About This Book
In the essays that make up this booklet and its appendix, María Corina Machado's Manifesto of Freedom, with objective data and in their appropriate contextualizations, professor Asdrúbal Aguiar shows, on the one hand, the process of incubation in Venezuela of a sort of unprecedented Leviathan, perhaps the product of the same process of deconstruction that the West is still experiencing and that began in 1989. He refers to the emergence, in the twenty-first century and in Venezuela, of vicarious alliances between the so-called "Hobbesian" artifice, namely, the State, whose authority must prevent the war of all against all (Bellum omnium contra omnes, 1651), and the dissolving forces of global criminality, terrorism and drug trafficking. But what is equally unprecedented, here and above the above, is that the victims of this eschatological deviation, with admirable and unexpected resilience and giving exemplarity to Tyrians and Trojans, have been defeating this monstrosity, which slipped into them almost three decades ago in an instant of collective frivolity and obtundation. The Manifesto, at the end, looks to the promising future that awaits Venezuelans, fully consistent with what has been explained and the content of the essays in the book.
