March 3, 2018

Millions of Venezuelans flee or starve. Maduro claims, "It's all about me!"

Maduro: Go to the restaurants in the East to see the humanitarian crisis and the whiskey carafes
March 2, 2018

ND / 2 Mar 2018, edit. 10:25 pm .- President Nicolás Maduro said Friday that the opening of a humanitarian channel and the migration of Venezuelans abroad, estimated at 4 million people, are part of a "dirty campaign" against his government.

This was said at a press conference from the CNE after a reporter from Globovisión asked him if he was willing to "give in" on the issue of the humanitarian channel.

"We do not echo so many dirty campaigns to discourage, demoralize and sadden the Venezuelans ... the Venezuelan is a unique being, who has a smile .... today is Friday. Go to the clubs ... go to the restaurants in the east to see the humanitarian crisis. Go now with the Globovision camera. I say to the owners of Globovisión: send a camera to the restaurants of Altamira, La Castellana, Las Mercedes to see the humanitarian crisis at 7 pm and the whiskey carafes. That is Venezuela. Let's stop the campaign to demotivate, to repeat what they want us to repeat Santos, Trump and company. "

Previously Maduro had assured that the Venezuelans value his "effort and his struggle" and that for that reason he points in the polls. In his response he also referred to another "dirty campaign": the migration of Venezuelans....

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http://www.noticierodigital.com/2018/03/maduro-reitero-que-habra-elecciones-este-ano/

(Maduro thinks he is very benevolent that he offered up the SECOND of two minimum wage increases since January 1... forgetting that every time he does it, he sets into motion EPIC hyperinflation. He calls it, "Strengthening the financial support system"!)

March 2, 2018

Lula to Maduro: Don't make the mistake of isolating Venezuela

Lula da Silva: "Maduro must think about the economy of Venezuela"
The ex-president of Brazil, Lula da Silva, exhorted Nicolás Maduro that in no way should he make the mistake of isolating Venezuela.
1 Mar 2018 | 8:32 PM



translated from Spanish

Former leftist Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva urged Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to "not allow the mistake of isolating Venezuela ."

Lula said he was not following closely the Venezuelan situation or having recently talked with Maduro , but explained that in 2013, when the Venezuelan president assumed power as the political heir of the late Hugo Chávez, he sent him a letter "saying what I thought was prudent that he did to harmonize Venezuela . "

But "for reasons that (Maduro ) should not explain to me, he did not adopt them," said the leader, who along with Chávez and Bolivian Evo Morales incarnated the wave of leftist governments at the beginning of the century in Latin America.

"Comrade Maduro has to consider that we need to think about Venezuela's economy with great affection, because Venezuela needs supplies, it needs to generate a lot of employment, it can be industrialized and Maduro can not allow the error to isolate Venezuela to happen."

Lula (2003-2010), which faces a delicate judicial situation and aspires to measure itself in the presidential elections of October, opined that "Venezuela needs to open up to South America, for other countries, to associate with other governments, because worse than an expensive product on the shelf of a supermarket is not having the product on the shelf. "

"Venezuela's problem is Venezuela's, the United States does not have to threaten Venezuela, Brazil does not have to threaten Venezuela, it's already difficult to develop this continent with peace, it will be much warier," he warned.

According to official estimates, some 40,000 Venezuelans are living in the capital of the border state of Roraima, many of them in conditions of indigence.

http://larepublica.pe/mundo/1205032-lula-da-silva-maduro-debe-pensar-en-la-economia-de-venezuela

cracks in the facade...

March 2, 2018

The Colectivos. Chavez' Brown Shirts... Chavismo until death! Chavez forever! Viva la Revolucion!

Not to worry... Vlad Padrino went on the defensive yesterday and said that he won't allow this sort of thing. That Colectivos are nice guys and that El Pueblo have nothing to worry about...

March 1, 2018

Chaos! Maduro's CNE changes the date AGAIN. (but adds municipal elections to the boycott)

Change of password! CNE will make the presidential election in the second half of May
The Cooperator

Caracas, March 1 .- The presidential elections were changed for the second half of May 2018, according to the agreement signed Thursday by representatives of candidates Henri Falcón and Nicolás Maduro.

In the text subscribed by Jorge Rodríguez and the opponents Miguel Salazar (Copei), Luis Augusto Romero (Advanced Progressive) and Felipe Mujica (MAS), it is indicated that in the new date established by the National Electoral Council (CNE) a new president, deputies to the legislative councils and members of the municipal councils, thus excluding the proposal of Diosdado Cabello to elect a new National Assembly.

