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December 28, 2018
The petition was made through a communiqué published by the Chancellery
By EFE DECEMBER 25, 2018 03:28 PM | UPDATED ON DECEMBER 26, 2018 08:08 AM
translated from Spanish
The Venezuelan government on Tuesday asked the United States not to interfere in the affairs it has with Guyana, after the authorities intercepted two oil tankers authorized by Georgetown.
In a statement, the government "categorically rejected the intrusive and impertinent communication from the US State Department about the sovereign action on the 23rd," when the Navy of the country intercepted vessels belonging to Exxon Mobil.
After the incident, Washington asked Venezuela to respect the "international law and the sovereignty of its neighbors" as Guyana denounces that the Venezuelan authorities violated their sovereignty by intercepting a ship of the US oil company.
The Venezuelan Foreign Ministry published the official note accusing the US of interfering "in a matter that is not at all of its concern, in order to promote corporate interests linked carnally with the ruling elite in Washington."
"Clearly, it is clear that the US government interferes with convenience without paying attention to the most basic norms of public international law, and we strongly urge the US authorities to stay out of the relations between sovereign states," the government added. in the statement.
According to the Guyanese Foreign Ministry, the incident occurred on Saturday, when a Venezuelan military vessel intercepted the exploration vessel Ramform Tethys, which had been hired by Exxon Mobil and had 70 people on board.
Guyana assured that the incident occurred in its waters, but the Venezuelan Executive affirms that it happened in its territory and supposes a violation of its sovereignty.
The Guyanese Foreign Minister, Carl Greenidge, announced that he will file a complaint with the United Nations for the incident with the ships, which he described as "aggressive", "illegal" and "hostile".
The incident is part of the dispute between Venezuela and Guyana over the dominance of the Essequibo region, an area very rich in minerals.
http://www.el-nacional.com/noticias/gobierno/gobierno-venezolano-solicito-interferir-asuntos-con-guyana_264426
Maduro is itching for any sort of incident that he can escalate into a confrontation. Venezuela is an absolute disaster, and he is "poking the bear" along the border with Colombia and Brazil, as well as Guyana (which he claims that 2/3 belongs to Venezuela**). Any military action, no matter how ridiculous will excuse him from taking care of matters on the home front, like lack of food, medicine, GASOLINE, electricity, water and the trappings of normal governance, like passports or drivers licenses. Venezuela WANTS the US to make its presence known.
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**Essequibo is a region of Guyana that Venezuela (and its ally, the US) lost during binding arbitration back in the late 19th century. Years later, Venezuela has decided to unilaterally dispute that binding arbitration and contests that 2/3 of Guyana is actually Venezuelan land, despite the objections of the Guyanese. In reality, Guyana has found oil on their side of the border, and the Chavistas will not allow their "weak neighbor" to cut into Venezuela's gravy train.
https://www.peacepalacelibrary.nl/2016/01/essequibo-the-territorial-dispute-between-venezuela-and-guyana/
Venezuela desires?/does not desire? US interference in Guyana
Venezuelan government requested the US not to interfere in matters with GuyanaThe petition was made through a communiqué published by the Chancellery
By EFE DECEMBER 25, 2018 03:28 PM | UPDATED ON DECEMBER 26, 2018 08:08 AM
translated from Spanish
The Venezuelan government on Tuesday asked the United States not to interfere in the affairs it has with Guyana, after the authorities intercepted two oil tankers authorized by Georgetown.
In a statement, the government "categorically rejected the intrusive and impertinent communication from the US State Department about the sovereign action on the 23rd," when the Navy of the country intercepted vessels belonging to Exxon Mobil.
After the incident, Washington asked Venezuela to respect the "international law and the sovereignty of its neighbors" as Guyana denounces that the Venezuelan authorities violated their sovereignty by intercepting a ship of the US oil company.
The Venezuelan Foreign Ministry published the official note accusing the US of interfering "in a matter that is not at all of its concern, in order to promote corporate interests linked carnally with the ruling elite in Washington."
"Clearly, it is clear that the US government interferes with convenience without paying attention to the most basic norms of public international law, and we strongly urge the US authorities to stay out of the relations between sovereign states," the government added. in the statement.
