I have to admit that this country bumpkin blogger is pickled pink when a major newspaper publishes an article about Venezuela economic crisis that does include the word "Caracas" only in the name of the university of consulted professors. Yes, that is right, maybe because of his residence in Bogota but Juan Forero does an excellent job on describing how the economy of Tachira border state has simply collapsed due to the mismanagement of the Venezuelan economy, and the anti Colombian political whims of Chavez. A must read article in that it describes the effect on the people and the whole country that an ideological government without viable plan, and even less capacity to implement it, inflicts on a nation it considers its own playground.
When you read Forero you can sense how hard it was for him to keep his objectivity quoting Chavez that he did not consider a drop in GDP for 2010 anything to worry about.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
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Human Rights violations in Venezuela, from the Tascon list to political prisoners.
- Amnesty International Venezuela's page
- Human Rights Watch Venezuela's page
- COFAVIC page (in spanish)
- Tell Chavez you will not accept his having political prisoners
- A review of the video "La Lista" detailing all the abuses of the Tascon list
- Miguel's compilation
- A summary of 20 lies about the video "The Revolution will not be televised"
- The video debunking the April 11 2002 governmental lies
- "La Cadena", a video explaining how Chavez tried to hide the reality of April 11 2002 by bloc king TV news
Just wish this loud-mouth Thugo stops B-Shiting.
ReplyDeleteTarde piaste!
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ReplyDeleteChavez revolution losing steam in Venezuelan slums
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http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Chavez+revolution+losing+steam+Venezuelan+slums/2939356/story.html
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ReplyDeleteAnyone of you heard about this guy; Thor Halvorssen?
Link to machine translated article from Norwegian daily commie rag the "Class Struggle" - http://tiny.cc/xk79b
Thrashes Freedom Forum
CRITICAL: The American Latin American expert Mark Weisbrot believes Oslo Freedom Forum lacks credibility when the forum presents coup supporters of freedom advocates. ...
The President of the Human Rights Foundation, Thor Halvorssen, responds to criticism in part by accusing Weisbrot to be bought and paid for by the government of Venezuela, and claims he recently got "around NOK 750,000 in consulting fees from the Venezuelan government" in connection with the promotion of "South of the Border."
Reading about Venezuela I never came across his name before, and he is apparently Venezuelan and know a lot of influential people.
Oh, I nearly forgot - Happy Mayday! May you have a nice day at some beach.
Ingvar, you are dead on the target, May day in Venezuela has turned to mayday, so every other day of the year as a matter of fact.
ReplyDeleteCharly,
ReplyDeleteVery funny. Love it.