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land according to statistics from 2005 that appears in the report of the 2007 2008 unpd with a rate of 2 in 1970 venezuela s rate was 4 36 times higher than the country with the best statistic in 2005 venezuela s rate is 18 which is 9 times larger than the best country in other words venezuela has significantly deteriorated its relative position since 1970 but the most surprisingly negative figure that was provided by the minister himself as a positive point is the number of neonatal deaths in the maternidad concepcion palacios itself remember that it is probably the most important maternal hospital in venezuela the minister indicated that the maternidad presented a rate of 40 deaths per 1000 in 2005 and has fallen to 21 per 1000 in 2007 he congratulated himself on such a great progress how on earth does the minister welcome such a high figure if the country s rate is 13 neonatal deaths per 1000 how is it possible that the most important maternal hospital in venezuela presents almost twice the neonatal mortality of the country doesn t the minister realize that just such a figure shows that there is a very serious problem and that he should take action on it if i were minister of health in venezuela i would immediately put under guardianship the maternidad to investigate why the neonatal mortality rate is so high what is it is it management problems medical social problems what makes the maternidad s neonatal death rate so high has anybody compared their statistics with that of other hospitals in the same areas and with other hospitals in other areas of caracas that mr minister is what a goverment should be doing not insulting the media and calling them terrorists now let s go back again to the opening words of the minister that excused three of the death cases because they were stillborns as if by the fact that they did not count in the statistics for newborns their cases were not as important for families and public health policies after all of the six deaths four were stillborns let s see those women that arrive at the maternidad concepcion palacios are generally low income and very often have had no obstetric monitoring during their pregnancy precisely one of the most negative medical statistics of the government of hugo chavez has been the so called maternal deaths that occur from complications related to pregnancy embarrassingly despite barrio adentro and the phenomenal rise in the cost of oil maternal deaths have increased during the years of hugo chavez see article in ultimas noticias here the sad thing is that basic interventions like taken a blood pressure measure once a month or a daily glass of milk can prevent or detect in time major complications i do not know what were all the complications of the mothers who led to three of the stillborns this march 26 but it is clear that in venezuela there is a problem with the monitoring of pregnant women one thing is for sure mr minister there is nothing to boast about quite the opposite finally i conclude this post with an observation la maternidad concepci n palacios is the responsibility of the office of the mayor of caracas alcald a mayor so since we are talking about responsibilities i ask myself where is mayor juan barreto posted in venezuela leave a comment judge rules in favor of pvsa in freezing injunction case march 30 2008 i am a little behind in writing about some things and many will be not covered as i am planning a long trip soon but during the easter week the royal court of justice in london ruled in favour of pdvsa h essentially cancelling the freezing order for us 12 billion on the company s assets exxonmobil had requested the freeze over the dispute between the two companies over the takeover of cerro negro by pdvsa exxonmobil refused to accept the change in ownership whereby pdvsa would acquire a 60 control and simply walked away from the project demanding compensation the judge in the case did not rule so much on the merits of pdvsa s actions but more on the details of the freeze order and whether it is the competence of the court and whether the injunction is justified or not thus in a long and complicated decision the court ruled in the context of uk laws whether to extend the injunction granted by a lower judge the judge said in the decision that these type of freezing orders are made to avoid companies from dissipating its assets and explicitly says that for a freeze like the one requested by exxonmobil to be justified there has to be compelling evidence of serious international fraud which is not the case for pdvsa however the judge does refer to the takeover of cerro negro as an expropriation and says that exxonmobil does have an arguable case but it not only finds that the freeze can not be justified but states that exxonmobil has other courses of action for its demands the case is found to be justified because the original agreements of the association were breached and pdvsa acted in bad faith but it is not clear what the worth is and the judge made no attempt to resolve the point as to whether the us 12 billion is justified or not the judge also ruled that in the absence of fraud pdvsa would need to have substantial assets located in the uk and wales which is not the case moreover the judge states the fact that the seat of arbitration is not uk based would make it inappropriate to grant the request the judge also faults exxonmobil for not seeking relief within the venezuelan court system which is clearly laughable given the current state of the venezuelan justice system there are still injunctions in place in the netherlands and the united states that pdvsa will have to deal with in the near future the ruling does force pdvsa to abide and follow the arbitration steps as the judge says the company has followed the steps even if with some delays we suspect that pdvsa and exxonmobil will eventually settle a negotiated agreement in which pdvsa will pay exxonmobil with its stake in the chalmette refinery posted in venezuela 1 comment prosecutor accusation against former general prosecutor isaias rodriguez confirms gross miscarriage of justice under chavez march 28 2008 while it comes as no surprise today we got confirmation as to how former general prosecutor isaias rodriguez carried out gross miscarriages of justice while occupying the office which is suppose to defend and uphold the laws in venezuela it is no surprise because rodriguez used his office to persecute the government s enemies and seldom took the time to go after the government s friends moreover he was always suggesting that cases would be closed soon while actually completing few of them no case may be more emblematic than that of the murder of one of his main prosecutors danilo anderson who was assassinated using explosives in his car rodriguez accused the opposition from day one and failed to follow leads suggesting that anderson carried out a lifestyle beyond his means in fact anderson s friends charged that the assassinated prosecutor kept large amounts of money in his apartment money that was never found and were certainly beyond anderson s means other indications were never followed up in the investigation after raiding the homes of opposition figures and suggesting the case was almost ready to be prosecuted rodriguez found a star witness who he used to prosecute a number of opposition figures including reporter patricia poleo who still remains in exile all of the charges against those accused have been dropped