According to the Guyanese Foreign Ministry, the incident occurred on Saturday, when a Venezuelan military vessel intercepted the exploration vessel Ramform Tethys, which had been hired by Exxon Mobil and had 70 people on board.
Guyana assured that the incident occurred in its waters, but the Venezuelan Executive affirms that it happened in its territory and supposes a violation of its sovereignty.
The Guyanese Foreign Minister, Carl Greenidge, announced that he will file a complaint with the United Nations for the incident with the ships, which he described as "aggressive", "illegal" and "hostile".
The incident is part of the dispute between Venezuela and Guyana over the dominance of the Essequibo region, an area very rich in minerals.
http://www.el-nacional.com/noticias/gobierno/gobierno-venezolano-solicito-interferir-asuntos-con-guyana_264426
Maduro is itching for any sort of incident that he can escalate into a confrontation. Venezuela is an absolute disaster, and he is "poking the bear" along the border with Colombia and Brazil, as well as Guyana (which he claims that 2/3 belongs to Venezuela**). Any military action, no matter how ridiculous will excuse him from taking care of matters on the home front, like lack of food, medicine, GASOLINE, electricity, water and the trappings of normal governance, like passports or drivers licenses. Venezuela WANTS the US to make its presence known.
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**Essequibo is a region of Guyana that Venezuela (and its ally, the US) lost during binding arbitration back in the late 19th century. Years later, Venezuela has decided to unilaterally dispute that binding arbitration and contests that 2/3 of Guyana is actually Venezuelan land, despite the objections of the Guyanese. In reality, Guyana has found oil on their side of the border, and the Chavistas will not allow their "weak neighbor" to cut into Venezuela's gravy train.
https://www.peacepalacelibrary.nl/2016/01/essequibo-the-territorial-dispute-between-venezuela-and-guyana/
December 28, 2018
The measure occurs after the non-payment of more than 274 million dollars
By EL NACIONAL WEB
DECEMBER 27, 2018 09:40 PM | UPDATED ON DECEMBER 28, 2018 09:31 AM
The Brazilian government froze on Thursday the granting of credit insurance to new exports from Venezuela.
The measure, which also affects Cuba, occurs after a non-payment of financing to the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (Bndes), which was insured by the Export Guarantee Fund (FGE), said Folha de S Paulo .
Venezuela was declared a moratorium on payments by Brazil after it failed to pay a loan of more than 274 million dollars, which had to be paid in January.
Brazil plans to spend 1,500 million reais (approximately 383 million dollars) to cover the default of payments from Venezuela, Mozambique and Cuba.
http://www.el-nacional.com/noticias/economia/brasil-congelo-lineas-credito-exportaciones-venezuela_264607
Venezuela has defaulted on nearly every loan made to it (a nation with the worlds largest proven reserves of oil) except for the loans it took out with Goldman Sachs (the Hunger Bonds). Despite alleged "friendships" with China and Russia, neither nation is lending any more money to the Castroist regime, but instead, debt is being repaid in oil, or in the case of Russia, majority ownership of oil extraction and refining (against the Venezuelan constitution, but that hasn't stopped Maduro yet)
Brasil freezes line of credit with Venezuela, Cuba for-non payment
Brazil froze credit lines for exports from VenezuelaThe measure occurs after the non-payment of more than 274 million dollars
By EL NACIONAL WEB
DECEMBER 27, 2018 09:40 PM | UPDATED ON DECEMBER 28, 2018 09:31 AM
The Brazilian government froze on Thursday the granting of credit insurance to new exports from Venezuela.
The measure, which also affects Cuba, occurs after a non-payment of financing to the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (Bndes), which was insured by the Export Guarantee Fund (FGE), said Folha de S Paulo .
Venezuela was declared a moratorium on payments by Brazil after it failed to pay a loan of more than 274 million dollars, which had to be paid in January.
