Latin America

[Endovelico]

An urban experiment in Venezuela which shows why Hugo Chavez is a popular president. It is in Spanish, but the images will be sufficient to see the difference.

Caribia - Venezuela

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[monster_gardener]

Obama Falsely Disses Paraguayan Hero, Pres. Rutherford Hayes...........

It's unusual for a president to criticize a predecessor by name in public.

It's very unusual to hear one criticize a predecessor from the 19th century -- falsely.

Yet there was President Obama yesterday, protesting Republican opposition to alternative energy plans and taking on ... Republican President Rutherford B. Hayes.

"There always have been folks who are the naysayers and don't believe in the future and don't believe in trying to do things differently," Obama said. "One of my predecessors, Rutherford B. Hayes, reportedly said about the telephone, 'It's a great invention, but who would ever want to use one?'

"That's why he's not on Mt. Rushmore," Obama said, rubbing it in. "Because he's looking backwards. He's not looking forwards. ... He's explaining why we can't do something, instead of why we can do something."

Just one problem: Hayes never said that.

In fact, as several historians quickly pointed out, Hayes loved the telephone and had one installed at the White House (with the number "1'").

http://content.usatoday.com/communities ... csp=34news

For those who don't know Republican U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes is a national hero for Paraguayans.......

Ruled in favor of Paraguay in negotiations that settled a nasty land war..........

Hayes has places named after him in Paraguay ............... Pilgrimages are made to his home in the US........

Wonder if Obama would have fact checked better if Hayes had been a Democrat..........

Wonder if like Bush W., Obama is another Present Dunce ...............

[monster_gardener]

A thread for things about Chile, the nation........ not the spice....

[monster_gardener]

Earthquake Chile 7.2 possible Tsunamis per Fox

~35 minutes ago...........

Carbizene, Noddy, Col. Sun, possibly Marcus......... Be safe



http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaki ... 6310014552

[monster_gardener]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/2 ... 78614.html

SANTIAGO, Chile — A magnitude-7.1 earthquake struck central Chile Sunday night, the strongest and longest that many people said they had felt since a huge quake devastated the area two years ago. Some people were injured by falling ceiling material, but there were no reports of major damage or deaths due to quake-related accidents.

The quake struck at 7:30 p.m. about 16 miles (27 kilometers) north-northwest of Talca, a city of more than 200,000 people where residents said the shaking lasted about a minute.

Buildings swayed in Chile's capital 136 miles (219 kilometers) to the north, and people living along a 480-mile (770-kilometer) stretch of Chile's central coast were briefly warned to head for higher ground.

Residents were particularly alarmed in Constitucion, where much of the coastal downtown at the mouth of a river was obliterated by the tsunami caused by the 8.8-magnitude quake in 2010.

Panic also struck in Santiago and other cities, with people running out of skyscrapers, and many neighborhoods were left partly or totally without electrical power. Phone service collapsed due to heavy traffic.

"There are some injuries but nothing serious," said Interior Minister Rodrigo Hinzpeter, who was serving as acting president while Sebastian Pinera is on tour in Asia.

Hinzpeter said authorities were conducting a thorough survey of the affected regions to look for damage.

The Chilean navy's hydrographic and oceanographic service and the national emergency office called off a tsunami warning for most of the central coast after an analysis showed the quake wasn't the type to provoke killer waves.

The alert was restored for the area closest to the epicenter after police noticed the ocean had retreated about 130 feet (40 meters) from the shore in the towns of Iloca and Duao. A sharp outsurge of surf sometimes is followed by a tsunami.

Many coastal residents were staying away from the shore in any case, remembering how the government said there would be no tsunami just before huge waves struck after the 2010 quake, killing 156 of the 524 victims of that disaster.

[monster_gardener]

Hat tip to Doc at the Spengler board...

The man who would beat Hugo Chavez

By Andrew Cawthorne

CARACAS | Sun Apr 1, 2012 9:45am EDT

(Reuters) - Tired and hungry after hours of working crowds under a blistering Caribbean sun, Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles needs a rest and some food back in his campaign bus.

Yet the sports-loving folk of Baralt, a hard up and dusty district in Venezuela's western oil belt, seldom see VIPs and urge him to join a local basketball game.

Capriles needs little persuading. Tearing up and down the court, scoring several times and picking himself up after being knocked off his feet, the man who wants to be Venezuela's next president is cheered after his side wins the hour-long game.

"Man, he can really play! That wasn't your usual politician's photo opportunity," says one admiring local, 24-year-old Johan Arismendi, watching from the sidelines.

In an uphill battle to end President Hugo Chavez's 13-year grip on the South American nation at an election in October, Capriles has an ace card - youth - and he knows how to play it.

The sinuous, 39-year-old governor of Miranda state has embarked on a three-month, "house-by-house" tour of the country designed as much to show off his energy as his ideas.

Still trailing Chavez in all polls, he certainly needs it.

ZESTFUL IMAGE

Honing a populist style that has served him well since he was Venezuela's youngest parliamentarian at 26, Capriles dons boots and T-shirts most days. It was a rare change of style when he put on a suit jacket for the televised debates ahead of this year's opposition primaries.

He uses a motorbike to beat traffic jams and reach pot-holed slums where he spends more time than in his office. At night, he often winds down with a game of basketball, or a jog.

The zestful image is deliberate; the contrast none-too-subtle.

First, Capriles has broken with Venezuela's "old guard" of opposition leaders, most in their 50s and 60s, who failed to dislodge Chavez through half a dozen elections, several strikes, mass street protests and even a short-lived coup in 2002.

More importantly, though, the contrast between the fresh-faced Capriles and convalescent Chavez is there for all to see. Not only is he 18 years older, Chavez has aged notably and slowed down drastically since being diagnosed with cancer last year.