After that, the president of the CNE, Tibisay Lucena, indicated that she is committed "to comply with and enforce this agreement" signed by the political organizations. "So far we have 25 applications that correspond to 14 political groups, to ten own initiatives , " he said.

https://elcooperante.com/corrieron-la-fecha-elecciones-presidenciales-se-realizaran-la-segunda-quincena-de-mayo/

{{{Insert music of Benny Hill Show here}}}

Why not? The vast majority of parties are boycotting the fraudulent elections for president... why not add to your power base by scheduling other elections to run the electoral table? Not that any of this is Constitutional... but Chavismo doesn't need no stinking Constitution!

March 1, 2018

Venezuela extends time period to run for president in fraud election... not enough suckers applied

They look for more candidates: CNE extended 48 hours nominations for presidential
The Cooperator

Caracas, February 28.- The National Electoral Council (CNE) extended the nomination period for candidates for the presidential elections of April 22 on Tuesday, 48 hours, according to the commission's announcement in a press release.

The authorities of the Electoral Power decided to extend for 48 hours the period of nomination of candidates and candidates, at the request of various organizations for political purposes. This decision is adopted in order to fully guarantee the exercise of the political rights of Venezuelan women and men within the framework of the Constitution and the laws," says part of the text.

The same, was published late on Tuesday night, after President Nicolás Maduro formalized his candidacy for re-election. Henri Falcón, also did the same and inscribed his candidacy supported by his party Progressive Advanced, MAS, Copei and Ecological Movement. However, the opposition condemned the action considering that "it departs from the unity and democratic sentiment of the Venezuelan people."

https://elcooperante.com/cne-extendio-por-48-horas-lapso-de-postulacion-de-candidatos-a-las-presidenciales/

"...within the framework of the Constitution and the laws..." High comedy! Chavismo has no use for the Constitution, which it hasn't bothered to consult since 2015. The TSJ, CNE and ANC are all unconstitutional. As are these fraud early elections. And the elections that keep getting postponed.

Henri Falcón... possibly the ONLY person in Venezuela more despised than Nick Maduro. Perpetual failed candidate and former Chavista governor of Lara... whose campaign believes in Chavismo... he believes that the wrong people are running it!

March 1, 2018

Venezuelan poor leave corpse on Chavista mayors doorstep, can't afford burial expenses

Abandoned corpse in Mayor of Turén for lack of resources for burial
They denounce that relatives asked the mayor for help for burial expenses and received no response



On Friday, citizens left the corpse of a relative in the vicinity of the Mayor of Turén, Portuguesa state, because they do not have the resources to bury him.

The information was provided by Carlos Iván Suárez, journalist of the entity, who published images about the event.

According to Tv Venezuela, the family members asked the mayor for help with burial expenses, but they did not receive a response, so they decided to leave the body in front of the mayor's facilities.

"Citizens left corpses of relatives in front of the city hall of Turén, Portuguesa, because they do not have money to bury them and the mayor did not offer them the requested help," the newspaper said.

http://www.el-nacional.com/noticias/sucesos/abandonaron-cadaver-alcaldia-turen-por-falta-recursos-para-sepelio_224867

Another day in the life (or death) of ChavismoTopia! The people can't afford a dozen eggs (over a months minimum wages)... where are they going to find the money to bury their dead?

February 28, 2018

30% of Venezuelan teachers have abandoned Venezuela. 70% are science teachers

"Education towards collapse": Ecarri warns that 30% of teachers have left the country
The Cooperator

Caracas, February 28.- The president of the Arturo Uslar Pietri Foundation (FAUP), Antonio Ecarri, denounced on Wednesday that between 28 and 30% of Venezuelan teachers have left the country, a phenomenon that, In his opinion, it is generating the definitive collapse of the Venezuelan educational system.

In the framework of the forum "Program for democratic change, from collapse to recovery", Ecarri said that the figure obtained in joint studies between FAUP and Fetramagisterio, evidence the unprecedented crisis that has put in check the future of Venezuela.

On this analysis, the maximum representative of the Pencil Alliance, pointed out that the displacement of educators should be added the deterioration of school infrastructure , the absolute shortage of food program in Venezuelan schools, reported a press release .

"Children are malnourishing, they are malnourishing (...) we are close to the worst social catastrophe the country had ever had and had never experienced," he told the media that approached him when they left the space where they discussed understanding together with José Manuel Puente, expert in the economic field; the political scientist Carlos Raúl Hernández; and Jesús Rafael González, university professor.

"Of that 30% of absent educators, almost 70% is in the science area, that is, we are putting the education of the future of Venezuela in danger . Who will educate the engineers, scientists of the future, if they can not take classes in mathematics, physics or chemistry, "he reflected.

On the other hand, the political leader questioned that the National Electoral Council (CNE) does not offer conditions for fair, free and transparent elections, through which the country can elect a new president of the Republic. "Venezuela needs a cure of truths, as Arturo Uslar Pietri used to tell us. The only way out that this crisis has to be is through the vote , but for that it is necessary that people feel and can effectively make their vote worthwhile (...) when a country stops believing in the vote the ghosts are awakened more terrible of our history," he warned.

https://elcooperante.com/educacion-rumbo-al-colapso-ecarri-alerta-que-30-de-los-maestros-se-han-ido-del-pais/

Well, who needs educators anyway? What is needed is better/more Chavista propagandists!