Brazil plans to spend 1,500 million reais (approximately 383 million dollars) to cover the default of payments from Venezuela, Mozambique and Cuba.
http://www.el-nacional.com/noticias/economia/brasil-congelo-lineas-credito-exportaciones-venezuela_264607
Venezuela has defaulted on nearly every loan made to it (a nation with the worlds largest proven reserves of oil) except for the loans it took out with Goldman Sachs (the Hunger Bonds). Despite alleged "friendships" with China and Russia, neither nation is lending any more money to the Castroist regime, but instead, debt is being repaid in oil, or in the case of Russia, majority ownership of oil extraction and refining (against the Venezuelan constitution, but that hasn't stopped Maduro yet)
December 28, 2018
(Caracas, December 27 - Noticias24) .- The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, blamed on Wednesday "trained groups" in Colombia for the frequent blackouts suffered by the border state Zulia, in the middle of the oil crisis in the oil country.
"There are groups trained in Colombia to attack the electrical system (...) They are terrorist attacks (...), a guerrilla war, terrorist, against the system," Maduro said during an act of delivery of state housing.
Maduro, who is preparing to take on a new mandate for six years (2019-2025) on January 10, insisted on Wednesday in his denunciations of a plot launched by the United States to overthrow him with the support of Colombia and the president-elect of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro.
"Whoever sticks his nose out, lead with it. Whoever dares to invade Venezuela (...), will receive the people with a rifle in his hand" he warned.
https://www.noticias24.com/venezuela/noticia/350140/presidente-maduro-aseguro-que-grupos-entrenados-en-colombia-atacan-el-sistema-electrico-en-venezuela/
Of course, Maduro knows this because he is the Maximum Leader and as such, is omnipotent. He knows the goings on at various US military bases, with EXACT NUMBERS of foreign agents (Colombian, Spanish, Brazilian) being trained there. (proof? PFFT! He is Maximum Leader! That is all the proof that El Pueblo needs!)
Pay no attention to the fact that the electrical grid, which has been ignored for 20 years, is literally rusted down to the bolts. Electrical towers routinely topple in the tropical humidity (blamed on sabotage) as well as underwater cables (sabotage) and transformers (sabotage, fornicating iguanas)... even well guarded electrical substations seem to have phantom saboteurs able to bypass armed guards to do their handiwork.
Please note the "invisible imps", trained as Colombian saboteurs, running along the length of the electrical cables, blowing up transformer after transformer in the video below.
Maduro accuses (again) Colombians of destroying Venezuelan electric infrastructure
Maduro says that groups trained in Colombia attack the electric system in Venezuela(Caracas, December 27 - Noticias24) .- The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, blamed on Wednesday "trained groups" in Colombia for the frequent blackouts suffered by the border state Zulia, in the middle of the oil crisis in the oil country.
"There are groups trained in Colombia to attack the electrical system (...) They are terrorist attacks (...), a guerrilla war, terrorist, against the system," Maduro said during an act of delivery of state housing.
Maduro, who is preparing to take on a new mandate for six years (2019-2025) on January 10, insisted on Wednesday in his denunciations of a plot launched by the United States to overthrow him with the support of Colombia and the president-elect of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro.
"Whoever sticks his nose out, lead with it. Whoever dares to invade Venezuela (...), will receive the people with a rifle in his hand" he warned.
https://www.noticias24.com/venezuela/noticia/350140/presidente-maduro-aseguro-que-grupos-entrenados-en-colombia-atacan-el-sistema-electrico-en-venezuela/
Of course, Maduro knows this because he is the Maximum Leader and as such, is omnipotent. He knows the goings on at various US military bases, with EXACT NUMBERS of foreign agents (Colombian, Spanish, Brazilian) being trained there. (proof? PFFT! He is Maximum Leader! That is all the proof that El Pueblo needs!)
Pay no attention to the fact that the electrical grid, which has been ignored for 20 years, is literally rusted down to the bolts. Electrical towers routinely topple in the tropical humidity (blamed on sabotage) as well as underwater cables (sabotage) and transformers (sabotage, fornicating iguanas)... even well guarded electrical substations seem to have phantom saboteurs able to bypass armed guards to do their handiwork.
Please note the "invisible imps", trained as Colombian saboteurs, running along the length of the electrical cables, blowing up transformer after transformer in the video below.
