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Situation in Venezuela
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=574&ncid=721&e=5&u=/nm/20021211/wl_nm/venezuela_dc ^

Posted on 12/11/2002 1:14:11 PM PST by support venezuela

This is a Spanish language news about two tankers sinking with toxic waste due to Chavez's stubborness to break the general strike with no regards for people, environment, or anything else.

He sent his "Bolivarian Circles" (modeled a-la Cuban Revolutionary Guards) to man huge oil ships.

Dos gabarras con desechos tóxicos se hundieron

Emergencia en Zulia por accidentes en muelle de La Salina

Las primeras informaciones dan cuenta del hundimiento en el muelle del Lago de Maracaibo, de la gabarra CC2161 luego de ser espoleada por un barco ruso que estaba siendo tripulado por un capitán retirado hace 10 años. Asimismo, otra gabarra, la CC2162, resultó averiada y podría hundirse en las próximas horas

Dirigentes de Pdvsa en el Zulia denunciaron el hundimiento de una gabarra en el muelle La Salina de Maracaibo, como consecuencia de la embestido por parte de un buque de bandera rusa, el Marshall Chuikov, contra el embarcadero de combustible.

Las primeras informaciones dan cuenta del hundimiento en el muelle de la gabarra CC2161 luego de ser espoleada por un barco ruso que estaba siendo tripulado por un capitán retirado hace 10 años. Asimismo, otra gabarra, la CC2162, resultó averiada y podría hundirse en las próximas horas.

Por otra parte, se señala que durante las labores de maniobra luego del accidente, el buque quedó en una situación precaria, toda vez que el ancla quedó hundida justamente debajo de la quilla, lo que podría ocasionar la ruptura del caso.

La gravedad del accidente con la gabarras hundidas radica en que las mismas transportaban desechos altamente tóxicos producto de las labores de perforación, lo que causará un daño ecológico hasta ahora incuantificable.

Asimismo, dos lanchas propiedad de Pdvsa chocaron este miércoles en pleno recorrido en el Lago de Maracaibo. La tripulación de ambas embarcaciones no formaban parte de la nómina de la empresa, y se especula que pudieran ser miembros de círculos bolivarianos que este domingo secuestraron cuatro embarcaciones en el Muelle de La Salina.

El presidente de Fedecámaras, Carlos Fernández, al dar a conocer la situación, responsabilizó al gobierno nacional del accidente, “pues se ha autorizado a maniobrar los barcos con personal no capacitado” para operar en las aguas del Lago de Maracaibo.

Fernández también rechazó la acción comando que abordó el buque Yavire esta madrugada, y responsabilizó al gobierno nacional por los posibles accidentes que pudieran ocurrir “por la irresponsabilidad de asaltar un buque cuyos tripulantes no se han negado a entregar”.

Explicó que la tripulación del barco ha expresado su intención de entregar el mando a personal calificado para hacerlo, “pero como no tienen ese personal, han encomendado esta tarea a personas que poseen ni la documentación y la capacidad para hacerlo”.

El buque Yavire, fondeado en la bahía de Puerto La Cruz el pasado fin de semana, transporta gas licuado, un combustible altamente inflamable, cuyo manejo requiere de especiales medidas de seguridad dado lo delicado de su carga.

Indicó que se están dando documentaciones a personal inexperto que han puesto en peligro la seguridad “no sólo del barco, sino de miles de personas que viven de los alrededores de la zona, porque una explosión pudiera extenderse por varios kilómetros a la redonda”, señaló.

Peligroso abordaje

Esta mañana, el jefe de máquina del Yavire, César Franco, informó a una radio nacional que la alrededor de las cuatro de la madrugada, un piquete de efectivos de la Armada ocupó el buque, sacando a la tripulación de sus camarotes en ropa interior y queriendo obligarlos en ese momento a poner a funcionar el barco.

Según Franco, el abordaje se realizó tipo “comando” con efectivos con armas largas. El capitán Atilio Bermúdez fue detenido y llevado junto a su abogado a la Capitanía de Puerto de Puerto La Cruz.

El buque sigue aislado y vigilado por embarcaciones de la Armada, mientras sus tripulantes esperan que sea trasladado a bordo el nuevo capitán, Víctor Omaña.