including businessman nelson mezerhane well today a prosecutor that worked for rodriguez in the anderson case named jose contreras presented a formal accusation to the new general prosecutor in which he charges that rodriguez manipulated the penal investigation into the anderson case while the accusation may be politically motivated i would like to think that there are people with ethics and principles within the government who may be at times pressured to shut up but rebel when those involved leave government or their behavior exceeds certain limits it may be that the prosecutor making the charges was sick at reading yesterday that his former boss was preparing the documentation necessary and working on becoming a member of the venezuelan supreme court truly an insult to anyone with certain basic morals and principles in any case the charges presented against rodriguez are quite extensive and damaging and i certainly hope they stop rodriguez aspiration to become ea member of the supreme court although given the recent cases with other chavistas accusing government officials maybe it will be prosecutor jose contreras that gets fired or accused of corruption contreras says that rodriguez himself switched and changed the files on the danilo anderson case who would argue that the content of the files had to be reviewed by high government since the investigation was a state problem according to contreras rodriguez would later meet with them and would tell them to remove a certain person s name or include someone else s as well as describing that person s characteristics nothing in the investigations was done without the precise instructions of the prosecutor says contreras he also said that rodriguez said the star witness in the anderson case had fooled him but rodriguez never revealed who brought the star witness to him and why rodriguez never listened to the other prosecutors who told him the witness had little or no credibility contreras says he interviewed the star witness exhaustively and was able to convince himself that the witness had interests different from collaborating with justice the prosecutor also charges that rodriguez asked people to be detained based on the star witness s testimony but most of them have now been freed he reminds the current general prosecutor that when she was in charge of processes he told her about the irregularities in the case and as isaias rordriguez told him he needed to have a case because the radical currents of chavismo were asking for results with the intellectual authors of the crime in jail contreras says rodriguez egocentric personality and his political involvement led him to deviate in his mandate as general prosecutor the full letter in spanish is here the case is just an example of what we have been saying about justice under chavez for years how chavez has misused his power to neutralize enemies and how he has castrated the independent institutions that are supposed to provide checks and balances in a democratic society the prosecutor the people s ombudsman and the comptroller have been puppets of chavez for the last five years they have been used as tools of political pressure against the opposition and the fact that their job was defined from above implied these men ignored the mandates of their position allowing corruption abuse of power and human rights violations to flourish during the last nine years except that by now even chavistas are totally fed up with it posted in venezuela leave a comment looking at the forest and the trees in the barinas soap opera march 27 2008 the last few days there has been a soap opera going on in the national assembly surrounding the accusations by a little known chavista deputy whose name is wilmer azuaje who has been presenting evidence against what in chavez own barinas state is called the chavez royal family the whole thing is much like a soap opera because one needs to look at the big picture and the littel details to try to understand if at all possible what is going on there azuaje is not very well known nationally up to now he has been loyal to the revolution so loyal in fact that he has been named to the board of the assembly a couple of times with the unanimous support of its members he has no known track record in any field other than sucking up to the boss and politicking in his own barinas state one of his few appearances in public was the injunction he asked against a reporter for defaming him the reporter accused him of having no known education job training being an ignorant and having no qualifications despite which he had accumulated substantial wealth in the years he had been a deputy of the national assembly the injunction was granted the chavez royal family is referred to that way as chavez father is governor of barinas state the brother is secretary of the state argenis and another brother anibal is mayor of sabaneta a city in that same state where chavze was born there are others adeliz is president of sofitasa a financial institution used to pay all of barinas public employees narciso who used to be in the canadian embassy and of course adan the educated one minister of education recall that chavez has always claimed he was poor when growing up which is why he joined the army this is not strictly true both his parents were high school teachers in a country where all teachers have the same salary independent of where they live or are just how many years they have taught moreover chavez has never explained how come his older brother adan managed to enter the university of los andes before he joined the army if poverty was an issue they were not poor but they were not rich either just lower to middle class azuaje all of a sudden got ambitious and sensing the weakness of the chavez name in barinas decided he could be governor thus despite the express prohibition by chavez for people to announce candidacies azuaje announced he was running in november however he also decided to go for the jugular and denounced the chavez family for corruption saying they have accumulated large pieces of land most of which they keep in somebody else s name he brought the evidence to the comptroller s commission of the national assembly and the stuff is apparently quite thorough so much that they had to admit it as evidence and open an investigation but nothing is straightforward in the revolution despite being the accuser the commission decided at the same session to investigate him for enrichment and there were even proposals to remove him of his parliamentary immunity deputies in venezuela receive immunity agaisnt prosecution so that they can speak openly without being threatened at every step only the national assembly can remove him of his immunity mostly in criminal cases and this assembly in particular has never gone that far but this is the president s family so azuaje certainly has his work cut out for him what azuaje charges is that the chavez family has been accumulating land around the only farm they owned when chavez became president in 1998 a farm by the name of la chavera la chavera is not huge a mere 30 40 hectareas but according to azuaje it had no cattle in 1998 and now has over 5 000 heads of cattle except he also charges they were removed last week after he presented his first accusations azuaje charges that la chavera is now huge as the royal family has accumulated the surrounding properties under other people s names more specifically he says that l...
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