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Letters to Lazaro the Bolivarian Lion: #2
Dear Lazaro,
Many people compare you to Augusto Pinochet, except instead of throwing your enemies off a helicopter from high altitudes, you prefer to throw your enemies to the justice system instead so the courts can try them so everybody, including the criminals themselves, can learn why communism is bad. Though your official title is President, many people around the world sees you as our dictator. Some of our own people see you as such with the emphasis that you're the only dictator in history of this century who gets everything right. My favorite part about you is your economic policies, which promoted and emphasized free enterprise to boost our economy. It also encouraged foreign investment into our beautiful country, with Americans being number one in foreign investment into Venezuela. Thanks to them, it's much easier for me to try food and drinks from American culture as well as learning more about American brands, especially those taking advantage of e-commerce.
You really are a blessing for our beautiful Bolivarian federal republic, so much so that many of us do feel convinced that we are heaven on Earth, or that you brought heaven to Earth. At least we are the opposite to Australia's nickname, as the country that is hell on Earth due to their notorious wildlife. Economists are claiming that we are set to start 2024 off as Earth's fastest growing economy with a GDP bigger than Australia's GDP or a GDP bigger than all of the Scandinavian countries' economies put together. I'm just glad that you are our President and dictator because you have all the answers to our problems.
So what do you think about the fact that people tend to compare you to Augusto Pinochet, Chile's anti-communist dictator, often but with the acknowledged sense that you prefer to throw your enemies to your justice system than off the helicopters from above?
Domingo Alvarez, age 19, (cheetah)
Maracaibo, Zulia State, Venezuela
Lazaro's reply:
Dear Domingo:
I appreciate you writing to me, and thank you for the compliments. It doesn't surprise me that Augusto Pinochet is the one people compare me to, but I'd rather not have such a comparison. Pinochet may have been anti-communist, but he still killed a ton of people. I don't care what the reason is; murder is still murder. Genocide is still genocide. While he died in 2006, the trial regarding his helicopter crimes, known as the Caravan of Death, is still going on, because there are other people that were involved still alive and still being questioned, including a chaplain. (No doubt the Lord will have a few choice words for him; a chaplain is a representative of a spiritual or religious tradition attached to a secular institution; i.e., the military.)
However, they tell the truth when they say I am throwing them to the justice sytem, but that's metaphorical. I'm not actually physically picking them up and throwing them, of course. I will be aggressive when it comes to battling the forces of evil; I am a G-52, after all. I'm just choosing to let them live to let them see the consequences of their actions, whereas if you opposed Pinochet, you died. If any criminal during my period as President is dying, it's for the usual health-related reasons people die, young or old.
I look forward to our country beginning 2024 with the status of fastest growing GPD. It helps that I am working with the others to ensure our bolivar is as strong as the U.S. dollar, restructuring everything. Before I took the oath of office, it took 3,507,582.38 of our bolivars to equal what one U.S. dollar could buy. Inflation is disappearing, though; special thanks to Cripto for that one. (He donated to all the nations of the world, because he wanted to see everybody prosper, not just the U.S.)
I hope that helps; if I missed something, feel free to write back and I'll correct the error.
Yours truly,
Lazaro Zevallos, a.k.a. Lazaro the Bolivarian Lion
Now serving as President of Venezuela
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Letters to Lazaro the Bolivarian Lion: #2
Dear Lazaro,
Many people compare you to Augusto Pinochet, except instead of throwing your enemies off a helicopter from high altitudes, you prefer to throw your enemies to the justice system instead so the courts can try them so everybody, including the criminals themselves, can learn why communism is bad. Though your official title is President, many people around the world sees you as our dictator. Some of our own people see you as such with the emphasis that you're the only dictator in history of this century who gets everything right. My favorite part about you is your economic policies, which promoted and emphasized free enterprise to boost our economy. It also encouraged foreign investment into our beautiful country, with Americans being number one in foreign investment into Venezuela. Thanks to them, it's much easier for me to try food and drinks from American culture as well as learning more about American brands, especially those taking advantage of e-commerce.
