Governor of Tachira Jose Vielma Mora
In a surprising development, pro-Government Chavista Governor Jose Vielma Mora distanced himself sharply from the Government.(audio link to interview included) Tachira is the most radical state in its protests against the Government of the last few weeks.
Among other things Vielma stated:
“I am autonomous… I have asked General Bermudez (who led the repression in his State) to be replaced …to show my intention of peace””I do not agree with Simonovis and Leopoldo Lopez being kept in jail””There is a problem of shortages and there is an economic problem, there is a problem with the foreign exchange differential””I am against censorship of any kind””I disagree with flying military jets over Tachira, it was an unacceptable excess””Students have a right to protest”
“There was an excess of General Pirela of the National Guard, he was replaced”There you have it, the first major Chavista political figure to clearly distance himself from the Government. This creates a new problem for an already tangled Nicola maduro. The only question at tis time is whether Vielma Mora acted alone, knows something or is simply being opportunistic. No matter which, this is a very significant development for Venezuela and the current events taking place in it.But only time will tell why he did it.
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February 25, 2014 at 11:39 am
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February 24, 2014 at 11:11 pm
Patriots here trust Mora as far as they can throw him.
February 24, 2014 at 11:36 pm
Please dont use someone else’s name, I will erase it next time, use a fake name, but using someone else’s is bad for the blog and is lying.
February 24, 2014 at 9:35 pm
Perhaps Vielma, you know, was watching the news the other day, you know, from overseas and, you know, and suddenly realized how quickly things can change. Whoooaaa! I need to cover all my bases here…..
February 24, 2014 at 11:12 pm
OT
“There’s no grandfatherly fondness in me,
There are no gray hairs in my soul!
Shaking the world with my voice and grinning,
I pass you by, – handsome,
Twentytwoyearold.”
― Vladimir Mayakovsky
February 24, 2014 at 9:18 pm
I don’t believe in the slightest that Vielma was speaking out of conviction. Chavism has been playing this game for years; I wouldn’t be surprised if this turned out to be some sort of ploy that Maduro pulled the plug on at the last minute. Even if everything he said is true, and even if he said it in a moment of ideological weakness, I should hope that Vielma doesn’t think that remorse will spare him when the ship goes down.
February 24, 2014 at 8:34 pm
It bothers me that the Ukraine is getting a lot more press here in the US than Venezuela is. The only place you see it is on Spanish media. Telemundo and I suppose Univision ( I guess, don’t have it right now). If you want to make a difference, comment on their websites, give them links and if they post their email or twitter accounts, get into a conversation with them. Not just the US but any Spanish country or what ever other language you have. We need to do this fast. Too bad we don’t have lists to pass out! Remember, these media are part of news services that often cross into other languages. Telemundo for example is part of NBC, we need them to take the story there and work it. We don’t want to wait till Maduro brings in the tanks (if they still run) and machine guns. He might, so far nobody has slapped his hand for all this. They are still very bold and that is what we must destroy.
February 24, 2014 at 7:37 pm
It matters little if Mora is a rat or patriot. The point is the divisions and cracks are starting to show and widen in the Maduro regime for the simple reason that what this government is trying to do is not sustainable. None of it, from economic policies on down to the defunct and partisan judiciary. The only hope is that the entire tottering junk heap does not collapse into chaos. Once the private sector is frozen owing to government muscle flexing, the flow of goods and services will also freeze and it might devolve into a free for all because the public sector has no ability to do much of anything. When the clown drives the bus, it is bound to crash.
February 24, 2014 at 6:57 pm
Kind of blows away the chavista’s self-image as saviors of the poor fighting the gringo monster, doesn’t it? More like fascist psychos killing students to impose a murderous, failed ideology. The gringos are coming to buy oil with good dollars. The Cubans are coming with guns to kill you. Still like that socialist revolution, Russell Brand?
March 7, 2014 at 3:52 pm
Sorry reread your post. I misunderstood. I also saw a post that said it social media isn’t showing whats really happening. And the truth of course is only social media can show and tell truth as all publications and tv is censored by Maduro and his thugs. Russel Brand and Danny Glover boycott those ignorant men. How about they move themselves and their families to Venezuela to experience the violence and injustice
February 24, 2014 at 6:33 pm
Opportunist or not, cracks in chavismo, madurismo or whatever kind of shitism it is, are always welcome.
Rats abandoning the sinking ship. I don’t care about bringing the rats to justice, I just want the ship to sink real fast.
February 24, 2014 at 8:53 pm
No way. The idea of Cabello, Ortega Diaz, Ramirez, Lucena, and the rest sleeping soundly in Chavez-friendly countries and not being brought to justice is more repulsive than the thought of dealing with Maduro until his term ends. There’s a powerful image going round of one of the Ukrainian soldiers being forced to look upon the place where he shoot protesters dead, and that’s the kind of thing you want these poor excuses for human beings to go through. When this disaster is over, we’re going to need closure. A lot of it.
