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ople who live in caracas may find no problem finding a connection to the internet when 12 of the population is rural and only a fraction has direct internet access you may want to create more democratic paths to the whol thing for example you could have a paper mechanism whereby people supply forms to banks directly but i digress the first point is that anyone requesting cadivi dollars has to provide an email and register it used to be that you would try to enter the cadivi page and you would have to wait a while companies actually pay people to do it during the night and on weekend but rather than spend some money in servers or hosting the cadivi page in a hst with good bandwidth like banks do the problems has never been resolved a while back cadivi then decided to create days for access weekends are a free for all but then depending on which number your id card ends in you can only try it on a certain day of the week it still takes a long time to get in and i know people that have spent two or three weeks trying to get in to fill a form ironically this system is a lot like the pico y pala day that some caracas municipalities tried to implement to reduce traffic whereby if your license plate ended in a certain number you could not drive during the morning and afternoon rush hours the chavez government opposed this strongly as this was implemented in municipalities in the hands of opposition mayors the government opposed it on the grounds that it restricted the people s right to move around and judges immediately and not surprisingly issued injunctions banning these days funny that nobody has applied the same concept to ban cadivi from limiting people s rights to information which is in the constitution but i digress again cadivi has been abysmal about calling people to prove how they spent their cadivi dollars as business sprouted around requesting cadivi dollars to take advantage of the arbitrage it took a long time for cadivi to wise up to it finally they issued a list calling those in it to go to cadivi and prove how they had spent their subsidy the first list was a violation of people s privacy it was public and it contained people s names and id number cedula this is not only a violation of people s privacy but it provides information to crooks which now know your cedula number and could use it illegally in later lists they removed the names to protect people s privacy but what is truly annoying and absurd is the latest list of 60 000 people that have to provide receipts given that cadivi has everyone s email you would think they would simply send everyone in the list an email telling them to provide the information instead a 9 mb adobe acrobat file with 60 000 id numbers and request number is placed on the already overloaded cadivi website to make everyone s life miserable as hundred of thousands people attempt to download the list to see if they are in it other trying to get in to request their money can t do it and they lose their weekly chance to do it i don t know who are the geniuses that run the cadivi systems but if after five years of exchange controls they are so bad they should be fired unless of course they got the contract because they had a buddy in cadivi or they paid a bribe god forbid fortunately this morning i got up to watch the major league baseball game in japan early and i managed to get the download going it was still not done when i left for work almost wto hours later i now have the list and can email it to all my friends who want to know whether they are in it you see the penalty if you don t provide the receipts is one year in which you don t get your quotas for internet or travel and in a country where people are now obsessed from taking advantage of the oligarco burguesito arbitrage that is much worse and uncool than having your rights violated by being in the tascon facist list posted in venezuela leave a comment mision conuco higher education version march 25 2008 i found the article below in today s el nacional which was also sent to me by a friend probably concerned about its implications but what never ceases to amaze me is how two relatively intelligent and educated people like the minister of higher education and the minister of science and technology can defend programs like those described below these are people who spent their life financed by the government to do research in esoteric topics of scientific validity but who now seem to think they wasted their whole life because they did not work in conucos never heard them complain when they received funding to finance their fairly mediocre research projects and scientific careers moreover all technical studies show how the conuco is an unsustainable as a self supporting structure but since their big leader the almighty chavez defends it then it must be good maybe they have forgotten how to read or think what s next making them obligatory it would be better for the same students and or venezuela to have them spend their time programming in basic or fortran at least theyw ill learn how to think let history judge their stupidity education and society program university stsudnets will plant black beans corn and mandioca with the arrival of the rainy season the beginning of the program all hands to sow will also arrive a program which is being backed by the ministries of higher education agriculture and science and technology the project stipulates that students professors employees and workers organize themselves in brigades to plant mandioca corn and black beans in 100 hectareas that have been provided to 17 institutions the teams must have between five and seven members who voluntarily will sow sseds in may and will harvest the crops in september backed by producers from agrarian developments we will plant not only the established items but we will sow the conscience in all involved students about the need that their education point towards the development of the country explained minister luis acu a hector navarro minister of science and technology added that it means adding efforts to substantially increase productive capacity but not starting from the great units of production but from the small and medium size producers the program implies the practical substitution of agrochemical practices by an agroecological and sustainable focus and will receive consulting from cuban advisers posted in venezuela leave a comment a picture is worth 10 000 words 37 oil gdp and production march 24 2008 former pdvsa economist ramon espinasa updated his graphs on oil gdp and oil production and they were publsihed in today s el nacional they paint a grim picture in the top panel he shows oil gdp total gdp for the last few years which dramatically magnifies what has been going on as oil gdp has been halved as investment and production has dropped the bottom panel shows total oil production in the black line pdvsa production in the gray line the bottom line shows internal consumption a picture is indeed worth more than thousands of words the question is whether the ministers can even understand them posted in pictures leave a comment chavez s lies and doublespeak rule the day in venezuela march 24 2008 we got some more wisdom today from chavez who is looking more like jim carey in liar liar he hailed the victory by the government in the exxonmobil case of course he failed to say that the victory where was the empire when the decision was made was a ruling by the