Currently undergoing radiation therapy after three operations in less than a year to remove two malignant tumors from his pelvis, Chavez's health problems have piled up just as his rival is hitting the streets.

"I have youth and strength in abundance. What you see here is just the beginning," said Capriles, rattling off catch-phrases, anecdotes and statistics in a series of interviews with Reuters on campaign trips round Venezuela.

"The Socialist Party candidate (Chavez) no longer walks and talks with the people - and I mean from long before his health problems. I wish him a speedy recovery so he can see the changes coming to Venezuela."

Chavez cannot bring himself to mention Capriles' name - but he has a wide range of alternatives.

Last month, just as aides were briefing that Chavez's re-election campaign would be all about "love" (a clever, intangible and hard-to-combat slogan) the quixotic president called his rival a "pig" five times in just two sentences.

If that raised eyebrows, Chavez's underlings have been even more unrestrained. "Fascist", "Zionist" and "Nazi" are but a few of the epithets flying around about Capriles, the latter two bandied about together without a trace of irony.

One diehard Chavista state TV commentator, Mario Silva, read out documents purporting to show Capriles was caught by police in a car having oral sex with another man. On another episode of his late-night talkshow, a cackling Silva showed a cartoon of Capriles wearing pink shorts and a swastika on his arm.

"To call me a Nazi is unbelievable ignorance when my grandmother suffered in the Warsaw ghetto," said Capriles, who also lost two great grandparents in German concentration camps.

"The insults show their fear and desperation. I have no desire to respond. Venezuelans are tired of this, they want solutions to their problems, not more insults and fighting."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/ ... 8Y20120401

Here is the wiki for Capriles.........

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrique_Capriles_Radonski

Noting this .......

Henrique Capriles was born in Caracas on 11 July 1972.[4] His father had Dutch ancestry, while his maternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Russia and Poland who left Europe during World War II. His grandmother's mother and father died in the Treblinka extermination camp.[5][6] Capriles describes himself as a "fervent Catholic", having become more spiritual while imprisoned in 2004.[7][8]

Capriles was selected in primaries held in February 2012 as the opposition candidate against Hugo Chávez in the presidential elections to be held in October 2012; he won the opposition primaries with 1,900,528 (64.2%) votes of the 3,059,024 votes cast (votes abroad not included).[15]

With the election closing Chávez supporters and state-run media have waged a vicious anti-Semitic campaign against Capriles because of his Jewish ancestry.[16] Some publications have even photo-shopped a Star of David onto Capriles’ face.[1

Nice to have the bad guys expose themselves so easily...

What is it, that the Left so often likes to claim???......... Not against Jews.......... Just Zionism............

But look at these Chavistas....

They go after an assimilated man who isn't even a full blood or practicing Jew.... just because he had Jewish grandparents..... just like the Nazis did to "Jews" who weren't even Jews anymore......... were often Christians ......

Here's hoping that Chavez and his regime go down to defeat ASAP...........

[Endovelico]

Believing one's own propaganda is a bit silly. It's like giving Mein Kampf as proof of nazism's goodness... Or Pravda as proof of communism's success...

[monster_gardener]

Believing one's own propaganda is a bit silly. It's like giving Mein Kampf as proof of nazism's goodness... Or Pravda as proof of communism's success...

Thank you Very Much for your post, Endo.

It's not "my" propaganda....

Will you believe it if comes from the mouth of Chavez himself?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGFDOILffQY

More at Univision...........

http://noticias.univision.com/america-l ... z1qwwD6b2T

[planctom]

What´s the problem with our hermanos down south?
One more stupid decision:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17739204

From today´s Atimes, a very intersting reading and sumarizes what has gone wrong here in the edge of western civilization:

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Eco ... 8Dj02.html

[Endovelico]

What´s the problem with our hermanos down south?
One more stupid decision:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17739204

From today´s Atimes, a very intersting reading and sumarizes what has gone wrong here in the edge of western civilization:

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Eco ... 8Dj02.html

Argentina may have enough oil and gas resources to be at least self-sufficient, but Repsol was not willing to invest enough money to search for them, in spite of having been warned that they were falling short of expectations. It is understandable that Argentina finally ran short of patience and decided to nationalize 51% of their oil company. As expected, capitalists and their stooges all over the world have reacted as if Argentina had no right to do this. In a few years time we will find out the Argentine government was absolutely right in doing this.

By the way, why do people never mention the fact that in Norway oil is exploited and managed by a state owned company?...

[planctom]

What´s the problem with our hermanos down south?
One more stupid decision:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17739204

From today´s Atimes, a very intersting reading and sumarizes what has gone wrong here in the edge of western civilization:

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Eco ... 8Dj02.html

Argentina may have enough oil and gas resources to be at least self-sufficient, but Repsol was not willing to invest enough money to search for them, in spite of having been warned that they were falling short of expectations. It is understandable that Argentina finally ran short of patience and decided to nationalize 51% of their oil company. As expected, capitalists and their stooges all over the world have reacted as if Argentina had no right to do this. In a few years time we will find out the Argentine government was absolutely right in doing this.

By the way, why do people never mention the fact that in Norway oil is exploited and managed by a state owned company?...

No problem with state owned companies running the oil business ,the problem is that the government should not tell how a private company runs its business .
IMO, what the government did is totally illegal and is the same as stealing.

[Endovelico]

No problem with state owned companies running the oil business ,the problem is that the government should not tell how a private company runs its business . IMO, what the government did is totally illegal and is the same as stealing.

When we are dealing with strategic activities - as oil is - and there are no competing firms, the government has not only the right but a duty to tell such a private company how to run its business which, by the way, is also very much the country's business. If the firm fails to comply it is right to nationalize it. The mistake was to allow the oil company to be bought by private interests in the first place.