December 24, 2018
https://twitter.com/jvivassantana/status/1076945970691297281
Translation: Miserable! The "Deputy Minister of Food" speaks ... and he confesses that they play with the hunger of the people: "Leave the song that people are moving around protesting the legs". "That's going to happen." "December is ending". "It was a risky strategy, but necessary"
And what the General said, in its entirety
So, the cunning and subtle plan is to ignore the promises made to the starving public and hopefully, El Pueblo will forget about it soon enough. And if they don't, strong arm them with the Bolivarian (not Venezuelan) National Guard, Maduro's own Praetorian thugs.
Chavismo promises pernil (ham legs) in order to get out the vote. The outcome. And the threats
Vice Minister of Food throws Venezuelans under the bushttps://twitter.com/jvivassantana/status/1076945970691297281
Translation: Miserable! The "Deputy Minister of Food" speaks ... and he confesses that they play with the hunger of the people: "Leave the song that people are moving around protesting the legs". "That's going to happen." "December is ending". "It was a risky strategy, but necessary"
And what the General said, in its entirety
"Comrades, I am going to talk to you once and for all, leave the question that if people go around complaining about the legs, and they do not pick up, send messages like Gloria and Miguel, you are responsible for the ministry of food. They can not be scared by protests What people are up to? That is going to happen to them, December is ending, and by the end of the year people are forgetting everything. Comrade President Nicolas Maduro announced the delivery of the pork because it was necessary. We had to get people to vote. it was a risky but necessary strategy. So calm down, or let me know and give me the charge. What has arrived has been distributed efficiently, I believe! To all the heads of key units More can not be done! Are they going to get up? Ah good! Imagine that, then. We already know that the leg is not going to arrive as people believe. Take the appropriate measures. Support yourself in the Bolivarian National Guard, and I urge you to behave at the height of your position!"
So, the cunning and subtle plan is to ignore the promises made to the starving public and hopefully, El Pueblo will forget about it soon enough. And if they don't, strong arm them with the Bolivarian (not Venezuelan) National Guard, Maduro's own Praetorian thugs.
December 24, 2018
(VIDEO) Five electric towers of the Peonías-Cuatricentenario line in the Zulia state were demolished
By: Panorama- Aporrea.org | Sunday, 12/23/2018 05:34 PM
Dec. 23, 2018 - Energy Minister Luis Motta Domínguez denounced on Sunday the demolition of five electric towers on the Peonias-Cuatricentenario line, a fact he described as part of "a sabotage plan."
"At dawn today, criminal hands again attacked the electrical system in Zulia (...) this time they have shot down five (5) electric towers, from the Peonias - Cuatricentenario line," Motta reported through his Instagram account.
He explained that these violent acts are "financed from Colombia" with the purpose of replicating the situation that occurred a year ago, in the past Christmases, when the city of Maracaibo was without electric service.
"As he had been warning, there is a plan whose objective is to replicate the situation of a year ago, when they sabotaged the electrical installations and cause discomfort to the Zulian people, embittering them with Christmas." A plan that seeks to destabilize basic services, to create chaos and disturb peace in the region."
"There is no doubt whatsoever, that these acts of sabotage are financed from Colombia as demonstrated when capturing the band that cut the sublacustrine cable of Lake Maracaibo," he added.
https://www.aporrea.org/contraloria/n336092.html
Nothing says, "vile, duplicitous doings from El Imperio" like the picture of rusted, unsecured/untethered electrical towers that have been neglected for 20 years, toppled over. Most certainly, the Colombians (or CIA trained iguanas), along with the Illuminati and Portuguese pig farmers left a detailed note at the site, explaining who paid who, with a signed invoice with Duque's signature.
At the very least it is a better theory than that of Zulian government lackey, Lisandro Cabello. "It is because we are very close to the Sun… while the rest of the world is cold, it is hot here, that just makes the situation more serious!"
In ChavismoLand, EVERYTHING is possible!