british court that the expropriation by pdvsa of the cerro negro property was not within the jurisdictional boundaries of the court thus the court implicitly said there was an illegal act it just was not competent to rule on it moreover the injunctions in dutch and us courts remain in effect chavez earlier had warned uribe to reign in his spokesmen for war referring to the minister of defense of colombia well the only man that tried to pile up troops at a border and threatened military action was chavez himself but he was silently reigned in by his military chiefs of staff who took three days to do any mobilizations and what litel was moved was not too impressive according to the colombians we know who the warmonger is and he is among us chavez was silent on two issues the charges of corruption against his family members which will be brought up in front of the prosecutor s office tomorrow by a chavista deputies this includes pictures deeds and documents of the large state properties the royal chavez family has accumulated in barinas state over the last few years making them the new bolilatifundistas and then there is the coincidence between the fake letter from marulanda found in reyes computer and that read by chavez on live national tv in december i guess the cia managed to slip that letter into chavez reality show alo presidente those guys are good posted in venezuela leave a comment the hopeless destruction power of the chavez revolution march 24 2008 the day before the easter vacation semana santa began the government owned telecom company cantv reported it s 2007 financial results we had not seen much of a glimpse into these results as the company discontinued its quarterly reports under new revolutionary management but the company is still publicly traded and the managers decided to comply with the law and present the yearly financials well after nine month under the revolution the news is not good the company reported that earnings were down 51 from a year ago of course chavez has said repeatedly that the company will now have a social purpose whatever that may mean and the profits will be used for social programs the problem is that if in only nine moths profits are down 51 how long will it be before they become negative and there are no profits to use in social programs at that time the ideological whim of the former autocrat becomes a cost that will subtract money from social programs like so many other things the revolution has destroyed and it was an ideological whim because when cantv was privatized in 1991 it was not only sold for a huge price but it was also mostly dysfunctional it was hard to make a local call let alone an international one at the time however it was a monopoly which allowed it to be mismanaged give terrible service and lose money year after year this time around since chavez decided to nationalize the company which also cost money that could have gone to social programs without consulting anyone the problem is that cantv is no longer a monopoly and private companies will take advantage of the new incompetent management to gain market share by providing better services just better not necessarily good services and cantv made less money for a simple reason margins are down the company is charging less and costs increased as the number of workers has increased it is typical government management when the job is not being done then throw more people and money at it in the hope it will but it wouldn t while i have yet to see the financials of electricidad de caracas i have already seen the effects of the new revolutionary management more blackouts a note saying i have yet to pay my bill 21 days after i did and the senseless buyback of the company s debt i talked about a few days ago but even more troubling is that an efficient and working company like electricidad de caracas will be taken apart by the decision to merge it into the new pdvsa owned and run compania nacional de electricidad whose acronym cne simply gives us a glimpse into what we may see going forward juts imagine a company that runs well will be split into pieces and merged into a new structure with no proven track record which will be run and managed by an inefficient company like pdvsa anyone with the most rudimentary management training or ideas would have suggested either keeping edc s structure or merging the non working companies into edc the jewel of the bunch instead eight or nine regional companies will be merged into a single entity all under the supervision of pdvsa managers the same ones that have been unable to keep the company functional since the strike losing production year after year and failing to invest for the future what a joke but of course this is the same revolution that in 2001 passed the infamous land bill and made sugar and cattle their focus for the future it is not coincidence that he first shortages were in sugar we have now become net importers of it as acres of sugar cane plantations lay abandoned as none yes not a single one of the sugar processing plants is working at even half capacity under the advise supervision and sometimes imported machinery of expert cuban advisers the same experts that made cuba an irrelevant sugar producers long time ago and the chavez government has spent billions yes billion of dollars in sugar plants alone just the caeez project the jewel of the project in chavez own barinas state cost us 200 million obviously cost is a euphemism as us 200 million was spent in the initial stages of the project and only some land was cleared and some beams went up as the robolutionary national assembly investigated corruption for us 3 million but never asked where the other us 197 million were and there is cattle of course all those large estates the hated latifundios taken over by the revolution none of the have even half the heads they did when taken over as the beneficiaries sold off or killed the cattle when things started to not go well milk shortages by now have become chronic not that venezuela was ever self sufficient in milk production but whatever sufficiency there was has been reduced even further more waste more destruction less money to where it is needed but rather than see and recognize the errors the robolution goes after the next link in the chain buying off dairy farms producers and distributors because they have now decided that is where the problem is but all it means is more pain ahead as these enterprises from parmalat to the ones bought off more recently become inefficient wasteful under the inefficient government eyes it s the same everywhere a dysfunctional government takes over working structures and rapidly thermalizes them with its own structure for the worse never for the better it s the same everywhere a parallel health system was created to replace the existing one today both lie almost useless the old one decrepit due to the lack of maintenance the new one mostly abandoned as the focus on it seems a thing of the past in education not much ahs happened other than the change in name fewer than 200 new schools have been built in nine years students graduate without receiving the obligatory math physics and chemistry in high school they get passing grades because there are no teachers the lucky few that get into universities struggle with basic concepts they should have heard of three ears earlier the solution as usual destroy the existing structure the functioning one force 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