[monster_gardener]

No problem with state owned companies running the oil business ,the problem is that the government should not tell how a private company runs its business . IMO, what the government did is totally illegal and is the same as stealing.

When we are dealing with strategic activities - as oil is - and there are no competing firms, the government has not only the right but a duty to tell such a private company how to run its business which, by the way, is also very much the country's business. If the firm fails to comply it is right to nationalize it. The mistake was to allow the oil company to be bought by private interests in the first place.

Thank you Very Much for your post, Endo.

Maybe...... but IMVHO, it's not too smart to be annoying both Spain, the mother country, AND the Brits at the same time.........

Didn't Argentina do that before with the Chlieans during the Falklands war..............

[Endovelico]

Venezuela’s Chavez Signs New Labour Law in Act of “Social Justice” for Workers
May 1st 2012, by Rachael Boothroyd

Caracas, May 1st 2012 (Venezuelanalysis) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has signed into law the country’s new labour legislation after a consultation process with the Venezuelan public which lasted nearly five months. Discussion on the law in the national assembly began in 2003.

In what has been widely hailed as a victory for the working class in Venezuela, the country’s new labour law will see the working week reduced to 40 hours and maternity leave increased to 6.5 months. The law also seeks to eliminate private sub-contracted labour in Venezuela, which the government has previously described as an exploitative practice produced by the neo-liberal politics of the 1990s.

Recently returned from undergoing radiotherapy treatment in Cuba, Chavez signed the law on national television from the Miraflores Palace, stating that he was carrying out an act of “social justice” for Venezuelan workers at a time when labour rights were being rolled back across Europe and the United States.

“We have a law which will go down in history. That history...tells us that the triumph of the people, of the workers, has never come about without a long process of resistance, of struggle, suffering even. This law, which I will have the honour of signing...is the product of a long process of struggle,” he said.

Responding to repeated calls from Venezuelan workers to “revolutionise” Venezuela’s existing labour law, last November Chavez promised to pass new legislation via decree before this year’s International Workers’ Day on May 1st.

Since then, organised workers collectives, unions and political parties such as the Venezuelan Communist Party (PCV), as well as networks such as the “Feminist Spider,” have been carrying out workshops across the country aimed at collecting workers’ proposals for the law. According to the government estimations, the new law has been written taking into account more than 19,000 proposals submitted from diverse sectors of Venezuela’s working population. The government has described the new legislation as a “first law in the transition towards socialism”.

Social benefit vs. capitalist profit

Prior to signing the legislation, Chavez spoke of the differences between the Venezuelan government’s socialist policies, which prioritise workers’ rights, in comparison with governments in capitalist countries which place profit above human development and wellbeing.

Workers’ collectives have cited the re-establishment of a retirement bonus, determined by the workers’ monthly wage at the time of retirement multiplied by years in service, as one of the greatest gains represented by the new law. The bonus was eliminated in 1997 when Venezuela’s labour law was redrafted by the Caldera government in conjunction with big business and under pressure from the International Monetary Fund.

As well as re-establishing the retirement bonus and backdated pay for all workers retired since 1997, the new law will also re-instate “double” compensation pay in the event of unfair dismissal. This requirement was also eliminated during the 1997 reform and obliges the employer to pay wrongly-dismissed employees compensation amounting to double their retirement bonus.

The new legislation has also been described by gender groups as a big step forward for women’s rights in the workplace, with post-natal maternity leave being raised from 12 to 25 weeks and increased job security for new parents, who will now be protected from dismissal for two years following the birth of a child.

Chavez went on to announce that a national retirement fund will be set up by the government in order to process payments to workers, with Venezuelan Chancellor Nicolas Maduro confirming that workers will be free to choose whether the monthly sums set aside for their retirement bonus go into the new government controlled fund or into a public or private bank. Chavez also confirmed that a government body will be set up with a view to ensuring that employers comply with the new legislation.

Workers’ reaction

Workers and political organisations have celebrated the signing of the legislation as a positive step towards creating a socialist society and dignifying the lives of Venezuelan workers. However, many organisations have also been quick to point out that the labour struggle is now more relevant than ever, arguing that issues such as the rights of informal sector workers and the role of socialist workers’ councils have not been adequately addressed within the current legislation.

The Feminist Spider Network’s website applauded the new law for opening up new spaces for labour organisation and recognising the central role of workers in creating community wellbeing.

“Today we are happy, but we continue to be combative, because our struggles continue. These struggles have been reflected in universal coverage for social security, the extension of postnatal maternity leave...(and) the extension of job security to 2 years for new parents,” states the network on their website.

Workers such as Raquel Barrios, a public administration worker in Merida State, also praised the new law, and told Venezuelanalysis that it represented “a historic opportunity to show the world that Venezuela is a country where the people are the priority, where the workforce is the motor of this revolutionary process, giving dignity to those who have historically been exploited by capitalism”.

According to the international polling agency “Consulting Services,” over 80% of Venezuelans also view the law positively, with only 13% taking a negative view.

Businesses will now have 12 months to adapt to the new legislation and implement any changes.

http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/6962

This is why capitalists and their friends don't like Hugo Chavez.

[AzariLoveIran]

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Venezuela’s Chavez Signs New Labour Law in Act of “Social Justice” for Workers
May 1st 2012, by Rachael Boothroyd

Caracas, May 1st 2012 (Venezuelanalysis) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has signed into law the country’s new labour legislation after a consultation process with the Venezuelan public which lasted nearly five months. Discussion on the law in the national assembly began in 2003.

In what has been widely hailed as a victory for the working class in Venezuela, the country’s new labour law will see the working week reduced to 40 hours and maternity leave increased to 6.5 months. The law also seeks to eliminate private sub-contracted labour in Venezuela, which the government has previously described as an exploitative practice produced by the neo-liberal politics of the 1990s.

