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By: Elio Cequea
The Venezuelan President said that other than his plans for a better Venezuela, there were not plans offered as an alternative by the opposition to his presidency. If there was one, he said, he will invite the promoter to debate. Well, the people from "A Dream for Venezuela" movement headed by author Gerver Torres have accepted the challenge.
The biggest problem the opposition to the Venezuelan government has is the lack of a plan to solve the problems that have found safe haven in the Venezuelan society. President Chavez was elected in 1998 and since then he has proceeded to fix some of them with the implementation of new ideas, laws and programs.
In the heat of the recent political warfare, President Chavez challenged anybody in the opposition with a plan different to his to debate. It is not a surprise that a true 100% disciple of the now defunct IV Republic (1958-1998) has accepted the challenge.
Gerver Torres represents the typical eloquent, educated technocrat who helped govern Venezuela for forty years before Chavez was elected. He has been international adviser for the World Bank, the Latin American Economic System (Sela), the United Nations, the Latin American Institute of Social Studies (ILDES) and for the Inter-American Development Bank. He participated in the Presidential Commission for the Reform of the State and in the Presidential Commission of Competitiveness. He was Minister President of the Investment Fund of Venezuela. Among other accomplishments, he has worked for more than ten years for governments of countries in Latin America, Europe and Asia, in the reconstruction of public companies. On top of all of this, he is also an author.
With the rhetoric and eloquence of a true disciple of Rafael Caldera, Gerver Torres takes over the responsibility of this new organization. Contrary to the comatose right-wing party Primero Justice which promises and proposes "realities", A Dream for Venezuela proposes nothing more than that: a dream.
Gerver Torres says on his proclamation of acceptance to the President's challenge that, "the hour to debate about the country that we want to built is here". Why in the forty years these people were in power, they never got to that hour? Just five years without significant political influence and they are suffering of "urgency syndrome"! The Venezuelan opposition is like that. Now everything is "very grave", "worst" and "urgent". In the year 2002 I heard many people from the opposition saying that the country could not wait for the referendum then just one year away, because the country was going to explode. Here we are, with an expected GDP growth of 10%, with inflation under control, etc., and we still have to wait two more months for it.
Torres' project for our country is simple: excellent rhetoric team up with abundant and flashy publicity. He will put the rhetoric and the media will lend the publicity. In fact, they are already doing it. The project is "inclusive" and emphasizes "the strengths and capacities of the Venezuelans". BS! This is the same people who are also saying that they need to get rid of the "chusma" (the poor, uneducated and "undesirables") that according to them are destroying Venezuela. That rather sounds "exclusive".
"They could not stay quiet to the challenge made by the President", says Gerver Torres. The truth is that it would have been better to keep quiet. Mr. Torres and his organization are proposing to debate the following. I do not see a need for the President to waste his time. I can take care of this myself.
"How we the Venezuelans see ourselves, as a revolutionary militia or as citizens of a prosperous and modern country?" Well, in all the developed countries, the citizens are required to be also a militia when national emergency requires it. Venezuelans now have better rights as citizens than ever before, including the right to recall elected officials. Why don't we ask this question to George W. Bush in the light of his current imperialist campaign?
"How we should see a political adversary, as a rival of a competition that nurtures democracy or as a mortal enemy which must be destroyed and buried?" In Venezuela, the opposition movement is like a mortal enemy that must be destroyed and buried. Chavez pardoned them after the April 2002 coup and called for "national dialogue" only to see the opposition launch a three-month oil sabotage and lock-out causing 14 billion dollars in losess to the economy. How do you nurture democracy with coups, sabotages to key industry and bosses-sponsored strikes? How do you nurture democracy if you threaten not to accept any results that are contrary to your desires?
"How do we increase employment, making the State the motor of the economy or vigorously promoting private investment?" China is doing both and is having an incredible economic growth. We should try both. Maybe Gerver Torres is working for the IMF, as they are the only ones insisting in only promoting private investment as the only route for development. Torres fails to mention that countries like Japana would not have achieved development if it wasn´t for the initiative of the State. Currently, the U.S. economy is largely mantained by State spending and intervention in the economy, as the expensive military contracts, for instance, can show.
"How do we see the world, as a place where there are only threats or as an space full of opportunities for our economic and social development?" Neither one, but all the opposite! This depends on each particular situation. Can we ask George Bush so you can see it better?
"Is oil a weapon for political pressure inside and outside the country or is it an instrument for economic growth and generation of wealth?" Come on! Let's get real! Oil is a weapon AND an instrument use for both political pressure and generation of wealth. Have you heard about Iraq? About the US oil embargo?
