tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post7583835562641299911..comments2024-03-26T00:37:34.943+01:00Comments on Venezuela News And Views: Transforming a mistake into a revamped tool of repression: the Delcy Rodriguez scandalDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12128609182544333477noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-18801914397045893922014-01-05T19:51:02.589+01:002014-01-05T19:51:02.589+01:00I ask my friend in CCS to report only good news bu...I ask my friend in CCS to report only good news but she says there is none.Ross Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10624303757574121959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-70884780066379344932014-01-05T18:16:14.270+01:002014-01-05T18:16:14.270+01:00Is there a reason for it to be otherwise? Is there a reason for it to be otherwise? Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12128609182544333477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-4769646471161189482014-01-05T08:54:35.172+01:002014-01-05T08:54:35.172+01:00I reiterate my comments from the previous post. A...I reiterate my comments from the previous post. As you say the usual rules regarding currency don't apply to these people. We refer to this as "snouts in the trough".Ross Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10624303757574121959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-73213413167923867932014-01-05T06:15:17.438+01:002014-01-05T06:15:17.438+01:00Your posts lately sound more miserable than ever. ...Your posts lately sound more miserable than ever. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-39406167880216119782014-01-04T20:29:32.758+01:002014-01-04T20:29:32.758+01:00Jorge
You should not confuse issues. Lack of toil...Jorge<br /><br />You should not confuse issues. Lack of toilet paper and ability to travel are not related to the poverty of the country.<br /><br />In 1998 we had oil at 8 USD a barrel and there was no lack of toilet paper. Today the oil price is ten fold higher while the population is not 1.5 fold higher. And yet, we lack toilet paper. Thus this is not due to poverty of the country, it is due to mismanagement of the country by the government. Period.<br /><br />As for traveling. There are five sources of currency to travel in Venezuela.<br /><br />There is of course the 3000 allocated through CADIVI.<br /><br />There is the black market for the rich or the desperate. When you make a lot of bolivares and you find nowhere to save or invest them, then you have no objection in buying at the black market.<br /><br />There are those who have relatives abroad or work relationships that are willing or need to pay for your trip.<br /><br />There are those who have a personal fortune abroad before CADIVI and thus can keep travelling as they need to do. Whatever it is, in the first 4 instances that cash is reserved for the opposition and I can assure you that no matter how often they travel, they always do that carefully.<br /><br />And there is the 5th type of access to currency, the one for the regime employees and its associates like the bolibourgoeis. They always get cash when they need it, as much as they need it. They are the ones with the dolce vita when they travel.<br /><br />Again, travel money is a political decision, not one truly related to the economic reality of the country.Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12128609182544333477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-80618836058303437012014-01-04T20:17:18.427+01:002014-01-04T20:17:18.427+01:00Delcy Rodriguez: Lie often enough and people will ...Delcy Rodriguez: Lie often enough and people will believe in the lie(s)! Excellent post as always!William Hubschwerlinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00982230953460314441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-91355423539758196622014-01-04T19:37:34.739+01:002014-01-04T19:37:34.739+01:00Daniel, I am as repulsed as anyone by the publicat...Daniel, I am as repulsed as anyone by the publication of the list.<br /><br />But as someone not living in Venezuela I wonder how did all those people get their dollars to travel. I thought there are all kinds of restrictions, aren't there? You can only get x number of dollars to travel and it takes time to get them?<br /><br />So on the one hand we hear (and see the pictures) of the horrors of not having toilet paper or milk or cooking oil and you even posted pictures of the long lines to get the simplest things. On the other hand the list shows a lot of travel to Frankfurt and Miami and Lima and New York by many people? How does that work? How can they do it? <br /><br />By the way can I wish you a happy and "prosperous" 2014 or is asking too much? :}<br />Do you remember that song by the argentinian group La Mosca that went: "hoy estoy peor que ayer pero mejor que maƱana ..." do those lyrics apply now to Venezuela too?Jorge (in Missouri)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-55071855856612911102014-01-04T19:22:15.796+01:002014-01-04T19:22:15.796+01:00Excellent post. No surprise here, just another exa...Excellent post. No surprise here, just another example of the vermin that are ruling the country.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com