Recently returned from undergoing radiotherapy treatment in Cuba, Chavez signed the law on national television from the Miraflores Palace, stating that he was carrying out an act of “social justice” for Venezuelan workers at a time when labour rights were being rolled back across Europe and the United States.

“We have a law which will go down in history. That history...tells us that the triumph of the people, of the workers, has never come about without a long process of resistance, of struggle, suffering even. This law, which I will have the honour of signing...is the product of a long process of struggle,” he said.

Responding to repeated calls from Venezuelan workers to “revolutionise” Venezuela’s existing labour law, last November Chavez promised to pass new legislation via decree before this year’s International Workers’ Day on May 1st.

Since then, organised workers collectives, unions and political parties such as the Venezuelan Communist Party (PCV), as well as networks such as the “Feminist Spider,” have been carrying out workshops across the country aimed at collecting workers’ proposals for the law. According to the government estimations, the new law has been written taking into account more than 19,000 proposals submitted from diverse sectors of Venezuela’s working population. The government has described the new legislation as a “first law in the transition towards socialism”.

Social benefit vs. capitalist profit

Prior to signing the legislation, Chavez spoke of the differences between the Venezuelan government’s socialist policies, which prioritise workers’ rights, in comparison with governments in capitalist countries which place profit above human development and wellbeing.

Workers’ collectives have cited the re-establishment of a retirement bonus, determined by the workers’ monthly wage at the time of retirement multiplied by years in service, as one of the greatest gains represented by the new law. The bonus was eliminated in 1997 when Venezuela’s labour law was redrafted by the Caldera government in conjunction with big business and under pressure from the International Monetary Fund.

As well as re-establishing the retirement bonus and backdated pay for all workers retired since 1997, the new law will also re-instate “double” compensation pay in the event of unfair dismissal. This requirement was also eliminated during the 1997 reform and obliges the employer to pay wrongly-dismissed employees compensation amounting to double their retirement bonus.

The new legislation has also been described by gender groups as a big step forward for women’s rights in the workplace, with post-natal maternity leave being raised from 12 to 25 weeks and increased job security for new parents, who will now be protected from dismissal for two years following the birth of a child.

Chavez went on to announce that a national retirement fund will be set up by the government in order to process payments to workers, with Venezuelan Chancellor Nicolas Maduro confirming that workers will be free to choose whether the monthly sums set aside for their retirement bonus go into the new government controlled fund or into a public or private bank. Chavez also confirmed that a government body will be set up with a view to ensuring that employers comply with the new legislation.

Workers’ reaction

Workers and political organisations have celebrated the signing of the legislation as a positive step towards creating a socialist society and dignifying the lives of Venezuelan workers. However, many organisations have also been quick to point out that the labour struggle is now more relevant than ever, arguing that issues such as the rights of informal sector workers and the role of socialist workers’ councils have not been adequately addressed within the current legislation.

The Feminist Spider Network’s website applauded the new law for opening up new spaces for labour organisation and recognising the central role of workers in creating community wellbeing.

“Today we are happy, but we continue to be combative, because our struggles continue. These struggles have been reflected in universal coverage for social security, the extension of postnatal maternity leave...(and) the extension of job security to 2 years for new parents,” states the network on their website.

Workers such as Raquel Barrios, a public administration worker in Merida State, also praised the new law, and told Venezuelanalysis that it represented “a historic opportunity to show the world that Venezuela is a country where the people are the priority, where the workforce is the motor of this revolutionary process, giving dignity to those who have historically been exploited by capitalism”.

According to the international polling agency “Consulting Services,” over 80% of Venezuelans also view the law positively, with only 13% taking a negative view.

Businesses will now have 12 months to adapt to the new legislation and implement any changes.

http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/6962

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This is why capitalists and their friends don't like Hugo Chavez.

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Endo ,

You mistake Capitalism with Rubbery

What West doing in South America and Middle East and Africa and many other places

has zero to do with Capitalism

it's

pure and simple

Rubbery

Brits were stealing Persian oil .. and .. when Iranians said "genuflect you" .. CIA & MI6 shouted COMMUNIST


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[planctom]

Just got back from Bolivia, Evo Moralez is facing hard times, his approval rate is in a record low, around 30%, and now he is facing a strike in health services: doctors, nurses, with the support from the Central Obrera Boliviana, the most important worker's union.

Friends in Bolivia tell me that Chavez is very sick from disseminated cancer; it seems that his life expectancy is not very long.

[Endovelico]

Venezuelan Economy Growing Ahead of 2012 Expectations
May 18th 2012, by AVN / Ewan Robertson


Venezuela's economy grew 5.6% in the first quarter of 2012, confirmed planning and finance minister Jorge Giordani and Venezuelan Central Bank (BCV) president Nelson Merentes on Thursday.

With these figures Venezuela has enjoyed six consecutive quarters of a sustained growth. The first quarter GDP increase is ahead of the Venezuelan government’s own national budget estimation of 5% GDP growth in 2012.

"Venezuela's economy has experienced a new boost," declared Giordani in a press conference on the GDP results.

The minister argued that Venezuela’s current period of economic growth is a result of President Hugo Chavez’s social spending policies. “Social policies, including those implemented in a determined manner by President [Chavez], today allows us to have a solid base of growth that translates into human happiness,” he said.

Comparing the figures with the current economic situation in the United States and Europe, BCV president Merentes stated that “while the [economic] crisis sharpens in the US and Europe, the Venezuelan economy is rising”.

GDP, which measures a country's production of goods and services, rose by 4.9% in the fourth quarter of 2011, the highest since mid-2008. Together with the 3.9% growth observed during the first nine months of 2011 it defined a growth of 4.2% by the end of that year.

In the first quarter of 2012 the construction sector grew 29.6%, financial institutions 27.7% and the electricity and water sector 6.7%. Meanwhile communications grew 7% and products and services 4.6%.