Chavista claims more electrical "sabotage" by Colombia. Offers pictures of rusted towers as proof
Motta Domínguez talks about international sabotage(VIDEO) Five electric towers of the Peonías-Cuatricentenario line in the Zulia state were demolished
By: Panorama- Aporrea.org | Sunday, 12/23/2018 05:34 PM
Dec. 23, 2018 - Energy Minister Luis Motta Domínguez denounced on Sunday the demolition of five electric towers on the Peonias-Cuatricentenario line, a fact he described as part of "a sabotage plan."
"At dawn today, criminal hands again attacked the electrical system in Zulia (...) this time they have shot down five (5) electric towers, from the Peonias - Cuatricentenario line," Motta reported through his Instagram account.
He explained that these violent acts are "financed from Colombia" with the purpose of replicating the situation that occurred a year ago, in the past Christmases, when the city of Maracaibo was without electric service.
"As he had been warning, there is a plan whose objective is to replicate the situation of a year ago, when they sabotaged the electrical installations and cause discomfort to the Zulian people, embittering them with Christmas." A plan that seeks to destabilize basic services, to create chaos and disturb peace in the region."
"There is no doubt whatsoever, that these acts of sabotage are financed from Colombia as demonstrated when capturing the band that cut the sublacustrine cable of Lake Maracaibo," he added.
https://www.aporrea.org/contraloria/n336092.html
Nothing says, "vile, duplicitous doings from El Imperio" like the picture of rusted, unsecured/untethered electrical towers that have been neglected for 20 years, toppled over. Most certainly, the Colombians (or CIA trained iguanas), along with the Illuminati and Portuguese pig farmers left a detailed note at the site, explaining who paid who, with a signed invoice with Duque's signature.
At the very least it is a better theory than that of Zulian government lackey, Lisandro Cabello. "It is because we are very close to the Sun… while the rest of the world is cold, it is hot here, that just makes the situation more serious!"
In ChavismoLand, EVERYTHING is possible!
December 24, 2018
December 24 2018, 12:06 pm
translated from Spanish
A group of children look for food among the rubbish of a large shopping center. According to Cáritas, 53% of families have been forced to look for food in "unconventional places", which is often a euphemism to refer to waste. / Photo: Ignacio Marín / El País
Prisoners plead for food and water in their cells at a police station in Caracas. Photo: Ignacio Marín / l Country
Roxana Gutiérrez (19 years old) takes care of her son at home in a humble neighborhood of Caracas. She and her husband, Carlos (20 years old), had stable jobs, but the lack of supplies led Carlos to go out one night to steal motorcycles. He was arrested by the police and today he is serving his sentence. Photo: Ignacio Marín / El País
-snip-
https://www.lapatilla.com/2018/12/24/el-hambre-y-la-criminalidad-en-caracas-fotos/
Hunger and crime in Venezuela
Hunger and crime in Caracas (PHOTOS)December 24 2018, 12:06 pm
translated from Spanish
A group of children look for food among the rubbish of a large shopping center. According to Cáritas, 53% of families have been forced to look for food in "unconventional places", which is often a euphemism to refer to waste. / Photo: Ignacio Marín / El País
The economic, social and political crisis in Venezuela has transformed Caracas into one of the most dangerous cities on the planet. In it about 40 people die a day. And hunger has become a catalyst for violence: many of the crimes - from homicides to kidnappings - are related to food shortages.
Given this, the Spanish newspaper El País , shows a photo-report that demonstrate the aforementioned.
Given this, the Spanish newspaper El País , shows a photo-report that demonstrate the aforementioned.
Prisoners plead for food and water in their cells at a police station in Caracas. Photo: Ignacio Marín / l Country
Roxana Gutiérrez (19 years old) takes care of her son at home in a humble neighborhood of Caracas. She and her husband, Carlos (20 years old), had stable jobs, but the lack of supplies led Carlos to go out one night to steal motorcycles. He was arrested by the police and today he is serving his sentence. Photo: Ignacio Marín / El País
-snip-
https://www.lapatilla.com/2018/12/24/el-hambre-y-la-criminalidad-en-caracas-fotos/
December 24, 2018
December 23 2018, 12:20 pm
October production levels will be the benchmark for cuts in crude oil pumping for most OPEC countries and those outside the group that agreed to rebates earlier this month, the minister said on Sunday. Energy of the United Arab Emirates.
