Taliban building strength for Helmand battle

Taliban getting ready for big NATO push

Tell whereabout they are getting all those weapons and ammo. from.Stocking them means somebody is supply them with a huge quality of arsenal and ammo.May be Galljdaj could tell us.

Of course I can...

... . All you have to do is ask yourself a question. Where have they gotten them in the past?

The rumsfelds cheneys carlyles bakers bushsreagans, i.e., republican stripminers! Those that fail to enter the battles.

Who isn’t giving money to Haiti?
Ethel C. Fenig
The AP posted a list of the countries donating to Haitian relief, noting how much and what. Impressive. Heartening.

Striking is which wealthy countries are not on the list — not one Muslim dominated swimming in oil country’s name appears. Telling.

But then this shouldn’t be so surprising; when disastrous earthquakes recently struck Iran and Turkey or when starvation occurred in Muslim Africa, these same oil rich countries didn’t as much send a barrel of oil to their needy co-religionists.

Clash of civilizations in Haiti
Leo Rennert
Since last week’s devastating earthquake in Haiti, many countries have spared no effort or resources to dispatch planeloads of rescue teams, food, water, medicines and other badly needed aid to this stricken country. With the notable exception of the Arab world, especially oil-rich Arab nations, which have chosen either to remain on the sidelines or contented themselves with what can only be described as niggardly gestures or measly contributions.

Saudi Arabia, brimming with trillions in oil revenues, sent a letter of condolences to Haitian President Rene Preval. Oil-rich Kuwait chipped in $1 million, as did Morocco. Qatar, with the third largest gas reserves in the world, managed to scrape together only a 50-ton aid package. The United Arab Emirates, noted for its conspicuous oil wealth, promised to “shortly” send a planeload of humanitarian assistance.

Now, contrast this picture of Arab frugality in the face of a human catastrophe of biblical dimensions with Israel’s far more generous and warmhearted response.

In the immediate aftermath of the quake, the Israeli Home Command dispatched two planeloads with 220 aid-and-rescue personnel and a full-fledged field hospital capable of treating 500 patients a day. It’s the most modern medical facility in Haiti today. Staffed by 40 doctors, the hospital is equipped with a medical lab, a pharmacy, an X-ray center, a children’s ward, an emergency room, a surgical department, two operating rooms, and a maternity ward.

In short order, Israeli doctors performed 25 life-saving surgeries and assisted in the births of three babies, including one baby boy whose grateful mother decided to call him “Israel." The first couple of planes from Israel brought tons of medicines and other supplies. A third planeload followed over the weekend.

In addition to all this assistance from Israel’s Home Front Command, Israeli volunteer groups — some pouring in from Mexico, others from the Dominical Republic — spontaneously pitched in. ZAKA, a highly skilled volunteer group tested and proficient in search-and-rescue operations, worked continuously over 38 hours to rescue eight students from a collapsed building at Haiti University.

cowards that hide the names!

very much the the coward that hides himself under 'it wasn’t me mama honest!'

Galljdaj always gives the true and correct answer.

Bring it!

The Taliban want a fight bring it!

~gallj the imaginative

My good friend, there you are. Are you spewing more hate and imagining illusions of grandeur? Maybe some of those guns are left over from the Afghan/Russian conflict days. Maybe some of those guns are new stock supplied by Iran or China. Kind of hard to know since we don’t. We can only guess. Friend, don’t worry about these things that neither of us can control. Release your anger and let Jesus into your life. If necessary, attack me till you’re exhausted. I will still be here to help you friend. Come now.

'maybes' from the idiot claiming to be my friend that cries 'Barabas'!

His only cry of direct uteerance of his is, 'You spew hate'. Then the lil coward that hides behind his own words, provides a litney of 'maybes', to absolve the guilt of todays republican war crimes and murders!

Murders and war crimes! To which an example surfices! Prior to the invasion AND THE OFFICIAL lil bush warcrimes against Iraqi Peoples, the lil bush gang conducted a secret war, war crimes and murders against the Iraqi Peoples. The Planning of which began prior to even becoming President by lil bush, another crime in itself! The actual first murders and attempted murders occurred Feb 16, 2001. And continued right up to INVASION TIME in the the Spring of 2003! Over two years of murders and War Crimes! And many of the Murders are Documented! Signed! Approved! by Donald Rumsfeld! Fifty different Documented Attacks on the Iraqi Peoples! Where Rumsfeld authorized the Killings of 30 or more Iraqi Civilians in each of the fifty attacks! over 1500 Iraqi civilians authorized to be murdered prior to the invasion! And On Signed Documents!

And additional 500 attacks occured prior to the Invasion of 2003, that had automatic approval, not requiring Rumsfeld’s Signature Approval because the estimated killings of Iraqis was below 30! That is 29 or less! Using the medium number works out to be 7250 additional Iraqis to be slaughtered under generalized approval of the lil bush gang!

The gang the lil barabas shouting coward that claims to be following jesus!, and supports the lil bush gang! Obviously he is no friend of mine! Or to me! He is full of maybes, while I prefer factual data, that reveals the true HATE AND hATERS! 16000 Iraqi Peoples Authorized to be murdered Prior to the invasion of 2003, and during the Time the lil bush gang was accusing Saddam of being scum and worse! That’s what I call Hate!

So you finally reveal your belief system.

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His only cry of direct uteerance of his is, 'You spew hate'. Then the lil coward that hides behind his own words, provides a litney of 'maybes', to absolve the guilt of todays republican war crimes and murders!

Murders and war crimes! To which an example surfices! Prior to the invasion AND THE OFFICIAL lil bush warcrimes against Iraqi Peoples, the lil bush gang conducted a secret war, war crimes and murders against the Iraqi Peoples. The Planning of which began prior to even becoming President by lil bush, another crime in itself! The actual first murders and attempted murders occurred Feb 16, 2001. And continued right up to INVASION TIME in the the Spring of 2003! Over two years of murders and War Crimes! And many of the Murders are Documented! Signed! Approved! by Donald Rumsfeld! Fifty different Documented Attacks on the Iraqi Peoples! Where Rumsfeld authorized the Killings of 30 or more Iraqi Civilians in each of the fifty attacks! over 1500 Iraqi civilians authorized to be murdered prior to the invasion! And On Signed Documents!

And additional 500 attacks occured prior to the Invasion of 2003, that had automatic approval, not requiring Rumsfeld’s Signature Approval because the estimated killings of Iraqis was below 30! That is 29 or less! Using the medium number works out to be 7250 additional Iraqis to be slaughtered under generalized approval of the lil bush gang!

The gang the lil barabas shouting coward that claims to be following jesus!, and supports the lil bush gang! Obviously he is no friend of mine! Or to me! He is full of maybes, while I prefer factual data, that reveals the true HATE AND hATERS! 16000 Iraqi Peoples Authorized to be murdered Prior to the invasion of 2003, and during the Time the lil bush gang was accusing Saddam of being scum and worse! That’s what I call Hate!

Only a muslim ever and I repeat ever talks about barabas.
So an Islamic communist has finally unmasked himself.
It’s kind of like Joe the Plumber getting Obummer to reveal his marxist self by saying he wants to spread the wealth.
You have finally inadvertently come clean as to your hatreds and now we understand the true nature of ALL your posts!
You don’t care about the US the Constitution or even Americans your concern is fellow Muslims and anyone who hates the United states is automatically your friend.
Any transgression committed by a fellow Muslim maniac is forgiven!
You are an uneducated lout concerning US law so don’t pretend to have a clue!
Saddam broke numerous ceasefire agreements and his people suffered for them end of story!
Both wars in Iraq were legal by US law get over it.
At this time your fellow Mooslems have killed more Iraqis then America did in both Gulf wars combined!
Your rampant stupidity is on display yet again.
Thanks for coming clean at least now we know why your so insane!
The WMD found in Iraq as I have said before are the cursed Shiites and Sunnis!

Aaahhh, The Taliban are trying a new concept...or are they? For an instant I thought they might actually try engaging the military, but come to think of it, they are probably just re locating their stash. NATO can probably still find the Taliban hiding in Religious Temples, Market places & girls schools, when not in their caves.

Wrong strategy = poor result.

Actually Afghanistan and Taliban are good market reasons for the NATO forces and weapons manufacturers.So NATO will just prolong this war to benefit the weapons manufacturers instead of strangulating Taliban by just building an electrified wall of barbed wire on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.


Nobody loves Taliban.Taliban is scum.

The cowardly liar changes his name in disgrace!!!

I say disgrace because he lies about 'barabas' and how the Jews screamed for 'Barabas' rather than jesus, to which is the central claim of christians' religions!

The lie being the stretch to accuse the 'muslims'!

No one can be that stupid, its a coward’s lie, that has no truth, so he lies by complusion!

Twist and crawl!

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I say disgrace because he lies about 'barabas' and how the Jews screamed for 'Barabas' rather than jesus, to which is the central claim of christians' religions!

The lie being the stretch to accuse the 'muslims'!

No one can be that stupid, its a coward’s lie, that has no truth, so he lies by complusion!

No matter how you paint it your a kook!
Look at you scream at the unmasking.
Just admit it and feel better!

What is the matter with all folks? He is asking to whereabout they gotten the new stockfile of weapons and ammo. Who is selling it and we know the buyers.Can not blame bush and the gang because they are no longer with the government. We know where the money is coming from.Galljdaj ,you must know the them truth. So tell us.

Stripminers kill for profits! Its clear who supplied...

... Its also clear that honest Peoples preserve life! Such as in the following article. Those Peoples you call scum! Because they give the bully a bloody nose!

February 8, 2010



Anonymity in the field

Leticia Martínez Hernández
Photos: Juvenal Balán

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti.� Surgeon Oscar Suárez says that, without the medical electronics technicians, known as the 'electromédicos,' they would be nothing. 'We have worked nights, into the morning� but they aren�t far behind us. These young guys have also been sweating; they are often our anonymous help, because you always see the doctors attending to people, but behind us, there has to be an electromédico.'

'You see all of this here? They�ve set it all up. And every time we have a problem, there they are. They�re �doctors� too, but doctors who take care of us.' That is how surgeon Suárez talks about the team of medical electronics technicians who set up Cuba�s five field hospitals in Haiti. In addition to this one that was readied in Arcahaie, about 20 km from Port-au-Prince, there are the four in Croix des Bouquets, Jacmel, Carrefour and Leoganne.

The team is made up of five Cubans, from Camagüey, Las Tunas, Matanzas and Havana, and since they arrived in Haiti, they have forgotten the fact that they come from different provinces, or that they have different specializations, or even their baseball rivalries. They are like the 'five musketeers' as they set up the hospital. At the count of three, and with the help of the doctors, they carry heavy boxes, install electrical networks and put together the tiny screws and pieces of medical equipment as if it were a complicated jigsaw puzzle. That is when the hefty Osmín Camero, who has just carried a heavy load, says he could use the hands of a woman. Even so, not one screw escapes him, and he ends up putting together the monitor for the intensive care unit with incredible dexterity.

Among the parts and boxes, Osmín, another medical electronics technician, comments that they will later assemble four pulmonary ventilators. They have already set up the anesthesia machine, he adds, and the operating room is ready, with its surgical table, aspirator and lamps. 'If everything works out, we should finish the work in two days, or a maximum of three.'

The thing is, this team�s most precious treasure is its experience. One of them, engineer Julio César Sáenz, was in Pakistan after the October 8, 2005 earthquake, where the Cubans established 34 (!) field hospitals. He explains how they installed those centers. 'They are set up based on a surgical unit, intensive care unit, and post-op unit, along with a clinical laboratory, and then the whole hospital system is equipped. Along with the tent where patients are received, an average of five others is erected for each hospital. We also set up the tents that house the doctors and nurses.'

Several times, Julio César uses the word 'flow-gram,' and in response to our puzzled expressions, explains that these hospitals are not set up arbitrarily. They have an order, a diagram, which indicates, for example, where the entrance to the doctor�s office should be, and then which ward should be next. The tents are not placed next to each other by chance.

But that�s not all. The engineer says that because of Haiti�s hot weather, areas like the surgical units require air conditioning, for which they are adapting foundations and setting up conventional systems. According to Julio César, the only reason that these are field hospitals is because they are in tents, because their technology is cutting-edge, the same as that used in regular hospitals in Cuba.

Jorge Luis Núñez, a young specialist in medical equipment services from the Central Institute of Digital Research, agrees, adding that 'the machines are made in Germany, Japan and, a good number of them, in Cuba. From Cuba, we�ve brought the Doctus VI vital signs monitor; the pulse oximeter, which uses a battery, so that oxygenation monitoring can be mobile; an automated external defibrillator for patients suffering cardiac arrest � the new version also features pediatric paddles, so that it can be used with children; and the electrocardiograph, very common today in our polyclinics. Cuba is now marketing this technology in nations such as Mexico, Venezuela and Algeria.'

Jorge Luis comments that he came from his country with the mission of troubleshooting the installation of this equipment, but in Haiti, he has had to do everything. He helps to set up the tents and power generators, to arrange for the distribution of potable water for the laboratories, to create electrical networks�

He says the team of medical electronics technicians has risen to the occasion, and that it is up to them to keep going, anonymity or not. This is a very questionable word, especially when the first patient arrives at the Arcahaie field hospital and, thanks to the work of the technicians, has a place to be attended. He is Abdiala Joseph, who injured his right kneecap in an accident. Even though Arcahaie is not completely finished, the work begins. As the doctors see to his injury, the 'electromédicos' speed up their labors.

Our registered liar fails to document...

... THE REGISTERED LIAR FAILS to document his claim, 'those who shout Barabas are muslims'(ref. 11:34am post).

Now he has previously claimed to be christian, and he subscribes to judaism as being the legal right of taking land from and killing Arabs Palestinians, and in likelihood from anyone in the M.E., IF HE CAN MAKE A PROFIT! OR STRIPMINE A SHEKEL!

more twisting and screaming I see!

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... THE REGISTERED LIAR FAILS to document his claim, 'those who shout Barabas are muslims'(ref. 11:34am post).

Now he has previously claimed to be christian, and he subscribes to judaism as being the legal right of taking land from and killing Arabs Palestinians, and in likelihood from anyone in the M.E., IF HE CAN MAKE A PROFIT! OR STRIPMINE A SHEKEL!

From the Idiot who has never documented or proven anything.
Ain’t that rich!
I suggest you do a search of this site and look at those that have made comments about Jesus and Barabas.
To my knowledge all have claimed Islam as their faith and you will see who has commented on the divinity of Jesus all have been Muslim!
Our little village idiot liar and Islamofacist commie is screaming because he has been unvieled.


Now you have made erroneous claims in the post above!
By your definition of a liar you have not old just one but two enormous whoppers!
This aint burger king you can’t have it your way!
I have not made a red cent or Shekel off the ME I wouldn’t do business in that part of the world it’s to unstable and the people are nucking futs just like you.

I WISH EVERY AMERICAN BECOME AS WISE AS MR galljdaj.BUT ITS JUST A DREAM.ANYWAYS THIS OPERATION IS GOING TO BE A BIGGEST EYE WASH.TWO THOUSAND OR MORE TALIBANS WILL BE WIPED OUT IN ARIEL BOMBING.THEN GROUND FORCES WILL CLEAR THE AREA CLAIMING SUCCESS IN INT MEDIA.BUT THE SECOND PHASE WILL BE STARTED AGAIN AFTER COUPLE OF MONTHS OR EVEN WEEKS IN WHICH COUPLE OF THOUSAND MORE TALIBAN WILL EMERGE AGAIN AS ALWAYS AND MORE AMERICAN AND BRITISH INNOCENT LIVES WILL BE SACRIFICED FOR MULTINATIONALS.EVENTUALLY WE ALL WILL SUFFER.MY BUISNESS IS FUCKED UP BECAUSE OF THIS CRISIS.I DONT GIVE A DAMN TO ANYONE BUT MY DEBTS ARE COMPELLING ME TO CURSE THESE MOTHERFUCKER MONEY HUNGARY MULTINATIONALS BECAUSE OF WHOM WE ALL ARE SUFFERING.