Oil related activities grew 2.2%, against an increase the non-oil related sectors of 5.6%.

The communications sector “is very stable. It's growing and we hope it will continue so. Almost all sectors have been growing significantly," Merentes highlighted.

Both Merentes and Giordani highlighted the importance of the Venezuelan government’s Great Housing Mission program for stimulating construction, with Giordani terming the construction sector “the second motor of the economy” after oil.

"Venezuela will continue its path of growth," said BCV president Merentes. "We will continue growing and we will work hard so that inflation keeps dropping. We hope that by the end of the year we continue talking about growth with single digit inflation," he said.

Inflation in Venezuela has been falling for five months in a row, since December 2011. Inflation in April was 0.8%, with cumulative inflation of 4.4% so far in 2012.

http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/6995

No matter how much some people want Venezuela to fail, it doesn't...

[AzariLoveIran]

Venezuelan Economy Growing Ahead of 2012 Expectations
May 18th 2012, by AVN / Ewan Robertson


Venezuela's economy grew 5.6% in the first quarter of 2012, confirmed planning and finance minister Jorge Giordani and Venezuelan Central Bank (BCV) president Nelson Merentes on Thursday.

With these figures Venezuela has enjoyed six consecutive quarters of a sustained growth. The first quarter GDP increase is ahead of the Venezuelan government’s own national budget estimation of 5% GDP growth in 2012.

"Venezuela's economy has experienced a new boost," declared Giordani in a press conference on the GDP results.

The minister argued that Venezuela’s current period of economic growth is a result of President Hugo Chavez’s social spending policies. “Social policies, including those implemented in a determined manner by President [Chavez], today allows us to have a solid base of growth that translates into human happiness,” he said.

Comparing the figures with the current economic situation in the United States and Europe, BCV president Merentes stated that “while the [economic] crisis sharpens in the US and Europe, the Venezuelan economy is rising”.

GDP, which measures a country's production of goods and services, rose by 4.9% in the fourth quarter of 2011, the highest since mid-2008. Together with the 3.9% growth observed during the first nine months of 2011 it defined a growth of 4.2% by the end of that year.

In the first quarter of 2012 the construction sector grew 29.6%, financial institutions 27.7% and the electricity and water sector 6.7%. Meanwhile communications grew 7% and products and services 4.6%.

Oil related activities grew 2.2%, against an increase the non-oil related sectors of 5.6%.

The communications sector “is very stable. It's growing and we hope it will continue so. Almost all sectors have been growing significantly," Merentes highlighted.

Both Merentes and Giordani highlighted the importance of the Venezuelan government’s Great Housing Mission program for stimulating construction, with Giordani terming the construction sector “the second motor of the economy” after oil.

"Venezuela will continue its path of growth," said BCV president Merentes. "We will continue growing and we will work hard so that inflation keeps dropping. We hope that by the end of the year we continue talking about growth with single digit inflation," he said.

Inflation in Venezuela has been falling for five months in a row, since December 2011. Inflation in April was 0.8%, with cumulative inflation of 4.4% so far in 2012.

http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/6995

No matter how much some people want Venezuela to fail, it doesn't..

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Chavez a nice man .. loved that UN stunt : smells sulphate


binMjEiS8AY




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[monster_gardener]

Venezuelan Economy Growing Ahead of 2012 Expectations
May 18th 2012, by AVN / Ewan Robertson


Venezuela's economy grew 5.6% in the first quarter of 2012, confirmed planning and finance minister Jorge Giordani and Venezuelan Central Bank (BCV) president Nelson Merentes on Thursday.

With these figures Venezuela has enjoyed six consecutive quarters of a sustained growth. The first quarter GDP increase is ahead of the Venezuelan government’s own national budget estimation of 5% GDP growth in 2012.

"Venezuela's economy has experienced a new boost," declared Giordani in a press conference on the GDP results.

The minister argued that Venezuela’s current period of economic growth is a result of President Hugo Chavez’s social spending policies. “Social policies, including those implemented in a determined manner by President [Chavez], today allows us to have a solid base of growth that translates into human happiness,” he said.

Comparing the figures with the current economic situation in the United States and Europe, BCV president Merentes stated that “while the [economic] crisis sharpens in the US and Europe, the Venezuelan economy is rising”.

GDP, which measures a country's production of goods and services, rose by 4.9% in the fourth quarter of 2011, the highest since mid-2008. Together with the 3.9% growth observed during the first nine months of 2011 it defined a growth of 4.2% by the end of that year.

In the first quarter of 2012 the construction sector grew 29.6%, financial institutions 27.7% and the electricity and water sector 6.7%. Meanwhile communications grew 7% and products and services 4.6%.

Oil related activities grew 2.2%, against an increase the non-oil related sectors of 5.6%.

The communications sector “is very stable. It's growing and we hope it will continue so. Almost all sectors have been growing significantly," Merentes highlighted.

Both Merentes and Giordani highlighted the importance of the Venezuelan government’s Great Housing Mission program for stimulating construction, with Giordani terming the construction sector “the second motor of the economy” after oil.

"Venezuela will continue its path of growth," said BCV president Merentes. "We will continue growing and we will work hard so that inflation keeps dropping. We hope that by the end of the year we continue talking about growth with single digit inflation," he said.

Inflation in Venezuela has been falling for five months in a row, since December 2011. Inflation in April was 0.8%, with cumulative inflation of 4.4% so far in 2012.

http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/6995

No matter how much some people want Venezuela to fail, it doesn't..

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Chavez a nice man .. loved that UN stunt : smells sulphate


binMjEiS8AY




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Thank you Very Much for your post, Azari.

loved that UN stunt : smells sulphate

If George W. Bush was the Devil, then the Devil was the Protector of the Muslims as well as the Father of Lies when he told the rest of Uz that Islam was a Religion of Peace! (ROP)

ROP........ ROFLMAO........