February 24, 2014 at 6:29 pm
Vielma Mora, of course, retracted:
http://www.ultimasnoticias.com.ve/noticias/actualidad/politica/vielma-mora-asumo-mis-palabras-una-a-una-estoy-con.aspx
February 24, 2014 at 6:36 pm
They probably have the goods on him, enough for blackmail.
February 24, 2014 at 7:30 pm
“Asumo mis palabras una a una” isn’t much of a retraction.
February 24, 2014 at 5:25 pm
Mouth that blows twice as
fast lasts half as long –
Rushing Gaceta Extraordinaria
número 6.126 is but a first step.
The forex caja chica está vacía.
Like the roadrunner,
the economy is running
mid-air on EMPTY.
Disposable foreign currencies
will dry up MID_MARCH.
We are seeing JUST-IN-TIME
$HIT HITTING THE FAN.
Money talks – Bull Shit walks.
So Who cares about the
LIAR in miraflores?
Psuv, that’s who.
And Bocón doesn’t have
any cash left.
End of story.
[and the tachira gov knows it].
February 24, 2014 at 2:34 pm
This is more a I want save my ass just in case statement !
February 24, 2014 at 2:28 pm
Economía | 09:24 a.m.
Entra en vigencia el Sicad 2
La reforma de la Ley de Ilícitos Cambiarios se oficializó este lunes en la Gaceta Extraordinaria número 6.126
Leer más en: http://www.ultimasnoticias.com.ve/noticias/actualidad/economia/entra-en-vigencia-el-sicad-2.aspx#ixzz2uGlNyE2D
February 24, 2014 at 3:02 pm
Ramírez: Todos podrán adquirir divisas por bancos o casas de bolsas
El vicepresidente del Área Económica, Rafael Ramírez, indicó este lunes que todas las personas naturales y jurídicas que posean cuenta bancaria en dólares podrán adquirir u ofertar divisas a través de la banca y casas de bolsa.
Unión Radio
February 24, 2014 at 2:00 pm
Gochos working !!!
February 24, 2014 at 2:39 pm
This is just an awesome photo !!!! A picture worth a thousand words !!
February 24, 2014 at 4:01 pm
Shoot, still gochos though.
Couldn’t anybody get three or four pipes to put underneath the container?
Coño, remember Ancient Egypt anyone?
February 24, 2014 at 5:01 pm
Aw, c’mon! Don’t be critical of such obvious spur-of-the-moment thinking. Remember: Improvise, improvise, improvise……
February 24, 2014 at 6:50 pm
Maybe they spread KY-Jelly underneath the container to alleviate friction.
February 24, 2014 at 6:55 pm
Don’t be silly, PDVSA doesn’t have any pipes either
February 24, 2014 at 7:11 pm
I can see how it may have been interpreted.
This was more about Gochos still being, well, Gochos!
I was trying to be sarcastic, and failed!
February 24, 2014 at 1:19 pm
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February 24, 2014 at 12:30 pm
http://youtu.be/Q5Jb4F094f0. Jimmy Vargas Mother.
Ask Jimmy Vargas’s mother what should happen to Mora. She has lost much more than he has taken.
And Johnny Carballo just wanted to do the right thing for Venezuelans and this is what he got. How terribly sad.
February 24, 2014 at 12:24 pm
Johnny Carballo, student just passed away at 10:00 am, in Cagua, Aragua State.
He was shot in the head by tupamaros motorizados.
February 24, 2014 at 12:10 pm
New video recorded today of retired army General Angel Vivas( by the way, he is “gocho”).
February 24, 2014 at 11:36 am
Jimmy Vargas, 34, passed away last night in San Cristobal, Tachira state.
He was shot by the GNB.
February 24, 2014 at 11:34 am
If people defect out of fear and saving themselves instead of out of self realization, it might be a bad omen for things to come, but time will tell, and it all depends on how the opposition can use this to their advantage.
February 24, 2014 at 11:26 am
It doesn’t sound like he’s distancing himself from the government yet, in my opinion. It sounds like he’s listening to his constituency and acknowledges that there’s a serious problem simmering in his state. It’s only a matter of time he loses control. I interpret this more as a plead for help.
February 24, 2014 at 11:26 am
Hello, I am suspicious about the international “SOS Venezuela” movement. It looks as if it is programmed to be in support of the Venezuelan government as it is now. Very little is said in these international rallies about the roots of the problem: the Chavist en neo communistic philosophy and economic disaster. I think that te international socialist movement wants to “hijack” the issues and turn it in the wished direction in the end in support of the socialists . SOS Ven is not to help the demonstrators and the opposition .. SOS Ven. is there to help Chavism and communism in another form.