:-!

amen

its just a squabble between flower salesmen

Our lil coward has a new 'mama it wasn't me' excuse!

He claims he can call anyone that uses the word Barabas to be a muslim, 'because he read on this site'!

Well, that does paint a picture of the abilities of the registered liar and coward!

Actually You got me on one point

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He claims he can call anyone that uses the word Barabas to be a muslim, 'because he read on this site'!

Well, that does paint a picture of the abilities of the registered liar and coward!

I was confusing the story of Jesus and Barabas with another story about who Jesus really was or might have been as portrayed by an Islamic interpretation of events.

I stand corrected...so much for me being a Christian I wasn’t aware of the story about a thief and rabble rouser being spared while Jesus was crucified until just now.

You still have all the earmarks of a Commie Islamofacist and unlike me you never admit when your wrong you just move on and run away.

I see you have once again decided to carry the water for the Commie totaliterean Cuba

Again you post out of place Commie propaganda.

I see you ~gallj

My good friend, I have been observing your posting patterns. I have noticed that you do not engage in reasonable discussions, rather you always try to stir-up conflict. You do not give direct replies. You most often introduce other topics that are only narrowly connected to the original. You almost always try to emotionally charge any discussion with insults, deceptions, fabrications, extreme views, or just plain verbal antagonisms. Curious, you almost never use foul language. I suspect that you are somehow employed by this website to increase 'ratings'. I hope that it pays you well, friend. You are somewhat successful but certainly any self-respecting person would not admire you, your work, or your postings. Friend, you are not a Christian and do not know Jesus although you talk a good story. It seems that your whole life (as seen through here) is nothing but talk. Truly, you need Christ in your life. I pity you and do wish to help you to know our Savior. Come ~gallj, stop this pretense and seek the lord. I do wonder something. If you can answer truthfully, are you of the Islamic faith?

When you first began using 'citizen' I ask you a question...

...you have refused to answer. You’ll need to correct that, and Post your evidence that I have posted, on which you base your question/belief on.

Then I will answer your question! Dialouge by definition requires both parties to converse equally. So far you have failed.

Answer the Question. Galljdaj, are you a radical Muslim or a commies?

The lil coward speaks with his mama's hat on! How brave!

There is an Interesting Article you should read. Read the article with the thought, what truth(s) can I find? , and then comment how many you found and maybe give us two examples.

The Article:



Reflections of Fidel
The Bolivarian Revolution
and the Caribbean

Taken from CubaDebate

I liked history, as most boys do. Wars as well, a culture that society sowed in male children. All the toys offered us were weapons.

In my childhood they sent me to a city where I was never taken to a movie theater. Television did not exist then, and there was no radio in the house in which I lived. I had to use my imagination.

In the first boarding school, I read with amazement about the Universal Flood and Noah�s Ark. Later on I came to the conclusion that maybe it was a vestige that humanity retained of the last climate change in the history of our species. It was possibly the end of the Ice Age, which is thought to have taken place thousands of years ago.

As one might imagine, later I avidly read the histories of Alexander the Great, Caesar, Hannibal, Bonaparte and, of course, any book that came into my hands on Maceo, Gómez, Agramonte and other great soldiers who fought for our independence. I did not possess sufficient culture to understand what lay behind history.

Later on, I centered my interest in Martí. In reality I owe my patriotic sentiments to him and the profound concept that 'Homeland is humanity.' The audacity, the beauty, the value and the ethics of his thinking helped to convert me into what I believe I am: a revolutionary. Without being a follower of Martí one cannot be a follower of Bolívar; without being a follower of Martí and Bolívar, one cannot be a Marxist and, without being a follower of Martí, Bolívar and a Marxist, one cannot be anti-imperialist; without being those three things a Revolution in Cuba in our epoch could not have been conceived.

Almost two centuries ago, Bolívar wanted to send an expedition under the command of Sucre to liberate Cuba, which really needed it, in the 1820s, as a Spanish sugar and coffee colony, with 300,000 slaves working for their white owners.

With its independence frustrated and converted into a neo-colony, the full dignity of human beings could never be attained without a revolution that would end the exploitation of people by other people.

'�I want the first law of our republic to be the veneration of Cubans for the full dignity of human beings.'

With his thinking, Martí inspired the valor and conviction that led our [26th of July] Movement to the assault on the Moncada Garrison, which would have never entered our heads without the ideas of other great thinkers like Marx and Lenin, who made us see and understand the very distinct realities of the new era that we were experiencing.

Throughout centuries, the odious latifundia ownership and its slave workforce, preceded by the extermination of the former inhabitants of these islands, was justified in the name of progress and development.
Martí said something marvelous and worthy of Bolívar and his glorious life:
'�what he did not leave done, remains undone to this day: because Bolívar has still much to do in America.'

'Let Venezuela show me how to serve her: she has a son in me.'

In Venezuela, as others did in the Caribbean, the colonial power planted sugar cane, coffee, and cacao, and likewise took men and women from Africa as slaves. The heroic resistance of its indigenous peoples, using nature and the vast Venezuelan soil, prevented the annihilation of the original inhabitants.

With the exception of one part of the northern hemisphere, the vast territory of Our America remained in the hands of two kings of the Iberian Peninsula.

Without fear it can be affirmed that, for centuries, our countries and the fruits of the labor of our peoples have been plundered and continue being plundered by the large transnational corporations and the oligarchies that are in their service.

Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries; in other words, for almost 200 years after the formal independence of Ibero-America, nothing changed in essence. The United States, starting with the Thirteen English colonies that rebelled, expanded west and south. It purchased Louisiana and Florida, snatched more than half of its territory from Mexico, intervened in Central America and took possession of the area of the future Panama Canal, which would link the great oceans east and west of the continent via the point where Bolívar wished to create the capital of the largest of the republics that would be born from the independence of the nations of America.

In that epoch, oil and ethanol were not traded in the world, nor did the WTO exist. Sugar cane, cotton and corn were cultivated by slaves. Machines were still to be invented. Industrialization based on coal was strongly advancing.

Wars gave impulse to civilization, and civilization gave impulse to wars. These changed in nature, and became more terrible. They finally became world conflicts.

Finally, we were a civilized world. We even believed in it as a question of principles.

But we do not know what to do with the civilization attained. Human beings have equipped themselves with nuclear weapons of unbelievable accuracy and annihilation potency while, from the moral and political point of view, they have ignominiously retrogressed. Politically and socially, we are more underdeveloped than ever. Automatons are replacing soldiers; the mass media, educators, and governments are beginning to be overtaken by events without knowing what to do. In the desperation of many international political leaders one can appreciate an impotency in the face of the problems that are accumulating in their offices and steadily more frequent international meetings.

In those circumstances, an unprecedented disaster is taking place in Haiti, while on the other side of the planet, three wars and an arms race are continuing their development, in the midst of the economic crisis and growing conflicts, which is consuming more than 2.5% of the global GDP, a figure with which all the Third World countries could be developed in a short period of time and possibly evade climate change by devoting the economic and scientific resources that are essential to that objective.

The credibility of the world community has just received a harsh blow in Copenhagen, and our species is not demonstrating its capacity for surviving.

The tragedy of Haiti allows me to expound on this point of view based on what Venezuela has done with the countries of the Caribbean. While the large financial institutions vacillate over what to do in Haiti, Venezuela did not hesitate for one second to cancel that country�s economic debt of $167 million.

Throughout close to one century the major transnationals extracted and exported Venezuelan oil at infinitesimal prices. Over the decades, Venezuela became the largest world exporter of oil.

It is known that when the United States spent hundreds of billions on its genocidal war on Vietnam, killing and mutilating millions of the sons and daughters of that heroic people, it also unilaterally broke the Bretton Woods Agreement by suspending the conversion of gold into dollars, as the agreement stipulated, and launching the cost of that dirty war on the world. The U.S. currency was devalued and the hard currency income of the Caribbean countries was not sufficient to pay for oil. Their economies are based on tourism and exports of sugar, coffee, cacao and other agricultural products. A stunning blow threatened the economies of the Caribbean states, with the exception of two of them that are exporters of energy.

Other developed countries eliminated preferential tariffs for Caribbean agricultural exports, like bananas; Venezuela made an unprecedented gesture: it guaranteed the majority of those countries secure supplies of oil and special payment facilities.

On the other hand, nobody was concerned about the destiny of those peoples. If it were not for the Bolivarian Republic a terrible crisis would have hit the independent states of the Caribbean, with the exception of Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados. In the case of Cuba, after the USSR collapsed, the Bolivarian government promoted an extraordinary growth in trade between the two nations, which included the exchange of goods and services, which permitted us to confront one of the harshest periods of our glorious revolutionary history.

The finest ally of the United States and, at the same time the basest and vilest enemy of the people, was the fraudster and simulator Rómulo Betancourt, president-elect of Venezuela when the Revolution triumphed in Cuba in 1959.

He was the principal accomplice of the pirate attacks, acts of terrorism, aggressions against and the blockade of our homeland.

When Our America most needed it, the Bolivarian Revolution finally broke out.

Invited to Caracas by Hugo Chávez, the members of the ALBA committed themselves to lend maximum support to the Haitian people at the saddest moment in the history of that legendary people, who carried out the first victorious social Revolution in world history, when hundreds of thousands of Africans, in rising up and creating in Haiti a republic thousands of miles away from their native lands, undertook one of the most glorious revolutionary actions of this hemisphere. In Haiti, there is African, Indian and white blood; the Republic was born from the concepts of equality, justice and liberty for all human beings.

Ten years ago, at a point when the Caribbean and Central America lost tens of thousands of lives during the tragedy of Hurricane Mitch, the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) was created in Cuba to train Latin American and Caribbean doctors who, one day, would save millions of lives, but especially and above all, would serve as an example in the noble exercise of the medical profession. Together with the Cubans, dozens of young Venezuelans and other Latin American graduates of ELAM will be in Haiti. News has arrived from all corners of the continent of many compañeros who studied at ELAM and now want to collaborate with them in the noble task of saving the lives of children, women and men, young and old.

There will be dozens of field hospitals, rehabilitation centers and hospitals, in which more than 1,000 doctors and students in the final years of medical school from Haiti, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Brazil, Chile and other sister countries will be providing services. We have the honor of already being able to count on a number of American doctors who also studied in ELAM. We are prepared to cooperate with those countries and institutions which wish to participate in these efforts to provide medical services in Haiti.

Venezuela has already contributed tents, medical equipment, medicine and foodstuffs. The Haitian government has given full cooperation and support to this effort to bring health services free of charge to the largest possible number of Haitians. It will be a consolation for everybody in the midst of the greatest tragedy that has taken place in our hemisphere.



Fidel Castro Ruz
February 7, 2010
8:46 p.m.


Editor-in-chief: Lázaro Barredo Medina / Editor: Oscar Sánchez
Granma International: http://www.granma.cu/

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There is an Interesting Article you should read. Read the article with the thought, what truth(s) can I find? , and then comment how many you found and maybe give us two examples.

The Article:

Reflections of Fidel
The Bolivarian Revolution
and the Caribbean

— — — -SNIP — — — -

Granma International: [URL]http://www.granma.cu/[/URL]

More Commie lies, GirlyBoyJihad? More bluster for your “hero” Fidel? How much does he pay you for propagandizing for him?

Will you ever stop using this rag as a source? Fact: You can trust GRANMA about as far as you can throw a potato chip underwater.

Try again, mental midget.

I knew of course you could not find a truth!

And your confusion is replicated once again!

Your a rubber resused.

Galljdaj, answer the question in few words. Are you a radical Muslim or a commies.. Just yes or no. We dont want to flowery words and bullshit. Just answer it. We dont want to hear lill bush or your mamas shits.

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And your confusion is replicated once again!

Your a rubber resused.

You have yet to FIND a scrap of truth, GirlyBoyJihad.

Try again, mental midget.

The reply for you ~gallj

Dear friend, my original posting name was Concerned Citizen but I eventually shortened it. As far as my faith, I have two degrees in Electrical Engineering(one is Summa Cum-Laude) that required lots of math (calculus, diffEQ, partials, abstract, stats, etc.) and physics (classical, modern, thermo, etc) plus smatterings of chemistry, writing, economics, psychology, etc. I never had any interest in religion. I had never read the bible and kept far away from churches and religious types. I also served 7 yrs in the US Army. Lying, cheating, stealing, cussing, etc were all relative to me. More importantly I could tell you how a period of extreme physical suffering preceded by a spiritual? communication and followed by a spiritual awakening led me to become a Christian. I could tell you in that suffering of the large quantities of prescription narcotics and alcohol I consumed and being denied care twice at a hospital for my 'fake' condition. I even failed at suicide because I couldn’t force myself to pull the trigger. In my misery, my pain, and my failure I turned to the only one I had ever heard could help - Jesus Christ. My prayer was answered. My condition was identified two days later, I immediately received proper care, and I had surgery a week later That was four years ago and today I am a different man. === I apologize for my past insults to you. === I was just having fun antagonizing you. You might seem to deserve it but I truly believe you are confused. Your long speech above is hard to swallow since you have lied to us so many times in the past. Like the boy who cried wolf, we don’t know what to believe. I choose to believe nothing you say until I KNOW you have accepted Jesus Christ into your life. Until then friend, I pity you but am hopeful there is a chance for you to know the truth and it will set you free. It is not something you have to do alone. I would be proud to be by your side for a new beginning. That is the truth and I am not in any way trying to deceive you. I am hopeful for the day that I can call you my brother in Christ and believe every word you type and utter.

citizen

I am not understanding why you posted the materials you just did, but you have not answered the question I asked with the response of, 'concered citizen'.

Second, you have not posted a single 'reason' that I have said or done that causes you to believe I have a belief or connection to or with Islamic Beliefs.

As I said, I will answer you specific question when you respond with your answer and reason(s).

Well,Galljdaj, I asked a question last and you did not answer in a short yes or no.Instead you wrote a bunch of shit that do not mean nothing but bullshits. Just yes or no that is all we need to know.Do you understand English. Old farth.

Why should I answer you?

Your importance is to yourself, not me.

Your a coward a thief and you lie using all sorts of names talking and answering yourself!

You’ve ben asked questions, challenged and merely run away or change names!

Your importance is you, keep playing with yourself, or you could be another used rubber.

Ah the reindeer games so much fun!

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Your importance is to yourself, not me.

Your a coward a thief and you lie using all sorts of names talking and answering yourself!

You’ve ben asked questions, challenged and merely run away or change names!

Your importance is you, keep playing with yourself, or you could be another used rubber.

Odd how you feel the need to NOT answer questions but everyone should JUMP when you decree a question.
You might want to examine your own life and how you present yourself for the answer to the nagging question of why everyone thinks your such a buffoon.



Thanks to the AT!
Would seem the Socialist paradise in Venezuela has it’s issues!
Could it be nationalizing everything and running foreign companies out has finally had disastrous effects!
Oh Hugo if they could run the countries power grid off all your hot air they could power the world but alas all that comes out of your mouth is bullcrap and hot ****** gas.

