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venezuelan juan pablo perez alfonzo referred to oil as the devil s excrement for countries easy wealth appears indeed to be the sure path to failure venezuela might be a clear example of that archive for january 2008 older posts some revolutionary tidbits from this week january 31 2008 the revolution never ceases to surprise and amaze this week s tidbits last christmas hugo chavez voiced his concern as a historian that simon bolivar may have been killed and the bones in his tomb in caracas may not be his he said he would name a commission to study this and this week we saw the decree creating it you would expect forensic scientists historians or medical doctors instead almost the whole cabinet is in it including the vice president the minsiter of interior and justice foreign relations finance yes finance defense education higher education health culture and science and technology just in case there is a crime involved nothing is said about the statue of limitations they also include the general prosecutor which only goes to show why things don t work in chavez revolution first of all most of these people are busy enough as it is with tremendous challenges and problems to solve to be distracted by this whim of the amateur historian sherlock holmes chavez even worse it goes right to chavez apparent belief that anyone can do anything no matter the background including him and minister of finance rafael isea who has been in the job for only three weeks and has yet to announce any major decisions or plans is being promoted by the revolutionaries of aragua state as their next governor for chavez psuv party just imagine this most popular man has the task of trying to fix the economy with limited economic experience and he is being proposed as a candidate for governor in elections that will take place in less than ten months which means he would have to resign in about seven or eigth if he is to have a chance well given the problems in the economy from inflation to high interest rates to shortages i do hope isea is thinking about these problems and not politics my feeling is that if he stays two or three months as minister he has no chance to be governor just watch inflation and his popularity will be inversely proportional to it and how about funny man francisco carrasquero the former head of the electoral board who is now a member of the venezuelan supreme court gave the formal speech at the initiation of the judicial year given that sometimes he can barely speak well i was surprised they picked him but to top it all off he said that justice can not be apolitical and the constitution can not be rigid or like a stone and that it should not be that amendments and reforms of the constitution serve to protect eternal regulations proving once again that mr carrasquero does ot even understand the role of the constitution and is willing to twist the law like he did as president of the electoral board in order to promote chavez political goals with people like him at the supreme court there can not be justice for all in venezuela then there is this tidbit in tal cual explaining how in a country where the unreformed constitution prohibits government financing of political parties introduced in the constitution by chavez in 2000 the electoral board cne spent us 17 1 million in providing chavez newly created political party psuv with 1 050 fingerprint machines antennas and the like in order to aid in the process of registering the members of the new party on top of that the cne provided personnel rented tents and purchased t shirts and caps for the new members to finish it off the armed forces provided some helicopters to support the logistics of the process all at taxpayers expense and illegal at that but the juiciest tidbit of the week has to be that at last the national assembly will open an investigation into maletagate but the investigation will not be into looking how the money left venezuela with exchange controls or in a pdvsa airplane filled with government officials no the investigation will be to prove that antonini was a cia agent the money left the us and it is all a conspiracy against the people of venezuela all is based in jaime baily s article saying he met antonini in 2002 and at the time antonini claimed to be anti chavez of course antonini made millions since 2002 so maybe the robolution changed his mind but i am sure the assembly will not look into this part of the story posted in venezuela leave a comment what chavez facebook page would look like january 30 2008 this anonymous spoof of chavez facebook page is just too funny not to post even if it is huge posted in venezuela leave a comment maletagate participants seem all to be connected to each other and the rest of the bolibourgeois january 29 2008 a friend sends me the address of the home where one of the men jailed in the maletagate case franklin duran was living in miami before he was detained specifically in key bizcayne fl the address is 655 north mashta drive and if you look at google maps you find this aerial view it looks very nice indeed right on the inlet and on the water as you can see on the left and you can see on the right the dock and boat in the back of the house if one the puts the same address into zillow com then one actually gets a very nice view of the house pools and everything looks like the house has two buildings and maybe even a couple of pools according to zillow the house is estimated to be worth us 3 96 million and yearly property taxes alone are us 75 600 what would be a huge salary by venezuelan standards one can then go to the dade county webpage and put in the address in the database for properties in the county and one finds that the house was assessed in 2007 at us 4 7 million and is the property of a company called foxdelta investments in pilot speak fox delta stands for fd the initials of franklin duran but one can go to the sunbiz webpage and find that foxdelta investments is indeed currently owned by franklin duran himself as its sole director however if one looks at the annual reports of the company the original company was registered by lawyer wladimir abad in 2003 and in 2004 it s president became franklin duran and it s vice president became none other than the carrier of the suitcase himself guido alejandro antonini with their addresses specified confirming beyond any doubt that the information given to me is correct this is duran s home not too shabby no long live the robolution nothing much happened with the company until august 22 nd of last year when two weeks after antonini was caught with the suitcase entering argentina duran removed his buddy antonini from being a director probably as a way of distancing himself from antonini unfortunately later he met repeatedly with antonini trying to help him hide the origin of the funds in the suitcase and the fbi was watching and taping and he was detained for acting as an agent of a foreign government meanwhile william 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 a...
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