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at which things are unraveling for the autocrat i hope hugo chavez is in charge to witness the effects of all of the mismanagement of the last few years i hope he rides his unpopularity to the lowest possible lows and is blamed for nine lost years of progress as he has essentially damaged the venezuelan economy through incompetence fanaticism and ignorance i want him to be alone as his buddies defect one by one money in their suitcases leaving him ranting into empty spaces day after day only then should he be allowed to leave and face the courts for his mismanagement corruption and human rights violations posted in venezuela leave a comment maletagate gets very interesting by the minute january 26 2008 moises maionica one of the men charged in the us with being an agent of the venezuelan government in us territory in the maletagate scandal changed his plea to guilty in a sign that he is now coopertaing with us authorities immediately the venezuelan foreign minister said maionica was lying through his teeth in declaring himself guilty maionica was facing 15 years in jail if found guilty after declaring himself innocent but has probably changed his plea now in exchange for immunity and reportedly a us visa maionica s plea change clearly indicates that maionica is telling his stry and exchanging information this could mean bad news for the venezuelan government not only in the maletagate case but also maionica was the legal representative of the fingerprint machines used in the 2004 referendum and reportedly held property in his name which belonged to former cne president jorge roridguez who was later named vice president of venezuela and currently is president of chavez political party psuv in the last few days it has become known that the fbi had more tapes videos and information that previously revealed including sms messages exchanged by teh accused with venezuela which prove their involvement most analysts expect others accused in the case to change their plea now that maionica considered to be the one with the contacts at the highest levels of the venezuelan government has begun singing many people in caracas must be feeling their feet trembling and it is not precisely an earthquake posted in venezuela leave a comment slum lord by alvaro vargas llosa january 23 2008 as we learn today that hard core chavistas are outnumbered for the first time by hard core opposition to chavismo for the first time in nine years 25 to 22 and that chavez overall approval rating has fallen to 35 it is perhaps appropriate to reproduce this article by alvaro vargas llosa somebody should tell chavez it s the economy stupid slum lord by alvaro vargas llosa in the new republic caracas venezuela after an extensive visit to the slums of this capital i am convinced that venezuelan president hugo chavez lost the recent referendum that would have extended the time he could remain in office not because his countrymen value democracy so much but because his social programs are crumbling in the barrios of petare catia baruta and other places the nationalist populist model is collapsing through a network of missions the government has been using oil revenue to provide food housing cars education and health care for millions of venezuelans in theory venezuelans are enjoying the social justice denied to them during decades of rule by the country s elites in real life the missions are plagued with corruption and inefficiency and are severely hampered by the insecurity and the shortages that have become the hallmark of venezuelan society the barrio adentro mission was originally run by about 30 000 cuban doctors and medics many of those health centers are now closed the rest are seriously understaffed the cubans are leaving explains felix a social worker from baruta because they don t get paid because they are the victims of rampant crime or simply because they have moved on they only offered to serve in venezuela as an excuse to get out of cuba in some cases the government never provided the funds needed to finish the construction of clinics in baruta a desolate construction site reminds the local neighborhood that there is as felix puts it a gulf separating reality from speeches i was not surprised to learn that according to andres bello university 60 percent of the barrio adentro health centers are not functioning the mercal mission a series of supermarkets in which the poor can theoretically acquire food at extremely low prices is not faring any better because of price controls essential products are missing from the shelves people stand in line for hours to buy food or milk in some cases as i was told in petare producers have been put off by price controls in others the people who manage the supermarkets sell essential products under the table to those able to pay more the soup kitchens which supposedly have to serve free meals to 150 venezuelans in each neighborhood every day are also falling victim to the chronic shortages jesus a chavez supporter who manages a soup kitchen in barrio union petare told me that he would not be serving his neighbors until next week when he expects to get new provisions the result the squalid ones he concluded using the term with which chavez refers to his critics are now a majority around here corruption has eroded the prestige of the habitat mission through which the government supposedly dishes out checks to poor venezuelans so they can buy a house it is not unusual for an aspiring homeowner to find out that a mystery person has cashed the check using his or her name the same people who hand out the checks cash them for the benefit of their relatives explains eladio who told me a nephew recently suffered such an experience the decision to make cars available to millions of venezuelans has meant that caracas is now a traffic inferno the money i spend on gas in one day in the united states will allow me to drive for an entire month down here says virginia a television producer who goes back and forth between caracas and new york and spends a good part of her day when in caracas driving from one place to another what use is it for millions of people to have cars if they are wasting much of their lives paralyzed in traffic jams the sucre mission which helps adults complete their secondary education is also creating problems the beneficiaries tend to go to government controlled universities that require few qualifications therefore numerous professions are overcrowded and venezuelans complain of not being able to get a job despite their credentials together with a 30 percent annual rate of inflation the closing down of thousands of businesses because of socialist regulations land confiscations and nationalizations have crippled the country s productive capacity and therefore the demand for workers the government led venezuelans to believe that they could become a consumer society without producing anything says luis ugalde the president of andres bello university and the results are now speaking for themselves when i asked beatriz a social worker who spends her time in catia to talk to me about chavez s missions she responded one cannot speak about that which doesn t exist that strikes me as an appropriate way to sum up venezuela s nationalist populist model posted in venezuela leave a comment the circularity of injustice in venezuela under the revolution and the autocrat january 22 2008 today the venezuelan electoral board cne rejected the possibility