February 27, 2018

Maduros version of Hitler's Brown Shirts... the colectivos.

https://twitter.com/ElPitazoTV/status/968141655126798336

Flexing their "muscle" in Caracas. They denounced the "U.S. created shortages of food and medicines" and the "flight of Venezuelans to other countries", while pledging their fealty for Nicolás Maduro... while wielding rifles and shotguns for emphasis. Because it isn't the wholesale corruption and incompetence of Chavismo... its the sanctions against 40 Chavistas and not allowing US firms to negotiate their bad debt is keeping Venezuelans hungry.

Colectivos are Maduro's shock troops. While it is illegal for private citizens to keep guns, it isn't illegal for Chavismo's militia. Not Venezuelas militia... CHAVISMO'S MILITIA.

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February 27, 2018

The Chavista "skim" continues. More cattle stolen by police and Chavista officials. Again

"They destroy us": Officials "subtracted seven animals from a gandola" in Guárico
The Cooperator

Caracas, February 26.- The president of Fedenaga, Carlos Odoardo Albornoz, denounced on Sunday that police officers established at the point known as "Los Flores", near San Juan de los Morros, in Guárico State, together with alleged officials of Funda Mercado " seven animals were taken from a gandola " that went to the slaughterhouse of Turmero, in the state of Aragua.

"It is really illogical to try to continue to harass the Venezuelan peasant," as it causes " a brutal damage to the supply of large centers of consumption, " he wrote through his Twitter account.

"Subtracting the work of 1,500 days of the working man is against nature in the current situation ," added Odoardo Albornoz, while refusing to continue "some public officials bent on destroying us. Our goal of continuing to produce and supply nothing and nobody will change it. It's a compromise".

https://elcooperante.com/nos-destruyen-funcionarios-sustrajeron-siete-animales-de-una-gandola-en-guarico/

Cattle is transported to local slaughterhouses from rural agricultural areas so that the meat can be sold at "guaranteed prices" to the public. However, the Chavista regime isn't content to stand in line with El Pueblo to get their meat. It is far easier to confiscate the cattle at the point of a gun at a roadblock and call it a "special tax"... not that the rancher gets reimbursed for any cattle that get pilfered. He eats the loss, unless he feels confident that he can name the police and officials that stole his cattle. In which case he ends up dead, his remaining cattle "nationalized" and his home burned to the ground.

February 26, 2018

Maduro can't keep his Petro "Sh*tcoin" lies straight.

The Blockchain Won't Save Venezuela
The petro is just a way to hide new international debt behind crypto mumbo-jumbo.
By Matt Levine
February 25, 2018, 8:00 AM CST



I don't know why Venezuela's "petro" cryptocurrency annoys me so much. It is partly that the promise of cryptocurrency was supposed to be trustless decentralization: You trust the thing because of objective certainties embedded in its open-source code, not because some authority tells you to. Meanwhile the petro is just the opposite. For one thing, you can't trust the code; in fact Venezuela's government can't even get its story straight on what sort of code it is:

Investors will have to overlook confusion about how the currency will operate. The white paper says the Petro is built on the Ethereum network, while the user guide the government published says it’s on the Nem network.

Also irritating is that this cryptocurrency is supposed to "promote well-being, bringing power closer to the people" but you can't buy it with Venezuelan bolivars. The reasons for this are obvious: The petro is not a currency, crypto or otherwise, but a way to raise hard currency externally now that Venezuela is cut off by sanctions from accessing the international debt markets. So the petro is just a way to hide new international debt behind a thin screen of blockchain. (The U.S. sanctions administrators, I should note, are not fooled.)

Also, I keep reading that the petro is a cryptocurrency that is "backed by oil." What does that mean? First of all: It means that you need to trust Venezuela's government to exchange oil for petros. (There are efforts to build decentralized pegged coins, but for the most part a peg requires someone to maintain it.) Obviously the petro does not give you a security interest in any oil. So the petro is unsecured oil-indexed debt of a government that is sliding into default and that has been barred from the international debt markets.

But it's worse than that! Venezuela doesn't even promise to give you any oil. The oil peg is just this:

The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela guarantees that it will accept Petro’s as a form of payment of national taxes, fees, contributions and public services, taking as a reference the price of the barrel of the Venezuelan basket of the previous day with a percentage discount of Dv.

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https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-02-25/venezuela-s-petro-cryptocurrency-won-t-help-debt

This fraud keeps getting better and better... waiting for the UI's to start investing in this scheme.