Rick Moran
All hail our great President for Life and his Miracle Socialist Revolution!

Despite its huge crude reserves, the South American OPEC member relies on hydro-electricity for 70 percent of its power needs, and a drought has hit supply since late 2009.

“We are ready to decree the electricity emergency, because it really is an emergency," Chavez said in the first edition of a show on state radio air waves called “Suddenly Chavez."

With electricity cuts weighing on Chavez’s popularity ahead of important legislative elections in September, the government blames the shortages on the drought and soaring demand during five years of economic growth until 2008.

But critics say poor management and under-investment have undermined the power grid and exposed the failings of Chavez’s “21st century socialism” policies during his 11-year rule.

****ysts say power cuts have played a big part — along with water shortages and high crime levels — in cutting Chavez’s popularity levels from more than 60 percent a year ago to around 50 percent now.

A formal decree of emergency would enable the government to speed up moves to confront the power crisis, which range from stricter rationing and more thermoelectric generation, to the “seeding” of clouds in an attempt to produce rain.

“I call on the whole country: 'Switch off the lights.' We are facing the worst drought Venezuela has had in almost 100 years," Chavez said in what appeared to be a new radio version of his long-running “Hello Mr. President” TV show on Sundays.

This is what President Obama has in store for our energy future. Shared scarcity. Calls for sacrifice. Who knows, maybe Obama will start a radio show too. “Suddenly, Mr. President” has a nice, breezy ring to it don’t you think? Except in the US, there’s more than a couple of radio stations we can flip to in order to escape the propaganda.

Meanwhile, Chavez’s regime is becoming more cultlike all the time. His new radio show is reminiscent of Jim Jones at Jonestown:

Chavez said the program would always be preceded by the sound of a harp playing local folk-music. “When you hear the pluck of a harp on the radio, maybe Chavez is coming. It’s suddenly, at any time, maybe midnight, maybe early morning."


Jones would get on the PA system at all hours of the day or night, haranguing his cult followers about the end of the world. Maybe Chavez sees his new show as a way to break down the resistance of the people to his program.

I’m sure Venezuelans will be on pins and needles at all hours of the day and night just waiting for Chavez to “suddenly” brighten their lives.

The USA stooges

Why don’t some of these Yankees get educated about the USA plans for the world with their faithful Tony Blair the peace keeper. The American establishment is attempting to get a middle east that accepts the state of Israel. In other words a bunch of yes men dictators who will keep there people in place and bow to the stars and stripes.A few of them are doing that now. Iran will be the next target. Sadly they first they must deal with the Muslims. The hundreds of thousands of NATO troops involved in the surge is a complete disgrace. Our British troops are being conned by the war mongers in London at the behest of Obama who himself is being used to complete the job by sinister forces. However this could back fire with massive bloodshed. We want all foreign troops out of Afghanistan before there is any more futile casualties amongst our troops.

More confused than ever ~gallj

Dear friend, I don’t remember what question you asked me. I thought it was something to do with who else I had posted as. If not, then please ask it again. I also thought you were asking about my faith, not yours. That’s ok. I don’t really care to ask you any questions since I have already told you that I don’t believe anything you say. Your postings are mostly a waste of everyones time. Mostly you are just annoying but you don’t bother me much. I do think you get paid to do this which is the only reason I can see why you continue. I am hoping at one point that you might actually heed something I say and change your ways for the benefit of all but mostly for yourself. Friend, I won’t post anymore on this article as you have worn out my patience and thoughfulness with your uncaring, nasty rhetoric. Take cheer, I won’t give-up on you though.

Its fine with me!

Your name makes a claim, but its so vague as to be useless. I believe you will not understand, as you already announced yourself, and that too is acceptable.

So you I was giving you the benefit of the doubt, even as small as it was! However you were not up to even a small task to substantiate one of your many 'insights' which like one of jesus' fishes has flopped over for the last time. Flopped over into messianics. The flopping says another thing about you, your claims about yourself were false at best, and very likely just silly lying! I have a good Idea what your jesus would say! You made your choice.

You need to cut him some slack

citizen;185095:
Dear friend, I don’t remember what question you asked me. I thought it was something to do with who else I had posted as. If not, then please ask it again. I also thought you were asking about my faith, not yours. That’s ok. I don’t really care to ask you any questions since I have already told you that I don’t believe anything you say. Your postings are mostly a waste of everyones time. Mostly you are just annoying but you don’t bother me much. I do think you get paid to do this which is the only reason I can see why you continue. I am hoping at one point that you might actually heed something I say and change your ways for the benefit of all but mostly for yourself. Friend, I won’t post anymore on this article as you have worn out my patience and thoughfulness with your uncaring, nasty rhetoric. Take cheer, I won’t give-up on you though.

He is the troll everyone has fun with.
Just understand he has been told his entire life what a good little boy he is.
He comes on here and is told his belief system is not only wrong but crap.
He lashes out, he is racist and doesn’t even understand how.
I took exception to his use of the word uncle tom at one point when I first read his pathetic tirades and decide to educate him some.
SInce then I have enjoyed some of the verbal sparring but it has been over all a waste of time he is a died in the wool Socialist/Communist and spouts talking points that even Castro would have a hard time not surpassing.
He has since quit using that term and has moved on to other more useless but less racist terms.
All one can do is point out how wrong he is and how wrong his sources are for pretending to care about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Granma.cu is a state run propaganda outlet from a state that brutally suppresses freedom of speech and individual liberty born from the mass murder of anyone who got in it’s way.
As you have rightly pointed out he is a lost soul.

Funny thing about Venezuela! And Chavez!!

Since Chavez was elected to be Venezuela’s Leader, even the rich like the very wealthy that hate Chavez, are gaining wealth! Not as fast a gain as before Chavez’s election, and being because they must now share the good things of Venezuela with all Venezuelans!

The Poor that had been denied education are now being educated!

The poor that had been denied medical care often dying, are now getting medical care and they are gaining in wealth for the first time!

With all Venezuelans doing better and gaining wealth, demand has increased! As is to be expected!

So why are the critics 'shaking' and not happy?

Your source for this?

More state sponsored propaganda I take it?

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Since Chavez was elected to be Venezuela’s Leader, even the rich like the very wealthy that hate Chavez, are gaining wealth! Not as fast a gain as before Chavez’s election, and being because they must now share the good things of Venezuela with all Venezuelans!

The Poor that had been denied education are now being educated!

The poor that had been denied medical care often dying, are now getting medical care and they are gaining in wealth for the first time!

With all Venezuelans doing better and gaining wealth, demand has increased! As is to be expected!

So why are the critics 'shaking' and not happy?

Everything I have read shows an over all decline in living standards for all the people of Venezuela but my all sources are also very anti-Chavez.

I have posted articles from...

The Venezuelan Government, Professors from UCLA, USC, Washington State, and the University of Chicago, and they all reflect a growing economy in Venezuela with the increases I stated in my previous post. Recently there has been a US Propaganda Strategy to blame the economic challenges of the lil bush led depression sweeping the globe as being the 'fault of socialism and chavez'. Paid US journalism is flourishing for profits, and recently those articles have been met with the truth and facts in various sources outside the USA from the EU, SA, to China. Plenty of people use facts and data to denounce the publishings of the Washinton Post and NYT 'reporters' that have merely taken the 'stories' of the so called opposition to chavez media, and concocked a 'news story'. A somewhat laughable tragedy.

We in the US ARE NECK DEEP IN DEPRESSION with no hope in sight of jobs to pull ourselves out of the lil bush depression/bankruptcy! No doubt in my mind Obama failed to react properly to the problem lil bush gave him. I have posted a number of times the faults of both Presidents One caused it the other failed to turn the nation around. Point being, We are shrinking and Venezuela in growing!

The data is out there and Our watch dogs are eating graft! Washington post! NYT! Wall Street Journal! All paid grafters writing stories in their offices, rather than going to the source!

The 'reason' is evident! If Americans get the Truth! They will trash the scum that has stripmined Our Country! We have trusted 'Our Government Priests' and they have been bribed by the few new corporate citizens, about 500 , that run the politicians in and out of Our Offices!

These Adversarial Capitalist refuse to share the 'American Dream' yet bang the drum to keep the messianics voting for them!

I believe in the capitalism we had prior to wonderful ronnie, and I call that capitalism, the Common Good Capitalism. Where Corporations are Licensed by the People for the Good of all the Peoples. 'Yes you can make money, but you have to make money for the common Good also!' Because! We build roads sewers water plants electrical plants defend your facilities pay for fire protection police protection and we educate and keep healthy your work force!

I believe and subscribe to the common good! Along with such a capitalism that agrees and abides by the philosophy!

Egads your dense.

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The Venezuelan Government, Professors from UCLA, USC, Washington State, and the University of Chicago, and they all reflect a growing economy in Venezuela with the increases I stated in my previous post.

So you used far left leaning reports written, supported and funded by people who are pushing for Socialism to prove that Socialism is successful?
Come on really?

Quote:


Recently there has been a US Propaganda Strategy to blame the economic challenges of the lil bush led depression sweeping the globe as being the 'fault of socialism and chavez'. Paid US journalism is flourishing for profits, and recently those articles have been met with the truth and facts in various sources outside the USA from the EU, SA, to China. Plenty of people use facts and data to denounce the publishings of the Washinton Post and NYT 'reporters' that have merely taken the 'stories' of the so called opposition to chavez media, and concocked a 'news story'. A somewhat laughable tragedy.

We in the US ARE NECK DEEP IN DEPRESSION with no hope in sight of jobs to pull ourselves out of the lil bush depression/bankruptcy! No doubt in my mind Obama failed to react properly to the problem lil bush gave him. I have posted a number of times the faults of both Presidents One caused it the other failed to turn the nation around. Point being, We are shrinking and Venezuela in growing!

The data is out there and Our watch dogs are eating graft! Washington post! NYT! Wall Street Journal! All paid grafters writing stories in their offices, rather than going to the source!

The 'reason' is evident! If Americans get the Truth! They will trash the scum that has stripmined Our Country! We have trusted 'Our Government Priests' and they have been bribed by the few new corporate citizens, about 500 , that run the politicians in and out of Our Offices!

These Adversarial Capitalist refuse to share the 'American Dream' yet bang the drum to keep the messianics voting for them!

I believe in the capitalism we had prior to wonderful ronnie, and I call that capitalism, the Common Good Capitalism. Where Corporations are Licensed by the People for the Good of all the Peoples. 'Yes you can make money, but you have to make money for the common Good also!' Because! We build roads sewers water plants electrical plants defend your facilities pay for fire protection police protection and we educate and keep healthy your work force!

I believe and subscribe to the common good! Along with such a capitalism that agrees and abides by the philosophy!

How does one answer the half truths and out right lies above.
This imbecile has attempted to say that all the ills Americans and the world are seeing now are the direct result of only Republicans.......buwahahahahahaha
You are so damn ignorant it’s seriously laughable!

You don’t have a clue and focus to much on one or two aspects of the problem.
Your world view is so simplistic!
Over powering corrupt unions!
Globalization!
Private federal reserve!
Loose credit standards!
Keeping up with the Joneses!
Americans not saving for a rainy day!
Outsourcing Jobs!
GREED!
Buy now pay later!
MOnitizing Debt!
Fiat currency!
Fannie and Freddie corruption!
I blame every President congress and senate since the 1900’s.
Capitalism is the engine of prosperity but there needs to be a balance between the needs of business and the needs of the working class.!

US the world supplier of Weapons.

America is the world supplier of Military material, guns etc. 1- To Control China US supply weapons to Taiwan, 2- To Control IRAN US prefer to supply weapon to Middle east (Saudi ,Dubai etc), 3- To Control Russia (past) US supply weapon to Taleban, and AlQaida. 4- To overcome upon Iran US supply weapons to Saddam (Iraq). etc... etc... etc... US also supply weapons to PAKISTAN and INDIA indirectly to overcome upon China.

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The Venezuelan Government, Professors from UCLA, USC, Washington State, and the University of Chicago, and they all reflect a growing economy in Venezuela with the increases I stated in my previous post. Recently there has been a US Propaganda Strategy to blame the economic challenges of the lil bush led depression sweeping the globe as being the 'fault of socialism and chavez'. Paid US journalism is flourishing for profits, and recently those articles have been met with the truth and facts in various sources outside the USA from the EU, SA, to China. Plenty of people use facts and data to denounce the publishings of the Washinton Post and NYT 'reporters' that have merely taken the 'stories' of the so called opposition to chavez media, and concocked a 'news story'. A somewhat laughable tragedy.

We in the US ARE NECK DEEP IN DEPRESSION with no hope in sight of jobs to pull ourselves out of the lil bush depression/bankruptcy! No doubt in my mind Obama failed to react properly to the problem lil bush gave him. I have posted a number of times the faults of both Presidents One caused it the other failed to turn the nation around. Point being, We are shrinking and Venezuela in growing!

The data is out there and Our watch dogs are eating graft! Washington post! NYT! Wall Street Journal! All paid grafters writing stories in their offices, rather than going to the source!

The 'reason' is evident! If Americans get the Truth! They will trash the scum that has stripmined Our Country! We have trusted 'Our Government Priests' and they have been bribed by the few new corporate citizens, about 500 , that run the politicians in and out of Our Offices!

These Adversarial Capitalist refuse to share the 'American Dream' yet bang the drum to keep the messianics voting for them!

I believe in the capitalism we had prior to wonderful ronnie, and I call that capitalism, the Common Good Capitalism. Where Corporations are Licensed by the People for the Good of all the Peoples. 'Yes you can make money, but you have to make money for the common Good also!' Because! We build roads sewers water plants electrical plants defend your facilities pay for fire protection police protection and we educate and keep healthy your work force!

I believe and subscribe to the common good! Along with such a capitalism that agrees and abides by the philosophy!

And to your statement, I say - BULL!! You have shown you do NOT believe in capitalism. You have shown that you do not believe in the common good, unless you decide the common good.

Try again, mental midget.

Yet all the countries you have named supply weapons as well.

S Hussain;185227:
America is the world supplier of Military material, guns etc. 1- To Control China US supply weapons to Taiwan, 2- To Control IRAN US prefer to supply weapon to Middle east (Saudi ,Dubai etc), 3- To Control Russia (past) US supply weapon to Taleban, and AlQaida. 4- To overcome upon Iran US supply weapons to Saddam (Iraq). etc... etc... etc... US also supply weapons to PAKISTAN and INDIA indirectly to overcome upon China.

As does Israel, Syria, Iran, South Africa, Cuba, Argentina, France, Great Britain, POland, all the old Eastern block countries, Germany, and the list goes on and on.......WHat is your point beyond attempting to throw the US under the bus.
Your point is useless since almost every country in the world has an arms market and makes weapons to sell for profit.

"Venezuela To Sell More Dollar Bonds, Faces '09 GDP Decline

It would seem our village idiot has proven yet again he either is clueless OR he is but a blowhole for SOcialist/Communist propaganda!



By Darcy Crowe and Dan Molinski
Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES

CARACAS (Dow Jones) — Venezuela plans to continue selling dollar-denominated bonds and push the financial sector to increase lending in a bid to boost sagging economic activity and prop up the local currency.

State-oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PdVSA) will probably follow a $5 billion bond sale by the government with its own issue, Finance Minister Ali Rodriguez said Thursday after a joint press conference with Planning Minister Jorge Giordani and central bank President Nelson Merentes.

Rodriguez said the conditions and amounts for the bond offer are still being ****yzed.

