Venezuela has arrested six people for being responsible for an assassination attempt using drones flying nearby a Maduro speech on Saturday at a military parade.
The article comments also on how so many of the military present took off to save themselves:
"Seeing the military scatter at a presidential ceremony suggests a "lapse in security" and "a pretty high level of dysfunction," David Smilde, a sociologist at Tulane University and senior fellow at the Washington Office on Latin America, told CNN.
With the exception of his immediate bodyguards, images of the incident raise questions about the government's ability "to keep things together."
"For the soldiers and whoever was running security, it was a bad day," he said.
Smilde said that it appears the soldiers are there because they have to be there."There's not deep belief in, or loyalty to, the government," he said. "If something like this happens, they're absolutely going to save themselves first."
Then I thought the commentary below was interesting:
Maduro has loyalists in important positions instead of competent people, a state of affairs that leads to the undoing of authoritarian governments like the one in Venezuela, Smilde said.
The government model in Venezuela, Smilde said, is a model that emphasizes loyalty and the concentration of power, rather than competence, education, accountability and transparency.
The article comments also on how so many of the military present took off to save themselves:
"Seeing the military scatter at a presidential ceremony suggests a "lapse in security" and "a pretty high level of dysfunction," David Smilde, a sociologist at Tulane University and senior fellow at the Washington Office on Latin America, told CNN.
With the exception of his immediate bodyguards, images of the incident raise questions about the government's ability "to keep things together."
"For the soldiers and whoever was running security, it was a bad day," he said.
Smilde said that it appears the soldiers are there because they have to be there."There's not deep belief in, or loyalty to, the government," he said. "If something like this happens, they're absolutely going to save themselves first."
Then I thought the commentary below was interesting:
Maduro has loyalists in important positions instead of competent people, a state of affairs that leads to the undoing of authoritarian governments like the one in Venezuela, Smilde said.
The government model in Venezuela, Smilde said, is a model that emphasizes loyalty and the concentration of power, rather than competence, education, accountability and transparency.
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