Jubilation and Happiness in Venezuela
There is the promise, on good authority, none other than the eldest son of Hugo Chavez. And, as long as Nicolas Maduro is in power, extending and building on Adan Chavez's father's legacy to the Venezuelan people, there will be no official investigation into the source of the immense wealth, prestige and power of the Chavez Clan."The family is here with you. Nicolas Maduro can be ratified before the Venezuelan people and continue the Bolivarian revolution."
Adan Chavez, governor, Barinas state
Be it resolved, said the Venezuelan electorate, the Chavez legacy will continue, placing their trust in candidate Nicolas Maduro, now duly elected as President Nicolas Maduro. Who, following in the tradition of Hugo Chavez will do little to invest in the upgrading of Venezuela's failing energy grid, nor see that food prices and availability stabilize, nor seek to cope with the endemic violent crime that characterizes Venezuela as a socialist paradise.
Venezuela's poor may believe they have benefited through the avuncular largesse of their former president and accordingly remain ardent Chavistas, transferring their loyalty to the man whom Hugo Chavez anointed as his successor. They were true to their Bolivarian hero, just as he demanded and expected of them, for they were successfully groomed to react as they did.
It is the middle class, the upper class, those who felt themselves disadvantaged under the presidency of Hugo Chavez who are groaning under the prospect of another term of governmental failure and corruption. For corruption there was and will continue to be. There is a ten-foot-high wall surrounding the palatial Chavez family mansion, but on the other hand, it is fitting, for a royal family, which they surely represent.
The Chavez family owns seventeen country estates in the poor town where Hugo Chavez was born, Barinas. Their holdings there total over 100,000 aces. And they are held to have liquid assets of $550-million set aside for them in international bank accounts. That little titbit according to the Venezuelan news website Noticias Centro.
Pretty good return on their investment, wouldn't you say? But then, when one controls vast oil reserves and somehow manages to overlook the need to attend to vital civil infrastructure, scattering among the peasants just enough of an elevation of their lifestyles in subsidies and housing, no one is anxious to look under the mattresses of the entitled Chavez family.
That 23% inflation the country is burdened with, and growing food shortages are of no concern to the Chavez family who trade in U.S. dollars, rendering four times the official bank rate on the black market. Their lives of privilege are not denied them; nor the superior schooling for the family's children, as the ruling Socialist Party heads, thanks to the manipulation of "El Comandante".
"Barinas is the worst state in Venezuela, and it's the fault of the Chavez family. It's pure corruption and Hugo Chavez allowed it all to happen. They take the money that's intended to help the people and they put it in their own pockets", groused Jose Vitriago, 56, of Barinas. Proving that you cannot please all the people all the time.
Labels: Corruption, Energy, Human Relations, Natural Resources, Societal Failures, Venezuela
posted by Pieface @ Tuesday, April 16, 2013
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