The fundamental goal of the Government of Nicolás Maduro lies in the consolidation of the Chavista myth as a means to win the next elections. Maduro and the barons of Chavism will try, with all the means granted by a clientelist State, to develop a Chavism without Chávez, merging the report of their caudillo with one of the most important images of Latin American history: the myth of Bolivar. All this responds perfectly to the political line of what has been the XXI Century Socialism since its foundation. Hugo Chávez consciously practiced political necrophilia, first from the theoretical point of view, invoking the Bolivarian numen, and then, finally, exhuming the body of the Liberator. His successors know that in order to legitimize themselves by permanently transforming themselves into a tropical Peronism, they must merge the Chavist myth with the image of Bolivar. The Latin American left has built myths since the beginning of its history. José Carlos Mariátegui, one of the founders of Latin Marxism, always maintained that in order to capture power it was necessary to create and foster a myth. However, Chavez is not Bolivar and his leadership is different from the one that characterized the Liberator. Bolivar was the warrior of unity, the centaur who imposed himself over factions by pointing out a Pan American horizon. Hugo Chávez has embodied, since his political baptism, the old praetorianism of the natural Latin State, that tenacious populist militarism that has caused so much damage to the training civic culture of our peoples.

Hence, in the process of construction of the Chavista myth, it is materially impossible for his heirs to repeat Bolivar's paradigm. That is why they have had to opt for the authentic model which inspired the political praxis of Hugo Chávez: that of the autocrats of orthodox communism (Lenin, Mao Zedong, etc.). However, the problem is that these totalitarian satraps are at the antipodes of the Liberator's republican thought. Bolivar is not Lenin. But Chavism does have a totalitarian nature because it imposes asymmetrically a novo ordo seclorum, a kind of tropical Leninism that seeks the moral elimination of its opponents. The result of this Manichaeism is, of course, polarization, the division of the country into two irreconcilable camps. This is a consequence that was particularly repugnant to the Liberator. For Bolivar, the most important thing, when he left power and was about to go down to the grave, was the unity of the Americans. "Compatriots: Listen to my last voice at the end of my political degree program [...] I ask you, I beg you to remain united so that you will not be the murderers of the homeland and your own executioners".

Therefore, it is essential to oppose the construction of the Chávez myth with the real image of the historical Bolivar, the man of unity. The division that Chavist Manichaeism tries to perpetuate destroys Bolivar's bequest and condemns us to perish under the stigma of Cain. If the Chavist myth triumphs, the nation disintegrates. That is not the inheritance that the Liberator wanted for us.