To have “rińones” (kidneys) in Venezuela means to have audacity,
gall. I was going to write about the CNE and what they handed over to the
political parties in terms of voter data, but Petkoff in today’s Simon
Bocanegra couldn’t have said it better.
The “kidneys” of Jorge Rodriguez
The CNE decided to hand over to political parties the
electoral registry. It was an act of exquisite cynicism. What the parties
received was a list of 14 million people, without any other data accompanying the
names. Nothing. Not an address, nor location and number of voting booth, nor members
of that voting table. In other words, what was handed out is useless. It not
only violates the Suffrage law (art. 95), that taxatively establishes what the
electoral registry is and the data that should compose it, but at the CNE they
must think we Venezuelans have never voted.
We have been voting here for half a century and always,
always, the electoral register had the essential data of the voters, the
diffusion of which, moreover, does not damage neither the honor nor the reputation
of anyone. But the most shameful part was the argument used to justify such an
arbitrary act.
There is, according to the CNE, a decision by the Supreme
Court that orders protecting the data of citizens that it can not be handed
over to anyone without the authorization of those affected. Thus, the same CNE
that was itself dauntless in the face of the Tascon list and that even has not
been able to demonstrate that it did not come out of its womb, now is the jealous
guardian of the privacy of the voters. The kidneys of Jorge Rodriguez are such that
they should be preserved at a museum.
The Devil's Excrement 
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