I think that the international socialist support groups have seen the problems slowly rising in Venezuela and choose this form of undermining the protest to “guide” the information process and later on turn the issues in propaganda in favor of their leftist movement. Organizers of Venezuelan democratic opposition marches should be aware of this.
Google “SOS Venezuela” for images and you will see very little about the suppression of free speech in Venezuela, very little of police brutality, very little of Cuban undermining of the security forces and secret services, very little about the empty shops , very little about crime and murder in Venezuela.very little about the raging inflation. You see only the symbols introduced by Chavez :the blue yellow red flag , and clothes in those colors. In fact it is mostly Chavistic symbolism that is “under fire” . Like the Venezuelan flag that is shot to pieces. The SOS is for the socialistic system to survive in this form.
So, I think it is a trick from the international socialist movement to direct the protest in Venezuela in a direction that prevents the real causes of the miserable conditions in Venezuela, to be unveiled. It is further a way to take away blame for these conditions on socialism as a economic principle that led to the disaster. So they are organizing these marches themselves to have influence over the content.
I predict that one should not be not amazed to see these marches on Venezuelan TV in support of Maduro, Cabello, Ramirez and fellow henchmen
February 24, 2014 at 3:59 pm
I can attest to the fact that SOS Venezuela is most definitely in favor of free speech, defending the students and defending Venezuela from Maduro and his henchmen.
You definitely need to learn how to search better.
https://www.google.com/search?q=sos+venezuela&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=drILU-egG6XZ0wGwyIHYAw&sqi=2&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1810&bih=1021
Or, you are simply a fake
February 24, 2014 at 7:05 pm
Lefties will always blame the US for sabotaging the beautiful, perfect revolution. This is how you spot them. According to the pro-chavista press worldwide, there are millions of CIA agents rampaging through the streets killing chavistas as we speak. And of course, the US has been wanting to steal the oil for over 50 years, they have just been too busy to get around to it. This is why they have resorted to the evil scheme of BUYING IT!
March 7, 2014 at 10:24 am
Are you brain dead?
February 24, 2014 at 11:18 am
El-Nacional
Argentina “no tiene información” sobre llegada de hijas de Chávez
February 24, 2014 at 11:03 am
cuando el arbol se cae, los monos se dispersan…
February 24, 2014 at 10:42 am
3 days ago, I replied a comment from “nacazo about the situation in Tachira:
nacazo Says:
February 21, 2014 at 1:13 am
Who is the Commander in Chief of the Tachira Defense Forces? Nice organization skills from whoever it is.
Reply
VJ Says:
February 21, 2014 at 11:47 am
You are right, because in the Maduro-chavista side the Mayor General Noel Bermudez, commander of the REDI-ANDES, yesterday was kicked out of his post and the gobernacion del Tachira intervened by Caracas. The “de facto” governor is M/G Rodriguez Torres.
http://www.lanacion.com.ve/regional/miguel-reyes-tuvo-que-intervenir-el-presidente-por-la-inoperancia-del-gobernador/
February 24, 2014 at 10:47 am
I sense they see the Ukrainian writing on the proverbial wall. Vielma Mora is Cabello’s lieutenant. Or used to be at least.
This what we want to see more of, the rats jumping off the sinking ship.
Justice will come later.
February 24, 2014 at 10:35 am
He saw the writing on the wall and now wants to “salvar la talanquera”
Bullshit he is just looking to plug himself in the next government
February 24, 2014 at 9:32 pm
Ramon is correct. Vielma is smarter than most and not of the same cloth as the thugs.
February 24, 2014 at 10:29 am
Vielma is a rat, he is aligned historically with Cabello, he committed treason against the constitution of Venezuela (1961) and against his oath as a military officer to defend the Republic when he participated in coward Chavez’s failed coup, his family has amassed wealth during this corrupt regime. Like all rats, Vielma is jumping ship and distancing himself from Maduro, but nothing Vielma says should be believed until he condemns Cabello, Rodriguez Torres and the other uniformed goons directing the repression. Vielma belongs in prison with the rest of these thugs. NOW he says the regime’s repression has been too harsh? Almost a month after the protests started?
February 24, 2014 at 10:25 am
This could simply be a very heroic act by a true patriot. Let’s not forget this. His actions could lead others to follow suit and the dominoes begin to fall.
February 24, 2014 at 10:17 am
Interesting, let’s see where this goes.
February 24, 2014 at 10:17 am
Any government that shoots on its own people loses all legitimacy and eventually falls. Some are quicker on the uptake. Also, being far away from the center helps too.
February 24, 2014 at 10:11 am
He’s trying to avoid being hanged with the rest of the gang when Liberty finally returns to Venezuela.
February 24, 2014 at 10:01 am
Why didn’t he distance himself before now?
Opportunist who smells los derrumbes in the government, wants to protect his hide.
February 24, 2014 at 9:52 am
And it’s only a matter of time before they charge him with some past graft.