Libya, Iran and Venezuela are exempt from the production cuts, the minister said, adding that he expects the pumping of these countries to fall instead of increasing.
The September level will be the benchmark for some producers, Suhail al-Mazrouei said at a press conference at the meeting of the Organization of Arab Oil Exporting Enterprises in Kuwait.
Mazrouei said that OPEC producers and non-OPEC countries want the oil market to return to the levels of the boreal summer of 2018 in the first quarter of next year.
Shale oil producers were the first to suffer the fall in prices, he explained, as shale pumping slowed.
https://www.lapatilla.com/2018/12/23/venezuela-exenta-de-los-recortes-de-produccion-de-la-opep-se-espera-que-su-produccion-siga-cayendo/
Venezuela cannot cut outputs, since their output is crashing already. Venezuela WISHES it could attain the outputs it had in October. Output is currently the lowest in about 70 years.
Venezuela excepted from OPEC oil output cuts due to crashing oil outputs
Venezuela exempt from OPEC production cuts: It is expected that its production will continue to fallDecember 23 2018, 12:20 pm
October production levels will be the benchmark for cuts in crude oil pumping for most OPEC countries and those outside the group that agreed to rebates earlier this month, the minister said on Sunday. Energy of the United Arab Emirates.
Libya, Iran and Venezuela are exempt from the production cuts, the minister said, adding that he expects the pumping of these countries to fall instead of increasing.
The September level will be the benchmark for some producers, Suhail al-Mazrouei said at a press conference at the meeting of the Organization of Arab Oil Exporting Enterprises in Kuwait.
Mazrouei said that OPEC producers and non-OPEC countries want the oil market to return to the levels of the boreal summer of 2018 in the first quarter of next year.
Shale oil producers were the first to suffer the fall in prices, he explained, as shale pumping slowed.
https://www.lapatilla.com/2018/12/23/venezuela-exenta-de-los-recortes-de-produccion-de-la-opep-se-espera-que-su-produccion-siga-cayendo/
Venezuela cannot cut outputs, since their output is crashing already. Venezuela WISHES it could attain the outputs it had in October. Output is currently the lowest in about 70 years.
December 24, 2018
December 24, 2018
translated from Spanish
http://www.noticierodigital.com/2018/12/carlos-holmes-no-reconocemos-gobierno-inicia-10e-venezuela/
Colombia will refuse to recognize Maduro as president effective January 10, 2019
Carlos Holmes: We do not recognize the Government that starts 10E in VenezuelaDecember 24, 2018
translated from Spanish
Eugenia Morales / December 24 2018.- Colombian Foreign Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo reiterated on Sunday to the Spanish newspaper ABC that Colombia did not recognize the presidential elections that took place in Venezuela last May, where Nicolás Maduro was elected again as president, and therefore will not recognize his new mandate on January 10.
The Colombian official indicated that Venezuela is going through a "really challenging" situation, so "we must move forward in actions to serve the regions according to the impact."
"The regional character and the global reach of the crisis have already been recognized, and mechanisms have been defined. What corresponds now is to put them in motion, "he said.
He also pointed out that more officials of the Government of Venezuela should be sanctioned. "We must continue asking for sanctions for people close to the regime. It is about creating conditions that lead to change in Venezuela, "he said.
He pointed out that "the diplomatic siege should be tightened" over the government of Nicolás Maduro so that "the Venezuelan people may live again in democracy and freedom."
"Things are the way they are until they change. The process requires patience, perseverance. We must continue asking for sanctions for people close to the regime. It is about creating conditions that lead to change in Venezuela, "he said.
The Colombian official indicated that Venezuela is going through a "really challenging" situation, so "we must move forward in actions to serve the regions according to the impact."
"The regional character and the global reach of the crisis have already been recognized, and mechanisms have been defined. What corresponds now is to put them in motion, "he said.
He also pointed out that more officials of the Government of Venezuela should be sanctioned. "We must continue asking for sanctions for people close to the regime. It is about creating conditions that lead to change in Venezuela, "he said.
He pointed out that "the diplomatic siege should be tightened" over the government of Nicolás Maduro so that "the Venezuelan people may live again in democracy and freedom."
