Lies, lies and more lies

March 9, 2004

Everyone should read Francisco Toro’s list of lies by the Chavez Government, it is so good I had to reproduce it here:


How do we believe that just this once y’all are telling the truth when we’ve seen 10,000,000 lies before, when your leaderership has systematically lied, lied about Bolivar’s teachings, lied about the missing payments to FIEM, lied about the corruption in Plan Bolivar, lied about the sustainability of the exchange rate bands, lied about Oil-to-Cuba, lied about the domestic debt, lied about the CTV election results, lied about the size of the opposition, lied about Montesinos, lied about Ballestas, lied about its border policy, lied about Decree 1011, lied about the process to approve the 49 decree-laws, lied about Plan Avila, lied about the violence on April 11th, lied about the US role on April 12th, lied about the numbers on the street on April 13th, lied about the poverty rate, lied about the Charallave shootings, lied about the Autopista Regional del Centro shootings, lied about the Paro Nacional, lied about Plan Colina, lied about what happened in the old PDVSA, lied about what happens in the new PDVSA, lied about its oil production figures, lied about the pollution on Lake Maracaibo, lied about Intesa, lied about Intevep, lied about Citgo, lied about Ruhr Oel, lied about the Plataforma Deltana, lied about Yucal-Placer, lied about Tomoporo, lied about Free Market Petroleum, lied about the Las Cristinas mine, lied about school-enrollment figures, lied on the future of El Camastron, La Casona and Miraflores, lied about its impact on world oil prices, lied about the firmazo, lied about the reafirmazo, lied about Sumate, lied about the integrity of Cesar Gaviria, lied about the private media, lied about the reconstruction of Vargas State after the mudslides, lied about the links with FARC/ELN, lied about the “millardito”, lied about the infiltration of Cubans into the armed forces, lied about the killing of Jovany Sosa and Evangelina Carrizo and Jorge Tortoza and countless others, lied about Venezuela’s involvement in the coup against Sanchez de Lozada in Bolivia, lied about the Policia Metropolitana’s role in violence in Caracas, lied about racism, lied about the impact of the various “missions”, lied about Carrasquero’s impartiality, lied about the planillas planas, lied about the independence of the Fiscal, lied about the integrity of the Ombudsman, lied about the autonomy of the courts, lied about its commitment to human rights, lied about Pompeyo Marquez’s character, lied, in fact, at just about every turn on just about every significant aspect of policy and politics for over five years?


You should also read his “fuck you” list to Greg Wilpert and Venezuelanalysis.com. Since I alreday stole half his thunder, go read the rest in his blog. (he has now removed it, but read it anyway)u

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