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"I have ordered the Caracas Polyhedron to be prepared. There could be, as happened in other parts of the world, a field hospital to attend to asymptomatic cases," Nicolás Maduro announced last night in one of his constant television interventions. The mythical concert space next to the Rinconada Racecourse, the most important in the country and which for years was the site of the popular Miss Venezuela pageant , already welcomed the victims of the Vargas tragedy at the end of the last century.

The revolutionary chief assured that the compound and its parking will be equipped, in principle for the sick and also for the asymptomatic, after raising the number of infected to 10,428 and of deaths to 100 . The Bolivarian objective is to guarantee medical care for all patients in isolation "to prevent them from staying at home contaminating their family, putting their neighbors at risk."

Official figures are not credible to experts and doctors. According to the Academy of Sciences, they correspond to 15 days ago.

The wave of Covid-19 infections has exploded, especially in the border state of Zulia, where the medical unions already count a dozen deaths among its members. The latest victim is the neurologist Ramón Galue , lieutenant colonel attached to the Military Hospital of Maracaibo.

Maduro's announcement also coincides with the denunciation made last weekend by the democratic Parliament, which warned of the imminent overflow of the hospital capacity of Caracas. "Today, in Venezuela, there are 143 fans in the largest hospitals in the country. That is insufficient. Every death that occurs is Maduro's fault . Instead of buying voting machines (for the fraudulent elections in December) he should buy fans," accused the deputy and doctor José Manuel Olivares .

The public health system barely survives in Venezuela, hit by the revolutionary collapse. According to the latest health survey, promoted by Parliament, masks and gloves fail in half of medical centers. Disinfecting soap and gel is missing or fails in 75% of cases . The Government hides the real statistics of what is happening in the country's hospitals.

Chavismo has once again imposed in the capital the so-called "radical quarantine" in the face of the outbreak in the center of the country, which has affected its own ranks. Diosdado Cabello , 'number two' of Chavismo; the economic vice president, Tareck El Aissami; the governor of Zulia and several delegates of the Constituent Assembly have made their contagion public. "In addition to reporting on the satisfactory evolution of my state of health, I want to stop to thank so many messages of solidarity, truly moving, that were reciprocated with my tears in loving thanks," wrote El Aissami on his social networks.

In the Polyhedron the melodies have long been drowned. The hymn "In a night as beautiful as this", sung so many times during the Miss Venezuela that gathered the great Venezuelan family around television, was changed by the revolutionary harangues. A show hall for more than 12,000 people, where Queen, The Police, Paco de Lucía or Iron Maiden passed by and where only revolutionary propaganda resonates now.

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