Posted on 09/22/2006 7:41:08 PM PDT by Kitten Festival
Valle de la Pascua 22.09.06 – Two of the most important cities of Venezuela´s Llanos saw impressive levels of support in rallies for opposition candidate Manuel Rosales. The first in San Juan de Los Morros and the second in Valle de la Pascua was, according to local resident Orlando Vale, the biggest rally the city had seen in many years. ¨What we saw today we hadn´t seen since the days of the first campaign of Carlos Andres Perez¨ said Vale, who added with emotion ¨and there are even more people today!¨
The rally started in a chavista neighborhood known as Las Garcitas. From there roughly a 3 km walk ended with an emotional speech in which Rosales appealed ... by assuring producers that the current policy of massive staple imports are to end as soon as he reaches power.
This government is decimating the country´s agricultural sector. Producers can not compete against a phenomenally wealthy administration that keeps on favouring foreign producers rather than Venezuelan ones¨ Rosales claimed.
The poor condition in which most access roads are was another issue celebrated by the locals. The most remarkable moments ... were when Rosales touched upon the right that those who have lived in and worked the land have with regards to its property. One of the pillars of Rosales´ ticket is to transfer the property of the land to its rightful owners ... for the current practice is to grant leases or sort of production rights -while the government maintains titles of ownership- ... Rosales is offering complete transfer of property to campesinos.
... I will put all of you to work by guaranteeing property rights within a legal framework that will encourage local and foreign private investment which will turn into jobs creation and wealth.
(Excerpt) Read more at vcrisis.com ...
Will Jimmy Carter be available to "certify" the results again?
"We love America! We will all live there some day!"
That is something I wonder about too. But if he steals an election right in front of their faces after they have votes, odds are, they will come after him. If they stay home, they will always wonder. It's better to vote and get cheated than not vote and not know.
Carter might be available if the new guy can make a large donation to his library...
Great!
We will all live there some day!
Uh, not great!
Anyway, Mexico is still emptying out. Only about 60 million more to go. Your turn is next. Maybe in 2 or 3 years.
When is the election down there?
I'm sorry - I meant - the "election"
If this guy gets elected, they won't have to move, they'll get their america brought to them.
He's a good thing.
I like the Clinton Video Game better
Interesting---the Chavez government seems to impose some kind of sharecropping system on farmers. It makes good sense that with waning support in his own country, he came looking for a jumpstart here but instead found a last hurrah in his UN showboating. This guy is doomed: it's as though his unspoken fantasy was to be forcefully installed as President of the United States with the help of Harlem and Danny GLover.
Boy, we should really be behind this Rosales guy---he looks and sounds like a legitimately humanitarian kind of social democrat, whereas Chavez is the same old Soviet/Castro model dictator with no real organizational sense or skill. We must keep Jimmy Carter from every setting foot there again!
BTW, thanks so much for finding and posting that: our attention has been directed lately with so much prolonged special focus on Chavez himself it's as though we already assumed he was President for Life, like Castro, and not subject to challengers.
I wonder if his party gets a cut.
Leasing to the peasants means his "land reform" can be yanked away from them.
Good point. Only the cowboyless French really dislike cowboys. Cowboys are totally indigenous to the Americas and Australia, a great melding of English, Spanish, Indian and Portuguese heritages. That means no French allowed.
Chavez spent a lot of time in France and reads a lot of French intellectuals. He was the son of a petty village schoolmaster who thought he was brighter than the other Venezuelan townfolk. Chavez says he was named after Victor Hugo. He is very much a francophile, even though he eats with his hands.
I hope and pray that Mr. Rosales has good security.
Lefists in power are dangerous.
Considering Chavez jails his challengers, I'm not sure what kind of success this guy can have in an "election." But the good news is that there are people who are willing to challenge him - and we should help them (take that, Pat!). We better do it quickly before the people of Venezuela turn into the Cubans - despise their dictator but are almost entirely powerless against him and just waiting for the SOB to die.
It's how communist dictators "buy" the "peons" - rope 'em in, get their votes - then stomp on them.
In this case, it's how he and the other dictators who met with him in Cuba last week plan on undermining our government....
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