Considering the destructive to Uz way Bush ran the wars wasting money & lives on Nation Building............ Maybe Chavez was right.........

[AzariLoveIran]

Venezuelan Economy Growing Ahead of 2012 Expectations
May 18th 2012, by AVN / Ewan Robertson


Venezuela's economy grew 5.6% in the first quarter of 2012, confirmed planning and finance minister Jorge Giordani and Venezuelan Central Bank (BCV) president Nelson Merentes on Thursday.

With these figures Venezuela has enjoyed six consecutive quarters of a sustained growth. The first quarter GDP increase is ahead of the Venezuelan government’s own national budget estimation of 5% GDP growth in 2012.

"Venezuela's economy has experienced a new boost," declared Giordani in a press conference on the GDP results.

The minister argued that Venezuela’s current period of economic growth is a result of President Hugo Chavez’s social spending policies. “Social policies, including those implemented in a determined manner by President [Chavez], today allows us to have a solid base of growth that translates into human happiness,” he said.

Comparing the figures with the current economic situation in the United States and Europe, BCV president Merentes stated that “while the [economic] crisis sharpens in the US and Europe, the Venezuelan economy is rising”.

GDP, which measures a country's production of goods and services, rose by 4.9% in the fourth quarter of 2011, the highest since mid-2008. Together with the 3.9% growth observed during the first nine months of 2011 it defined a growth of 4.2% by the end of that year.

In the first quarter of 2012 the construction sector grew 29.6%, financial institutions 27.7% and the electricity and water sector 6.7%. Meanwhile communications grew 7% and products and services 4.6%.

Oil related activities grew 2.2%, against an increase the non-oil related sectors of 5.6%.

The communications sector “is very stable. It's growing and we hope it will continue so. Almost all sectors have been growing significantly," Merentes highlighted.

Both Merentes and Giordani highlighted the importance of the Venezuelan government’s Great Housing Mission program for stimulating construction, with Giordani terming the construction sector “the second motor of the economy” after oil.

"Venezuela will continue its path of growth," said BCV president Merentes. "We will continue growing and we will work hard so that inflation keeps dropping. We hope that by the end of the year we continue talking about growth with single digit inflation," he said.

Inflation in Venezuela has been falling for five months in a row, since December 2011. Inflation in April was 0.8%, with cumulative inflation of 4.4% so far in 2012.

http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/6995

No matter how much some people want Venezuela to fail, it doesn't..

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Chavez a nice man .. loved that UN stunt : smells sulphate


binMjEiS8AY




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If George W. Bush was the Devil, then the Devil was the Protector of the Muslims as well as the Father of Lies when he told the rest of Uz that Islam was a Religion of Peace! (ROP)

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Monster,

W. said Islam was a Religion of Peace because he knew who's doing all the terrorist acts

it ain't Muslims

All terrorist acts, all bombs killings so many woman and children in Iraq and and and

all

are done by western special units

seems you forgot that CIA agent in Pakistan

or British special units in Mullah costume laying bombs in Basra

you need link ? just ask

you need proof ? ?

look ,

90% of Libyans were very happy with Qaddafi .. you name it, it was free .. you marry, you get a free house, free healthcare, free school, your birthdays you got a free car .. and and and

Libyans had to be a real durian to start shooting, killing Qaddafi

for what ?

they were missing ALLAH ? ?

woman were craving Hijab ? ? .. or woman loved their husband marry 3 addition wife ? ?

who did killing of all the civilians ?

not the Libyans (or so called elusive Al Qeida)

so

in that sense

W. knew something you do not


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[monster_gardener]

Venezuelan Economy Growing Ahead of 2012 Expectations
May 18th 2012, by AVN / Ewan Robertson


Venezuela's economy grew 5.6% in the first quarter of 2012, confirmed planning and finance minister Jorge Giordani and Venezuelan Central Bank (BCV) president Nelson Merentes on Thursday.

With these figures Venezuela has enjoyed six consecutive quarters of a sustained growth. The first quarter GDP increase is ahead of the Venezuelan government’s own national budget estimation of 5% GDP growth in 2012.

"Venezuela's economy has experienced a new boost," declared Giordani in a press conference on the GDP results.

The minister argued that Venezuela’s current period of economic growth is a result of President Hugo Chavez’s social spending policies. “Social policies, including those implemented in a determined manner by President [Chavez], today allows us to have a solid base of growth that translates into human happiness,” he said.

Comparing the figures with the current economic situation in the United States and Europe, BCV president Merentes stated that “while the [economic] crisis sharpens in the US and Europe, the Venezuelan economy is rising”.

GDP, which measures a country's production of goods and services, rose by 4.9% in the fourth quarter of 2011, the highest since mid-2008. Together with the 3.9% growth observed during the first nine months of 2011 it defined a growth of 4.2% by the end of that year.

In the first quarter of 2012 the construction sector grew 29.6%, financial institutions 27.7% and the electricity and water sector 6.7%. Meanwhile communications grew 7% and products and services 4.6%.

Oil related activities grew 2.2%, against an increase the non-oil related sectors of 5.6%.

The communications sector “is very stable. It's growing and we hope it will continue so. Almost all sectors have been growing significantly," Merentes highlighted.

Both Merentes and Giordani highlighted the importance of the Venezuelan government’s Great Housing Mission program for stimulating construction, with Giordani terming the construction sector “the second motor of the economy” after oil.

"Venezuela will continue its path of growth," said BCV president Merentes. "We will continue growing and we will work hard so that inflation keeps dropping. We hope that by the end of the year we continue talking about growth with single digit inflation," he said.

Inflation in Venezuela has been falling for five months in a row, since December 2011. Inflation in April was 0.8%, with cumulative inflation of 4.4% so far in 2012.

http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/6995

No matter how much some people want Venezuela to fail, it doesn't..

