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Add an EventVenezuela. Hundreds of thousands rally in victory celebrations. Vheadline.com
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Posted: Thursday, January 23, 2003 - 4:04:10 PM
By: Roy S. Carson
Hundreds of thousands rally in victory celebrations
Hundreds of thousands of pro=government demonstrators are filling downtown Caracas streets this afternoon as the almost 53-day opposition stoppage dissipates into the tropical hot air to the sound of drums beating and whistles blown.
Venezuelans are celebrating a major victory over opposition saboteurs who have held a virtual gun to the nation's head, crippling the oil industry and strangling the economic framework to reinstate the form of corrupt pseudo-democracy Venezuela had suffered through more than 40 years previous to 1999.
Even opposition loaded international news services are reporting crowds chanting "Hey, hey, Chavez is here to stay!" while FOX News Geraldo Rivero splutters from atop a transmission bus on Avenida Bolivar the usual cliches about "left-leaning President Hugo Chavez" and claiming that the Supreme Court of Venezuela is "Chavez-controlled."
FOX news cameras zoom in on several demonstrators carrying Cuban flags and pictures of Che Guevara as they persist in their anti-Venezuelan propaganda, attempting by visual innuendo to link Venezuela with the Bush-hated effigy of Cuba's Fidel Castro, on which the US media has a current fixation.
What is evidenced in Caracas today is that Chavez Frias is the champion of Venezuela's majority poor who have been driven into abject poverty by an elite corps of upper class exploiters unwilling to give up their Country Club lifestyle.
The opposition shutdown, erroneously described as a "strike" by opposition commentators, had choked the nation's oil exports, resulting in a financial fiscal crisis where the government has been forced to suspend foreign currency trading for five days and has already slashed the 2003 budget. The Venezuelan Central Bank is said to be preparing foreign exchange controls as the corrupt elite attempts to cash in hoards of local currency for US$ to flee the misery they have imposed on the majority.
Weeks ago ... as reported by VHeadline.com ... authorities had been forced to remove the nation's gold reserves to a 24/7 secured location ahead of threats that well-financed opposition guerrillas were about to force entry to the Central Bank vaults. Government spokesmen say the gold remains secure and that Venezuela has sufficient international reserves to ride out the current storm.
Speaking of today's developments re: Chavez Frias, Michael Gavin (head of Latin American Economic Research for UBS Warburg) has told Reuters "I think he's winning this round ... his strategy is to wear down the opposition and wait."
President Chavez Frias appears to have the 100% backing of the armed forces, and has sent troops to take over strike-hit oil installations and food plants that have been hoarding much-needed supplies. Chavez insists that the opposition must wait until August 19 when the 1999 Constitution allows for a binding referendum on his rule.
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*Venezuela oil coup-lockout. In 1974 80% of oil income went to the state.
Today 80% of Venezuelan oil income goes to the rich, and to "operating
costs." Only 20% goes to the state. Support President Chavez! Chavez
reforms will help reverse this in 2003. This is why the coup-plotters are in
such a hurry to overthrow the fairly-ELECTED Chavez government, to prevent these
reforms, and to reverse others already-implemented. Reforms that help the poor
and lower middle class. "All of Venezuela's private television stations
and national newspapers are owned by the opposition, and all are employed to
deliver an unadulterated flow of anti-Chávez propaganda." Massive
corporate-media disinformation, destabilization campaign. Fight media
disinformation, Cisneros media empire worldwide, etc.. Form at links below
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San
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Some see the supporters of Mr. Chavez as the defenders of universal truth and righteous devolution. The same prefer to see the millions of protesters against Chavez as just an elite, however numerous. It suffices to quote any of many injustices past or recent on either side to pick the favourites.
The fact of the matter however, is that for the first time in the country's recent history the people are struggling to come to grips with the meaning and direction of the land's development. The struggle to find meaning and direction. Even as power plays between oil importers, drug traffickers, land owners, law makers continue in the background. For the first time the conflict has engendered active political participation and reflection of large groups of people, traditionally willing to allow profesional politicians and power mongers to rule their lives.
It is this political activism that the OAS, the group of "Friends of Venezuela" and other nations should encourage. The strengthening of the emerging political institutions and the kindling of the concern for the well being of the land and its people are the pillars necessary to overcome the many wrongs justice can not solve. Dialogue in pursuit of self understanding and self determination should continue after a negotiated departure of Mr. Chavez.
I believe that democracy requires not a negotiated departure, but a regularly scheduled vote AFTER an election campaign and debate.
You got the order wrong, O anti-democratic one.
And the latest news is that opposition sectors now are divided and each one will decide by their own their individual acts to attempt attacks to take Chavez away.
And also I wanted to tell you about petroleumworld.com, it is sponsored by "gente del petroleo" ("the petroleum people" organization) which is the biggest organization of the anti-chavez oil managers, I don't think a good idea to promote them in your public venezuelan searchs...
And for all, again:
It is the control...
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THE CONTROL
by Luis Britto García
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The world is a small box with buttons labeled On, Off, Channel, Mute, Volume, plus numbers from one to nine and zero.
On is always activated.
Off is forbiden to push it. They say that when you push it the world disappears. They say that also disappears who presses it.
Push any of the numbers. In the screen appears the reality, that is footbridges, studies, sets for interviewed people and cardboard mansions.
Push another number. Into the screen the humanity bursts in, that is speakers, announcers in spangles, models in tangas, offerers and candidates to Miss Little Princess
Push the remaining numbers. In the other channel wisdom shines, that is astrologers and fortune tellers that commercialize your destiny.
In other channel they teach healthful habits to you: junk food, sodas with cancerigenic, alcoholic beverages disguised as sodas.
In other channel you learn science, that is to say, secret ingredients of the shampoo that attracts all the women, the deodorant that guarantees your ascents and the formula to reduce without exercises nor diet.
In other channel they inform to you about productive activities, such as raffles, lottery, quinos, duplexes, bingos, casinos, race courses and extraordinary drawings.
In other channel they train you in human relations, that is emotional blackmail of the ingenuous one that manipulates to marry with the multimillionaire, the cruelty of the stepmother that excludes from the testament the heirs and the undressed natural daughter of its fortune while his lovely mother agonizes.
In other channel you learn the essence of success, that is to say, consumption.
In other channel one identifies the enemy, that is the poors, badly worn, toothless, badly dressed, partially or totally paralyzed and trained to applaud and to be in ridiculous situation in the programs of contests or pretended confessions.
In other channel it is summoned justice and laws in the form of commandos, superheroes and private avengers who eliminate whichever poor who does not applaud.
In other channel are solved social problems by means of telethons, charitable rallys and absence of mention of whom is not telegenic.
In other channel you follow the news, that is the aspirations of the owners of media presented like facts.
In other channel your new political leaders arise, taking oath of fidelity to the channels that chose them in Reality Shows by means of measurements of rating and audience researches.
In other channels pluralism is pronounced, that is, the right to find the same lie in thousand different screens.
Then you understand that the control controls to you.
You disconnect it, and you obtain the wonderful gift of the world.
Hey take a look here:
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DECISIONS OF THE SUPREME COURT OF JUSTICE
OF VENEZUELA
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