The third problem related to the request is that Chavez obviously needs the money to throw it around in yet another show of paternalistic generosity, in order to buy the votes he will need to continue his systematic efforts of national destruction and his regional political messianic dreams. No matter how we look at this attempt by Chavez to lay his paws on the money (which belongs to all of us, Venezuelans) there is no doubt that he has to be stopped.
The Board of the Venezuelan Central Bank includes several Chavez followers, but even they are shocked at the arrogance of the ultimatum they have been delivered by this insensitive and ignorant man: "Fork over the money or you will be intervened," he has told the Board. All members of the Board with red blood flowing through their veins are probably thinking: "F*** you. Man!"
There is a moment in the life of every person where he has to live up to his creed ... for the members of the Board of the Venezuelan Central Bank that moment seems to have arrived. Personally, I think Hugo Chavez is in for a big surprise ... he does not longer seem to scare anyone ... he is starting to look like the echo of a shadow of a shade, in the words of the great science fiction writer Dan Simmons.***
On September 29 alone, six flights brought 950 Cubans, mostly males in their 30s and 40s. These "Cubans travel without caring about their belongings, which are loaded directly from the planes to the trucks of the mayor's offices," reported the journal El Universal on November 18. "The load is guarded by National Guard officers."
In this nation that once had a free press, the tightening grip of the Chavez dictatorship has forbidden the photographing of this airport influx of operatives from his friend Fidel Castro's Communist police state.
"The use of TV cameras as well as the presence of journalists from any mass media is prohibited," reported El Universal. "Nevertheless, a few photojournalists have managed to catch images from landings, defeating security controls."
Between September 26 and October 27, this journal reports from its sources that 11,530 Cubans arrived in Venezuela on 76 such flights. Chavez's seizure of one television station and threats against the rest of the press have reduced such critical news coverage of his regime.***