"Seguiremos protegiendo al pueblo barinés desde todos los espacios."
The same thing they said when they lost Miranda, the Libertador municipality and a couple of other places...
Just create a new position called ''Protector of Barinas'' whose function is to approve the budget that is delivered to the governor.... And there you have again your governor as an ornament, and the president laughing at the participative and electoral democracy they praise so much in Venezuela.
The Venezuelan situation is so absurd, that they have reached the point that anything is celebrated as a victory, and saving the differences this is a.:
''We lost the game, we were eliminated, but we hit 3 home runs in a stadium where a years ago we didn't hit a single one.''
You are right. There are many "moderates" controling opposition politics, backed by "pundits" who, no matter how many times are proven wrong, continue speaking from the realm of theory as if there were no sense of urgency.
They go enthusiastically to a "dialogue table" that we know ignores the urgent needs of the people. They are tricked once and again and nothing much happens, until the next dialogue. It's a very annoying vicious cycle.