The Devil's Excrement
Observations focused on the problems of an underdeveloped country, Venezuela, with some serendipity about the world (orchids, techs, science, investments, politics) at large. A famous 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.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008


I will be traveling on my annual vacation. I will be gone to three weeks to the other side of the planet. Bruni and Spinoza and even my distinguished blogger Jorge Arena will provide some ghost coverage as needed and once in a while I may even try to contribute. Hope the country holds together in my absence, funny things seem to happen when I travel...

9:46:35 PM    comment []


While we have become accustomed to the most bizarre and outrageous behavior and statements from Chavez Government officials, it was truly amazing to watch former General Prosecutor Isaias Rodriguez come on TV and start blaming the US Government, the “Empire”, for all of the country’s problems.

With his characteristic cynical straight face, the man who is most responsible for the wholesale violation of the laws and the Constitutions for the last seven years, violating his mandate, said, once again with a very straight face, that shortages, the Maletagate affair and now the testimony of his one time favorite star witness, are all part of a softer, more subtle coup against the Government of Hugo Chavez by the US Government and the CIA.

On the way he included electric shortages, Chavez’ relations with the FARC, the diplomatic crisis with Colombia and the ExxonMobil lawsuit, as part of this incredibly successful “slow” coup against the Venezuelan Government.

Which leads me to conclude that Hugo Chavez must then indeed be a CIA agent. Because it was Hugo Chavez who involved Venezuela unnecessarily in the conflict between Ecuador and Colombia, a conflict that had little to do with him, but led him to unilaterally mobilize the Venezuelan Armed Forces to the Colombia/Venezuela border, almost creating a needless military conflict. (Which may have been the end of Hugo Chavez as President anyway).

And it was also Chavez who declared his allegiance to the FARC, asking that they be considered a belligerent force and not a criminal guerrilla group, as well as saying that dead guerrilla leader Raul Reyes was a great and dear fighter. So, once again one onlyhahs to look at Chavez as the culprit for this case.

As for ExxonMobil, it was Chavez decision to expropriate ExxonMobil’s share of the Cerro Negro project which led to the suit, given the refusal of the Venezuelan Government to pay more than book value and in violation of the legally bound contract signed by the partners, PDVSA and Venezuela, when the projects were started. And I guess Isaias will once again blame the CIA and the US Government when Venezuela loses the case in arbitration and is force to pay an obnoxious amount, which could have been much better, used in improving the lot of the Venezuelan people.

And shortages whether electric or food are simply a direct consequence of…

You guessed it:

The stupid and ignorant policies of none other than super agent Hugo Chavez whose economic ideas are not socialist, but go back to the failed economic policies implemented in Latin America in the 60’s which led to so much poverty and the sub continent falling behind the world in economic development under the guidance of populist and ignorant autocrats similar to Hugo Chavez (Curiosuly many were agents of the Empire!). Thus, Chavez must be an agent of the Empire.

And then there is the laughable charge of the suitcase full of cash, found in PDVSA plane, filled with Chavistas of Venezuelan origin or Argentinean buddies who represent the business links to shady and non-transparent deals between the two Governments. We all recall how Isaias himself, at the time General Prosecutor, stated publicly that the crime was committed in Argentina and he had nothing to investigate, as if Venezuela did not have strict exchange controls which make it a crime, punished by prison, to carry more than US$ 10,000 in cash outside the country. Even today, there is no investigation in Venezuela of the Maletagate affair making a mockery of the case.

And, of course, there is the related case in Miami in which some people who have mysteriously made millions of dollars in deals with the Chavez Government were taped trying to convince the Maletagate main character, Guido Antonini, to say where he got the cash.

And then we come to Isaias’ star witness. The star witness of a case the former General Prosecutor manipulated to steer evidence away from the Government and towards the opposition. The case he claimed to have solved so many times only to go and show up with a charlatan like Giovanni Vasquez, who claimed to be many things and at many places, none of which were ever true. Despite this ,as Prosecutor, Rodriguez never removed the cases against some of the accused and jailed innocent people even after it was shown that his star witness, not the CIA’s, was a compulsive liar.

But no new avenue of investigation was opened after Vasquez was shown to be a liar, continuing the long miscarriage of justice where Rodriguez did accuse any moving body in the opposition of one thing or another.

But as you can see, Hugo Chavez seems to be at the center of the whole conspiracy. Isaias forgot the lack of accomplishments of the Government in education, housing, eliminating poverty, how crime has increased, all the money given to other countries by Super CIA agent Chavez himself, high inflation and the like.

Which can only lead us to the conclusion that Chavez is an agent of the Empire, unless, of course…

The CIA has discovered a stupidity virus and inoculated all of these guys with it…

I still have to explore this possibility.







8:26:05 PM    comment []



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