Franco dijo que Omaña apenas tiene dos meses tripulando este tipo de embarcaciones, por lo que advirtió los peligros que se correrían al intentar atracar el barco. “Decidimos que no navegaríamos con él por cuestiones de seguridad.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: castro; chavez; cuba; latinamericalist; oil; venezuela
Just to keep you posted on the situation. A boat with toxic waste from oil exploration and production sunk because it was manned by people not accredited, sent by Chavez's government (since the Merchant Marines are in the general strike). The environmental consequences unimaginableable.

This is a small accident compared with what can happen at refineries due to the same reasons (non-qualified personnel managing the installations). The environmental and ecological consequences can be many times more catastrophic than the ones from the sunken ship.

Also, this morning a commando from the Venezuelan Navy boarded a ship filled with natural gas. This is an incrediflammableable fuel, and a the Navy entered with long assault weapons. An explosion of this tankerwould raze Venezuela's 4th largest city, with more than 500,000 people.

I think is time the world says "Enough of You" to Chavez. The above mentioned events should be enough for even the most left wing liberals to think again about their support for the so-called Bolivarian Revolution.

Please pass it along.

Thanks,

1 posted on 12/11/2002 1:14:12 PM PST by support venezuela
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To: support venezuela
Are you riding it out ?
2 posted on 12/11/2002 1:25:03 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: *Latin_America_List
bump
3 posted on 12/11/2002 1:25:20 PM PST by Fish out of Water
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To: support venezuela
I will send a link to this story in the next mass email, which goes to an assortment of letters to editors, talk show hosts, and individuals. It will get seen.
4 posted on 12/11/2002 1:30:27 PM PST by backhoe
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To: support venezuela
FYI-Background info on Chavez for educational purposes.

Thursday, 5 December, 2002, 21:30 GMT
Profile: Hugo Chavez


Chavez has kept his military image while in office

Hugo Chavez has seen his fortunes swing dramatically from success to failure and back again since his landslide victory in Venezuela's 1998 presidential election.
Only last July, the leftist leader's supporters were out celebrating his re-election in the streets of Caracas, but by April 2002 the whole country was embroiled in a general strike.

This admirer of Fidel Castro's Cuba and avowed anti-globalist was pushed from office on 12 April - as a result of his attempts to take control of the world's fifth-biggest oil industry.

But just two days later, after his supporters - mainly Venezuela's poor - took the streets, he was back in the presidential palace.

Eight months on, Mr Chavez is facing his fourth national strike this year - one that is threatening to severely disrupt the country's economy.



The rest of the story here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1925236.stm
5 posted on 12/11/2002 1:35:04 PM PST by snippy_about_it
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To: support venezuela
Wassa matter? They don't have any Sopranos to take care of this stuff?
6 posted on 12/11/2002 1:36:20 PM PST by js1138
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To: js1138
Wassa matter? They don't have any Sopranos to take care of this stuff?

Are you kiddin' ... South America is Soprano heaven!

7 posted on 12/11/2002 1:54:31 PM PST by The Duke
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To: support venezuela
Where is al gore, and his greenies?
8 posted on 12/11/2002 2:16:30 PM PST by desertcry
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To: support venezuela
"...should be enough for even the most left wing liberals to think again about their support for the so-called Bolivarian Revolution."


Nope. They don't really care about the environment, they just want to implement a worldwide socialist "utopia" and a few environmental catastrophes aren't an obstacle. Just look at how carefully they manage the environment in places where socialism has taken over and you will see that environmentalists are merely useful idiots for the radical left.
9 posted on 12/11/2002 3:39:40 PM PST by calenel
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To: support venezuela
Thank you for the post. It’s a wonder somebody didn’t board the ship carrying liquid gas and then light a cigarette. That would have been interesting.
10 posted on 12/11/2002 4:40:53 PM PST by GatĂșn(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: support venezuela
Also, from...
http://www.militaresdemocraticos.com/articulos/sp/20021211-03.html
...if you can read spanish, it would seem the first diesel available since the strike pinched supplies/production has been rushed off to Cuba to bail out his buddy Fidel.
-Shane
11 posted on 12/11/2002 5:49:37 PM PST by shanec
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