What amazes me is not the disgusting audacity of Aponte Aponte justifying his actions, remembering that they deprived innocent people of their freedom, but the fact that he dares to present such a justification. Aponte Aponte, who served for years as the President of the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of Venezuela, shamelessly admits that his actions in the legal profession at the highest court of the country follow nothing but superior orders, as he is, or was, a career military man.
All the consequences of this servile attitude, such as tons of drugs flowing into international markets and the related deaths and violence, covert official support for terrorism, and the incarceration of innocent people, all of this—and what’s still to come—is due to the fact that former magistrate Aponte Aponte was unable to exercise his free will, his reason, and his intellect. Instead, like an automaton, he received and followed orders without ever stopping to consider the consequences of his actions.
So, a reiteration of what has been said countless times: in Chavismo, only one person “thinks,” while the others merely carry out orders. What a pathetic and disgraceful state Venezuela is in: degenerate automatons like Aponte Aponte control all power, and the only so-called thinker is a puppet of Fidel Castro.