of holding a referendum on an amnesty bill as requested by a group of citizens this may represent a new all time high in terms of injustice for the revolution as the arguments used by the cne are simply absurd and have no legal grounds the cne simply makes a fake legal argument to reach its decision that makes a mockery not only of the venezuelan legal system but of the much ballyhooded representative democracy that autocrat chavez claims to believe in the argument represents the pinnacle of circularity in groundless legal arguments let s review the details the venezuelan constitution states quite clearly in article 205 articulo 205 la discusion de los proyectos de ley presentados por los ciudadanos y ciudadanas a lo dispuesto en el articulo anterior se iniciara a mas tardar en el periodo de sesiones ordinarias siguientes al que se haya presentado si el debate no se inicia dentro de dicho lapso el proyecto se sometera a referendo aprobatorio de conformidad con la ley which can be translated as article 205 the discussion of bills presented by citizens according to the previous article will be initiated at the latest in the period of ordinary sessions following that in which it is presented if the debate is not initiated during that period the project will be submitted to referendum following the law this simply means that the assembly has to bring up to debate a bill before the next period of sessions or it just goes to referendum remember this is the constitution the bolivarian constitution of venezuela approved and proposed by chavismo in 2000 well it just so happens that a group of citizens proposed an amnesty bill almost two years ago and the bill was never debated or considered by the 100 pro chavez national assembly thus it is very clear the bill as proposed a much wider amnesty bill than the selective non amnesty approved by chavez when his hostage rescue failed on new year s has to go to referendum no question about it it happens to be the constitution thus the same citizens went to the electoral board and asked that it be held one of the members of that board had already expressed publicly that the cne had nothing to consider with that referendum a surprising statement given that the cne has tried to get involved with any election going on in venezuela except with that of my condo board so today the cne ruled with an incredibly absurd and typical miscarriage of justice that the cne has accustomed us to the argument goes something like this articulo 187 of the venezuelan constitution says that it is the competence of the venezuelan national assembly to decree amnesty so you may ask how did chavez decree amnesty well that s the interesting thing he did it illegally he argued that the enabling bill gave him power to do but if you inspect that bill carefully nothing in it even comes close to enabling chavez to decree amnesty read it if you don t fall sleep you will notice that not even distant relatives of the concept of amnesty are contemplated in it so what did the cne argue that the national assembly was not constitutionally obligated to discuss the bill because this had been delegated on the president by the enabling bill thus they argued it became evident that art 205 of the venezuelan constitution did not apply so it is an extremely circular miscarriage of justice by which the cne not preciselt your venezuelan supreme court is ruling 1 a decision by the national assembly is above a constitutional mandate and article 2 that decision is not even evident in the bill that supposedly allows the president to approve amnesty by which supposedly the assembly delegated its constitutional mandate on the president secretly 3 the cne takes away a right of the people by this simple act which appears nowhere in the enabling bill thus chavez amnesty which i believe is illegal because it s not even mentioned in the enabling bill precludes the people from proposing their own showing once again that revolutionary justice is not only circular but very autocratic posted in venezuela leave a comment the recipe for disaster of chavez economic policy is enhanced to insure failure january 21 2008 if human beings learn from their mistakes you would think that by now chavez and his buddies would have learned something about what works and what does not work in terms of economic policies it is getting to be quite tragic that the more shortages become widespread the more the solutions are borrowed from the same recipes that have failed hugo chavez in his last nine years of government first there is this infinite belief that the government can do unfortunately so far in nine years all of the government s commercial projects have failed miserably remember the sugar revolution that was coming to venezuela under the advise of the cubans when it was announced in 2001 we were told that by 2005 venezuela would have become a net exporter of sugar instead the programs have been mired in delays and corruption and it is early 2008 three years late and none of the sugar processing plants promised funded and started in 2001 are fully functional even if they were there would be a problem those that were supposed to grow the sugar cane are either gone or growing something else either out of frustration over the delays or because the sugar cane plantations that were productive were invaded confiscated or abandoned by the policies of the revolutionary government but they don t ask do any of our commercial intiatives even work the answer may be too painfull second came the controls much like any government official in any part of the world ignorant in economic principles the venezuelan government decided five years ago to freeze the prices on more than 400 products many of which can t now be found around as producers simply shift to non regulated crops or stop working the land what s the point if you lose money it s called motivation survival of the fittest simple logic but instead of accepting the failure of the price controls the solution is to continue the controls and threaten the producers like in the case of milk the first threat is that the government will expropriate your farm if you export to colombia thus the autocrat can export the money of all venezuelans at will giving it away when it is actually needed right here but local producers can t try to sell their products with a gain in colombia because the same person fails to agree with that whim maybe chavez fails to realize that he lost the referendum and economic freedoms are still in the bolivarian constitution even worse chavez also threatens those that produce cheese with their milk you see most cheeses have no price controls some do curiously those are exactly the ones that are hard to find and liquid milk is regulated so producers following the laws of economics prefer to produce cheese and make a profit than sell milk and lose clear choice right not for chavez and the revolution what s next a decree prohibiting the production of cheese for the people shortages of milk or cheese are not too different they have never had shortages like this in the terrible forty years of the ivth repubic and maybe chavez has forgotten how common it is to have an arepa with cheese in the morning it actually sells more than hamburgers in venezuela in case you were wondering third when you realize things are not working start importing food yourself back to the first mistake and distributing it but here is the clincher at the official 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