Hugo Chavez was supposedly celebrating today, he held a march in his support, which was quite small given that even scientific institutions gave their workers a free day so that they could go:
But in reality, there was nothing to celebrate after 17 years of the bloody coup which killed so many innocent people and where Chavez led buses of soldiers under false pretenses to start his individual quest for dictatorial powers. Funny, when the dead are remembered the over 200 Venezuelans of the 1992 coups, the last true coups in Venezuela’s history, led by Hugo Chavez are easily swept under the rug:
(More than 100 dead in frustrated coup, Feb 1992)
and to celebrate, the students were not allowed to march. According to Jorge Rodriguez they did not file a formal request to do so. Funny, then how come the Urban Control Office of the Caracas Mayor’s office officially denied this “informal” reqest to march. The truth is that pro-Chavez’ marches are always approved even if nobody knows if they ever filed. This is not the first time this has happened. The Chavez repressive Dictatorship lives on. For decent Venezuelans today was a day of mourning, for Chavez it was a day of joy.
Which goes to show he only cares about Hugo Chavez and not the “people”, nor the almost 200 dead in the 1992 coups, the 24 dead in the 2002 march, nor the 120,000 homicides in his 11 years in office.
Only Chavez matters to Hugo Chavez.
The Devil's Excrement 
February 18, 2010 at 7:57 pm
Chavez to cheat the poor
Still there are a lot of people in Venezuela, and outside, who believe President Chavez is the unfortunate and poor’s hero. Official propaganda / state owned TV channels persist, and press their point: these days’ poor people are better off, more comfortable and contended than the well-to-do in Venezuela. Besides, the poor in Venezuela benefit from free medical assistance, the young can study a career, applying themselves to study, and planning for a better future.
I think this is an unmoved simplicity about what is affecting this nation. But such ingenuity is getting worse in Venezuelan people, as a head of state, running Venezuela like his own feudal, is paying for the propaganda no matter how contradictory his story might sound, as facts are distorted and twisted by government officials.
Opposition in Venezuela is now lost, vanished and gone astray, as fear and dread is obvious; opponents, as well as resistance, are but wasted after a 9 year confrontation, in particular defeated, seeing a media vanish, after government proscribed popular TV stations were closed and official spokespersons refuse, using conflicting criticism, while a deceitful, tricky and misleading speech takes place like the language used by the President Hugo Chavez.
Poor around the world can’t rely on a leader who keeps on raising oil prices within the OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries), or a leader who manages Venezuela as if it were his large farm or estate, ruins any possibility to boost production from the current 2,4 million barrel this year to a promised 3,3 million barrels as promised by the Venezuelan leader, a reality too far to accomplish.
A popular leader wouldn’t shut up the most TV popular channel just because official corruption cases plus general discomfort were discussed openly here, nor it is a popular leader who has been incompetent for bringing a fashion of 17.000 slaughtered Venezuelans to an end during 2066 in the middle of high crime rate.
It is likely Venezuelans would earn better wages today, but this apparent betterment can’t be sustained for long. Venezuela betakes herself to be governed and ruled by one sole landlord, and this go together with a strong scarcity, scanty products and supplies at supermarkets, while national production is less significant each day.
Gratuitous medicine is offered, but just the basics and necessary. Still there is a controversy and we’d question if Cuban doctors have enough skills, working like slaves at recently created mini hospitals and clinics. Public hospitals are ruined, lousy, while Venezuelan doctors migrate or perform other kind of jobs, like driving a taxi or as peddlers. In order to supply lack of doctors, Hugo Chavez authorizes new generation graduates after a three year college, not enough schoolwork to obtain a doctorate but enough provided the alumnae have Marxist ideology knowledge.
Garbage collection has been always a problem both in Caracas and in major cities, as garbage collection trucks fail to haul it, so Venezuelan inhabitants are becoming sickly each time. Water channels, pipes and sewer, or drainage at streets and roads are ignored. Getting milk to nourish children seems a hard –sometimes impossible- task nowadays in Venezuela. Typical diseases -break bone fever, malaria- have returned, stronger in Venezuela. Bus transportation will mean to run the risk or a hold up or being assaulted during the bus ride.
