Untouchables

CARACAS, Venezuela.— The small hands of the children -innocent, pure too- were not made to carry drugs and weapons, but toys and notebooks. The hearts of mothers, although accustomed to the weight of responsibility, should not be anguished because their children, under 12 years of age, may die or kill as a result of child violence.  
This is well known by those who have dedicated themselves to finance and orchestrate "a series of information operations, media campaigns, psychological campaigns, of diffuse warfare, cognitive warfare against a whole generation of Venezuelan children, youth and adolescents."
It is, said recently journalist Anahí Arizmendi, "a file that has a long history and dates, practically, from the first day of the beginning of the Bolivarian Revolution."
Using the little ones as instruments of war for their plans of destabilization and coup against the Government is a strategy used by the most reluctant of the opposition, which this time, as so many others, tries to "turn the tables" to blame the State before the world.
However, the people have memory, and do not forget that, in 2002, as part of the educational strike called by the extreme right wing, it was called to go to the doors of the schools "to "chase the children so that they could not enter, and those families who wanted to have classes were harassed and pointed out before entering the school, even if they were with their children next to them."
Also at that stage, campaigns to sow terror in homes and communities were booming, such as the remake of Operation Peter Pan in Cuba, which was applied in other Latin American countries "that are uncomfortable for the United States," the sponsors of that hatred in Venezuelan society. "Communism was going to take children away from families," they said.
How big does one have to have a heart to use the little ones at home as a shield in the demonstrations?
We will have to measure that of the opponents, who did not hesitate to "use children in vulnerable situations, who were given drugs and money so that they would be at the forefront organizing violent actions, but above all so that they would be used as cannon fodder." They were called children of the resistance.
The perpetrators of these crimes are the same ones who united youths and teenagers to organized crime groups in the so-called terrorist comanditos, to achieve another episode of guarimbas after the July 28 elections, and who now insist on accusing the State for imparting justice.
In this regard, the First Vice-President of the PSUV, Diosdado Cabello, assured: "There is an investigation because there are minors who have traces of gunpowder in their hands, and there are dead people in the place where this young man was detained and this is the investigation that is being made, and we are not persecuting anyone, we are not kidnapping anyone."
The also Minister of Interior, Peace and Justice explained that, under precautionary measures, some minors have been released, after a legal process has been followed, in which the parents have assumed responsibility.   
"Boys and girls for us are untouchable, we love them with our souls and we are here to assure them a country without hate and irresponsible."