In today’s Editorial Teodoro Petkoff makes a point that I thought of writing about when I read the same interview on Sunday, but never got around to it because of lack of time:
In the last few days (Sunday) we read an interview with one of the five Vice-Ministers of the Ministry of Foreign Relations , Delsy Rodriguez, a new civil servant (sister of the CNE Director) and as such as noisy as an old car or a new Deputy. Deissy discovered that the cushy job that she was given is an “empty shell, a sort of notary public through which the Venezuelan Government give faith of handing over its sovereignty”. If the Ministry is what she describes her allusion to the Fourth republic is insolent.
In six years of the revolution there has been a Parade through that office Jose Vicente Rangel, Colonel Luis Alfonso Davila, Roy Chaderton and Jesus Perez. General Arevalo Mendez was the Vice-Minister of all of them. If Delsy is right, then it is the “pretty revolution” the one that has to pay for it. The same way the Identification office has to pay. Six years later, they can’t continue cutting us with that wooden knife of the “previous Government. There have been quiet a few Directors that have gone through that office that are “revolutionaries” and now there is one called Cabeza who should have the same end as his homonymous that was in Centro Simon Bolivar and where he left “like a Champagne cork” and not precisely to reward his execution in that office. The Mision Identidada” through which millions of Venezuelans and foreigners were giving identity cards (including Granda) is a parallel system to the Identification office, because that office was not able to execute that operation with the speed that was required. For its electoral and political objectives the Government turns efficient because the Cubans give a hand. But the administrative routine of the “revolutionaries” drowns in a glass of water, skid in the mud of their incapacity and they only show any expedience when they are going to get paid or “ho much do I get for that?” We would be happy if only the identification office would works as badly as it did in the fourth Republic.
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