The measure is part of the government’s efforts to bolster the bolivar in an unofficial market for U.S. currency that has become an essential lever for the Venezuelan economy. Merentes said the so-called parallel rate should have a ceiling of about VEF4.

The dollar currently fetches around VEF5.3 in the parallel market, twice the official VEF2.15 peg. Dollar requests by companies and individuals are being increasingly turned down by the government, which is facing a dollar shortage amid a steep fall in oil prices from their 2008 record highs.

The bonds, which are sold in bolivars to local investors who can then turn around and sell them abroad for dollars, helped bring down the parallel rate to a high of almost VEF7 in August.

“We are looking for some rationality so the (unofficial rate) doesn’t have a negative economic influence," said Merentes. The parallel rate was partly blamed for a 2.4% economic contraction in the second quarter by making more expensive imported materials for the manufacturing industry.

Alejandro Grisanti, director of Latin America research at Barclays in New York, said he doubts the government can bring the parallel rate down to VEF4 for $1 if it only does random, mega-bond placements such as the $5 billion dollar-denominated sale last week.

Beyond the bond sales, market observers say the government also frequently intervenes in the parallel market in an unofficial fashion, selling dollars to boost the bolivar.

But Grisanti said that for the government to achieve its goals in terms of the exchange rate, it needs to go above board and set up a “transparent and recurring” system of dollar sales, perhaps done each week, which could “convince people that the exchange rate is sustainable."

Merentes said the economy could possibly suffer a contraction this year and that the government estimates that it could post zero growth combined with inflation at 27%. In 2010, the economy should rebound, Merentes said, while inflation could come down to 22%.

President Hugo Chavez said weeks earlier that his administration would unveil dozens of measures to boost the economy. Giordani, the planning minister, said the measures will be announced gradually by several of Chavez’s ministers.

Giordani added that the overall goal for the government is to boost the economy, limit inflation and create more jobs.

Part of the plan will include pushing state and private banks to increase lending to trigger economic activity.

“We’ll use moral persuasion," Giordani said without giving further details. Finance Minister Rodriguez added that the government is not planning on increasing the nearly 50% that banks have to earmark from their lending to industries like manufacturing, agriculture and tourism following government guidelines.

The weak economy is becoming a political liability for Chavez and his supporters as they prepare for legislative and municipal elections next year. Venezuela could suffer its first economic decline in 2009 in five years, a contraction that could stretch to 2010.

“The government needs to create a perception that the economy is improving," said Luis Vicente Leon, director of polling firm Dat****isis."

Hope this helps, I’ll be glad to help if you need more help.


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Venezuelans rush to buy imports after devaluation
Chavez has announced a currency devaluation and the introduction of a two-tiered official exchange rate as his government aims to boost a sagging economy.


Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has announced a currency devaluation and the introduction of a two-tiered official exchange rate as his government aims to boost a sagging economy.

Thousands of Venezuelans descended on local shops, hoping to buy imported goods before a currency devaluation ordered by Chavez ramps up prices.

The official exchange rate of 2.15 bolivars to the dollar, in effect since 2005, will be replaced beginning Monday with a dual-rate regime.

Importers of essential items such as food, medicine and heavy machinery will be able to buy dollars at a rate of 2.60 bolivars to the greenback.

The school supply and science and technology sectors, as well as public sector imports and remittances, also will be favoured by that rate, which will represent a 17 percent devaluation.

But a higher rate of 4.30 bolivars to the dollar will apply to most of the economy, including the automobile, chemicals, rubber and plastics, appliances, textile, electronics, tobacco, beverages and telecommunications sectors.

'Non-essential imports are going to get more expensive,' especially vehicles and shoes, Chavez said in a cabinet meeting Friday that was partially televised by state-run VTV television.

“I’ve been lining up for two hours outside to buy a television and two speakers because by Monday everything is bound to be double the current price," said Miguel Gonzalez, a 56-year-old engineer standing in the tropical sun outside a popular store.

Opposition politicians seized the opportunity to criticize Chavez’s economic management, with Caracas Mayor Antonio Ledezma saying standards of living would drop.

“If you need to buy a refrigerator for your house tomorrow, it’s going to cost you twice as much as it did up till Friday, Ledezma said.

The government acknowledges prices will rise after the devaluation, but say the upward trend will be more gradual.

State run television and radio stations avoided using the word “devaluation," preferring the word “adjustment." One pro-Chavez radio station responded to critics of the measure by playing a popular Argentine song called “Imbecile."

With oil crowding out other sectors of the economy, Venezuela heavily relies on imports for consumer goods, leaving it subject to big price swings depending on the exchange rate.


Agencies

Special Character guy get a grip and a clue we are sick of your lies.

So odd special character guy attempts to lie over and over and is caught but he blusters obfuscates and attempts to change points over and over!
He never answers the why he lies so iver time it has become very clear what his motivations are!




2010-01-18 14:45:02 - Venezuela Business Forecast Report Q1 2010 - a new market research report on companiesandmarkets.com

www.companiesandmarkets.com/Summary-Country/venezuela-business-f ..

The Venezuelan economy is likely to continue to take in water as we enter 2010, with the government
in no position to offset the significant lull in activity. While the authorities may be rescued temporarily by elevated oil prices, the underlying health of the economy will remain on a deteriorating trajectory in our view. Stubborn inflationary pressures are unlikely to vanish as long as monetary aggregates continue to swell amid sagging private production.

The latter phenomenon will persist unless price distortions and the government�s nationalistion drive are rolled back. Thus far, President Hugo Chávez has shown few signs of wanting to revise his populist policies, and, if anything, looks like he is trying to accelerate his �Bolivarian revolution�. Although we believe that Venezuelans are becoming increasingly disillusioned with Chávez, something which will complicate his palpable desire to get re-elected in 2012, the risk is that his administration could do serious damage to the economy in the meantime. President Chávez has continued to consolidate
his power, with opposition forces finding it increasingly difficult to make their voices heard.

Although we do not foresee any major political upheaval, the slowdown in the economy and stubborn inflationary pressures are likely to complicate the government�s social spending programmes, which in turn could create fissures in Chávez�s traditional support base. Simmering societal tensions will keep the risk of political turbulence elevated, as reflected in Venezuela�s low score (37.5 out of 100) in the �social stability� component of our short-term political risk ratings. The poor score is attributable to the country�s very high level of inflation and a serious risk of public unrest. Although the rebound in oil prices brought some relief for Chávez�s administration toward the end of 2009, prompting us to revise our growth forecast mildly to -3.0% year-on-year (y-o-y) from -5.6%, we expect the going to remain very tough in 2010. To be sure, the policy-induced structural imbalances in the economy will not go away any time soon and the government�s decidedly market-unfriendly tone will continue to choke off private sector activity and stifle productivity. One key manifestation of these asymmetries is the wide differential between the official and parallel exchange rates, with the latter having reached as low as VEF*6.8000/US$ in late April 2009.

Although the government has managed to partially narrow the gap, via dollar bond offerings which locals have been able to purchase with bolivars, these measures will unlikely obviate an eventual downward adjustment of the highly overvalued VEF2.1500/US$ official rate. Chávez�s continued seizing of private sector assets throughout 2009 confirmed fears that large sectors of the economy are being subsumed into the state apparatus. The erstwhile focus on the oil, telecommunications, electricity, metal and land sectors has been expanded to include other areas such as tourism, with another Hilton hotel expropriated in mid-October 2009. Nonetheless, the government remains heavily dependent on foreign expertise if it is to exploit its hydrocarbon riches and will in all probability have to win the commitment of International Oil Companies. As we go to print there are reports that the authorities are contemplating improving the terms of the Carabobo oil field auction, scheduled for January 2009, with a lower royalty, but we suspect that it will have to offer more sweeteners to secure sufficient interest.

Our mental midget expert says 'bull' !!!

Like a tin dictator 'his bull' proves everything! And he has nothing else he can back up 'his bull' with!

Maybe that’s why is a mental midget expert.

He subscribes to adversarial capitalism run as dictatorships, where the few gain at the expense of the many!

Any time you want to explain the ideals of American Capitalism, lets have at it!

The US Financial 'experts' that advised the swamping of Our Economy...

The 'financial experts' you cite are the same people that advised Our Nation into the current Depression. The same people that took in huge amounts of bail out monies, and came away once again with criminal size bonuses once again!

These are the people that now say Venezuela is in the toilet about to be flushed!

How much of the so called report was the result of on site investigation from all parties in venezuela?

My reading of these reports does not find a truthful investigation was behinf the 'report', insteasd written from 'opposition handouts', i.e., from the Peoples that executed the Coup and the shutdown of the Venezuelan Oil Industry. Hard a truthful group and absolutely less than 'objective' in reporting, but highly biased statements with out data and or reasoning.

If you do your own honest investigation and look at the data, the reasoning and truth of what is going on, is in the common good of all Venezuelans. Something that has been missing for a long long time, while stripminers have been sucking out the riches of the Country, with the majority was denied food, medical and educational opportunities!

The Majority of Venezuelans are now getting Opportunities! The Venezuelan Economy is growing, and the stripminers' is shrinking! And you are reading reports from the stripminers as if it were telling the Truth! What can be gleaned from the stripminer reports is, if you invest in Venezuela, you will not take out as much as what our bottom line is!

Venezuelan Wealth is now swinging towards Venezuelans! And the increases of wealth in more peoples in Venezuela is placing stressors on the infrastructures, i.e., supply and demand economics is what is going on, And if you read from the People of the Venezuelan Government agencies are saying, the Government is responding exactly as it should. A government that is 10 years old and been fighting the powerful criminal stripminers aided by the most powerful government in the world, and that 10 year old government is winning! Individual wealth and opportunities are increasing for every Venezuelan!

` ~galljdaj+;185376:
Like a tin dictator 'his bull' proves everything! And he has nothing else he can back up 'his bull' with!

Maybe that’s why is a mental midget expert.

He subscribes to adversarial capitalism run as dictatorships, where the few gain at the expense of the many!

Any time you want to explain the ideals of American Capitalism, lets have at it!

Still waiting for you to back up your manure posts, GirlyBoyJihad.

I subscribe to the Constitution of the United States. How about you?

Using Venezuelan talking points I see

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The 'financial experts' you cite are the same people that advised Our Nation into the current Depression. The same people that took in huge amounts of bail out monies, and came away once again with criminal size bonuses once again!

These are the people that now say Venezuela is in the toilet about to be flushed!

How much of the so called report was the result of on site investigation from all parties in venezuela?

My reading of these reports does not find a truthful investigation was behinf the 'report', insteasd written from 'opposition handouts', i.e., from the Peoples that executed the Coup and the shutdown of the Venezuelan Oil Industry. Hard a truthful group and absolutely less than 'objective' in reporting, but highly biased statements with out data and or reasoning.

If you do your own honest investigation and look at the data, the reasoning and truth of what is going on, is in the common good of all Venezuelans. Something that has been missing for a long long time, while stripminers have been sucking out the riches of the Country, with the majority was denied food, medical and educational opportunities!

The Majority of Venezuelans are now getting Opportunities! The Venezuelan Economy is growing, and the stripminers' is shrinking! And you are reading reports from the stripminers as if it were telling the Truth! What can be gleaned from the stripminer reports is, if you invest in Venezuela, you will not take out as much as what our bottom line is!

Venezuelan Wealth is now swinging towards Venezuelans! And the increases of wealth in more peoples in Venezuela is placing stressors on the infrastructures, i.e., supply and demand economics is what is going on, And if you read from the People of the Venezuelan Government agencies are saying, the Government is responding exactly as it should. A government that is 10 years old and been fighting the powerful criminal stripminers aided by the most powerful government in the world, and that 10 year old government is winning! Individual wealth and opportunities are increasing for every Venezuelan!

And of course you are once again citing Venezuela state controlled information or a supporter of Socialist Chavez.
So there is the impasse exactly what does Venezuela produce beyond oil and Bananas?
Where are the brand names and the exports other then a thriving cocaine trade?
Where are the wealthy Venezuelans on the Forbes list.

Results 1 - 10 of about 2,100,000 for venezuela’s economy tanking under chavez

Results 1 - 10 of about 62,300 for venezuela’s economy failing under chavez

Just as an illustration of how twisted and confusing this whole big government concept is, take a look at Venezuela as it�s run by Hugo Chavez. Last year Chavez seized much of the oil and gas industry from foreign investors when oil was selling at $4/gallon here in the US. Now that the price has fallen to half of that, Venezuela is suffering from that decision according to the Washington Times;

The price of Venezuelan crude has shrunk by 55 percent during the past year, and the debt accumulated by government-run oil enterprise PDVSA has grown by 146 percent.

�The oil price is very low; about half the price we budgeted. That is hard and difficult for Venezuela,� said Mr. Chavez.

The National Assembly passed a law Friday allowing the government to take over oil-service contractors, including several American and British firms that are owed up to a year in back fees.

Last week they seized a Tulsa-based company�s assets in Venezuela;

Petroleos de Venezuela SA, the state oil company known as PDVSA, said Monday it took over three gas-compression facilities from Tulsa-based Williams Cos. on May 8, one more than Williams had previously announced.

PDVSA will absorb 163 workers at the facilities, it said Monday in a statement.

The plants, two of which pump natural gas into the ground to increase oil output, are �associated� with about 500,000 barrels of oil production a day, PDVSA said.

Also last week, the rubber-stamp legislature authorized Chavez to take over more industries in addition to the sugar, milk and lumber industries he�s nationalized since last year.

The 39 companies currently providing services to state-run Petroleos de Venezuela SA will be brought under government control under a resolution that took effect Monday after being published in the Official Gazette, the official Bolivarian News Agency reported.

It said the companies affected include Zulia Towing and Barge Company, Gusteca, Premeca, Seatech, and Terminales Maracaibo. The companies provide transport boats and other oil-related services on Lake Maracaibo in western Venezuela.

Chavez claims that taking over these companies will allow him to cut energy costs - the government taking over industries doesn�t cut costs for consumers, which Chavez should have learned by taking over the oil industry. Of course he blames Venezuelans for the failure of the oil industry to turn a profit, so he fires them and brings in foreign labor;

Mr. Chavez ordered his military to seize paralyzed installations, and he brought in oil workers from India, Libya and Iran to restart drilling rigs and refineries as he fired more than 17,000 PDVSA employees.

Wow Chavez is even more brutal then big business in America!!!

While Bloomberg reports that Venezuelan bond prices fall. That should be helpful for the economy - he�ll pay foreigners low wages while Venezuelans sit on unemployment lines. In the meantime, the rhetoric continues. At Flopping Aces, Curt posts a video of Chavez telling a crowd of laborers that �The rich are evil�.The rich aren�t human. The rich are animals in human form.�

The way things are going, the only rich in Venezuela will be Chavez and his inner circle. Oh, and did I mention that Hezbollah has a presence in Venezuela? And that presence includes running some of the drug trade in the area?

Are you mistaken or simply lying??

Your last post claims I am citing a Venezuela State controled site, as if some how Only Venezuela has Laws regarding Publishing!

That everything in the US Media is absolutely free and therefore all is truth! Yet you have your foils for and against in the US, DISMISSING CATEGORICALLY SOME PUBLISHERS!

Pick and choose your truths?

The Articles I referenced often came from Respected Sources where 'lying' in 'reports and studies' cost you your job! Sources coming the Universities of UCLA, USC, Washington State, and Chicago. And Truth being the goal, rather than skimmimg and profit making of your sources I have critiqued.