A major setback is noticed mainly on education. Private schools used to work fine for the poor, with good standards, but programs and curriculum are overloaded and plagued with ideology contents that will never bring peace and comfort to us. Educational excellence is not something that may absorb government attention, nor is it a debate of ideas that would create improvement and research. Academic class plans or schedule isn’t important either, but it is the amount of graduates.
A high school diploma can be obtained in one year –compared to 5 years before- provided a student will be able to recite a dialogue or speech standing in front of TV video cameras to praise the revolution leader Hugo Chavez.
I accept a lot of Venezuela’s problems didn’t originate during the so called Bolivarian “Revolution” but you can witness the same show of homeless children begging for charity in Caracas Avenues, and it’s getting worse each day under the Socialismo del Siglo XXI.
February 6, 2010 at 3:16 pm
not really related to anything / somewhat related to everything / a lesson in rewarding mediocrity.
Now Chávez will have to import Cuban drivers for Venezuela’s police cars…
from, http://www.therealcuba.com with photos.
Will Fransico Rangel Gómez in Bolivar be starting the new “Fransico Rangel Gomez Driving School for Police” ?
… 5 new patrol cars crash into each other… no word on if they were driving at night, in the dark.
February 6, 2010 at 3:05 pm
I don’t understand the concept of having to get a permit to protest. You have to request permission to disagree in public? That’s lunacy.
Sure, maybe the powers that be would like to know who to hold responsible for such things as picking up the trash after the protest, it would be more tolerable if perhaps the powers that be, were picking up the trash on a regular basis before said protests occured and not trying to control the actions/words of those that do not agree… Who is responsible for painting over those millions of signs that proclaimed “10 million votes for Chavez”?
I understand that the banging of pots and pans is still illegal… no permits are issued for pot and pan banging? How will this situation be improved with the new 77 years old Minister of Information Technology? has Hugo never heard of the running joke of all people over “a certain age” with the VCR/DVD/Blu-ray players blinking “12.00 am” on the clock? Will the new minister be bringing his grand children to help explain technology to him? Yes I know he’s in V-land to help with the electrical crisis and not information technology, but I’d bet the farm he knows as much of one as the other…
It is all related, there is no relationship between expertise and function in Hugo’s Venezuela.
I wish it wasn’t so.
February 6, 2010 at 12:50 pm
Arturo: Ramiro Valdes fired you for doing a bad job, you are no longer the official troll of The Devils Excrement. A Cuban is flying right now from Havana to replace you. Pick up your severance on Monday, you will now work with Eva in Correo del Orinoco, the sports pages and the horoscope for Chavistas, trolls and PSFs.
February 6, 2010 at 12:44 pm
FY
http://devilsexcrement.com/2003/12/11/pictures-from-the-barbarie/
February 6, 2010 at 12:13 pm
oh c’mon Arturo for fucks sake, do we need to link now the pictures of all the chavismo protests where they spray painted all over office buildings throughout Av. Francisco de Miranda.
Or the Colon Statue destroyed and painted with graffiti, the list goes on, but you are such a moron it’s not even worth it.
February 6, 2010 at 11:51 am
Miguel,
Just ban him.
Will he say there is no freedom here? Be it. He just annoys.
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Arturo,
When I was studying there I would see that kind of vandalism all the time: lorries burnt down, shots and so on. The vast majority of those doing the vandalism were either commies or thugs from the slums who got bored.
I remember the march of students and teachers/professors in early 1988.
We went from the Ucv to the city centre. When we were around Helicoide, we saw how a group of thugs started to filter in. When we arrived at the city centre they started to throw stones.
Most thugs are still chavistas, even if not all.
February 6, 2010 at 10:38 am
Yes Arturo, when your rights are violated people get angry. Can you tell me ONE instance in which Chavistas were denied the right to march? But I can tell you many instances in which they destroyed property for no reason. Remember the virgin in Plaza Altamira, destroyed right in front of the VP’s face? I bet you did not mind that.
