Monday, July 14, 2008

The more things change, the more they stay the same in Venezuela --No sooner had President Chavez met with Colombian President Uribe, that his diplomatic abilities gave him away when he called Colombia’s Minister of Defense Santos “a sharpshooter”, telling the Petrocaribe conference that he had asked Uribe to “place Santos in his place”. Then Chavez really went into hyperbolic mode, when he said “if he were my Minister I would have removed him by now”. This from a man that has never removed a Minister for anything they have done wrong, including corruption, stupidity and incompetence. He always removes them without criticism so as to count with their future allegiance.And most of them do return... --And the Government took a step to fixing the problem of the large number of kidnappings in the last few months…the man in charge of kidnappings at the investigative police, was fired for actually telling the world the real number of kidnappings that had taken place in the country last month. This same strategy has been very successful in the health area where statistics have improved significantly since they stopped disseminating them. --And President Hugo Chavez called for the judicial system to be revised and asked that decisions be speeded up…but wait, wasn’t it Hugo Chavez that “overhauled” the judicial system in 2000? Hasn’t he been President for ten years? What do we need to revise?The things he did? What he implemented that only made things worse? Could it be that he and his comrades don’t know ho to run a country?...Just a thought. --And Venezuela’s are rejoicing today, as we finally managed to score a victory in the Miss Universe contest, after a 12 year hiatus, as Dayana Mendoza won the crown beating Colombia’s representative (Take that Alvaro!) Which only goes to show that Venezuela has fantastic plastic surgeons. And they are back! 8:09:47 AM    comment []