Your referenced site writes and advises 'stripminers' and 'investors' that have never written a report or conducted a published study! Saddly your sources are publishing heresay as a 'report' and you post it as some sort of evidence.
All of the articles I referenced were on site investigations articulating facts the good and the bad, with an stated and substantiate conclusions.

Which brings up the question, are you selling and just what is it your selling? Truth is not in your format!

Selling?

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Your last post claims I am citing a Venezuela State controled site, as if some how Only Venezuela has Laws regarding Publishing!

That everything in the US Media is absolutely free and therefore all is truth! Yet you have your foils for and against in the US, DISMISSING CATEGORICALLY SOME PUBLISHERS!

Pick and choose your truths?

The Articles I referenced often came from Respected Sources where 'lying' in 'reports and studies' cost you your job! Sources coming the Universities of UCLA, USC, Washington State, and Chicago. And Truth being the goal, rather than skimmimg and profit making of your sources I have critiqued.

Your referenced site writes and advises 'stripminers' and 'investors' that have never written a report or conducted a published study! Saddly your sources are publishing heresay as a 'report' and you post it as some sort of evidence.
All of the articles I referenced were on site investigations articulating facts the good and the bad, with an stated and substantiate conclusions.

Which brings up the question, are you selling and just what is it your selling? Truth is not in your format!

Hugo passes himself off as a man of the people but then he fires thousand of them and out sources their jobs!
Just another hack more interested in his own profits then in building up the wealth of everyone in his country you know it and I know it.
The people in Venezuela are owned by the state
Just pointing out that Chavez is bankrupting Venezuela!
Contrary to what you are saying Venezuela is in even more trouble the the new Socialist paradise America!
Even now America produces some things of value beyond petroleum products.
Hugo the hitman Chavez has driven out investors with his nationalizing tactics.
Now who is stupid enough to invest anything in a country that steals what you have spent billions of dollars finding, funding and creating.
I have zero issues with a government regulating and calling the shots on business provided they also allow a return on profit but when the government just steals out from under the business then what?
What does it say when the leader of the Government fires it’s own workers and out sources their jobs!
You hate Wonderful Ronnie for doing that but at least he rehired Americans unlike your hero!
Worse the corruption and now drug running and dealing in Venezuela is reaching a critical point.
As my last post stated there is now an Islamic element running the cocaine and heroine trade in Venezuela.
Soon the shoot outs and murder rates will sky rocket.
In the mid 90’s I spent a wonderful two months touring around Venezuela and liked what I SAW nice country, nice people and I hate to see what this criminal as$hole has done to the country.
My bet is everyone I met back then is far far worse off now then back then.

The question is what are you selling?
It most certainly IS NOT the truth!

You like to make messianic claims...

... but provide nothing to prove the claims!

Post the whole article! Make your claim, and we will check it out!

But you just make claims!!

From your previous posting all you base your claims on is some hack making the a bare claim! Sitting a desk selling shares in a stripminning scam!

Yes and the Google search I showed show millions of hits on one!

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... but provide nothing to prove the claims!

Post the whole article! Make your claim, and we will check it out!

But you just make claims!!

From your previous posting all you base your claims on is some hack making the a bare claim! Sitting a desk selling shares in a stripminning scam!

Or 64k hits on another is nothing.
Get real I have provided you more access to data then you could absorb in what is left of your miserable useless life.
The ball is back in your court put up or shut up.
My vote of course is for you to finally admit your not only wrong as usual but to actually tell the truth for once.

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... but provide nothing to prove the claims!

Post the whole article! Make your claim, and we will check it out!

But you just make claims!!

From your previous posting all you base your claims on is some hack making the a bare claim! Sitting a desk selling shares in a stripminning scam!

More manure. Typical.

Expropriation, A fair Price, and Worker Protection while closing an illegal operation

Venezuelan Government Closes Illegal Gold Trading and Money Laundering Racket
February 10th 2010, by Kiraz Janicke - Venezuelanalysis.com
Caracas, 10 February 2010, (venezuelanalysis.com) � The Venezuelan government has moved to close and expropriate the historic La Francia building, alleged to be a centre for illegal gold and money trading, near the southwest corner of Plaza Bolivar in downtown Caracas, following orders by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during his weekly television show Alo Presidente last Sunday.

In addition to La Francia, Chavez also ordered the expropriation of five other commercial buildings, some of which were already vacant, bordering Plaza Bolivar as part of a plan to recover the historic centre of the city.

La Francia, where about 90 jewellery stores are located, is notorious for its scores of unauthorised brokers and agents who trawl the surrounding streets offering to buy and sell dollars, euros, gold and illegally mined gemstones. Tourists frequently report being robbed or swindled by the money traders.

Milena Bravo, rector of the University of the Oriente (UDO), which has owned La Francia since 1969 and receives BsF 300 000 per month in rent from the tenants protested the government measure arguing it was illegal. However, Venezuelan law allows for expropriations with compensation in the interests of 'public utility.'

In turn, Mayor of the central Caracas district of Libertador, Jorge Rodriguez, challenged the rector to explain the dilapidated state of La Francia, which is classified as a heritage building and to clarify what the building was being used for, pointing out that many of the tenants did not have legal title or leases, or licences to be carrying out the activities they were involved in.

National Assembly deputy, Adel El Zabayar, alleged that the activities in La Francia have a 'strong influence on what we call the parallel foreign exchange market, from there begins the source of speculation the purpose of which is sabotage.'

Venezuela introduced foreign exchange controls in 2003 after a politically motivated oil industry lockout and capital strike that attempted to overthrow the democratically elected Chavez and saw billions of dollars flow out of the country. Since then Venezuela has experienced billions of dollars in illegal capital flight through the parallel market, where the dollar currently trades at 1.5 times the official rate.

Noel �lvarez, the current president of Venezuela�s business chamber FEDECAMARAS, which led a failed coup against Chavez in 2002, said business sectors had declared an 'emergency' following the measure which they described as an attack on private property.

A scuffle also broke out between some bystanders supporting the measure and some workers concerned about losing their jobs as the mayoralty of Libertador took control of the building on Tuesday. Approximately 1,500 employees are estimated to work in the building.

However, Rodriguez assured that a census of the workers was being carried out and steps would be taken in order to guarantee job security. 'That same Sunday I gave the instruction to the director of urban control of the mayoralty of Caracas in order to carry out a census of workers and invite them to a meeting in order to achieve all the necessary agreements,' he told state television channel VTV.


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Source URL (retrieved on Feb 11 2010 - 14:47): http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/5129
License: Published under a Creative Commons license (by-nc-nd). See creativecommons.org for more information.


My comment, If this was happening in the US, YOU MIGHT NOT LIKE IT, BUT THE LAW IS CLEAR! The fairness is obvious! The Problem was also Obvious!

Just as the stripminning was obvious. Venezuela is a Nation in making itself run by and for all the People. And that makes it unacceptable to stripminers! Hooray!

Compare Our nation and Our Goals!

We are increasing Our Poor citizen numbers and ways to keep them poor!

Through adversarial capitalism where the rich are choosen for profits and ever increasing profits as a 'RIGHT'!

SO you resort to yet another Government funded website as proof?

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We are increasing Our Poor citizen numbers and ways to keep them poor!

Through adversarial capitalism where the rich are choosen for profits and ever increasing profits as a 'RIGHT'!

Venezuela.n.a.l.ysis.com: Venezuela News, Views and ****ysis is a left-leaning[1][2] news website, which describes its aim as being “to provide on-going news about developments in Venezuela, as well as to contextualize this news with in-depth ****ysis and background information. The site is targeted towards academics, journalists, intellectuals, policy makers from different countries, and the general public
The Venezuela Information Office (VIOâ��a U.S. lobbying agency founded and funded by the govenment of Venezuela, to improve perception of Venezuela[10][11][12]) has a “rapid response” team to address media criticism of Hugo Chavez; Eva Golinger of Venezuel****ysis.com “was asked to be a member of the team in September 2003”. According to the Center for Public Integrity, “VIO requested that Golinger write letters-to-the-editor of various publications to challenge news articles, editorials and op-eds that were deemed too critical of Chavez’s government." [7]


Once again you resort to using news funded/controlled directly by the very government they attempt to paint and spin in a positive light!
That’s not real journalism that is the definition of propaganda!

What part of this do you not get?
Are you really this stupid?
Or are there only a few sites your government allows you to view?
Odd this is one of them if this si so.
Pathetic really really pathetic.
You have once again lost any form of debate and are complete devoid of Morals, scruples or a shred of truth.
After years of showing you the error of your views and ways I will just go back to making fun of you.

For proof he provides government propaganda yet again!

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We are increasing Our Poor citizen numbers and ways to keep them poor!

Through adversarial capitalism where the rich are choosen for profits and ever increasing profits as a 'RIGHT'!

You have once again resorted to posting nonsense from a sight funded by the very Government they are praising!
IN case you didn’t know it Hugo funds your sight to say nice things about him!
Venezuel****ysis.com: Venezuela News, Views and ****ysis is a left-leaning[1][2] news website, which describes its aim as being “to provide on-going news about developments in Venezuela, as well as to contextualize this news with in-depth ****ysis and background information. The site is targeted towards academics, journalists, intellectuals, policy makers from different countries, and the general public. Some sources consider Venezuel****ysis.com “pro-Chávez”. No really!

The Venezuela Information Office (VIOâ��a U.S. lobbying agency founded and funded by the govenment of Venezuela, to improve perception of Venezuela[10][11][12]) has a “rapid response” team to address media criticism of Hugo Chavez; Eva Golinger of Venezuel****ysis.com “was asked to be a member of the team in September 2003”. According to the Center for Public Integrity, “VIO requested that Golinger write letters-to-the-editor of various publications to challenge news articles, editorials and op-eds that were deemed too critical of Chavez’s government."


And here you go again!
But but its all capitalisms fault!
Now where have I heard that ridiculous nonsense before by chance are you regurgitating Karl Marx?




Try reading some truth for once!

http://vcrisis.com/

From Foreign Affairs, March/April 2008 | Summary: Even critics of Hugo Chavez tend to concede that he has made helping the poor his top priority. But in fact, Chavez’s government has not done any more to fight poverty than past Venezuelan governments, and his much-heralded social programs have had little effect. A close look at the evidence reveals just how much Chavez’s “revolution” has hurt Venezuela’s economy — and that the poor are hurting most of all.

On December 2, when Venezuelans delivered President Hugo Chavez his first electoral defeat in nine years, most ****ysts were taken by surprise. According to official results, 50.7 percent of voters rejected Chavez’s proposed constitutional reform, which would have expanded executive power, gotten rid of presidential term limits, and paved the way for the construction of a “socialist” economy. It was a major reversal for a president who just a year earlier had won a second six-year term with 62.8 percent of the vote, and commentators scrambled to piece together an explanation. They pointed to idiosyncratic factors, such as the birth of a new student movement and the defection of powerful groups from Chavez’s coalition. But few went so far as to challenge the conventional wisdom about how Chavez has managed to stay in power for so long.

Although opinions differ on whether Chavez’s rule should be characterized as authoritarian or democratic, just about everyone appears to agree that, in contrast to his predecessors, Chavez has made the welfare of the Venezuelan poor his top priority. His government, the thinking goes, has provided subsidized food to low-income families, redistributed land and wealth, and poured money from Venezuela’s booming oil industry into health and education programs. It should not be surprising, then, that in a country where politics was long dominated by rich elites, he has earned the lasting support of the Venezuelan poor.

That story line may be compelling to many who are rightly outraged by Latin America’s deep social and economic inequalities. Unfortunately, it is wrong. Neither official statistics nor independent estimates show any evidence that Chavez has reoriented state priorities to benefit the poor. Most health and human development indicators have shown no significant improvement beyond that which is normal in the midst of an oil boom. Indeed, some have deteriorated worryingly, and official estimates indicate that income inequality has increased. The “Chavez is good for the poor” hypothesis is inconsistent with the facts.

My skepticism of this notion began during my tenure as chief economist of the Venezuelan National Assembly. In September 2000, I left American academia to take over a research team with functions broadly similar to those of the U.S. Congressional Budget Office. I had high expectations for Chavez’s government and was excited at the possibility of working in an administration that promised to focus on fighting poverty and inequality. But I quickly discovered how large the gap was between the government’s rhetoric and the reality of its political priorities.

Soon after joining the National Assembly, I clashed with the administration over underfunding of the Consolidated Social Fund (known by its Spanish acronym FUS), which had been created by Chavez to coordinate the distribution of resources to antipoverty programs. The law establishing the fund included a special provision to ensure that it would benefit from rising oil revenues. But when oil revenues started to go up, the Finance Ministry ignored the provision, allocating to the fund in the 2001 budget only $295 million — 15 percent less than the previous year and less than a third of the legally mandated $1.1 billion. When my office pointed out this inconsistency, the Finance Ministry came up with the creative accounting gimmick of rearranging the law so that programs not coordinated by the FUS would nevertheless appear to be receiving resources from it. The effect was to direct resources away from the poor even as oil profits were surging. (Hard-liners in the government, incensed by my office’s criticisms, immediately called for my ouster. When the last moderates, who understood the need for an independent research team to evaluate policies, left the Chavez camp in 2004, the government finally disbanded our office.)

Chavez’s political success does not stem from the achievements of his social programs or from his effectiveness at redistributing wealth. Rather, through a combination of luck and manipulation of the political system, Chavez has faced elections at times of strong economic growth, currently driven by an oil boom bigger than any since the 1970s. Like voters everywhere, Venezuelans tend to vote their pocketbooks, and until recently, this has meant voting for Chavez. But now, his mismanagement of the economy and failure to live up to his pro-poor rhetoric have finally started to catch up with him. With inflation accelerating, basic foodstuffs increasingly scarce, and pervasive chronic failures in the provision of basic public services, Venezuelans are starting to glimpse the consequences of Chavez’s economic policies — and they do not like what they see.

FAKE LEFT

From the moment he reached office in 1999, Chavez presented his economic and social policies as a left-wing alternative to the so-called Washington consensus and a major departure from the free-market reforms of previous administrations. Although the differences were in fact fairly moderate at first, the pace of change accelerated significantly after the political and economic crisis of 2002-3, which saw a failed coup attempt and a two-month-long national strike. Since then, the Venezuelan economy has undergone a transformation.

The change can be broadly characterized as having four basic dimensions. First, the size of the state has increased dramatically. Government expenditures, which represented only 18.8 percent of GDP in 1999, now account for 29.4 percent of GDP, and the government has nationalized key sectors, such as electricity and telecommunications. Second, the setting of prices and wages has become highly regulated through a web of restrictions in place since 2002 ranging from rigid price and exchange controls to a ban on laying off workers. Third, there has been a significant deterioration in the security of property rights, as the government has moved to expropriate landholdings and private firms on an ad hoc basis, appealing to both political and economic motives. Fourth, the government has carried out a complete overhaul of social policy, replacing existing programs with a set of high-profile initiatives — known as the misiones, or missions — aimed at specific problems, such as illiteracy or poor health provision, in poor neighborhoods.

Views differ on how desirable the consequences of many of these reforms are, but a broad consensus appears to have emerged around the idea that they have at least brought about a significant redistribution of the country’s wealth to its poor majority. The claim that Chavez has brought tangible benefits to the Venezuelan poor has indeed by now become commonplace, even among his critics. In a letter addressed to President George W. Bush on the eve of the 2006 Venezuelan presidential elections, Jesse Jackson, Cornel West, Dolores Huerta, and Tom Hayden wrote, “Since 1999, the citizens of Venezuela have repeatedly voted for a government that — unlike others in the past — would share their country’s oil wealth with millions of poor Venezuelans." The Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz has noted, “Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez seems to have succeeded in bringing education and health services to the barrios of Caracas, which previously had seen little of the benefits of that country’s rich endowment of oil." Even The Economist has written that “Chavez’s brand of revolution has delivered some social gains."

