Damaging our Venezuela with his fanatical rhetoric...

<a href=www.vheadline.com>Venezuela's Electronic News Posted: Monday, April 28, 2003 By: Kira Marquez Perez

VHeadline.com commentarist Kira Marquez Perez writes: “Money” seems to be the key word for many opponents to the government of President Hugo Chavez Frias and the reason for their frustration and hatred against him.

We have been able to witness a “show of protagonists” (and opportunists) in the Venezuelan opposition during the last months: Carmona, Pena, Ortega, Fernandez (x 2), Salas Romer, Petkoff, Miquelena, Cisneros, etc.

These personalities are prepared to do anything to protect their comfortable positions, from which they have been able to profit (often illegally) at the costs of the nation.

Within PDVSA we have had quite a few good examples too (with Ciavaldini, Mandini and Lameda in front of the list).

Their greed for power and money has been so great that they have even betrayed each other ... that's why most of the things they've done up to now, including coups, strikes, etc, have not worked!

We saw this already in the 1998 elections when AD and Copei betrayed their own candidates and decided to join forces and support Salas Romer to make sure that Chavez didn't win. In spite of these efforts, Mr. Chavez still won the elections with a vast majority.

Since 1998, the “opposition” has united to get rid of Chavez ... however, this union has only been a theoretical one, since their avarice has not allowed them to really work together ... and I really wonder if they will ever be able to do it at all.

These people have tried everything: coups, strikes, bombings, shootings, sabotage, montages, falsifications, etc.

Their favorite tactic, however, has been to destabilize the Venezuelan economy ... they have tried by all means to create a bad image of the country abroad, to stop potential investors from coming to Venezuela.

Their hatred against Chavez is greater than their love for Venezuela, and they are willing to destroy the country if they have to … just to get rid of him.

In this particular, I must say that I was really shocked to read Mr. Gustavo Coronel's latest editorial: I had certainly expected a lot more from a person with his degree of instruction.

I hope Mr. Coronel is aware of the damage he is causing our Venezuela with his fanatical rhetoric.

Kira Marquez Perez was born in Merida where she studied chemistry at the Universidad de los Andes (ULA) with a scholarship from PDVSA as a reward for outstanding participation in the Chemistry Olympics.  She obtained her Diploma (Licenciatura) in 1997 and entered the oil industry the same year,  working in process engineering and quality improvement. Kira has participated in many seminars and congresses all over the world and has won several national and international prizes.  She currently lives in Germany, where she is doing a PhD in Electrochemistry at the Heinrich-Heine-Universitat Dusseldorf ... before that, she lived and studied in England and the USA and speaks several languages fluently.