"Things are the way they are until they change. The process requires patience, perseverance. We must continue asking for sanctions for people close to the regime. It is about creating conditions that lead to change in Venezuela, "he said.
http://www.noticierodigital.com/2018/12/carlos-holmes-no-reconocemos-gobierno-inicia-10e-venezuela/
December 22, 2018
By: Javier Antonio Vivas Santana | Friday, 12/21/2018 06:45 PM
Translated from Spanish
-snip-
https://www.aporrea.org/actualidad/a273326.html
But its GOOD to be The King!
Not so much to be El Pueblo!
The new minimum wage in Venezuela is $0.33 per day. Maduro satisfied. Again.
And they call themselves "socialists" and workers "! Maduristas recognize a minimum wage of 10 dollars a month (33 cents/day)By: Javier Antonio Vivas Santana | Friday, 12/21/2018 06:45 PM
Translated from Spanish
The failure of Nicolás Maduro's economic measures after almost six years in power shows that while that individual continues with political control, the only thing that remains for Venezuelans is the condemnation of the collective impoverishment and the destruction of the country.
Indeed, the disaster of the "economic" plan has been of such magnitude that Maduro himself, when he announced such a plan, brought the minimum wage up to 1,800 "sovereign" bolivars, which at that time, even taking as a reference the parallel market rate, also become an official, marked a benchmark of 30 dollars per month.
After four months, that minimum wage, although it was increased in this month of December to 4,500 "sovereign" bolivars currently represents only about 10 dollars a month, a figure recognized by the madurista regime when its official rate of exchange denominated as Exchange Rate System Market Floating Supplementary (Dicom) exceeded Bs. 447.62 per dollar ¹, and that same salary barely exceeds $ 5 per month when calculating it with the parallel currency market.
That the madurismo itself with its official exchange rate recognizes the minimum wage at $ 10 per month, or $ 0.33 per day, is the unequivocal sign of failure, hunger, poverty and misery in which they have sunk life of Venezuelans. To continue blaming such a failure on imperialism and its sanctions, not only borders on the ridiculous, but it turns madurism as the political plague of the 21st century, because not only is hyperinflation the only evil that overwhelms us. Venezuelan, but we have a collapse of the country in all areas of citizenship and social work.
Indeed, the disaster of the "economic" plan has been of such magnitude that Maduro himself, when he announced such a plan, brought the minimum wage up to 1,800 "sovereign" bolivars, which at that time, even taking as a reference the parallel market rate, also become an official, marked a benchmark of 30 dollars per month.
After four months, that minimum wage, although it was increased in this month of December to 4,500 "sovereign" bolivars currently represents only about 10 dollars a month, a figure recognized by the madurista regime when its official rate of exchange denominated as Exchange Rate System Market Floating Supplementary (Dicom) exceeded Bs. 447.62 per dollar ¹, and that same salary barely exceeds $ 5 per month when calculating it with the parallel currency market.
That the madurismo itself with its official exchange rate recognizes the minimum wage at $ 10 per month, or $ 0.33 per day, is the unequivocal sign of failure, hunger, poverty and misery in which they have sunk life of Venezuelans. To continue blaming such a failure on imperialism and its sanctions, not only borders on the ridiculous, but it turns madurism as the political plague of the 21st century, because not only is hyperinflation the only evil that overwhelms us. Venezuelan, but we have a collapse of the country in all areas of citizenship and social work.
-snip-
https://www.aporrea.org/actualidad/a273326.html
But its GOOD to be The King!
Not so much to be El Pueblo!
December 22, 2018
By: Agencia Venezolana de Noticias (AVN) | Saturday, 12/22/2018 08:05 AM
Translated from Spanish
https://www.aporrea.org/trabajadores/n336038.html
Article 149 of the Organic Labor Law of Workers is a Chavista law that says a business once in business cannot go out of business without permission from Chavismo. If such a business folds without permission, Chavismo reserves the right to throw ownership and management into prison and confiscate the assets of the business. Which is why everyone in management at Goodyear was out of the country when the ax fell. Naturally, if the company gets permission to close, it is only because it has already jailed the ownership and management, and nationalized the business for the glory of the patria/fatherland. SEE? A winner every time!
