{"id":610,"date":"2007-09-01T17:46:47","date_gmt":"2007-09-01T21:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/01\/5000-new-rifles-but-no-milk-in-venezuela\/"},"modified":"2007-09-01T20:21:08","modified_gmt":"2007-09-02T00:21:08","slug":"5000-new-rifles-but-no-milk-in-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=610","title":{"rendered":"5000 new rifles, but no milk in Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I read this statement from Venezuela President\u00c2\u00a0Hugo Chavez’ Alo! Presidente<\/em> speech last Sunday\u00c2\u00a0as quoted by the Christian Science Monitor in the Washington Post<\/a> today;\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I’m going to buy 5,000 Dragunov rifles from Russia…with telescopic sight, the best in the world, with infrared night-view. We will knock out any imperialist that approaches.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess we\u00c2\u00a0know at\u00c2\u00a0which imperialists Chavez wants to aim his\u00c2\u00a0Dragunov rifles. Any soldier worth his salt would prefer a Remington to the clunky Dragunov, though\u00c2\u00a0– but Hugo isn’t a real soldier anyway – he just pretends to be\u00c2\u00a0one in\u00c2\u00a0his drama play for the world’s thugs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Regardless, his choice of weapons isn’t the subject of this post. It didn’t take me long to find something more worthy of Chavez’ money instead of rifles. Julia, a\u00c2\u00a0Venezuelan who blogs on The end of Venezuela as I know it<\/a> writes about the shortages of staples in Caracas. In Part I there’s sugar<\/a>;<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is flour!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201c I said \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u0153No\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 try it\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also sweet\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the snow sugar that your mom uses for decorate the cakes\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I thought the sugar shortage was extreme enough when I started to get used to the brown sugar. I was clearly wrong; you never know when it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s extreme enough because my dad couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even find brown sugar that day so decided to buy the two kinds of sugar that remained in the supermarket just to, well, give us the option to decide between the worse of those two.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In Part II it’s cooking oil and milk<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Then I make a quick calculus, 1000 ml for six people (without counting my godchild who is three months old) it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s almost nothing and won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t last for long. Besides, the shortage now its just partial, but before we notice it, we are not going to be able to find not even that small package of normal milk in a while\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But Julia will very happy to learn that Chavez will have 5000 new sniper rifles with which to fight those nebulous imperialists that will never come – irrespective of who owns the rifles.<\/p>\n

I almost choked on my beer while reading this piece of trash from some pencil-necked dork named Steve Lendman who claims that Venezuela is a more perfect form of democracy than the United States. Sorry, I’m not linking it – you can google the retard;<\/p>\n

Chavez wants his new United Socialist Party (PSUV) to drive the revolutionary process and continue his agenda of reform for all Venezuelans. He wants everyone to enjoy the benefits, not just a privileged few like in the past and in the US today. Under his leadership, their future is bright while in America poverty is growing, the middle class is dying, and the darkness of tyranny threatens everyone under George Bush with his agenda likely continuing under a new president in 2009.<\/p>\n

Governance differences exist between these two nations because their constitutional laws are mirror opposite, and America has no one like Hugo Chavez. He’s a rare leader who cares and backs his rhetoric with progressive people-friendly policies. In the US, there’s George Bush, and that pretty much explains the problem. Knowing that, which leader would you choose and under which system of government would you prefer to live?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, Stevie, I don’t see Americans flocking to Venezuela – do you? And\u00c2\u00a0I think if you read Julia’s Part II, you’ll get a pretty good idea which Venezuelans prefer;<\/p>\n

I should be able to go protesting everywhere I want to without having the fear of being attack or\/ and detained by the police. I should be able to go out and came back home at any time I want or I need to without taking the risk to be mugged or kidnapped or killed. I should be able to say whatever I want to say about the government out loud even in government institutions without being called oligarch, rich or imperialist just because I think different. I should be able to ask any government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 help or support in health, or education or whatever I need or have the right to request as a citizen without being forced to wear a red t-shirt.
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\nSometimes I want to be like other young people are, of course they have troubles and concerns in their political systems but they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel constantly threatened by it. Some people can criticize and oppose to their governments and continue having a normal life. They can go to the beach in their own countries and find some peace. Not halfway peace, but real tranquility. I should be able to go to have some drinks with my friends, concerning only about calling the attention of the guy I like; without saying good bye because they are leaving the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Chavez promises refineries to Nicaragua and Panama, oil to the Caribe Basin, oil to Cuba, pays for his cohorts’ political campaign<\/a> in other countries. Oh, and this from AP<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Laid-off Brazilian factory workers have their jobs back, Nicaraguan farmers are getting low-interest loans and Bolivian mayors can afford new health clinics, all thanks to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.<\/p>\n

Bolstered by windfall oil profits, Chavez’s government is now offering more direct state funding to Latin America and the Caribbean than the United States. A tally by The Associated Press shows Venezuela has pledged more than $8.8 billion in aid, financing and energy funding so far this year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yet his own people don’t have staples. What a wonderful guy.<\/p>\n

Related; Mary Anastasia O’Grady<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0reviews two new books about Chavez and Venezuela\u00c2\u00a0in the Wall Street Journal today.<\/p>\n

Hugo Ch\u00c3\u00a1vez<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>By Cristina Marcano and Alberto Barrera Tyszka Random House, 327 pages, $27.95<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a1Hugo!<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>By Bart Jones Steerforth, 570 pages, $30<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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