"How do we see the State bureaucracy, as people serving a particular political project or as public servants to more general interests of Venezuela?" This is a good question for "Gente de Petroleo", the organization of mostly oil executives that led the lock-out and sabotage of the oil industry at the end of 2002. I think they were serving the interests of "generals" of Venezuela.
As you can see, there is not much to debate. Rhetoric and eloquence are better when used for fiction literature. In his proclamation of acceptance to the challenge Gerver Torres even includes a famous quote from a famous philosopher from another country. This always makes the Venezuelan intellectuals feel important.
Torres wrote, "Thomas Mazaryk, the admired Czech Prime Minister said, "democracy is a discussion". That is really impressive: Democracy is a discussion! Definitely historic words! A friend of mine sympathizer of the opposition used to write solemnly at the end of his emails, "Give power to a man and you will finally know him". He stopped using it when I asked him if he was referring to Pedro Carmona. That is how they are. It makes them feel important.
Mr. Torres does not know this humble philosopher from the Venezuelan town of Tucupita who once said: "Only the babies eat Gerber. Then they put it in their diapers and then go to sleep".
By Franz J. T. Lee
Currently, all the oligarchic powers in Venezuela and abroad have
entered into a fascist, neo-liberal alliance to exorcise this spectre:
Bush and Kerry, OAS and Carter Center, Blair and Berlusconi, Ortega and
CAP, "Friends of Venezuela" and Enemies of "Castro-Communism". Where is
the "party" in the "opposition" that did not decry Chávez as a
"dictator", as a "tyrant"? Where are the anti-governmental
"stormtroopers of the apocalypse", the national and international mass
media, that did not try to assassinate his character?
After
the brutal massacre of dozens of Bolivarians, especially between April
11 and 13, 2002, after various serious attempts of political and
economic coups, that normally no oppressive government ever would have
survived, after the oil sabotage, the fraudulent referendum elections,
now Chávez is No. 1 on the hit list of the mercenary "Death Squads", of
the "paramilitares", is targeted for "regime change", for "transition
to democracy". With the most democratic constitution that the world
ever has seen, with a genuine "social contract" in their hands, for
the majority of Venezuelans, for 85% of 24 million people, who have
been languishing in critical misery and poverty over the last
half-a-century, two things remain very clearly: ¡¡No puede ser, Uh, Ah,
Chávez no se va!! This will not happen, Chávez goes nowhere! Although
faced with a "referendum", their President must remain in power, if
necessary, till 2021, in fact, forever.
Never
mind the Damocles Sword of global fascist "shock and awe", of a possible foreign
intervensionist "awestruck" over Caracas, the Bolivarian Republic is fulfilling
its historic, social order, is keeping the youthful daydreams of Simón Bolívar
alive, demonstrating praxically to the world a viable, possible alternative
to the ALCA, to neo-liberal savagery in Venezuela, in Latin America, and elsewhere.
Definitely,
the belligerent, corporate oil mongrels and torturers of Washington, London, South Korea and Italy,
in their global fascist megalomania, first would have to eradicate every
single worker, peasant, buhonero, child or Bolivarian, in barbaric invasion,
would have to raze the whole of Venezuela to the ground, in their forward
march of trying to conquer Latin America, to establish a Global Fourth Empire.
They would have to take up arms against "miracles", against an armed revolution, against a people in arms, in fact, have to eliminate all the people's armed forces, would have to commit heinous war crimes against a democracy in arms, in the arms and hearts of millions across Latin America, across the whole globe, even in Europe and the USA themselves. They would have to wipe out the eternal radiating memory of the Liberator, of the fiery Bolivarian revolutionary spirit from the very face of the Milky Way. Vietnam, Cuba, Afghanistan and Iraq are splendid paradigms that verify praxico-theoretically that superior mortal weapons are not necessarily a conditio sine qua non for victory.
Only as such, the contemporary Venezuelan and Latin American revolutionaries can understand the transhistoric warning of Simón Bolívar: that with the support of the mass media, seemingly the USA are destined by the will of providence to plaque America with misery in the name of freedom.
