-The Chavez Government should be concerned that the person I consider the best investigative reporter in Venezuela El Universal’ Victor Salmeron has decided to devote his time to the problem of land interventions. (Disclaimer: I know Victor personally!). In today’s El Universal, he writes a long article on what has happened to the farm owned by Acción Democrática Deputy Salomon Centeno.
Victor interviews both sides and shows, illustrating with pictures how the main house of the farm has been destroyed and people have stolen most of the stuff. The farm is now producing very little and only 250 of the 1800 heads were saved. He also claims that he tried to stop the invasions but nobody ever helped.
He also interviews the invaders telling how farmers received loans, but lost the crops and how the invaders were given papers even before the legal procedures were completed. He then s interviews an invader who gets paid by someone else to take care of his stuff. The guy claims all he wants is a pension, a “scholarship” to defend himself with and which will allow him to work with the owners. He voted for Chavez but can’t understand why he does not have his scholarship.
The true face of land reform is being exposed!
-Today’s New York Times has an article about the role that Ukrainian intelligence services played in changing the course of history when the election was fraudulent stolen. The basically made threats that if force was used against the peaceful protesters, the Army and intelligence services would defend civilians. This was all led by a group of intelligence officers that decided not to follow the script written by the former President of Ukraine.
This article seems to suggest that what happened there was a combination of protests and groups in Government stopping the fraud. If we had had a similar group here in Venezuela history would have also been quite different, but we never did. It also seems to suggest the international role was not as important as that played by this group.
-Finally, interesting to see another article in The New York Times on former Iranian Vice President Mohammad Ali Abtahi who resigned last fall and now has started his own blog to be in touch with the people, particularly young ones. I looked at the blog, I hope it has more content in Farsi than in English, because I did not find it that interesting, but the whole idea certainly is.
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