User:Nonitamater

I am a historian, the daughter of a Venezuelan father and a British mother. I have no personal relationship with Mr Alonso. I found the character interesting for many reasons. His books are widely known in Hispanic culture. He rose to fame in many countries of Hispanic America when he was accused of creating a paramilitary army of more than 3,000 Colombian fighters. A mercenary force twice as large as the 2506 Brigade that invaded Cuba in April 1961. Researching about him, I found a few photos published in different blogposts by Mr. Alonso, which are available to anyone interested in finding them. In 2014, Alonso nearly overthrew the government of then-President Hugo Chávez. His videos calling Venezuelans to the uprising were widely visited, as this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Jrp4BhO16A&t=231s with almost 300,000 views, an interesting record for a leader of Hispanic America. That same year, 2014, he called on Venezuelans to take territorial control of the country using vehicles, a strategy almost identical to what years later we are seeing with Canadian truckers in Canada and other countries on the globe - El Carrazo Gráfico - YouTube. Alonso has been widely interviewed in the main media networks of Hispanic America, such as CNN En Espanol, the Caracol Network of Colombia, Jaime Bayly, to mention three important media for Spanish speakers. In 2018, with funding from the government of Venezuela, a feature film called "Operation Orion" was produced, based on the hiring, training and capture of a part of the mercenary forces contracted, according to the government of Venezuela, by Mr. Alonso -  Operación Orión (la película) Trailer oficial - YouTube - If you look for Mr. Alonso on social media, you'll see that he has wide coverage. When heard about to release the movie "Operation Orion" in Venezuela, I looked up Mr. Alonso on Wikipedia and was surprised that there was nothing published about him. Many other Venezuelan characters are published on Wikipedia with much less importance than that of Mr. Alonso. But if you are willing to remove Mr. Alonso and his political career, good or bad, from Wikipedia, you will do so.

Let's take as an example the historical figure named Juan Vicente Gomez, who ruled Venezuela during the first three decades of the twentieth century. According to legend and following the Venezuelan custom of the cult of personality, Juan Vicente Gomez was born on July 24 and died on December 17, exactly the dates on which the Liberator Simón Bolívar was born and died. It is like if we would ensure that Frankilin D. Roosevelt was born on February 22 and died on December 14, to coincide with the dates of George Washington's birth and death. However, Wikipedia actually gives absurd size, which even raises laughter in a large part of the educated Venezuelan citizens. And since we are talking about Juan Vicente Gomez, he was neither born in Venezuela, nor his surname was Gomez. If we are going to be guided by Wikipedia, we would continue in ignorance and fantasy about this important character in the history of Venezuela. Wikipedia is full of falsehoods. Without going too far, we see how you claim that the anthem of Venezuela was the work of two Venezuelan patriots named Vicente Salias and Juan José Landaeta, when both characters had absolutely nothing to do with the song that Venezuelans call "national anthem".

What I can assure you is that everything, absolutely everything, what I published about Mr. Alonso is totally and faithfully true and of recent history, verifiable beyond any doubt. When the then-Republican candidate, John McCain went to close his political campaign to opt for the presidency of the United States of America, Mr. Alonso was chosen by the red party to close the event, due to his credibility and leadership among Hispanic voters, since McCain closed his campaign in the city of Miami. And speaking of the late Senator McCain, he was not born in the "Panama Canal Zone," which by then was U.S. soil. When McCain was born, the hospital of Coco Solo, within the aforementioned area, was under repairs, so McCain's mother had to give birth in Panamanian territory, hence he could not be, constitutionally, president of the United States. If Wikipedia rejects this historical reality for lack of evidence or "references", it is understandable, but the truth is quite different. As for what has been said about Juan Vicente Gomez, there are references from various historians, both Venezuelan and Colombian, including the well-known American historian, Thomas Rourke, who - by the way - is not reviewed on Wikipedia anywhere or in any language.

A well-remembered history professor I had in my studies for PHD said that the objectivity of history is absolutely subjective. However, I can assure you that everything I posted about Mr. Alonso is proven beyond doubt, even if you are not 100% satisfied with the "references". Not only is it totally true: it is absolutely verifiable because we are talking about a period that goes back no more than a decade, events that are published again and again in different languages and social media. It took me quite a while to soak up the wealth of information about Mr. Alonso. In the end you will decide, however, I regret to have invested my time in cooperating for this important platform.