Here is the original statement:
"¿No cree Vd. que la Inglaterra sentiría
celos por la elección que se
hiciera en un Borbón? ¿Cuánto no se opondrían
todos los nuevos
estados americanos, y los Estados Unidos que parecen destinados
por la Providencia para plagar la América de miserias a nombre de
la Libertad? Me parece que ya veo una conjuración general contra
esta pobre Colombia, ya demasiado envidiada de cuantas
repúblicas tiene la América. Todas las prensas se pondrían
en
movimiento llamando a una nueva cruzada contra los cómplices de
traición a la libertad, de adictos a los Borbones y de violadores
del
sistema americano. Por el Sur encenderían los peruanos la llama de
la discordia; por el Istmo los de Guatemala y Méjico, y por las
Antillas los americanos y los liberales de todas partes. No se
quedaría Santo Domingo en inacción y llamaría a sus
hermanos
para hacer causa común contra un príncipe de Francia. Todos
se
convertirían en enemigos sin que la Europa hiciera nada por
sostenernos, porque no merece el Nuevo Mundo los gastos de una
Santa Alianza... "
(Simón Bolívar, Obras Completas,
Madrid, Maveco
de Ediciones S.A., 1992, volumen V, página 279).
When absolutist feudalism was toppled by the French Revolution, when
the Industrial Revolution was driving the serfs and peasants off the
lands because their agricultural labour was obsolete, Vagrant Laws --
especially under Henry VIII
already -- just massacred the unwanted en masse. Of
course, then, the modern working class, the proletariat, the future
physical labourers were also born, came of age. Because of the equal,
unequal and combined development of history, of the international
division of labour, of the world market, the current Bolivarian
Revolution in Venezuela has similar demands as the democratic,
bourgeois, capitalist revolution of yestermillennium: national
capitalism, sovereignty, national dignity, industrialization, land
reform, etc. However, at the same time, judged by its projects, by the
severe attacks, it goes far beyond these objectives, that is why it
threatens the American World Empire.
Now,
in the Third Millennium, we are experiencing another Global Technological and Nanotechnological Transvolution,
a Revolution, that is ushering in a post-productive mode of existence, mainly
utilizing "intellectual labour forces", thus condemning billions of physical labour forces
to extinction; globally, over the last decades, machines, computers, the intelligentzia,
drove hundreds of thousands of physical labourers into dire poverty, into
obsolescence. On a world scale is happening precisely what Bolívar feared for Latin America and the Caribbean.
In spite of the current problems of the Bush administration, after
Iraq, more massive global Euro-American butcheries will be on the global order
of the day; in the 20th century, it was called fascism or nazism. Today it
is called "Anti-Terrorism", "Civilization", the New World Order or Globalization.
And, the international working class, the obsolete sector, is now the "terrorist
class". Long live the "terrorist class"! You have nothing to lose, except
your "terror"! It's Civilization and Barbarism!
Until
now, in all modes of production, War supposedly had cured all Labour Problems
-- will it succeed this time? Will the pipe-dreams of the giga-corporations
in the oil-rich Persian and Caspian regions, to capture PDVSA, sweep away
the physical labour classes by the billions? Can less than 5% of the current
working class, the intellectual labourers, still save humanity? Can the Venezuelan
práxico-theoretical example blaze the transhistoric trail towards
human beauty, truth and love? Bolivar was convinced of our global victory;
Chávez confirms his eviternal revolutionary aspirations, and presently, the Bolivarian
peoples are storming the very heavens.
On
August 15, 2004, we will have no alternative, we just have to be
victorious! Bolivarians of the World, Unite! You have too much to lose!
Crece la popularidad de Hugo Chávez en Estados Unidos
Por: Carlos Quintanilla - ANNCOL
Publicado el Jueves, 24/06/04 09:56am |
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Jun 24,2004 (Los Angeles, EEUU).- La Revolución Bolivariana, que lidera el presidente Hugo Chávez, tiene cientos de miles de simpatizantes latinoamericanos y, hasta anglos, en diversas ciudades de Estados Unidos. Los latinoamericanos que simpatizan con Chávez y su Revolución, ven en el líder y su proyecto, un ejemplo a seguir en la región.
Es oportuno destacar que el número de personas que acude a eventos que se realizan sobre Venezuela y su realidad política, cada vez es más numeroso, particularmente, en ciudades habitadas por latinos.
Durante el pasado año y durante los primeros cinco meses de este, se
ha presentado en innumerables recintos norteamericanos el
video-documental “La Revolución No Será Televisada”, el cual describe a
grandes rasgos el golpe de Estado que contra Chávez perpetraron en el
2002, los enemigos de los cambios democráticos.
Dicho documental
ha recibido fuertes y prolongados aplausos, ya que en él se
desenmascara a los que estuvieron detrás del golpe contra el presidente
electo por la mayoría de venezolanos. Se desenmascara también la
avalancha de desinformación que la gran prensa reaccionaria tanto
venezolana como de otros países, ha desatado sobre la realidad que vive
el pueblo venezolano.
