Above is the letter from ABTIVIC, the Bolivarian Assembly of Workers of Venezuela’s premier Government research center, which is likely to lose that status the way it is being run and when “Assemblies of Workers” are capable of writing this type of crap and please pardon my french.I wanted to post the letter, so that it is on the record of the type of persecution and fascism that we are seeing in Veneuzla today.
Here Dr. Claudio Mendoza, a world renown physicist, one of the most distinguished from that institution because of his research and winner of the prestigious Polar award is taken to task. I will not translate it all, I already translated some sentences earlier, but suffice it to say that because he wrote an opinion piece with some very ironic sentences about Chavez’ hairbrained nuclear plans, he is being accused of hating the country, lying, conspiring, stateless, destabilizer and the like.
Well, all I can say is that those who wrote this are joining the fascist Government in persecuting those that disagree with their ideology and foolishness. Imagine, some of these people dare to ask that the recall referendum be binding and not a simple consultative referendum! How dared they!
Is this intolerance or what? Is there room for that in a democratic society? I think not!
Either you are with them or you are against them. Note that in one sentence they bunch all of IVIC’s researchers in one, as if that institution would have any meaning without the “Investigadores”, the research leaders without whom that Institution would make no sense.
In the end, they call for a more severe penalty for this man who having the choice of living and working anywhere he wanted, he chose Venezuela, his country of birth, where he has worked with dedication and passion and has made Venezuela proud of counting him among his citizens.
And if there is treason in the above letter, it is that against the Spanish Language, misused when arguing that Claudio was not “votado” (Voted), instead of “botado” (Kicked out). Claudio was indeed “votado” in order to remove him as Head of his Laboratory, when the highest authorities of that Institution, shamelessly voted to remove him because he said something that the almighty leader was offended with. And the level of the offense is such, that one can only wonder why they took it that way, unless you think…
That maybe Claudio was so right in his article, that it hit the Government where it hurts…and thus the revenge and the attacks.
But perhaps the stupidest thing is to suggest that the shortages the country has had in the last few months are part of the same conspiracy, as if the average Venezuelan did not go daily to the markets only to find the shelves empty and even the Mercal leaders have admitted they screwed up royally.
What a bunch of sad but dangerous clowns these intolerant guys are!
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