The book Guarimbas, the managers of chaos, which is being presented these days at the 15th Caracas Book Fair, authored by Cuban writer and journalist Raúl Antonio Capote, was published by Fundarte.

«How can a simple word hide in its bosom such terrible memories? How much terror, hatred, violence and death can be synthesised in a single word? This is what Admiral in Chief Carmen Meléndez, mayor of Caracas, asks in the prologue to the book Guarimbas, los gestores del caos (Guarimbas, the managers of chaos), which is being presented these days at the 15th Caracas Book Fair.

The text, authored by Cuban writer and journalist Raúl Antonio Capote, was published by Fundarte. Fundación para la Cultura y las Artes and La Iguana Ediciones, both Venezuelan publishers.

In this land of the South of Our America, to say «guarimbas» is to remind the people of the sad massacres that deceived opponents have designed to lead the country to implosion, allowing the entry of the United States into the national territory.

This criminal form of violence is only one of the faces of the so-called unconventional war that the US government persistently carries out against the Bolivarian homeland. It is, in all its facets, strategies to change systems through the sowing of hardship and discouragement within the peoples who have not bowed to Washington.

The text by «this Cuban born with the Revolution», who has other works aimed at unravelling the White House’s strings on the continent, refers to such destabilisation formulas and their final objectives – above all in Venezuela.

In the words of the writer Miguel Ángel Pérez Pirela, «it is a book written from praxis. In which the journalist, the writer, the historian can be seen, but above all, the fact of having lived in the entrails of the monster can be seen. And that is undoubtedly an irreplaceable value».

Moreover, at the «christening» of Guarimbas…, he described it as a very up-to-date logbook on causal chaos, created and thought out many, many years ago.

In this respect, Capote explained to the public attending the Caracas literary festival that the volume deals with the theme of «the war that has been waged against us (Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia…) for several years. An imperialist war that is trying to defeat us».

Faced with this scenario which, in order to subdue us, seeks to invalidate the essence of the people, one of the most powerful weapons to combat it is precisely this Book Fair, hosted by the National Art Gallery and the Plaza de la Juventud, in the knowledge that the historical roots of each nation contain the strengths to guarantee the future.