread hyperinflation, increased the informal economy, destroyed the bureaucratic apparatus and disinvested in education. It is concluded that international humanitarian aid is essential for Venezuela, preceded by a political agreement, a democratic and governance parenthesis, which eradicates post-communist truth and allows conjuncturally to overcome misgovernment and corruption, as guarantees for the effective administration of the resources received via international cooperation. The absence of basic agreements to create minimum conditions that allow confinement measures to be overcome by the population would lead to greater calamities than those produced by the pandemic itself.