TROLL ALERT! Yes arturo and as I said this was created and allowed to go on unsupervised by the Chavez incompetent Government, so what the f…. is your point. We know what leverage is, we get it, this is as usual a comment that adds nothing to the discussion because you did not even bother to read it, as usual.
7. The political dissenter/martyr troll
If your blog is interesting, chances are it’s because you take a stand on things. You have political views you feel passionate about. You build a community of people who are interested in these things and who interact thoughtfully and productively about said things. Heck, some people even manage to disagree civilly. Until political dissenter/martyr troll comes around, starting fights with everyone in a comment thread, spewing its passionate anti-whatever-you’re-into views all over the productive discussion. This troll will likely get mouthy about how pathetic a blogger is for not entertaining dissenting opinions, all the while only being interested in hearing itself talk (or type, as it were). Political dissenter/martyr troll, what good do you think you are doing? Whose mind do you think you are changing? Troll, you are an asshole.
February 6, 2010 at 10:02 am
Arturo again you are a moron,
February 6, 2010 at 9:59 am
Daenna – there are alays lots of rumors to enjoy. Two I heard yesterday – Chávez is going to convert the Hotel Humboldt into his mansion. Ramiro Valdez is here not to help us with the electricity problems but to actually rule Venezuela! Take your choice.
It’s not fun when you get gassed anywhere but if you march without a permit and in addition destroy part of the installations of the metro, what do you expect? A prize?
I just came back from Plaza Venezuela metro station. What a mess near the exit which leads to Gran Vía. Go and check it our guys if you live here. If I did that sort ofvandalism then I would expect to get beaten upo by the police as would most right thinking people.
February 6, 2010 at 5:30 am
Don’t know whether the rumor is true, but people say that Caldera was Chavez’s godfather. How do you plan to kill your own godfather?????
February 5, 2010 at 7:22 pm
Very interesting, GWEH: http://fotos.noticias24.com/galerias/vista/1098
Amongst the interesting pictures in GWEH’s supplied link, this image (http://fotos.noticias24.com/fotos/vista/17940) shows the effect of one of the rockets fired by Edgar Hernández Behrens’ little group, charged by Venezuela’s fearless leader Hugo Chávez with killing the president at his residence, La Casona, in Campo Claro, Caracas during the February 4th coup attempt … except that the only people there were his wife, Doña Blanquita and their children. Dauntless butchers, indeed!
February 5, 2010 at 7:12 pm
Even though I’m well aware that the fellow can no longer defend himself, I cannot help but notice that this headline reminds us that former president Rafael Caldera whitewashed Hugo Chavez and his fellow deadbeat putschists, when he said that killing the president was not on the cards. How on Earth could he have known that? Anybody care to shed any light on this?
February 5, 2010 at 7:09 pm
Chavez would actually say “heads I win, tails you loose …”. Failure to broadcast “la cadena” on April 11 is just an excuse. Anything else could have been used to justify taking it off the air. I really don’t understand why Globovision hasn’t been taken off the air as well. Chavez so really wants to get them out of the picture …
February 5, 2010 at 10:31 am
from that newspaper: “death to the coupsters said Morales Bello” <- this guy knew WTF to do
February 5, 2010 at 8:51 am
1. Show the damn celebrations.
2. At the wrong aspect ratio and green tint set to max.
3. ????
4. Profit.
February 5, 2010 at 7:36 am
What I find ironic is that Chavez keeps saying that RCTV is off the air for broadcasting calls for support of a coup (I have no idea if that true or not).
But given these government sponsored celebrations of a coup, couldn’t RCTV also be taken off the air if they didn’t cover the celebrations of this coup?
In other words they can be taken off the air for supporting coups and for not supporting coups.
Tails I win heads you lose.
February 5, 2010 at 7:04 am
best on the web: http://fotos.noticias24.com/galerias/vista/1098