CTV cupboard is bare but Carlos Ortega refuses to let go of power

<a href=www.vheadline.com>Venezuela's Electronic News Posted: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 By: Patrick J. O'Donoghue

A Venezuelan opposition newspaper columnist says the CTV had plans to hold a full board meeting with self-exiled CTV president, Carlos Ortega in his temporary residence in Costa Rica ... that is until there was a review of CTV funds...

"The cupboard is bare." It seems that the project to transport CTV officials petered out much to Ortega's despair. It also means that the usual circus and booze that flows during May 1st celebrations after the march have been called off for the same reasons. 

The latest proposal to overcome the problem of communicating with the "Chief," Carlos Ortega is teleconferencing via internet. 

Ortega's family continues to live in Aruba ... where Manuel Cova met Carlos Ortega in Aruba last week and has since announced that Ortega will visit the USA again as well as Europe to lobby international support for "democracy in Venezuela."

What has emerged from the revelations is that Carlos Ortega is not ready to let go of the CTV presidency, which he wants to hold on to because it gains him access as CTV delegate to the ORIT in Costa Rica.

However, according to the opposition columnist, it seems that the CTV is hard put to pay its own employees their wages.