.

Chavez a nice man .. loved that UN stunt : smells sulphate


binMjEiS8AY




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If George W. Bush was the Devil, then the Devil was the Protector of the Muslims as well as the Father of Lies when he told the rest of Uz that Islam was a Religion of Peace! (ROP)

.

Monster,

W. said Islam was a Religion of Peace because he knew who's doing all the terrorist acts

it ain't Muslims

All terrorist acts, all bombs killings so many woman and children in Iraq and and and

all

are done by western special units

seems you forgot that CIA agent in Pakistan

or British special units in Mullah costume laying bombs in Basra

you need link ? just ask

you need proof ? ?

look ,

90% of Libyans were very happy with Qaddafi .. you name it, it was free .. you marry, you get a free house, free healthcare, free school, your birthdays you got a free car .. and and and

Libyans had to be a real durian to start shooting, killing Qaddafi

for what ?

they were missing ALLAH ? ?

woman were craving Hijab ? ? .. or woman loved their husband marry 3 addition wife ? ?

who did killing of all the civilians ?

not the Libyans (or so called elusive Al Qeida)

so

in that sense

W. knew something you do not


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Thank you Very Much for your post, Azari.

Even if I agreed you are right, which I don't, why is the Devil/Ahiramin himself protecting "innocent people"? Seems somewhat out of character.....

But as an alternative to a theological discussion on the nature of Set/Ahiriman/Satan the Devil/Eblis, I have a more modest proposal:

Chavez was snarky and wrong.......

George W.W. Bush is NOT the Devil.......

George W.W. Bush is a member of the Bush clan which has effectively adopted Saudi members who are also members of the Wahhabi Salafi extremist Muslim clan. Despite the manifestly murderous history of the malignant Muslim Meme, Bush lied and acted to protect Muslim members of the clan.....

Lately we Uz have had often had lousy choices at election time: George "Woodrow Wilson" Bush a codependent enabling liar for malignant Muslims or Al Gore, a Green multiple liar for the Gaians and himself.... Ugh.........

EDIT: In Fairness to George W.W. Bush, it is also possible that he is a doofus who actually believes the propaganda/lies that Muslim relatives and friends ply him with.......

[Endovelico]

An Englishman in Venezuela
Jun 13th 2012, by Paul Dobson

World Bank president Robert Zoellick said last week that the days of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez were "numbered" economically and politically following a wave of nationalisations.

Zoellick spoke ominously of "an opportunity to make the western hemisphere the first democratic hemisphere" by exploiting Chavez's hypothetical downfall to force "rapid policy changes" on other countries, naming Cuba and Nicaragua.

Without a trace of irony he talked of how the US could make Latin America "a place of democracy, development and dignity" rather than one of "coups, caudillos and cocaine."

A bit rich from the country which organised the coups, bankrolled the caudillos and bought the cocaine for decades before the progressive movement spearheaded by Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution began to reshape the continent.

But Zoellick may be underestimating his target. The Bolivarian revolution has made tremendous gains for Venezuela's democracy, development and dignity precisely by challenging the might of exploitative transnational companies. Here we can look at just one example - Venezuela v a British man nicknamed "Spam."

Or to give him his full title, Samuel George Armstrong Vestey, third baron Vestey, lieutenant in the Scots Guards, peer, ex-chancellor and lord prior to the Order of St John of Jerusalem, deputy lieutenant of Gloucestershire, Master of the Horse of the Sovereign, Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order.

He's 27th in the Order of Preference for Gentlemen in the UK - a who's who of the nobility - the ex-husband to Prince Harry's godmother and owner of the 2,430-hectare Stowell Park estate in Gloucestershire. More importantly he's the head of Vestey Group.

The group is a British foodstuff conglomerate founded in Liverpool in 1897, which made its fortune importing meat. It moved into Venezuela in 1903 and bought 11 ranches in prime-quality land (classified in the country as "A1," the best possible for farming), setting up the Compania Inglesa subsidiary in the country which itself set up Agroflora, the cattle-ranching arm of the business.

The company did well, buying up land in a range of other countries from Australia to China and making vast profits for its owners William and Edmund Vestey. William managed to get ennobled as a baron despite opposition from King George V, who was irritated by his demand for tax-exempt status at the height of World War I.

When this demand was refused they went into tax exile in Argentina before setting up a dodgy if legal scheme involving a French trust fund that enabled them to evade almost all tax in Britain until the loophole was closed in 1991. A Sunday Times investigation once revealed that in 1978 the firm had managed to pay just £10 in tax on a profit of around £2.3 million.

They were at their height called "the richest dynasty in the land apart from the Windsors." Biographer Philip Knightley wrote: "They did not live on the income, they did not live on the interest from their investments. They lived on the interest on the interest."

Business and tax evasion went excellently for William's successors until 2001, when the Chavez government passed a new land law allowing it to look into all landholdings of over 5,000 hectares and forcibly nationalise them with compensation if they were deemed inactive, idle or no project was presented for their development.

Spam had a problem - he owned over 420,000ha of land in Venezuela and over 130,000 head of cattle. Twelve of his ranches surpassed the 5,000ha mark. So he held a one-man protest outside Venezuela's London embassy in February 2001.

Squatters began to settle on his lands and cultivate crops. Though they were making use of previously inactive land, there are reports of these landless farmers being shot at and even murdered by men allegedly paid off by Spam.

In 2005 things got even worse for the tycoon. The government sent troops into his Charcote ranch and confiscated 13,000 cattle. After coming to an agreement with the government Spam received the equivalent of £2.65m in local currency as compensation for two ranches he was forced to give up.

In 2008 there was controversy over the plight of 400 indigenous people who lived on his Morichito ranch. By the terms of the land contract they were literally owned by Spam.