You really are a blessing for our beautiful Bolivarian federal republic, so much so that many of us do feel convinced that we are heaven on Earth, or that you brought heaven to Earth. At least we are the opposite to Australia's nickname, as the country that is hell on Earth due to their notorious wildlife. Economists are claiming that we are set to start 2024 off as Earth's fastest growing economy with a GDP bigger than Australia's GDP or a GDP bigger than all of the Scandinavian countries' economies put together. I'm just glad that you are our President and dictator because you have all the answers to our problems.
So what do you think about the fact that people tend to compare you to Augusto Pinochet, Chile's anti-communist dictator, often but with the acknowledged sense that you prefer to throw your enemies to your justice system than off the helicopters from above?
Domingo Alvarez, age 19, (cheetah)
Maracaibo, Zulia State, Venezuela
Lazaro's reply:
Dear Domingo:
I appreciate you writing to me, and thank you for the compliments. It doesn't surprise me that Augusto Pinochet is the one people compare me to, but I'd rather not have such a comparison. Pinochet may have been anti-communist, but he still killed a ton of people. I don't care what the reason is; murder is still murder. Genocide is still genocide. While he died in 2006, the trial regarding his helicopter crimes, known as the Caravan of Death, is still going on, because there are other people that were involved still alive and still being questioned, including a chaplain. (No doubt the Lord will have a few choice words for him; a chaplain is a representative of a spiritual or religious tradition attached to a secular institution; i.e., the military.)
However, they tell the truth when they say I am throwing them to the justice sytem, but that's metaphorical. I'm not actually physically picking them up and throwing them, of course. I will be aggressive when it comes to battling the forces of evil; I am a G-52, after all. I'm just choosing to let them live to let them see the consequences of their actions, whereas if you opposed Pinochet, you died. If any criminal during my period as President is dying, it's for the usual health-related reasons people die, young or old.
I look forward to our country beginning 2024 with the status of fastest growing GPD. It helps that I am working with the others to ensure our bolivar is as strong as the U.S. dollar, restructuring everything. Before I took the oath of office, it took 3,507,582.38 of our bolivars to equal what one U.S. dollar could buy. Inflation is disappearing, though; special thanks to Cripto for that one. (He donated to all the nations of the world, because he wanted to see everybody prosper, not just the U.S.)
I hope that helps; if I missed something, feel free to write back and I'll correct the error.
Yours truly,
Lazaro Zevallos, a.k.a. Lazaro the Bolivarian Lion
Now serving as President of Venezuela
Letters to Lazaro the Bolivarian Lion: #2
Lazaro's second letter.
Character joint-owned by Chuong and me; he did the original letter here, and I wrote the response.
Character joint-owned by Chuong and me; he did the original letter here, and I wrote the response.
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Zax: I didn't know a Chilean chaplain was involved in Pinochet's war crimes of tossing his enemies off the helicopters.
Jack: One of Leo's parallels had to witness this terror across his country; Leobardo the Mapuche Lion. Even if Pinochet's act did save the Mapuche, the consequences are still graphic. The fact that this trial is still going on way after Pinochet died shows how horrifying his war crimes were.
Chuong: Murder is murder. War crimes are war crimes. History remembers and so do the people. As for Venezuela, can't wait to see what developments and gifts Venezuela will bring to the world.
Jack: One of Leo's parallels had to witness this terror across his country; Leobardo the Mapuche Lion. Even if Pinochet's act did save the Mapuche, the consequences are still graphic. The fact that this trial is still going on way after Pinochet died shows how horrifying his war crimes were.
Chuong: Murder is murder. War crimes are war crimes. History remembers and so do the people. As for Venezuela, can't wait to see what developments and gifts Venezuela will bring to the world.
Leo: I look forward to it as well.
Leobardo: And I was traumatized by what I witnessed.
Lazaro: I can understand that.
Leobardo: And I was traumatized by what I witnessed.
Lazaro: I can understand that.
Nice story! It definitely rings true to what a lot of Venezuelans feel about their country nowadays. Is Lazaru inspired by former Venezuelan dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez? They seem to have similar ideals
If he was, I wasn't aware of it. You might want to talk to Chuong; while he and I are joint-owners of the parallels of Leo the Patriotic Lion (whereas Leo himself belongs to me and me alone), he came up with the idea originally.
I didn't even know who Marcos Perez Jimenez was until you mentioned him. I looked at Perez' economic policies and it sounded like he had a great plan and start for Venezuela. I could see Lazaro enforcing a similar policy like that so I'd imagine they have similar ideals.
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