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liam abad who created the company foxdelta investments was also the secretary of the company which owned the plane confiscated last june by the dea as they made believe that the plane was owned by us nationals which he as a lawyer clearly knew was not true this all makes it fairly clear that all of these guys know each other the bolibourgeois seem all to be connected to each other and they seem to love nice homes and expensive toys like planes you have to love the robolution posted in venezuela leave a comment the financial times and cadivi arbitrage january 29 2008 and the financial times discovers oligarco burguesito and how stupid and inefficient this government has been some with enough contacts are making a living through arbitrage people with credit cards who cannot afford to use their dollars from cadivi sell their quotas to those who can according to cadivi from january to november last year venezuelans spent more than 4bn 2 7bn 2bn on credit cards abroad compared with just over 1bn the year before by contrast cadivi approved only 2 2bn for food importers even though the nation is battling food shortages posted in venezuela leave a comment maletagate heats up next target argentinean officials january 28 2008 the maletagate case gets more interesting by the minute as moises maionica s guilty plea appears ready to open a can of worms for the venezuelan government and apparently the argentinean one will not be that far behind first of all maionica must have a lot of interesting and significant information as he has been offered an s visa in exchange for his guilty plea i confess i had never heard of such a visa but from its description it must not be used unless the witness can provide extremely useful and interesting information for the us government on the case thus maionica must have offered a wealth of interesting stuff given that now he will be unable to return to hi home country and one has to wonder whether the others accused in the case will soon follow maionica s steps according to the immigration website the s visa issued to persons who assist us law enforcement to investigate and prosecute crimes and terrorist activities such as money laundering and organized crime on top of it the us attorney general has to approve it reportedly the prosecutor in the case has not revealed all his cards and may have recordings between some of those indicted and the argentinean consulate in miami which can only create more problems to both governments as the recording will be made public some point and the total denial they have so far used may become a laughing stock additionally guido antonini who carried the suitcase with the us 800 000 into argentina is ready to testify on his meetings with some of the same members of the argentinean consulate caught on tape talking to the other defendants on the case finally the venezuelan government has made many denials but has yet to say anything about the man at large canchica who is reportedly and active military officer and member of the intelligence police but nobody has been able to locate amidst rumors he is in cuba posted in venezuela leave a comment chavez popularity unraveling but let him soak in his own failures for a while january 27 2008 while chavez continued saber rattling colombia his former minister of defense raul baduel sent a message to that country not to pay attention to what hugo chavez may say it was a remarkable statement from chavez former buddy but one had to see beyond the message itself more than talking to the colombians baduel was likely sending also a message to the venezuelan military the same military officers that had to exert pressure on dec 2nd to have chavez accept his defeat in the constitutional referendum to not pay attention to their own commander in chief s attempt to distract the attention of the people form the mess chavez has created and one hears daily the rumblings not only from the people but more and more from his own collaborators and remarkably from hugo chavez himself in the middle of his threats against colombia chavez now regularly sprinkles his speeches with rants and loud statements about his governments inability to accomplish anything as if he were not the chief of state but some sort of outside comptroller checking things out what is remarkable and somewhat worrisome is the speed at which the results of the december 2nd referendum have unraveled the chavez government chavez popularity is sharply down as the image of invnecibility he had is now gone but more importantly there is no longer the fear of speaking out or of being discriminated for speaking out in fact unlikely other electoral processes there has been no punishment or even threats against those that did not vote and the former chavez supporters that voted no in december have not felt any indication that anyone knows their vote the fact is the loss was so unexpected that chavismo is still trying to come to terms with it so it has not had the time to organize any action against the voters because it is more concerned about whether the government s popularity can be brought back to its former levels moreover many of the fanatics who organized the discrimination campaigns in the past are no longer around they actually voted no and as they try to do prop up chavez they find that events are unraveling at their own speed with shortages widespread and the monetary reconversion creating another spike in inflation creating a very negative atmosphere against the government in fact polls continue to show a drop in the government s popularity beyond what was expected initially from the december defeat and the question is how can truly the government raise its popularity chavez continues to shoot from the hip daily sometimes at colombia other he says he will raise food prices the next day he says he will finance food purchases at mercal but the truth is that between the gas subsidy the food subsidy and the mismanagement the government voracity has bn such that little has been accomplished and now desperate measures with possible falling oil prices are unlikely to yield any quick results and with the economy strained by the bad policies of the last few years any new policies are likely to slowdown not move the economy creating further backlash and i begin to get concerned at the speed 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 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