***THE LITTLE PRINCE IN VENEZUELA

When Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s Little Prince visited the planet Earth, he encountered a king who thought he ruled the universe. If the Little Prince were to have returned last week and should have landed in Venezuela, he would have had a moment of extreme deja vu.

The king thought he was so powerful that even the planets obeyed his commands. But when the Little Prince asked to see a sunset, he was informed that he would have to wait until 6:40 p.m. because the king only ordered his subjects to do what they would do anyway.

For seven years, the opposition to the government of Hugo Chávez has acted as though they ruled this little part of the universe. One of their current leaders, Maria Corina Machado, even achieved a personal interview in the Oval Office with the God of Wars, George W. Bush.

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