From vheadlines.com
www.vheadline.com Posted: Sunday, February 02, 2003 - 1:39:14 AM By: Miguel Salazar
Salazar: 50 million a day set aside for Coordinadora Democratica
Slaves: last November people found it strange when the Interior & Justice (MIJ) Minister appointed a new Passport & Identification (Oni-Dex) board … a lieutenant colonel and a lawyer linked to the old ID system in the golden age of the Fourth Republic have made an art out of legalizing Chinese and Arabs from tourist to transit visas. Where are the 560 Chinese who entered Venezuela in December as tourists and were given Oni-Dex ID cards. Where did the “overtime” money go? Is it true or false that they were connected through a finance company run by a former mayor and Caracas State Governor to finance sabotage program during the national stoppage? Three Oni-Dex offices registered and granted the ID cards. At the Petare Office 429 ID cards were granted to Chinese citizens, who arrived with only a tourist visa. At the La Trinidad office 86 ID cards and at the Valencia II office 78 ID cards. On handing over their tourist visas, each applicant was charged 3 million bolivares, not including travel costs. The ID card was more expensive and then there were “laundered” stamps to pay for. The operation is estimated at a little more that $2 million. It all started at the Venezuelan Consulate in Hong Kong where the visas were granted while the Oni-Dex general director took care of authorizing and supplying the ID cards. What is more serious is that the new ID card holders are unusually illegals. It’s amazing that 429 ID cards were rushed through in one day at one office and signed in record time. Are we witnessing a new form of slavery? These people are under the care of those who brought them in. Not to mention the illegal entry of Arabs legalized at Propatria Oni-Dex office.
Black Cat: Slowly but surely, a new military commotion is getting underway.
Briefcase: An average 50 million bolivares a day have been placed to cover Coordinadora Democratica (CD) costs.
Who’s paying? After more than 2 months of the “military operation” that turned Plaza Francia (Altamira) into “liberated territory,” there are few rooms at night at the Four Seasons Hotel, which was on the verge of closing down before the military action. Top brass rebels only appear in the Plaza tent for press conferences. Meanwhile, it’s a mystery to find out who paid hotel lodgings, even though it is presumed that a lot of money was paid out. BTW, a sector of the Cuban exile is angry over the “mislaying” of funds to pay for rebel costs.
Golf: Some time ago I complained about Intesa-SAIC relationship and the damage it was doing to the country. The history of deals between former Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) executives isn’t exemplary … they depreciated PDVSA. The outsourcing company directed the computing raid and was represented in Venezuela by Pablo Orsolani. SAIC can count on elite IC pensioners. There is a site under investigation for links to sects and cults, which are just beginning to gain ground among the high classes of industrialized classes. Before the stoppage, an exchange of views took place between Intesa-SAIC and top executives linked to the outsourcing on the Caracas golf courses.
Politicians in the service of foreign commerce: Gente del Petroleo sepoys have been making incursions into Judibana (Falcon) Amuay company employees compound. In true Ku Klux Klan style, they harass worker’s families, arriving in cavalcades of luxury cars and cruise around the compound, murmuring unintelligible things and pinning things on doors and windows.
One Chavez Frias: In my next book shortly to be published I write: How can one deny that Chavez Frias is a faithful exponent of Accion Democratica (AD) founder, President Romulo Betancourt’s (1960-1964) conduct. Like Chavez Frias, Romulo was a political warlord who made politics an instrument to his own image and likeness and created a kind of Venezuelan, called the Adeco (Accion Democratica). The paradigm died when Betancourt went. The King is dead! Long Live the King! The Chavist was born with the arrival of Chavez Frias. But what an extraordinary similarity between an Adeco and a Chavist!