Centroamericanos los más optimistas
Vale
la pena señalar que entre los latinoamericanos que simpatizan con la
Revolución Bolivariana en Estados Unidos, los centroamericanos son los
más optimistas. Pablo, es un salvadoreño que radica en San Francisco,
California. Durante 11 años, se destacó como combatiente de tiempo
completo en las filas de la ex guerrilla salvadoreña.
Pablo,
ve en el Presidente Hugo Chávez y su Revolución, algo que en su país no
se pudo concretar. Según el ex combatiente, en el conflicto armado
salvadoreño, hubo más de 75 mil muertos. El precio que el pueblo pagó,
dice, fue muy alto y no se alcanzó el objetivo trazado. Agrega, que los
logros alcanzados por el pueblo venezolano, bajo el liderazgo del
Presidente Chávez, son gigantescos. Tiene la esperanza que Chávez
triunfará en el referendo Ratificatorio o Presidencial del 15 de agosto.
Así
como este humilde ex combatiente, que ahora se confunde con cualquier
inmigrante, hay muchos que han adoptado el proyecto revolucionario
venezolano como propio. Cifran sus esperanzas en Chávez porque ven en
él un auténtico líder que no sólo está sacando la cara por los
venezolanos, sino que también, por todos los latinoamericanos.
Y
tienen toda la razón porque Chávez, pese a la campaña desinformativa y
saboteadora, que los enemigos de la democracia han lanzado en su
contra, ha sabido derrotarlos inteligentemente y su proyecto sigue
marchando a paso de vencedores. En opinión de analistas honestos, en
Venezuela, ningún presidente ha sido tan vilipendiado e injuriado por
la prensa como el presidente Chávez.
'Asquerosas' declaraciones de prensa
Es
oportuno recordar que a estas campañas tergiversadoras se han sumado
importantes medios de prensa de Estados Unidos. Los diarios The
Washington Post y The New York Times, en repetidas ocasiones, han
calificado en sus editoriales al presidente Hugo Chávez como “el nuevo
Fidel Castro.” Han advertido también del “peligro que representa para
la región”.
La revista US News & World Report ha ido más
allá. Esta revista norteamericana publicó a finales del año pasado que
“Chávez se está conviertiendo en el peor enemigo de Estados Unidos en
la región,” por sus supuestos nexos de colaboración con “terroristas de
Oriente Medio, Colombia y Cuba.” Chávez calificó tales declaraciones de
“asquerosas”.
No cabe ninguna duda que estas campañas
tergiversadoras lo único que han buscado, sin éxito alguno, es
debilitar la imagen del presidente Chávez y enturbiar las relaciones
entre Venezuela y algunos países latinoamericanos. Sin embargo, ninguno
de estos objetivos ha sido conseguido por los adversarios del
Presidente.
Chávez, cada día es más popular en Latinaomerica y
en los países pobres, y su proyecto revolucionario, sigue su rumbo
trazado. El máximo exponente de la Revolución Bolivariana, cada día se
fortalece. Se fortalece, porque tuvo el valor y la firmeza de derrotar
a los corruptos y devolverle la dignidad al pueblo venezolano.
Chávez,
también rescató el pensamiento político de Bolívar, que por muchos
años, estuvo secuestrado por la oligarquía. Podemos decir, sin temor a
equivocarnos, que Bolívar cabalga de nuevo en Venezuela y que la
evolución de las masas jamás podrá ser detenida.
*Carlos
Quintanilla es periodista y director del Noticiero Pacífica, que se
transmite por la estación KPFK, de la Cadena Pacífica, en Los Angeles,
EE.UU.
Prohiben a Banco Provincial trasladar datos de clientes a México, confirmada denuncia de Aporrea
Por: Radio Nacional de Venezuela
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Caracas,
23 Jun. "Dadas las circunstancias, la Superintendencia de Bancos y
Otras Instituciones Financieras (Sudeban) prohibió el traslado de la
data de los clientes al exterior, y en consecuencia se mandó a
paralizar el traslado de la data del Banco Provincial a Guadalajara,
México", según informó el titular del despacho, Trino Alcides Díaz.
En
efecto, expresó que las altas autoridades, entre ellas, el Ministerio
de Finanzas estudian si autorizan o no la mudanza del centro de
informática de la filial del Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria hacia
México, la cual contiene la data de los clientes y el procesamiento
para realizar transacciones.
En el caso del banco Provincial,
que es filial del Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, institución española
poseedora de varias entidades financieras en la región latinoamericana,
ha pedido permiso para manejar la data de los clientes venezolanos
desde Guadalajara, México, pero por ahora, está imposibilitado.
