Deputy Albornoz made lots of noise about Sumate today, but in essence all he was saying is that Sumate did not commit the illegalities that he had accused them of last week. Indeed, all the Deputy did today was say that Sumate received funds via local banks, not in US$ and most of them before the new law was approved anyway. So it did not matter if Sumate wss not registered in CADIVI, bringing in dollars has nothing to do with CADIVI. But Shrelock Albornoz, as Petkoff calls him, continues screaming about Sumate, but fails to point out what it is that is illegal about that instituitions funding. In fact, we may ask:
Where does PPT, Albornoz’ party gets its funds? We simply have no idea, in contrast with Sumate that keeps and submits audited financial statements. How about Chavez’ MVR? Where does it get its funding? Well, as Petkoff points out, in the only well known case of ILLEGAL campaign funding in Venzuela’s history, Spain’s Juez Garzon determined that Hugo Chavez received MILLIONS of dollars illegally from two Spanish banks. Of course, this was never investigated. Such are the ways of autocratic and dictatorial regimes. It is simply all about hunting and persecuting your enemies as Petkoff points out in his Editorial today:
The Hunt
by Teodoro Petkoff
Nothing has happened in this country
Using a
phrase from that personality named Jose Vicente Rangel we could qualify the
situation as “normal”. All Venezuelans have a dignified home, all Venezuelans
old enough to work have a job, there are no kids in the streets, nor old people
in the streets, nor indigenous citizens in the streets. All Venezuelan study
and students no longer have to repeat the school year.
Security
is the norm in the barrios and residential areas, hamlets and cities.
Newspapers
are thinking of eliminating the sections on crime, because only natural deaths
occur these days.
However, such a disproportionate normality worries the dominant
political circles. Revolution and calm do not go along well. They are diametrically
the opposite from each other. The calm, drowsiness, demobilizes, makes you feel
lightheaded, makes the masses that need heroics sleepy so that, even if it is unlikely that
the socialist paradise will arrive in the next few days, months of years, at least
they can live the drunkard illusion of confronting the empire and make it bite
the dust.
The main exponent of the empire in Venezuela, with Mister Brownfield’s
permission is Sumate. José Sherlock Albornoz, a bloodhound who does not miss a
thing, is following the trail of the mysterious funds that feed the organization.
In charge of the mixed committee of the National Assembly he has proposed himself
to summons (yesterday was the first) the Superintendent of Banks, the Tax
Superintendent and the President of the Venezuelan Central Bank, organism to
which the Constitution assigns the task of formulating and executing monetary
policy, design and execute foreign exchange policy, regulate the currency,
credit, interest rates and administer international reserves.
Can there be a relationship between these tasks and Sumate? Sherlock
Albornoz clarifies this mystery.
Elementary
Alejandro, the President of Sumate qualified the investigation as “political
persecution”.
And, indeed it is. The
National Assemblies oversteps its attributions and misspends public funds in useless
hors of republican life, in this surrealist circus which lacks any grace.
Nothing happens except for these diminished hours for the
country. What was public and notable was that a bank of Spanish origin
contributed to the financing of the campaign of Hugo Chavez in a sort of deal
that Chavez’ MVR shuts up about and that the Deputies of the regime forget with
remarkable quickness.
While the CNE asks the candidates to RESPECT institutions,
these in turn laugh at the country and its members who actually elected them. Because
the true objective of this non-Government is not only to control institutions,
but also to convert them in old worthless objects, in docile instruments of their
political whims, in weapons for hunting, today against Sumate, tomorrow against
any organization or individual that bothers or dissents from this unhinged
regime.
The Devil's Excrement 
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