Goodyear joins a long list of businesses that have closed recently. GM, Clorox, Bridgestone, Kimberly Clark, Smurfit Kappa to name just a few. And once ownership abandons the factory, the Chavists loot the property of anything of value, and then gift the shell to the workers, who as Marx would say, are now "owners of the means of production". Whereupon, the produce nothing.
Maduro is now in the process of doing the only thing he knows how to do. Make a speech about El Imperio, confiscate the factory, loot it and "give" it to the employees. Wash, rinse, repeat for the last 19 years.
Former Goodyear workers, Chavista minister occupy closed plant, now owners of means of production
Goodyear workers occupy plant in Valencia to reactivate operationsBy: Agencia Venezolana de Noticias (AVN) | Saturday, 12/22/2018 08:05 AM
Translated from Spanish
21 Dec. 2018 - The workers of the company Goodyear tire producer of Venezuela, occupied this Friday the plant located in the state Carabobo to comply with Article 149 of the Organic Labor Law of Workers and Workers, after the illegal closure that the past 10 December carried out the transnational at its plant in Valencia.
The event had an assembly of workers in which the Minister for the Social Process of Labor, Eduardo Piñate, participated, who reiterated the support and accompaniment of the National Government to the working masses to restart production in this company.
"We have made the formal act of application of Article 149 of the Organic Labor Law that includes the occupation of the company by the working class, while we as Ministry of Labor, as mandated by law, we endorse that process of occupation by the workers, "the official explained.
Minister Piñate announced that in the next few days the board of directors of the plant will be appointed, which will be made up of a representation of the workers and also of the company, if it manifests it, in addition to the ministry.
"We have absolute confidence in the Venezuelan working class, the working class of Goodyear, who will put into operation this plant that will take the production of the country forward and that the Venezuelan people will have enough (raw materials) to continue recovering the automotive fleet," he said.
The transnational Goodyear ceased operations at its only plant in Venezuela located in Valencia on December 10. The only notification he gave to his 1,200 workers was through a statement placed on the surveillance gate that workers found when they arrived at the workday.
The event had an assembly of workers in which the Minister for the Social Process of Labor, Eduardo Piñate, participated, who reiterated the support and accompaniment of the National Government to the working masses to restart production in this company.
"We have made the formal act of application of Article 149 of the Organic Labor Law that includes the occupation of the company by the working class, while we as Ministry of Labor, as mandated by law, we endorse that process of occupation by the workers, "the official explained.
Minister Piñate announced that in the next few days the board of directors of the plant will be appointed, which will be made up of a representation of the workers and also of the company, if it manifests it, in addition to the ministry.
"We have absolute confidence in the Venezuelan working class, the working class of Goodyear, who will put into operation this plant that will take the production of the country forward and that the Venezuelan people will have enough (raw materials) to continue recovering the automotive fleet," he said.
The transnational Goodyear ceased operations at its only plant in Venezuela located in Valencia on December 10. The only notification he gave to his 1,200 workers was through a statement placed on the surveillance gate that workers found when they arrived at the workday.
https://www.aporrea.org/trabajadores/n336038.html
Article 149 of the Organic Labor Law of Workers is a Chavista law that says a business once in business cannot go out of business without permission from Chavismo. If such a business folds without permission, Chavismo reserves the right to throw ownership and management into prison and confiscate the assets of the business. Which is why everyone in management at Goodyear was out of the country when the ax fell. Naturally, if the company gets permission to close, it is only because it has already jailed the ownership and management, and nationalized the business for the glory of the patria/fatherland. SEE? A winner every time!
Goodyear joins a long list of businesses that have closed recently. GM, Clorox, Bridgestone, Kimberly Clark, Smurfit Kappa to name just a few. And once ownership abandons the factory, the Chavists loot the property of anything of value, and then gift the shell to the workers, who as Marx would say, are now "owners of the means of production". Whereupon, the produce nothing.
Maduro is now in the process of doing the only thing he knows how to do. Make a speech about El Imperio, confiscate the factory, loot it and "give" it to the employees. Wash, rinse, repeat for the last 19 years.
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