"En
este sentido, nosotros estamos estudiando el caso, mandamos a técnicos
a México para que examinen la situación. Ningún otro banco ha hecho
este tipo de pedido."
Trino Alcides Díaz dijo que, en el ámbito
internacional, muchos bancos están acostumbrados a crear sus centros en
el cual concentran toda la información con equipos sofisticados que les
permite abaratar los costos y mejorar el servicio. Sin embargo, reiteró
que es un tema muy delicado que debe verse con precaución.
Coincide con denuncia de Aporrea
Esta información se ve relacionada con una renuncia publicada recientemente en la página web Aporrea.org (www.aporrea.org/dameletra.php?docid=8512),
transmitida anónimamente por un empleado del banco, según la cual el
banco Provincial habría decidido mudar "el servidor central y sus
Centros de Cómputo ubicado en la sede de dicho banco" a la ciudad de
Guadalajara, argumentando razones de costos y seguridad. El empleado
afirmaba que también habían razones políticas de peso en la decisión.
El
Banco Provincial habría tomado la decisión, según indica la
información, buscando una disminución de costos en el mantenimiento de
la salas de cómputo. Además, se argumenta que la sede actual del Banco
Provincial, ubicada en el centro de Caracas, corre peligro de sufrir
daños "en caso de disturbios", dejando sin servicio a los usuarios del
banco a nivel nacional.
Pero el empleado también argumentaba
que, en el caso de un nuevo paro insurreccional en el cual participe la
banca privada, sería muy sencillo desconectar los centros de cómputo
desde el exterior, dejando a millones de personas sin la posibilidad de
acceder a sus fondos.
En diciembre de 2002 y enero de 2003, casi
todos los bancos privados se unieron al paro convocado por Fedecámaras
y la Central de Trabajadores de Venezuela para solicitar la renuncia al
Presidente de la República, trabajando medio tiempo y cerrando
numerosas agencias.
El paro bancario fue duramente rechazado
por la población, y las agencias retornaron a su funcionamiento
habitual mucho antes que el resto de los comercios privados que se
habían unido al paro.
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By: Gregory Wilpert – Venezuelanalysis.com
Caracas, June 23, 2004 — Electoral Council Board member Jorge Rodriguez said today that the national voter registration file will have to be carefully reviewed because it is estimated that as many as 50,000 dead Venezuelans are still on the list.
Rodriguez said, “I believe it is important for all actors that we go to the referendum with an electoral register that has been purified. In the data that we used for the month of May we are excluding 50,000 dead that are registered there.”
It is generally known that in past elections deceased voters were often intentionally left on the voter registration lists so as to enable other voters to vote a second time in the name of a dead citizen. Chavez supporters have argued that the mechanisms for perpetrating this type of fraud are still in place and are controlled by sympathizers of the former ruling parties, especially Acción Democratica (AD). The most recent instance this methods was supposedly used was during the recall referendum petition drive.
Earlier this month Rodriguez had said that the electoral council determined that 15,863 “Lazaruses,” people for which there are death certificates, had participated in the signature re-certification process. 11,256 signatures were substracted from the final count when it was discovered they belonged to people whose death hadn't been reported to the electoral council.
So as to further protect against fraud and double voting, Rodriguez said that the electoral council was in the process of investigating the feasibility of purchasing fingerprint reading machines, which would register each person’s vote and ensure that they did not vote again under a false name. Members of the opposition, however, have argued that such machines would be much too expensive for Venezuela.
“In process” audits not allowed
Rodriguez also said that there was confusion over what the “in process” audits of the voting machines meant for the upcoming recall referendum. Many news outlets have reported that the electoral council would not allow any audits of the recall referendum vote. Rodriguez clarified that he was talking about “in-process” audits, which refers to audits that are taken during the polling hours, meaning that voting is stopped for a machine, it is opened, and the paper ballots are counted and compared with the computerized result until then.
Electoral Council rules that members of the military may vote
In its regular meeting today, the electoral council said that members of Venezuela’s military would be permitted to vote in the August 15 recall referendum against President Chavez. Under Venezuela’s previous constitutions, the military was not allowed to vote. However, while the new constitution of 1999 does give them the right to vote, the electoral council said that the recall referendum petition was not a vote, but an act of political activism and so the military was not allowed to sign the petitions that requested recall referenda.
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Chacon
said that opposition leaders and private communications media “have
been saying for a long time that the President would not accept a
decision that wasn’t favorable to him. But, on the contrary, he always
said that he would respect the National Elections Council (CNE), which
is why in less than four hours, he gave a speech to the Venezuelan
people in which he said that if the CNE decided to hold a referendum,
he would accept that.” 
