Posted on 01/10/2005 11:45:04 AM PST by alekboyd
London 10.01.05 | The house of former PDVSA executive Juan Santana has just been raided by the police (DISIP). They are now raiding that of Horacio Medina, another oil executive accused by the Chavez regime of treason. Sources report that they are headed for yet another raid in Edgar Paredes' house.
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Things seem to be moving quickly in Chavez Land.
And I keep hearing communism is dead, an anachronism...
Thanks a lot Jimmuh.
Let's hope Jimmy Carter doesn't certify the Iraqi Election the way he certified that one.
Jimmy would certify that Saddam would be relected President of Iraq.
Venezuela heading for civil war, I think.
Cuba, China, Zimbabwe, Venezuala, etc. The proponents of communism are far from done for. They did not disappear with the collapse of the USSR. I am waiting to hear what the British government is going to do about the seizure of property belonging to their nationals. If they want to see where inaction will take them, they can look to Zim.
I do not think so, on one side we have a criminal holding absolute power and money, courted by Big Oil and pretty much in control; on the other side a bunch of clueless failed politicos unworthy of trust, even by their families. Civic groups and society stand in the middle, powerless, hopeless, abandoned by the international community, sold for peanuts (how ironic) by the great Nobel Peace price Jimmy Carter.
As long as the barrel of oil continues above $40 forget about getting rid of Fidelito.
All the work by Reagan in the 80's being reversed by corrupt dictator loving politicians in the US and greedy oligarchs outside the US. And yet the Dim's still think Ken Blackwell is the greatest threat to democracy.
>Things seem to be moving quickly in Chavez Land<
Particularly speedily since entertaining the Red Chinese envoy recently.
I made a sales call in Caracas to PDVSA during the first year of Chavez reign.
At that time, the admin in PDVSA would not let Chavez people come into the building armed. The had to check their guns at the door. It was a little humorous watching the admin people tell the armed military types to take off their guns.
Now Chavez will take despotic control of the company and all of the money will go to Chavez.
The oil execs who led the strike were fired from their jobs long ago. The move now is to force them into exile, and to eventually seize their Venezuelan assets. Venezuela is fast becoming Cuba.
The current move against large landholdings does two things. Its aligns Chavez with the populist masses (again), but much more importantly it reminds everyone that whatever assets they have, they have only so long as Chavez allows them to keep them.
People who confront Chavez do not merely risk their lives, they don't merely risk being forced into exile, they risk losing everything.
Fidel Castro redux..
There are various moves going on at the moment:
1) Criminalise anti-Chavez political opinions.
2) Revisit and change the Supreme Tribunal's decision which ruled that there was no coup but a 'vacuum of power'.
3) Seize private property and land. Worth noting here that the biggest land owner of Venezuela is the state (estimated in more than 10 million hectares). However that land is not up to redistribution, just the private and productive one.
4) Re the oil execs, they are feared by Chavez as a political force (Gente del Petroleo), hence the prosecution.
5) Peasants in Cojedes state, where the British ranch was seized, denounce that chavista officials want the ranch for their personal benefit and not for redistribution.
6) By invading productive cattle and milk farms, the regime seeks to favour the military food mafia (Mercal) at the detriment of private producers.
7) All enemies will be imprisonned or forced to flee, whilst terrorists are protected by Chavez.
8) It sends a clear message to anyone opposing the regime, private property is not a given in current Venezuela.
Venezuela needs it's Pinochet.
Chavez has the control of the company since after the strike in 2003, furthermore he manages as it were his. The appointment of Rafael Ramirez was illegal. Watch out those thinking about doing business with Venezuela.
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