One would expect such a consensus to be backed up by an impressive array of evidence. But in fact, there is remarkably little data supporting the claim that the Chavez administration has acted any differently from previous Venezuelan governments — or, for that matter, from those of other developing and Latin American nations — in redistributing the gains from economic growth to the poor. One oft-cited statistic is the decline in poverty from a peak of 54 percent at the height of the national strike in 2003 to 27.5 percent in the first half of 2007. Although this decline may appear impressive, it is also known that poverty reduction is strongly associated with economic growth and that Venezuela’s per capita GDP grew by nearly 50 percent during the same time period — thanks in great part to a tripling of oil prices. The real question is thus not whether poverty has fallen but whether the Chavez government has been particularly effective at converting this period of economic growth into poverty reduction. One way to evaluate this is by calculating the reduction in poverty for every percentage point increase in per capita income — in economists' lingo, the income elasticity of poverty reduction. This calculation shows an average reduction of one percentage point in poverty for every percentage point in per capita GDP growth during this recovery, a ratio that compares unfavorably with those of many other developing countries, for which studies tend to put the figure at around two percentage points. Similarly, one would expect pro-poor growth to be accompanied by a marked decrease in income inequality. But according to the Venezuelan Central Bank, inequality has actually increased during the Chavez administration, with the Gini coefficient (a measure of economic inequality, with zero indicating perfect equality and one indicating perfect inequality) increasing from 0.44 to 0.48 between 2000 and 2005.

Poverty and inequality statistics, of course, tell only part of the story. There are many aspects of the well-being of the poor not captured by measures of money income, and this is where Chavez’s supporters claim that the government has made the most progress — through its misiones, which have concentrated on the direct provision of health, education, and other basic public services to poor communities. But again, official statistics show no signs of a substantial improvement in the well-being of ordinary Venezuelans, and in many cases there have been worrying deteriorations. The percentage of underweight babies, for example, increased from 8.4 percent to 9.1 percent between 1999 and 2006. During the same period, the percentage of households without access to running water rose from 7.2 percent to 9.4 percent, and the percentage of families living in dwellings with earthen floors multiplied almost threefold, from 2.5 percent to 6.8 percent. In Venezuela, one can see the misiones everywhere: in government posters lining the streets of Caracas, in the ubiquitous red shirts issued to program participants and worn by government supporters at Chavez rallies, in the bloated government budget allocations. The only place where one will be hard-pressed to find them is in the human development statistics.

Remarkably, given Chavez’s rhetoric and reputation, official figures show no significant change in the priority given to social spending during his administration. The average share of the budget devoted to health, education, and housing under Chavez in his first eight years in office was 25.12 percent, essentially identical to the average share (25.08 percent) in the previous eight years. And it is lower today than it was in 1992, the last year in office of the “neoliberal” administration of Carlos Andres Perez — the leader whom Chavez, then a lieutenant colonel in the Venezuelan army, tried to overthrow in a coup, purportedly on behalf of Venezuela’s neglected poor majority.

In a number of recent studies, I have worked with colleagues to look more systematically at the results of Chavez’s health and education misiones. Our findings confirm that Chavez has in fact done little for the poor. For example, his government often claims that the influx of Cuban doctors under the Barrio Adentro health program is responsible for a decline in infant mortality in Venezuela. In fact, a careful ****ysis of trends in infant and neonatal mortality shows that the rate of decline is not significantly different from that of the pre-Chavez period, nor from the rate of decline in other Latin American countries. Since 1999, the infant mortality rate in Venezuela has declined at an annual rate of 3.4 percent, essentially identical to the 3.3 percent rate at which it had declined during the previous nine-year period and lower than the rates of decline for the same period in Argentina (5.5 percent), Chile (5.3 percent), and Mexico (5.2 percent).

Even more disappointing are the results of the government’s Robinson literacy program. On October 28, 2005, Chavez declared Venezuela “illiteracy-free territory." His national literacy campaign, he announced, had taught 1.5 million people how to read and write, and the education minister stated that residual illiteracy stood at less than 0.1 percent of the population. The achievement received considerable international recognition and was taken at face value by many specialists as well as by casual observers. A recent article in the San Francisco Chronicle, for example, reported that “illiteracy, formerly at 10 percent of the population, has been completely eliminated." Spanish President Jos? Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and UNESCO’s general director, Koichiro Matsuura, sent the Venezuelan government public letters of congratulation for the achievement. (After Matsuura’s statement, the Chavez’s administration claimed that its eradication of illiteracy had been “UNESCO-verified.")

But along with Daniel Ortega of Venezuela’s IESA business school, I looked at trends in illiteracy rates based on responses to the Venezuelan National Institute of Statistics' household surveys. (A full presentation of our study will appear in the October 2008 issue of the journal Economic Development and Cultural Change.) In contrast to the government’s claim, we found that there were more than one million illiterate Venezuelans by the end of 2005, barely down from the 1.1 million illiterate persons recorded in the first half of 2003, before the start of the Robinson program. Even this small reduction, moreover, is accounted for by demographic trends rather than the program itself. In a battery of statistical tests, we found little evidence that the program had had any statistically distinguishable effect on Venezuelan illiteracy. We also found numerous inconsistencies in the government’s story. For example, it claims to have employed 210,410 trainers in the anti-illiteracy effort (approximately two percent of the Venezuelan labor force), but there is no evidence in the public employment data that these people were ever hired or evidence in the government budget statistics that they were ever paid.

THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF MR. CHAVEZ

In fact, even as the conventional wisdom has taken hold outside of Venezuela, most Venezuelans, according to opinion surveys, have long been aware that Chavez’s social policies are inadequate and ineffective. To be sure, Venezuelans would like the government’s programs — particularly the sale of subsidized food — to remain in place, but that is a far cry from believing that they have reasonably addressed the nation’s poverty problem. A survey taken by the Venezuelan polling firm Alfredo Keller y Asociados in September 2007 showed that only 22 percent of Venezuelans think poverty has improved under Chavez, while 50 percent think it has worsened and 27 percent think it has stayed the same.

At the same time, however, Venezuelan voters have given Chavez credit for the nation’s strong economic growth. In polls, an overwhelming majority have expressed support for Chavez’s stewardship of the economy and reported that their personal situation was improving. This is, of course, not surprising: with its economy buoyed by surging oil profits, Venezuela had enjoyed three consecutive years of double-digit growth by 2006.

But by late 2007, Chavez’s economic model had begun to unravel. For the first time since early 2004, a majority of voters claimed that both their personal situation and the country’s situation had worsened during the preceding year. Scarcities in basic foodstuffs, such as milk, black beans, and sardines, were chronic, and the difference between the official and the black-market exchange rate reached 215 percent. When the Central Bank board received its November price report indicating that monthly inflation had risen to 4.4 percent (equivalent to an annual rate of 67.7 percent), it decided to delay publication of the report until after the vote on the constitutional reform was held.

This growing economic crisis is the predictable result of the gross mismanagement of the economy by Chavez’s economic team. During the past five years, the Venezuelan government has pursued strongly expansionary fiscal and economic policies, increasing real spending by 137 percent and real liquidity by 218 percent. This splurge has outstripped even the expansion in oil revenues: the Chavez administration has managed the admirable feat of running a budget deficit in the midst of an oil boom.

Such expansionary policies were appropriate during the deep recession that Venezuela faced in the aftermath of the political and economic crisis of 2002-3. But by continuing the expansion after the recession ended, the government generated an inflationary crisis. The problem has been compounded by efforts to address the resulting imbalances with an increasingly complex web of price and exchange controls coupled with routine threats of expropriation directed at producers and shopkeepers as a warning not to raise prices. Not surprisingly, the response has been a steep drop in food production and widening food scarcity.

A sensible solution to Venezuela’s overexpansion would require reining in spending and the growth of the money supply. But such a solution is anathema to Chavez, who has repeatedly equated any call for spending reductions with neoliberal dogma. Instead, the government has tried to deal with inflation by expanding the supply of foreign currency to domestic firms and consumers and increasing government subsidies. The result is a highly distorted economy in which the government effectively subsidizes two-thirds of the cost of imports and foreign travel for the wealthy while the poor cannot find basic food items on store shelves. The astounding growth of imports, which have nearly tripled since 2002 (imports of such luxury items as Hummers and 15-year-old Scotch have grown even more dramatically), is now threatening to erase the nation’s current account surplus.

What is most distressing is how predictable all of this was. Indeed, Chaveznomics is far from unprecedented: the gross contours of this story follow the disastrous experiences of many Latin American countries during the 1970s and 1980s. The economists Rudiger Dornbusch and Sebastian Edwards have characterized such policies as “the macroeconomics of populism." Drawing on the economic experiences of administrations as politically diverse as Juan Per?n’s in Argentina, Salvador Allende’s in Chile, and Alan Garcia’s in Peru, they found stark similarities in economic policies and in the resulting economic evolution. Populist macroeconomics is invariably characterized by the use of expansionary fiscal and economic policies and an overvalued currency with the intention of accelerating growth and redistribution. These policies are commonly implemented in the context of a disregard for fiscal and foreign exchange constraints and are accompanied by attempts to control inflationary pressures through price and exchange controls. The result is by now well known to Latin American economists: the emergence of production bottlenecks, the accumulation of severe fiscal and balance-of-payments problems, galloping inflation, and plummeting real wages.

Chavez’s behavior is typical of such populist economic experiments. The initial successes tend to embolden policymakers, who increasingly believe that they were right in dismissing the recommendations of most economists. Rational policy formulation becomes increasingly difficult, as leaders become convinced that conventional economic constraints do not apply to them. Corrective measures only start to be taken when the economy has veered out of control. But by then it is far too late.

My experience dealing with the Chavez government confirmed this pattern. In February 2002, for example, I had the opportunity of speaking with Chavez at length about the state of the Venezuelan economy. At that point, the economy had entered into a recession as a result of an unsustainable fiscal expansion carried out during Chavez’s first three years in office. Moderates within the government had arranged the meeting with the hope that it would spur changes in the management of the public finances. As a colleague and I explained to Chavez, there was no way to avoid a deepening of the country’s macroeconomic crisis without a credible effort to raise revenue and rationalize expenditures. The president listened with interest, taking notes and asking questions over three hours of conversation, and ended our meeting with a request that we speak with his cabinet ministers and schedule future meetings. But as we proceeded to meet with officials, the economic crisis was spilling over into the political arena, with the opposition calling for street demonstrations in response to Chavez’s declining poll numbers. Soon, workers at the state oil company, PDVSA, joined the protests.

In the ensuing debate within the government over how to handle the political crisis, the old-guard leftists persuaded Chavez to take a hard line. He dismissed 17,000 workers at PDVSA and sidelined moderates within his government. When I received a call informing me that our future meetings with Chavez had been canceled, I knew that the hard-liners had gained the upper hand. Chavez’s handling of the economy and the political crisis had significant costs. Chavez deftly used the mistakes of the opposition (calling for a national strike and attempting a coup) to deflect blame for the recession. But in fact, real GDP contracted by 4.4 percent and the currency had lost more than 40 percent of its value in the first quarter of 2002, before the start of the first PDVSA strike on April 9. As early as January of that year, the Central Bank had already lost more than $7 billion in a futile attempt to defend the currency. In other words, the economic crisis had started well before the political crisis — a fact that would be forgotten in the aftermath of the political tumult that followed.

The government’s response to the crisis has had further consequences for the Venezuelan economy. The takeover of PDVSA by Chavez loyalists and the subordination of the firm’s decisions to the government’s political imperatives have resulted in a dramatic decline in Venezuela’s oil-production capacity. Production has been steadily declining since the government consolidated its control of the industry in late 2004. According to OPEC statistics, Venezuela currently produces only three-quarters of its quota of 3.3 million barrels a day. Chavez’s government has thus not only squandered Venezuela’s largest oil boom since the 1970s; it has also killed the goose that lays the golden egg. Despite rising oil prices, PDVSA is increasingly strained by the combination of rising production costs, caused by the loss of technical capacity and the demands of a growing web of political patronage, and the need to finance numerous projects for the rest of the region, ranging from the rebuilding of Cuban refineries to the provision of cheap fuel to Sandinista-controlled mayoralties in Nicaragua. As a result, the capacity of oil revenues to ease the government’s fiscal constraints is becoming more and more limited.

PLOWING THE SEA

Simon Bolivar, Venezuela’s independence leader and Chavez’s hero, once said that in order to evaluate revolutions and revolutionaries, one needs to observe them close up but judge them at a distance. Having had the opportunity to do both with Chavez, I have seen to what extent he has failed to live up to his own promises and Venezuelans' expectations. Now, voters are making the same realization — a realization that will ultimately lead to Chavez’s demise. The problems of ensuring a peaceful political transition will be compounded by the fact that over the past nine years Venezuela has become an increasingly violent society. This violence is not only reflected in skyrocketing crime rates; it also affects the way Venezuelans resolve their political conflicts. Whether Chavez is responsible for this or not is beside the point. What is vital is for Venezuelans to find a way to prevent the coming economic crisis from igniting violent political conflict. As Chavez’s popularity begins to wane, the opposition will feel increasingly emboldened to take up initiatives to weaken Chavez’s movement. The government may become increasingly authoritarian as it starts to understand the very high costs it will pay if it loses power. Unless a framework is forged through which the government and the opposition can reach a settlement, there is a significant risk that one or both sides will resort to force.

Looking back, one persistent question (in itself worthy of a potentially fascinating study in international political economy) will be how the Venezuelan government has been able to convince so many people of the success of its antipoverty efforts despite the complete absence of real evidence of their effectiveness. When such a study is written, it is likely that the Chavez administration’s strategy of actively lobbying foreign governments and launching a high-profile public relations campaign — spearheaded by the Washington-based Venezuela Information Office — will be found to have played a vital role. The generous disbursement of loans to cash-strapped Latin American and Caribbean nations, the sale of cheap oil and heating gas to support political allies in the developed and developing worlds, and the covert use of political contributions to buy the loyalty of politicians in neighboring countries must surely form part of the explanation as well.

But perhaps an even more important reason for this success is the willingness of intellectuals and politicians in developed countries to buy into a story according to which the dilemmas of Latin American development are explained by the exploitation of the poor masses by wealthy privileged elites. The story of Chavez as a social revolutionary finally redressing the injustices created by centuries of oppression fits nicely into traditional stereotypes of the region, reinforcing the view that Latin American underdevelopment is due to the vices of its predatory governing classes. Once one adopts this view, it is easy to forget about fashioning policy initiatives that could actually help Latin America grow, such as ending the agricultural subsidies that depress the prices of the region’s exports or significantly increasing the economic aid given to countries undertaking serious efforts to combat poverty.

The American journalist Sydney Harris once wrote that “we believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions." The idea that Latin American governments are controlled by economic elites may have been true in the nineteenth century, but is wildly at odds with reality in a world in which every Latin American country except Cuba has regular elections with large levels of popular participation. Much like governments everywhere, Latin American governments try to balance the desire for wealth redistribution with the need to generate incentives for economic growth, the realities of limited effective state power, and the uncertainties regarding the effectiveness of specific policy initiatives. Ignoring these truths is not only anachronistic and misguided; it also thwarts the design of sensible foreign policies aimed at helping the region’s leaders formulate and implement strategies for achieving sustainable and equitable development.

