The Devil's Excrement

I was going to write about this,
but Petkoff did it before me and it is hard to improve on what he wrote. I would
only add, that this is done daily by Venezuelan Government officials and in the
case of our current Minister of Finance, he “claimed”  (The money was never found) that he did the
same diversion of public funds to pay salaries that Chacao’s Mayor is being accused
for, except the minister was talking abut US$ 3 billion and not a few million
as in the Mayor’s case. The second curious item, is that Leopoldo  Lopez is not only successful as Mayor, but if
my memory serves me right, he received the highest number of votes, percentage-wise,
than any Mayoral candidate in Venezuelalast
year.  Clearly the Government fears Primero Justicia, first it was
the skeletons, then this story and now today the President of the
Assembly accuses it, without presenting any evidence of receiving support from the US Embassy. Here is Teodoro on Leopolod Lopez.

Clodo
draws the sword by Teodoro Petkoff in Tal Cual

This small reporter asks himself if Clodosbaldo Russian, when he looks
at himself in the mirror, is capable of looking at himself without looking
down. This guy, that has played dumb in the face of tons of cases of
corruption, that has seen hundreds of payment orders for works never built,
that can not ignore the scandalous proportions that administrative corruption
has reached, that when the Bolivar Plan was investigated, after he killed the
tiger he s… in his pants when he faced the skin and left it at that, without ever
producing a “second report”; this grotesque personality of the oficialist
troupe, found, at last, a “corrupt one” to punish. Yesterday he announced
triumphally, that he had caught Leopoldo Lopez, Mayor of Chacao, in an administrative
crime. I do not know the details of the case but it makes me suspicious given
Russians record that the only corrupt person that he has found happens to be an
opposition Mayor. What a coincidence! And it is also a coincidence that he
banned him politically staring in 2008 (when his terms ends), when young Lopez,
obviously, could aspire to other public positions. Well, the truth is that
after the sentence about the morochas, in the officialist circus, even the hens
are beginning to crow like cocks.

This entry was posted on November 2, 2005 at 10:58 pm and is filed under Venezuela.