--Chacao
Mayor and Primero Justicia Leader Leopoldo Lopez was found to be guilty of “influence
peddling" and would be unable to hold public office for the next three
years as published in the official gazette today. According to the Comptroller's
Office Lopez used his influence when he used to work at the PDVSA Economic
Office to get a contribution of Bs. 60 million for the Primero Justicia party. The
person authorizing the contribution, Lopez' mother is also precluded from
holding public office for the next three years.
My
comment: If they had to dig so far back and find such a tenuous charge, rather
than finding something from his administration in the last four and a half
years as Mayor of Chacao, he must be pretty efficient and honest. --Leaders
of the Patria Para Todos party (PPT), which backs Chavez, asked
Sumate to reveal where the funds for the primary will come from. My
comment: Show me yours and I will show you mine. While you are at it, we want to see MVR's too! --Chavez
secretly gave a bankrupt factory in Brazil US$ 70 million in October, where
the union was controlled from workers of Lula's party, after Lula himself refused
to give the company money to save it. My
comment: The largesse of the autocrat that runs this feudal land called Venezuela has
no limits. But US$ 70 million is a drop in the bucket compared to the levels of
mafia-like corruption Venezuelans are witnessing in the name of the robolution. Whatever happened to the poor?
--Venezuelan
representatives to the Andean Parliament, all of them pro-Chavez since they
were elected in the December election, want to have the country continue having both
voice and vote, despite Chavez' autocratic decision to leave the Andean Community of
Nations. My
comment: They don't want to lose their dollarized salaries, their travel
expenses, their diplomatic passports and their perks. You've got to love the
romantic aspects of the revolution! Again, do these guys remember the poor?
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