It would be foolhardy to claim that what Latin America must do to lift its population out of poverty is obvious. If there is a lesson to be learned from other countries' experiences, it is that successful development strategies are diverse and that what works in one place may not work elsewhere. Nonetheless, recent experiences in countries such as Brazil and Mexico, where programs skillfully designed to target the weakest groups in society have had a significant effect on their well-being, show that effective solutions are within the reach of pragmatic policymakers willing to implement them. It is the tenacity of these realists — rather than the audacity of the idealists — that holds the greatest promise for alleviating the plight of Latin America’s poor.

FRANCISCO Rodriguez, Assistant Professor of Economics and Latin American Studies at Wesleyan University, was Chief Economist of the Venezuelan National Assembly from 2000 to 2004.


About Vcrisis

Vcrisis was, in short, the personal endeavour of someone whose discontentment, towards the politicians of his country (Venezuela), reached such unbearable levels that he decided to take action, and provide a counterbalance to the official multi million dollar propagandistic effort, rolled out by the Hugo Chavez regime. This effort, however, could not have been successful without the collaboration of outstanding individuals, who have provided much needed support and opinions, in the form of articles throughout the years. Special recognition goes to the webmaster of the site, and utmost admiration to Daniel Duquenal and Miguel Octavio, whose blogging from the thick of things has become, at least from my own perspective, that very elusive and ever so difficult to find source of objective information.

In October 2002, when this site was started, Hugo Chavez was the darling of the Left. Today, he is the darling of a small fringe of fundamentalists, terrorists, and radicals. Since, links with narcoterrorists organizations, such as FARC, have been properly exposed and corroborated by INTERPOL. The systematic violations of civil, political and human rights under Hugo Chavez’s tenure, have also been amply documented by reputed human rights NGOs, such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, as well as by hemispheric multilateral bodies. The militaristic nature of his regime is another defining characteristic. Therefore, what needed exposing has been thouroughly exposed.

The editorial line of this site was based upon the criteria of its editor and founder, Alek Boyd, and the financial maintenance of it was met entirely by him since day one.

I'm shocked!

You believe one person in Venezuela, and its because he is discontented!

But then in understanding you, its because he is wealthy enough to be his own financial maintenance keeper.

My association with Venezuela began in the mid 1950’s and lasted approximately until 1991, and involved designing building and supplying Engineering services to build automotive assembly plants and vehicles. We were what I now call stripminers! We made higher profits doing business in Venezuela than we could in the US. Our standard of living was more like royalty, than Our American Way of Life, when we were in Venezuela. The poor were poor at the control of the wealthy few and those that came to Venezuela to do busines! The poor had no rights! Today they are achieving rights, and I applaud that! We knew that we were stripminning, but we hid the truth from ourselves by not looking at the poor, and saying it was somebody else’s fault. We accepted taking more money because we could! Business was skewed against the poor towards the very few wealthy peoples. The wealthy, were very wealthy, US educated, and paths greased to advantage! The poor had virtually no chance. All of the infrafsture of Peoples were directed towards the Wealthy! The poor were servant slaves!

That is changing and I applaud that! It never would have happened with Chavez or a double of him!

Your discontented hero may well have a reason to be so, but it stems from greed and loss of royalty!

My hero?

Hardly but he is telling the truth about your hero!

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You believe one person in Venezuela, and its because he is discontented!

But then in understanding you, its because he is wealthy enough to be his own financial maintenance keeper.

My association with Venezuela began in the mid 1950’s and lasted approximately until 1991, and involved designing building and supplying Engineering services to build automotive assembly plants and vehicles. We were what I now call stripminers! We made higher profits doing business in Venezuela than we could in the US. Our standard of living was more like royalty, than Our American Way of Life, when we were in Venezuela. The poor were poor at the control of the wealthy few and those that came to Venezuela to do busines! The poor had no rights! Today they are achieving rights, and I applaud that! We knew that we were stripminning, but we hid the truth from ourselves by not looking at the poor, and saying it was somebody else’s fault. We accepted taking more money because we could! Business was skewed against the poor towards the very few wealthy peoples. The wealthy, were very wealthy, US educated, and paths greased to advantage! The poor had virtually no chance. All of the infrafsture of Peoples were directed towards the Wealthy! The poor were servant slaves!

That is changing and I applaud that! It never would have happened with Chavez or a double of him!

Your discontented hero may well have a reason to be so, but it stems from greed and loss of royalty!

He may well be angry about the loss of freedom and wealth!
He could also be angry about Hugo and his grabs for power!
Odd how you enjoy dissenting views until they run counter to your belief system!
What does that say about your heros!

` ~galljdaj+;185431:
You believe one person in Venezuela, and its because he is discontented!

But then in understanding you, its because he is wealthy enough to be his own financial maintenance keeper.

My association with Venezuela began in the mid 1950’s and lasted approximately until 1991, and involved designing building and supplying Engineering services to build automotive assembly plants and vehicles. We were what I now call stripminers! We made higher profits doing business in Venezuela than we could in the US. Our standard of living was more like royalty, than Our American Way of Life, when we were in Venezuela. The poor were poor at the control of the wealthy few and those that came to Venezuela to do busines! The poor had no rights! Today they are achieving rights, and I applaud that! We knew that we were stripminning, but we hid the truth from ourselves by not looking at the poor, and saying it was somebody else’s fault. We accepted taking more money because we could! Business was skewed against the poor towards the very few wealthy peoples. The wealthy, were very wealthy, US educated, and paths greased to advantage! The poor had virtually no chance. All of the infrafsture of Peoples were directed towards the Wealthy! The poor were servant slaves!

That is changing and I applaud that! It never would have happened with Chavez or a double of him!

Your discontented hero may well have a reason to be so, but it stems from greed and loss of royalty!

Times may be a changing, but they are NOT for the better (unless you are a dictatorial loving stooge). Think again, GirlyJihad.

Your stooging for Chavez is NOT working.

BTW: We are still waiting to see if your brain cell still works.

That's an amazing philosophy you believe!

Its amazingly stupid!

You claim to believe I simply like dissenting until it goes against my beliefs!

I would love to see you provide an example! What convoluted reasoning can come up with that sort of reasoning!

You must conclude I post articles to torture you two cells! Your two cells have not figured out yet what I am doing! That’s amazingly stupid!

However, your conclusion does supply an insight into why and what you post!

The posters frequently advocating hatred shouting from the cowards place in the 'back'...

...often shout 'commie!' and other cries of hate and cowardice that promote the class separations and denials we see too often in the 'greatest nation in the world'! A statement obviously not practiced!

These bigots fear communism, not for the content but for the terror the word swells up in the enclosure of the two lil cells!

Gruggingly, after repeated posts of truth and questions unanaswered to find even one truth, Our cowards say, 'some things have changed but... .', going back to their hate!

Well heres another bit of truth and change that the greatest nation in the world’s lil cowards need to learn to apply, An Example against these cowards bigotry!:


Bolivian women spearhead Morales revolution

By Andres Schipani
BBC News, La Paz

In the early 19th Century, Bolivian women fought alongside men for the country’s independence from colonial Spain. They stormed into battle on horseback, seized cities and were on the frontline.

But their presence on the battlefield did not translate into presence in the political life of their nation. For many, their education, job opportunities and political rights were limited - until now.


'For a long time, we women have been excluded - it was one of the dark legacies of the colonial model,' the recently appointed Justice Minister, Nilda Copa, told the BBC at her office.

'I remember my mother didn’t know how to read and write, neither did my grandmother... not because they didn’t want to learn,' Ms Copa says.

Ms Copa joined a trade union very young, when she was only 16, because she felt a drastic change was needed and that was the only platform where women 'had some voice'.

And that change seems to have arrived. Today, posters proclaiming the slogans of female Bolivian heroes such as indigenous rebel Bartolina Sisa and independence icon Juana Azurduy plaster the walls of several ministries.

That shows the fervour felt in the Bolivia of President Evo Morales, who seems to be changing things not only for the country’s indigenous majority, but also for its women.


Today women are involved in running the country as never before. Mr Morales began his second mandate last month with a cabinet reshuffle that complies with the gender parity stated in the new constitution he pushed for.

Now the new cabinet has 10 men and 10 women, three of them indigenous.

'There used to be a lot of racism and machismo. There is still some, but now that structure is changing thanks to brother Evo Morales,' Ms Copa says.

'Today, for example, there are no illiterate women, but women with enough capacity to develop activities at the same level as men. But the fight has been harsh and long.'

Her voice trails off and she focuses on a picture of her and Mr Morales from the times when she was a member of the assembly that wrote Bolivia’s new constitution.

Homage

For Mr Morales, achieving gender parity in the cabinet was a long-held aim.

'One of my dreams has come true - half the cabinet seats are held by women,' Mr Morales said recently. 'This is a homage to my mother, my sister and my daughter.'

Mr Morales said that since his early days as a leader of the coca trade union, he always worked towards getting women into decision-making posts based on the chacha warmi, a concept that in the local Aymara indigenous culture means that men and women are complementary in an egalitarian way.


But another sign that women’s political influence is on the rise is the fact that they now occupy an unprecedented 30% of seats in Bolivia’s new legislative branch.

One of them is Gabriela Montano, a senator who represents the eastern city of Santa Cruz - Bolivia’s opposition heartland - on behalf of Mr Morales’s party, the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS).

'This is the fruit of the women’s fight: the tangible proofs of this new state, of this new Bolivia are the increasing participation of the indigenous peoples and the increasing participation of women in the decision-making process of this country,' Ms Montano told the BBC.

Ms Montano was the subject of several physical attacks during her stint as the government’s envoy to Santa Cruz, and last year she was kept at a secret location as a safety precaution after she was threatened by opposition groups.

'The awakening of women has been brewing for a while. Women have been a key element in the consolidation of this process of change led by President Morales, from the rallies, the protests, the fights. Now, they will be a key element in affairs of national interest,' Ms Montano says.

However, while change for women is under way, for some there is still a long way to go until full equality is achieved.

'Not long ago, 10 years ago, nobody talked about women in power in this country, that was unimaginable,' explains Katia Uriona, of the women’s advocacy group Coordinadora de la Mujer.

'And even if I applaud all of these victories, I am aware this is not enough. Now we have to see if all of this is translated into something concrete that will truly change the gender face of this country.'

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/americas/8498081.stm

Published: 2010/02/11 10:15:41 GMT

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My my my

` ~galljdaj+;185546:
...often shout 'commie!' and other cries of hate and cowardice that promote the class separations and denials we see too often in the 'greatest nation in the world'! A statement obviously not practiced!

Communism is the epitome of class warfare and separation!
The cowardice on display as usual is your own short comings for why you continue to post propaganda that disparages the west America and Republicanism.
America has it’s fair share of problems but no other country on this planet allows people to become part of the haves!

Quote:

These bigots fear communism, not for the content but for the terror the word swells up in the enclosure of the two lil cells!

Gruggingly, after repeated posts of truth and questions unanaswered to find even one truth, Our cowards say, 'some things have changed but... .', going back to their hate!

Well heres another bit of truth and change that the greatest nation in the world’s lil cowards need to learn to apply, An Example against these cowards bigotry!:

You engage in double speak saying you are in favour of the working class person and then support a man who claims one thing and does the exact opposite!
So far you have posted nonsense from two countries where speaking out against the government earns you a cell clearly displaying all the earmarks of a paid stooge.
Again your pathetic.
I would be amazed if you have not been bitch smacked up side the head for opening your gob and saying the nonsense you spew here over and over.
Grow up already Communism has murdered hundreds of millions of people!

If we are growing up...

..., what should be done about your hands?

Don't worry about my hands

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..., what should be done about your hands?

They are right here on the keyboard pointing out your serious flaws!
You need a good hard reBOOT to the backside for the spoiled ignorant child you are.
gain grow up little old girlyboyjihad.

I see, your ms innocent!

Panties on your head simply doesn’t do it lil boy!

The folks out here, know even better where it is your kind is taking them!

They clearly where, Other Countries that are providing Common Good Examples, they can go! It is becoming very clear for example, what countries are the true friends of the Haitians and just why the US CHARGED IN WITH MILITARY OCCUPATION, rather than neighborly help. Hours for the military and 9 days for medical help!

You have shown your adaptation to steal and kill and stripmine, but those days are over and your too stupid to know it! Your still building 40 foot 70 + tons of war machines that you use against rock throwing children! My how brave! I have no idea how much money was wasted on such foolery, but the are just big ducks ready to be plucked.

You just keep playing your fiddle!

A fool and his words ever more prove what a fool he is.

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Panties on your head simply doesn’t do it lil boy!

The folks out here, know even better where it is your kind is taking them!

They clearly where, Other Countries that are providing Common Good Examples, they can go! It is becoming very clear for example, what countries are the true friends of the Haitians and just why the US CHARGED IN WITH MILITARY OCCUPATION, rather than neighborly help. Hours for the military and 9 days for medical help!

You have shown your adaptation to steal and kill and stripmine, but those days are over and your too stupid to know it! Your still building 40 foot 70 + tons of war machines that you use against rock throwing children! My how brave! I have no idea how much money was wasted on such foolery, but the are just big ducks ready to be plucked.

You just keep playing your fiddle!

You continue to denigrate the good people of the United States with lies!
Where might that be propaganda boy Cuba, Venezuela, Iran it’s a pretty short list!
So now you finally wash your hands of the claim to being an American!
Well for once you have finally spoken a glimmer of the truth.
No worries we all KNOW you have lied from day one about being American!
Your English is to screwed up and you don’t even know common slang phrases!
We all know you’re a pathetic communist version of Paul Joseph Goebbels!
We all know you have lied about the American response to Haiti as well.
How pathetic is that that all you and Cuba have to make the corrupt Cuban government look good is to use the misery of others to promote their and your own pathetic agenda.
How pathetic are you to parrot such nonsense!
Aid from the US started pouring in within 24 hours and yet you spin and spin useless crap!
No one in the world has attempted to help the people and country of Haiti like the United States!
No amount of aid or good will satisfy angry stupid brainwashed people like you
To that end who cares what you say and think your brain is a rotten warped cess poll of far left rhetoric hubris half truths and out right lies!
Go ask Castro and Chavez what your next round of talking points should be.

Even worse you have cast a wide net regarding US military assets put into effect to keep the peace and allow for relief efforts!
I keep asking if you are really this stupid and every time I am amazed to see that your depths of stupidity always reach new and ever deeper depths!
Haiti had no landing strips they were all destroyed or covered in debris!
How is anyone to fly in goods, medicine and food without a landing strip!
It takes people and equipment to clear away rubble hence the military!
How are the goods to be held safe from bandits or crowds of desperate people in order to keep hoarding or panic at not having enough supplies to go around!
The worst thing that can happen is disorder, looting, murder, thefts and criminal enterprise!
Again grow up you useless sack of manure oh wait even manure has a use unlike you.

Four hours after the Earthquake the US coast guard was assessing damage!

So girliejihad are you ignorant or a liar!
Ignorance we can deal with a liar well ....
After returning from a post-earthquake and tsunami medical relief mission in American Samoa, I was stunned to learn of the extent to which Haiti was affected by its own recent disaster.

Though there has been extensive coverage of the relief efforts on that island nation, the role of the United States Coast Guard is less well-known. The following is excerpted with permission from an e-mail sent from one of the officers aboard a USCG Cutter on scene the day of the massive earthquake.

We left for a regularly scheduled patrol to this area just before the New Year.

We were on a port call in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (GTMO) the day the earthquake struck.

