Many things happened while I was off the air, some, like the PDVSA bonds, I
will write about later, but I can’t help but put my two cents into the following
stories:
—Former Governor Lapi escapes from jail: Daniel has covered this in detail here,
here
or here,
but the case it’s truly a reflection of the lowlifes of this robolution. He is
first called a coward for escaping from a jail in a jail system that is famous
for deaths among inmates and riots; with close to a death per day in the country’s
jail system. A couple of days before Lapi’s escape, eight people were killed in
a jail riot where he was being held and a grenade exploded within the jail. Of
course, he has been in jail for misuse of funds for a year, but the Prosecutor
has yet to bring him to trial, in violation of the laws. Moreover, all of his
injunctions at the Supreme Court have not been heard by that Court, which is also
illegal since there is a limit to how long they have to decide on them. Despite
this travesty of Justice, the Head of the Supreme Court publicly speaks on a
case she might have to rule later, saying that here is another crime committed
by the former Governor. Even more unethical is the fact that she happens to be from
the same state of Yaracuy where they have been political enemies for
years. How is that for political hate! But the laugher has to be that the Government jails 49 people who
work at the jail for helping the former Governor escape. This seems to suggest
that they have no clue who helped Lapi. In a country where three people can’t
keep a secret, a conspiracy of 49 is unheard of. Gimme a break!
—Improvised prohibition or dry laws: Here is the Government which for eight
years has shown its total disregard for human life, allowing homicides to
triple in that period and all of a sudden they become fundamentalists and
prohibit public drinking everyday after 5 PM for the whole of the Easter
vacation. (Kathy has
covered this in detail) This was so improvised, that it was announced the day
before the vacation was to begin, catching bars, restaurants and discos off
guard, they already had stocked up for the holidays, particularly in resort areas where
Venezuelans congregate for the holidays. (Imagine a disco with fruit punch!) Even funnier, it is all blamed on
capitalism which puts “profit ahead of human life”, as if the badly maintained
roads and highways of Venezuela,
which are responsible for a good fraction of all accidents, were maintained by
extraterrestrials and not by the Chavez Government itself. And then there is of
course the problem of wishing it won’t make it so: enforcement. Last night I
looked out my window to the barrio next to my building and the corner store was
selling beer en force and the people drinking it, under the watchful eyes of
the police, who would not dare interfere with the fun of their own neighbors.
—Giving away assets of FOGADE: And then there was the biggest improviser of
them all, Hugo Chavez, asking that FOGADE, the institution that guarantees the
deposits of the banking system, give away all of its properties to the
“people”. Way to go Hugo! Take the “people’s” guarantees to
give to some other “people”. As long as you sound like you are a good guy, who
cares if the “people” are the same or not? This is part of the
Government by witticism that Fabre talked about. The properties of FOGADE were
acquired in the 1994-95 financial crises in exchange for the depositor’s money
and have been sold slowly to strengthen the weak equity of FOGADE. Why not just
give the all the money away too? Who needs a guarantee for deposits? Nothing can go
wrong in the revolution, Hugo won’t allow it. Yeah, sure!
—RCTV: And how about funny guy Jesse Chacon the Minister of Communications
appearing on TV and saying how RCTV had submitted its renewal under the new Broadcasting
Bill in 2002 on time and providing legal ammunition for that station to argue
its case? Of course, in his world with no logic, the conclusion of his speech
was that the license had to be revoked because they felt like it.
More on PDVSA and RCTV later as I catch up.
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