In October 2010 he faced his biggest problem yet when Chavez declared: "All the lands of the so-called Compania Inglesa will be nationalised now. I don't want to lose another day. Free the land, free the slave labour."

That meant around 300,000ha of land, all his remaining ranches and 120,000 cattle.

The Central Bank immediately approved funds for buying up the ranches. Chavez pointed out: "We must recognise what is really private land, we're not stealing it from anyone. Some companies like this insist we pay them in foreign money. No - we are in Venezuela."

The ranches passed to the state and the jobs of the workers were guaranteed. Some land was distributed to those who lived or worked on it to set up co-operatives, some continues production under state administration and some areas are being restructured for crop rather than cattle-farming.

Spam said: "We have been in constructive discussions with the Venezuelan government for some time now and we continue in that vein in order to find a friendly agreement."

These discussions went on for about a year. But in October 2011 talks fell apart over the payment issue and lands were ordered to be taken by force.

Spam was offered compensation in the overvalued local currency and no other, a total of 274m bolivars (£46m).

Poor Spam was left without a single ranch.

Many economists, landowners, cattle-ranchers and general bigwigs were up in arms over these land-grabs.

Many peasants, workers, patriots and general country folk supported them.

But the government pointed out that Spam's deeds had not been in order - and that anyway if you went back far enough the land had been nicked off the people in the first place.

It also reminded us that 90 per cent of the meat produced on these ranches was to be sold in Britain. Venezuelan land, Venezuelan cattle, Venezuelan labour, but virtually no meat for Venezuela at a time when the country was importing 70 per cent of meat consumed.

That this was A1 fertile land - perfect for crop production, not cattle-ranching.

And finally that there were millions of Venezuelans without land, houses or businesses who could benefit from the lots of all three owned by the absentee landlord.

So 2011 was the year that concluded the story of Spam in Venezuela. But not to worry - the third baron Vestey's colonial adventures continue in, among other places, Australia, Brazil and China.

http://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/7051

Now we know why they don't like Hugo Chavez...

[Endovelico]

BP Announces that Venezuela Now Have the Largest Oil Reserves in the World
By Charles Kennedy | Thu, 14 June 2012 22:31

BP has just released its annual Statistical Review of World Energy in which it claims that Venezuela now holds the largest proven oil reserves in the world, overtaking the original leader Saudi Arabia.

The South American nation’s oil deposits were increased from last year’s figure to an estimated at 296.5 billion barrels, more than Saudi Arabia’s 265.4 billion barrels.

Global reserves have been increased by 1.9 percent from last year’s 1.62 trillion barrels to 1.65 trillion. Robert Wine, a spokesman from BP, explained that the reason for the revisions is that BP’s review is published in June, before most countries issue their annual reserve figures.

Last year’s average oil price was also at record levels which meant that lots of hard-to-reach oil deposits became commercially viable. North Sea Brent crude oil, a general benchmark for most of the world’s oil, averaged $107.38 a barrel in 2011.

Oil reserves in Venezuela now account for about 17.9 precent of the world’s oil; Saudi Arabia hold 16.1 percent; whilst Canada are third with 10.6 percent.

The Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez yesterday released plans that promise he will more than double the countries oil production capacity by 2019, if re-elected in October.

All of BP’s estimates were calculated from a combination of official sources, OPEC data, and other third party estimates.

http://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/ ... World.html

Don't count on getting rid soon of Hugo Chavez, unless cancer beats him. With such wealth, once he develops it and channels its revenues to the Venezuelan people, the Bolivar revolution will be there for good.

[AzariLoveIran]

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BP Announces that Venezuela Now Have the Largest Oil Reserves in the World
By Charles Kennedy | Thu, 14 June 2012 22:31

BP has just released its annual Statistical Review of World Energy in which it claims that Venezuela now holds the largest proven oil reserves in the world, overtaking the original leader Saudi Arabia.

The South American nation’s oil deposits were increased from last year’s figure to an estimated at 296.5 billion barrels, more than Saudi Arabia’s 265.4 billion barrels.

Global reserves have been increased by 1.9 percent from last year’s 1.62 trillion barrels to 1.65 trillion. Robert Wine, a spokesman from BP, explained that the reason for the revisions is that BP’s review is published in June, before most countries issue their annual reserve figures.

Last year’s average oil price was also at record levels which meant that lots of hard-to-reach oil deposits became commercially viable. North Sea Brent crude oil, a general benchmark for most of the world’s oil, averaged $107.38 a barrel in 2011.

Oil reserves in Venezuela now account for about 17.9 precent of the world’s oil; Saudi Arabia hold 16.1 percent; whilst Canada are third with 10.6 percent.

The Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez yesterday released plans that promise he will more than double the countries oil production capacity by 2019, if re-elected in October.

All of BP’s estimates were calculated from a combination of official sources, OPEC data, and other third party estimates.

http://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/ ... World.html


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Don't count on getting rid soon of Hugo Chavez, unless cancer beats him. With such wealth, once he develops it and channels its revenues to the Venezuelan people, the Bolivar revolution will be there for good.

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A good man, a good human being

crossing finger he lives for 100 more years

Biggest Oil reserves in the world ? ?

Good for them


Arabs have no chance escaping rape by western Petro colonialism, until and when, their oil runs out

Oil running out in Arab land an omen for Arab folks .. they should pray for that



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[planctom]

Paraguain President Fernado Lugo sufered a political defeat and was impeached this afternoon by tha Paraguaian Senate, following the killing of eleven peasants and one police officer during a land dispute.
Another left wing president in South america, Lugo is an ex bishop and was the focus of several sexual scandals when it was discovered that he was the father of at least three sons from diferent women;of course it all happend while he was a bishop!
Who says that catholics don´t like women???
Farewel,Mr. Lugo.