Though we were more than 100 miles from the epicenter, we felt the quake. Many of us quickly reacted, as those kinds of vibrations on a ship usually meant that something ran into us or that a piece of engineering equipment was malfunctioning. Badly.

Once we figured out it was an earthquake, we passed the word to the crew to anticipate a change in our mission. We received our orders to sail and left GTMO at 2200...four hours later.

We arrived in Port au Prince Harbor around 10 am yesterday. The destruction to the city was obvious.

We’d spoken to a Coast Guard C-130 that was departing the harbor as we sailed into Port au Prince, so we had some idea of what to expect. But it was still hard to believe. We could see through binoculars hundreds of collapsed buildings, including the Haitian National Cathedral. The harbor had a pretty heavy oil slick from a ruptured pipeline. The air was still full of smoke and dust from fires and structural collapses.

Right after we arrived, a Haitian Coast Guard boat hailed us. We asked them to come aboard to give us their perspective on the damage. They told us that many people had died even within their base of operations which was a few miles from the city’s center.

They called the city a catastrophe. They said they were overwhelmed ashore, as many people had gone to their base to seek help.

We gave them lunch and some food to take back to their crews, and told them we’d do what we could to help. Because our mission was to get on scene quickly and provide communications, initial damage assessments for the port, and support to helicopters (flight deck and fueling) and other aircraft, we didn’t have the relief supplies so desperately needed by the Haitians.

I wish we’d have had a flight deck full of supplies, but even that would have been a drop in the bucket compared to what was needed.

We sent out our boats to take photos of the port infrastructure to see if we could deliver supplies directly to Port au Prince.

The commercial port was basically gone; huge cranes had fallen in the water, and most of the wharf had collapsed.

We received permission to send an interpreter and one of our sailors ashore with the Haitian Coast Guard to assess the damage at their base.

I’m not new to the Coast Guard, so I’ve seen a few things. But these pictures were horrific. So many people were killed and injured. Our helicopter had also taken photos while flying over the city. Homes and buildings were down and people were crowding in open areas like soccer stadiums, plazas, and large streets to avoid teetering buildings.

We felt aftershocks all day while at anchor in the harbor and continued to see buildings collapse even into this morning.

A sister ship arrived later in the afternoon, so we met with them to talk about our plans for the evening. This morning, another sister ship arrived. They had some supplies they’d been able to get from GTMO before leaving.

We met again to assess what little maritime infrastructure exists in Haiti, especially now. Our sister ships delivered some supplies to the Haitian Coast Guard base and helped with some first aid.

We left Port au Prince this afternoon after surveying a smaller port area about ten miles away. We’re off to check out a few more places to see if they’re viable before all of the relief ships and the hospital ship, USNS MERCY, arrive. They’ll probably do some of their own surveying and certainly will have help from other agencies on that.

Hopefully our info can assist, too.

Being the first ship on scene earned us a lot of press. Our Captain was interviewed by national media, including multiple networks and newspapers, and live on CNN.

We’re definitely not the only ship or asset out here, though. I saw several other nations beginning to get support to Haiti, including a Canadian C-17 (large cargo aircraft).

I feel like we can’t do enough. Our crew was super gung-ho, and I know many of them wanted to be on the ground helping out. They would have suited up to dig people out of rubble and give as much aid as possible if given the chance. But that’s not our job and we’re not really equipped for it. We’re glad to do everything we can.

The damage really is catastrophic. I can’t imagine what it’s like to live here. The country didn’t have the basic infrastructure to begin with, much less try to help its people afterwards.

The earthquake happened right at the end of the day. People were at work. Children were in school.

Some of the pictures really hit home for me. Life is so precious...and fragile.

I’m not sure what other job we’ll be assigned to do here, but I know our crew will do it professionally. I’m very proud of them.

I know a lot of this is probably old news based on what’s being reported in the media, but I wanted to let you know we’re safe and doing what we can to help.

Dr. Linda Halderman is a General Surgeon and policy adviser to California State Senator Sam Aanestad. After the September 29, 2009 earthquake and tsunami that devastated the South Pacific, she served on American Samoa providing medical relief.

Israel's Disproportionate Response

Why even the evil Zionist Jews have helped!!!!
Peggy Shapiro
In the midst of the tragedy and chaos in the Haitian capital, Israeli doctors, part of IsraAID -F.I.R.S.T. (the Israel Forum for International Aid), delivered a healthy baby boy in an IDF field hospital. When the baby’s grateful mother, Gubilande Jean Michel saw her newborn son, alive and well, she named him Israel in gratitude to the people and nation who brought her this blessing.

Little Israel is one of the hundreds who have been saved by Israeli doctors or rescue teams. A search and rescue team from the ZAKA Israel’s International Rescue Unit pulled eight Haitian college students from a collapsed eight-story university building. Despite its small size, Israel sent a large contingent of highly-trained aid workers to quake-stricken Haiti. Two jumbo jets carrying more than 220 doctors, nurses, civil engineers, and other Israeli army personnel, including a rescue team and field hospital, were among the first rescue teams to arrive in Haiti. In fact, they were the first foreign backup team to set up medical treatment at the partially collapsed main hospital in Port-au-Prince. Yigal Palmor, Israel’s Foreign Ministry spokesman said, “It’s a large delegation and we’re prepared to send more."

The international agencies that condemn Israel for its “disproportionate response” when it is attacked are not mentioning Israel’s disproportionate response to human suffering. The U.S. has pledged 100 million and sent supplies and personnel. The U.K. pledged $10 million and sent 64 firemen and 8 volunteers.China, a country with a population of 1,325,639,982 compared to Israel’s 7.5 million sent 50 rescuers and seven journalists. The 25 Arab League nations sent nothing.

Israel’s “disproportionate” response stems from Jewish memory and tradition. Mati Goldstein, head of the ZAKA International Rescue Unit delegation managed described the scene, “Everywhere, the acrid smell of bodies hangs in the air. It’s just like the stories we are told of the Holocaust - thousands of bodies everywhere. You have to understand that the situation is true madness, and the more time passes, there are more and more bodies, in numbers that cannot be grasped. It is beyond comprehension." At the start of Sunday’s regular Cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the Israeli team had already treated hundreds of patients. “I think that this is in the best tradition of the Jewish People; this is the true covenant of the State of Israel and the Jewish People," he said. “This follows operations we have carried out in Kenya and Turkey; despite being a small country, we have responded with a big heart. The fact is, I know, that this was an expression of our Jewish heritage and the Jewish ethic of helping one’s fellow. "

In the rubble and suffering of Haiti, Israelis are relentlessly searching for and saving lives. It is this “disproportionate response” that rankles their enemies the most, for it shines a light on their failings.

Haiti's problem isn't imperialism

Haiti’s problem isn’t imperialism
William R. Hawkins
Left-wingers around the world are claiming that the reason the earthquake did so much damage to Haiti is because “Western imperialism” kept the island poor and saddled with corrupt and incompetent rulers. Rather than cite the hundreds of news and blog entries than come up when searching the web for “Haiti” and “imperialism” let’s just go to the Left’s hero on the subject, Fidel Castro, who said last Friday,



Haiti is an embarrassment for our times, in a world in which most people still are victims of exploitation and abuse. Haiti is the perfect product of colonialism and imperialism ... of military intervention and having its natural resources looted.
Castro once again proves what a fool he is!
Consider he and his brother are the richest people in Cuba hmmm imagine that!


The first thing to note is that Haiti has no natural resources, or anything else of value, to attract the attention of imperialists. Haiti won its independence from France in 1804, and during the two centuries since, no one has thought that the island was worth the effort to develop. As Roger Noriega, former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs in the George W. Bush administration told talk show host Laura Ingraham Jan. 15, “you do not see capital rushing into Haiti-because corruption and an ineffective state make it extraordinarily difficult to do business there." He elaborated on Haiti’s weak civil society and the need for the island to become “a global responsibility” in an essaywritten for the American Enterprise Institute.

In July, Haiti had its $1.2 billion foreign debt canceled by the IMF, World Bank and the U.S. government. Money loaned to Haiti is never used for productive purposes, but is stolen by the elites, thus making it impossible to pay back. The Left spins this by claiming that loans are an imperialistic tool of domination and it is “illegitimate” to demand repayment or collect any interest. And then they decry the lack of investment.

The Haitian government does not bother to keep statistics, but it is thought two-thirds of the people do not have formal jobs. Haiti’s problem is not imperialism, but neglect. Indeed, any objective look around the world at isolated, “anti-imperialist” states from Cuba to Zimbabwe, Myanmar to North Korea, always finds impoverished despotism.

Haiti has been subject to military intervention over its history, but not to loot its resources, but to restore order and compel adherence to international obligations. This is why there was a UN peacekeeping force in Haiti before the earthquake, and why American troops had to take control of the airport and capital to protect and distribute relief aid. As one Haitian businessman told The Washington Post Jan. 18,“We’re all scared. We need the United Nations and we need the United States Marines."

What was wrong with the Coast Guard 'assessment'?

Yes it was very nice timing! But what was the result?

Like most loud mouths you simply miss the truth!

Take the panties out of your mouth, maybe that will help the two lil cells!

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Yes it was very nice timing! But what was the result?

Like most loud mouths you simply miss the truth!

Take the panties out of your mouth, maybe that will help the two lil cells!

And like most mental midgets, GirlyBoyJihad, you simply do not understand the truth when you are smacked up side the head with it.

Put your brain (whatever is left of it) in gear before you embarass yourself yet again.

Still watching the Commie stooge lover wriggle and squirm when he is on the hook. :D

My my Our mental midget expert can't...

The big mouth that can’t find a Truth even in a truck load, can’t find a falsity either !

Well maybe there is no falsity in the coast guard assessment!

Maybe they were not in Haiti, to assess what the People Needed! Maybe they were there protecting American Interests, like Profits!

Is that what was in your two lil cells!? Silly me for missing that!

Only the greedy like the shouters would jump there first!

Or maybe in true Coast Guard fashion they where there to help!

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The big mouth that can’t find a Truth even in a truck load, can’t find a falsity either !

Well maybe there is no falsity in the coast guard assessment!

Maybe they were not in Haiti, to assess what the People Needed! Maybe they were there protecting American Interests, like Profits!

Is that what was in your two lil cells!? Silly me for missing that!

Only the greedy like the shouters would jump there first!

Well maybe......maybe your once again proving how false all your claims are of just asking questions!
As I have pointed out look at what you post to understand the why people are down on you.
The Coast Guard will help anyone in trouble that is there job you dunce!
You incessant lies and negativity will catch up to you.

Well now, we have had your post before saying...

...'asking you questions is attacking you!', So did I ask to open a question this time?

I tried to give you all the possible answers, but the midget metal guy cut you off and out! And he did so in an unusual poor way. Maybe he is simply regressing some more.

However, did you miss that I agree the four hour was great, even if it was simply opportunity. And I agreed first in my post, not as a last thought.

You felt compelled to discuss ignorance, and did so with little thought! Ignorance or denial of what the Coast Guard 'accomplished' is like the smell of a bone and fat dumptruck. Unimmaginal that you could miss the obvious! Yet you have in your race to posting your 'message'. And the message is empty of the value or accomplishment of the Coast Guard being on site in 4 hours!

What do you believe, versus, what you know happened following the 'assessment'?

Spinning again I see!

You know exactly what I meant!

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...'asking you questions is attacking you!', So did I ask to open a question this time?

I tried to give you all the possible answers, but the midget metal guy cut you off and out! And he did so in an unusual poor way. Maybe he is simply regressing some more.

However, did you miss that I agree the four hour was great, even if it was simply opportunity. And I agreed first in my post, not as a last thought.

You felt compelled to discuss ignorance, and did so with little thought! Ignorance or denial of what the Coast Guard 'accomplished' is like the smell of a bone and fat dumptruck. Unimmaginal that you could miss the obvious! Yet you have in your race to posting your 'message'. And the message is empty of the value or accomplishment of the Coast Guard being on site in 4 hours!

What do you believe, versus, what you know happened following the 'assessment'?

I believe and know the US is among many nations that has poured billions of dollars, tons of food, equipment, aid supplies, building materials and personel into Haiti!
Yet I have also seen you attack the US over and over turning anything you can into attacks which you then pretend are just asking questions.
Unlike you I know the people of the United States are some of the most generous people on the planet.
I know Haiti has not changed much in two hundred years and I doubt it ever really will.

The americans you are hiding behind...

...are not the Americans running the Nation! Nor are they the Americans Stripminnig!

You hiding behind these Americans because you support the stripminers in every messicanic way they have programed you! Wave the flag for freedom and hate! That’s you! Questions are attacks on you!

That’s a stripminers truth that gets programed into lil messianics!

So until you can honestly state what the Coast Guard assessment ended up 'doing', your just a piece of the stripminers doings! You are stripping the poor of Haiti... , and never attempted to improve their lives! Just make grand hotels for your masters!

Again you are a moron

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...are not the Americans running the Nation! Nor are they the Americans Stripminnig!

You hiding behind these Americans because you support the stripminers in every messicanic way they have programed you! Wave the flag for freedom and hate! That’s you! Questions are attacks on you!

That’s a stripminers truth that gets programed into lil messianics!

So until you can honestly state what the Coast Guard assessment ended up 'doing', your just a piece of the stripminers doings! You are stripping the poor of Haiti... , and never attempted to improve their lives! Just make grand hotels for your masters!

I’m not coast guard how the hell do I know what they did with the information!!
Having actually served in the US Navy I have seen first hand the GOOD the US attempts to do using military forces as well as some of the bad.
You have never served anything but the enemies of America and the American people that much is VERY obvious.
There is nothing in Haiti to make money off since they kicked the French out and murdered any like skinned person they could find!
Haiti is a third world cess pool that no amount of money and education will fix until the government ceases to be so self serving and corrupt.

So if you don't know and are too stupid to find out...

..., that’s all we need to kown!

Your just spouting more messianic beliefs that have no validitiy!

Which is what has been posted about you for a long time!

I know you're a liar

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..., that’s all we need to kown!

Your just spouting more messianic beliefs that have no validitiy!

Which is what has been posted about you for a long time!

All you do is lie, spin, name call, and obfuscate, that much has been posted about you for years!
I proved you a liar once again when you spouted off about how the US has done nothing!
Little commie **** boy your messianic belief system has murdered 100’s of millions of people!
Again and again your proven ineffectual in your war against the US.
Here you are again attempting to pick up the pieces and pick at gnats hairs.... come on really....really that’s all you got.
You loser.

If your posting truthfully , then it is easy for your to...

...correct the Post you said you did not know what the outcome of the US Coast Guard Assessment turned out to be!

Go ahead lets see if the Truth can come out of your mouth!

I have a better idea

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...correct the Post you said you did not know what the outcome of the US Coast Guard Assessment turned out to be!

Go ahead lets see if the Truth can come out of your mouth!

First in case you don’t understand the difference this is text and not verbal.
Go ahead and tell us what happened brainiac you seem to have all the WRONG answers!
Lets see the next round of Bull crap from your Commie sources.

Coward!

Well you mouthed off and now take the cowards express! And on top of that call the US Coast Guard commies! The State Department 'commies', and last but not least, commies also!

Your quite the lil hero! I guess its because you think like a typewriter! messianic!

Lol

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Well you mouthed off and now take the cowards express! And on top of that call the US Coast Guard commies! The State Department 'commies', and last but not least, commies also!

Your quite the lil hero! I guess its because you think like a typewriter! messianic!

To quote you “you suffer from comprehension deficit!"
Boy are you dense.