http://islamicpost.wordpress.com/2009/05/10/cuba-leads-energy-revolution/
Then - "The problem with PDVSA, the oil company, as Venezuelans well know, is that Mr. Chavez turned it into a sinecure for political cronies, destroying its once admirable efficiency and productive value. Only by putting the experts back in charge can it hope to recover, but President Chavez is not about to hand authority over to anyone who is not a known loyalist."
1. This has to be a joke. PDVSA was violently sabotaged, equipment destroyed and computer systems vandalized by same the "experts" these people appear to be referring to. The saboteurs were mostly from PDVSA's middle echelons; managers, engineers, supervisors, and directors " about 20,000 of them " who were eventually fired, most never to be re-hired again.
2. The writers insinuate that PDVSA is falling to shambles. As far as I know, it is not. PDVSA appears to operate quite well without having to employ a bunch of violent saboteurs. Anyone would be completely out of their minds to re-hire employees who set fire to one's installations, stole equipment and erased information from company computers.
Then - "The problems at PDVSA are emblematic of what's wrong with Venezuela and why his Bolivarian revolution is in trouble. Mr. Chavez has run the economy, and the country, into the ground, but that hasn't stopped him from making trouble wherever he can."
From listening to reports regularly on VTV, PDVSA is operating quite well - and so is the country. Our family business in Venezuela has tripled in revenue in the last 7 months, even with the water and electricity shortages. (And our business relies exclusively on electricity and water).
Then the writers say: "As the streets of Caracas were in turmoil, the US director of national intelligence, former Admiral Dennis Blair, was giving Congress an unvarnished assessment of Mr. Chavez' presidency that underlines the danger he represents to the entire region. He has cultivated friendships in all the wrong places, beginning with Iran, spent $6 billion to buy weapons from Russia, and provided covert support to the terrorist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)."
1. Why should anyone care what the USA has to say, least of all "intelligence" directors? The criminal invasion of Iraq was based on US "intelligence." They were completely wrong " but invaded anyways - so what they say means absolutely nothing, one way or another.
2. The "streets of Caracas" were not really in turmoil - there weren't that many student protesters on the streets - and they were protesting in very localized areas of Caracas. Now, if one thinks that a few hundred or a few thousand psyched-out students on a violent group-rampage describes "turmoil," then fine " but one needs to remember who created the "turmoil."
3. "He has cultivated friendships in all the wrong places" Why is Iran a "wrong place?" Iran is an independent, self-sustained country and is one of the most advanced socially, technologically and economically in the region. Just because the USA and a few other pro-USA countries (like Canada) say that Iran is "no good," does that mean that Iran is indeed "no good?" No, not at all. No main media outlet says that the USA or Canada are terrorist nations, but, according to some people, they are.
4. Of course Venezuela bought arms from Russia " because the USA has an embargo against Venezuela for weapons and military equipment and other related equipment. Venezuela's military was almost entirely US-made equipped (and required US-made-controlled parts), so to renew their aging equipment Venezuela had to go elsewhere. (They don't tell you that, do they?)
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