Chavismo dealt another blow and shuts up VZ blogger

At Babalu Blog, Gusano reports the latest blow to Hugo Chavez’ attempts to spread his own special brand of socialism in the lower hemisphere;

Chavez, who knows how to buy friends and influence people, has offered to use some of “his” , I mean Venezuelan, oil money to buy, I mean help, Chilean socialist president Michelle Bachalet regain her declining popularity by subsidizing the construction of a new transportation program called Transantiago. The implementation of the system has been botched and overbudget, leading to street demonstrations in Santiago.

The Bachalet administration emphatically refused Chavez’s offer to make Chile one of his “client states”:

“We are not used to outsiders telling us what we have to do”

A slightly more diplomatic, yet just as effective ¿por que no te callas?

A slightly more diplomatic, yet just as effective ¿por que no te callas?Hugo, you see is the “brains” behind 21st Century Socialism, which seems to be a very close relative of 20th Century Socialism – stealing.

As far as I can tell, 21st Century Socialism consists of taking your national wealth and packing it in suitcases that are then delivered to other countries to buy , I mean help, foreign politicians who don’t mind prostituting themselves get elected or stay in power.

Yet while Chavez is spreading his money and promises, folks in Venezuela are still missing staples like milk, according to Daniel in Venezuela News and Views;

Yes, milk. There are reports also of people fighting for a pound of powder milk; or of the armed forces battling the “buhoneros” to force them to sell milk at the regulated prices. these ones preferred to spill milk on the side walk. As the shelves of Venezuela are slowly lacking more and more items we learned that through the dismal inefficiency of the Venezuelan public administration 1660 cows died in a ship at Puerto Cabello. In a tale worthy of Garcia Marquez tug boats had to push the boat at sea to throw overboard the putrescent meat. No word form the sharks yet though we are sure that the land sharks will keep whatever commission they pocketed to bring missing meat to Venezuela even if that one will never reach the shelves.

While Katy of the Caracas Chronicles thinks that General Raul Baduel is inciting the Venezuelan military to stand with Venezuelans, and against Chavez, with these words;

“As soldiers we’ve been professionally prepared to administer the State’s legal and legitimate violence, and therefore, we are experts in the topic of violence and what it entails. Our duty, specially during times like these, is to avoid the unleashing of violent processes and come forward as generators of calm and guides so the country can embark on a true path of development and as promoters and maintainers of peace, remembering the peaceful nature of the Venezuelan people which is expressed in Article 13 of the Constitution.”

Reading Kate from A Columbo-Americana’s Perspective, her post entitled “You can’t shut us up either, Chavez“, she writes that Martha Colmenaras’ Spanish language Venezuelan blog has been hacked;

Hartos de ZPorky reports a message from Martha, that her site was hacked immediately after having published a scathing post on Chávez’s behavior toward Don Juan Carlos as well as analyzing the events of 11A and not qualifying them as a golpe de Estado.

BBC writes that Chavez has busied himself threatening Spanish economic interests in Venezuela;

However, Mr Chavez said he did not want a political crisis with Spain following the clash – only that Venezuela’s head of state be respected.

Later, however, he said political, diplomatic and economic ties with Spain were being closely reviewed.

Spain has said it hopes for a swift return to normal diplomatic relations.

Mr Chavez’s interview on state television on Wednesday could be seen as fuelling the row. 

“[The king] disrespected me, and he was laid bare before the world in his arrogance and also his impotence,” Mr Chavez told a news conference on Tuesday, before adding: “We don’t want this to become a political crisis.”

He went on to say that Spanish commercial interests in Venezuela were not indispensable and hinted that they could be affected if the dispute worsened.

“Spain has many investments, private companies here and we don’t want to damage that, but if they are damaged, they are damaged… We don’t need it,” he said.

These are acts of desperation – shutting down internal oppostion and shutting down external opposition from which Venezuela derives some benefit. He funnels money from the people of Venezuela to bribe ther countries for their support, while the people fight over fricken powdered milk. Yeah, great revolution you got going there, Hugo.

Category: Foreign Policy, Hugo Chavez