While criticism of WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange is fierce in some quarters, people in many countries long for him or someone like him to give leaders and secret communications in their countries the ‘WikiLeaks treatment.’ One example is columnist Elizabeth Araujo of Venezuela’s Tal Cual, who wonders what skeletons would be found in the confidential closet of President Hugo Chavez and his Bolivarian Revolution.
For Tal Cual, Elizabeth Araujo writes in part:
One thing is clear: diplomatic gossip, classified in official jargon as “Confidential” or “Top Secret,” isn’t the exclusive domain of the CIA or FBI, and therefore is not genuinely a gringo phenomena. However, it’s obvious that such a vast collection of information, including the biometric data of presidential candidates in Paraguay, reports on the sexual libido of [Italy Prime Minister] Berlusconi or speculation on which Latin American leaders are crazier than Mrs. Christina Kirchner [Argentine president] constitute a planet-wide scandal that will even further constrain Mr. Obama’s freedom to maneuver – already greatly diminished after the recent legislative elections.
But what if Wikileaks had access to the secrets of the Chavez revolution, and raided, for example, files on the spending of the so-called ‘secret presidential fund,’ the archives of the Attorney general, offices of the comptroller or records of the phone calls of our Comandante-Presidente to Havana during moments of electoral crisis?
Who isn’t curious to know, for instance, what WikiLeaks might uncover in the communications between senior Cuban officials and the Castro brothers, and what they really think of a revolution in which its former leaders, who used to live in Catia, have moved to walled residences at the opposite end of town. What do they think of the weekly spending on clothing, eyeglasses and women’s hairdressing by National Assembly Speaker Cilia Flores, National Electoral Council President Tibisay Lucena, and Supreme Court President Luisa Estela Morales, while the local councils in the district of Petare must hold vigils at the gates of the ministry to “cut their funding” so they can repair their sewers before the rain gets worse?
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