Lies and totalitarian attitudes in the Bolivarian Revolution

October 16, 2004

Venezuela has a very good institute for scientific research called IVIC (Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas) which is very close to my heart as I spent half my life there. The Director of IVIC is named by the Minister of Science and Technology. According to the law, the Minister will request the advice of all of the permanent researchers of which researcher should be named. According to the internal regulations of the Institute, the researchers will advise the Minister by suggesting a trio of researchers from the Institution. Typically, there is a secret vote and the top three vote getters are sent in a letter to the Minister, including the number of votes obtained. In early October such a process took place.


 


-Chavista version of what happened according to a verbatim translation from Government press agency Venpres:


 


Maximo Garcia Sucre was named as the new Director of IVIC, succeeding Egidio Romano.  This is indicated by the Official Gazette of Thursday October 14th. of this month where the decision to name Raul Alejandro Padron Crema as the new Sub Director of the institute is also announced. The new Head of IVIC was elected by an assembly of researchers that evaluated his scientific credentials, personal and professional merits of each of those that were proposed for the job.


 


-What truly happened:


 


The minister rather than ask for three names, asked whether the Assembly of researchers approved of Dr. Garcia Sucre as Director. The Assembly rejected it by a vote of 85 to 10. The Assembly then proceeded to propose other candidates and a second vote took place in which Jesus del Castillo received 58 votes and Reinaldo Atencio (who is pro-Government) received 17 votes, ten more than Dr. Garcia Sucre.


 


Thus, the Minister in all her wisdom, disrespect for democracyand the Assembly, ignorance about the candidates and totalitarian mentality of this Government named Dr. Garcia Sucre. Venpres tried to lie around the events, but the truth shall make you free reading this blog!


 


Such is the state of lies and totalitarian attitudes in the Bolivarian revolution.

This entry was posted on October 16, 2004 at 3:39 pm and is filed under Venezuela.

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