This is a fine piece of academic work. It's a bit long, too long for the average reader, but it deserves to be widespread. I agree with the fundamental premise:
the people never accepted this liberty, and to this day, it continues to seek to imitate the ties with its former colonists in the form of any tyrant of turn.
When we see people still applauding, following and justifying the worst politician ever to have governed Venezuela, the grossest and most corrupt political clan, we can't but agree with your argument.
The fear of the slaves who are corrupted in themselves because they have been deprived, sometimes from birth, of any sense of self assertion or consciousness still prevails in many Venezuelan people. After almost 20 years of chavismo, a whole generation was born for whom no other referent exists, no other way of ruling, of speaking.
It is overall a very sad scenario we live over here, and more sadly yet, as you have rightly pointed out, it's a regional malady. Any of the countries that are doing relatively well now, can relapse anytime. For Venezuelans who are now trying to rebuilt in Perú, Chile or Argentina, that would be a double tragedy.