If indeed we ARE to give any credibility whatsoever to her claimed ban on all open-pit mining in Venezuela, we have to ask where the hell Venezuela is going to get all the raw materials it needs to keep its heavy industries working at the full tilt necessary for the national economy to remain intact...
Was Ortega de Carrizales' throwaway statement simply an act of suicidal bravado in the Chavez administration's internal environ of back-stabbing and daggers drawn or is it simply further evidence of the incompetence, indolence and/or corruption that is quickly bringing Venezuela to its knees?I have been assured this weekend that President Hugo Chavez Frias is indeed still in charge! My high-level informant adds "Yes, there is corruption and an ongoing battle against it, but I don't think things are out of control."
Evidence to the contrary, though, it would appear that MinAmb Minister Yubiri Ortega de Carrizales is very much out of control of reality ... not only has she performed majory surgery by getting up the noses of just about every dwindling foreign investor in sight of Venezuela, she's going against the will of the grassroots people she is supposed (?) to serve as a member of the Chavez government.
How on earth she will rationalize depriving thousands of impoverished workers of any forseeable job opportunities in the southeastern region of Bolivar State is beyond comprehension. She will very obviously soon feel the backlash of hundreds if not thousands of extremely agitated citizens who are not tardy about blocking off huge sections of the Venezuela-Brazil interstate highway to bring their points-of-view home to faraway pen-pushers and political manipulators Caracas.
How on earth she will rationalize cutting off the supplies of raw material to Venezuela key industries is also another matter that should send her immediately to the dunce's corner of the political classroom to hang her head in shame.
How on earth she will enforce a policy of NO OPEN-PIT mining on just about every grassroots sector of Venezuela's resource industry questions her very sanity unless she thinks of bringing in the US Marines and heavy weaponry to blast those-who-dare off existent open-pit mines across the country. She is signalling national economic disaster, as if the national economy wasn't already in tatters through traditional indolence and corruption.
While insiders say Ortega de Carrizales is huffing and puffing to manipulate another key administration appointment, President Chavez is advised (if indeed, as my high-level informant asserts, he is "still in charge!") to act immediately to kick this lady's butt out of office and as far away from causing political and economic damage to Venezuela as it is possible for his military boot to plant on her ample posterior.We at VHeadline are definitely not gaining any favors with the current administration for the necessity that we must point out the complete and utter lunacy of Ortega de Carrizales' mining policy.
However, our allegiance is to the grassroots people of Venezuela and not to the motley crew of miscreants who presently infect the administration with acts of corruption and personal wealth enhancement.
Does President Hugo Chavez Frias REALLY want a return to the nefarious principles (or lack of them) that preceded his rise to power in February 1999 ... is he REALLY still in charge?
Or has he already had his 'cojones' cut off by a woman whose only significant claim to fame is that she just happens to be the wife of his current (replaceable) vice president?
Like everything else in Venezuela these days, only time will tell ... so let's hope 'manana' will come before it is already too late!
Roy S. Carson
vheadline@gmail.com
Does President Hugo Chavez Frias REALLY want a return to the nefarious principles (or lack of them) that preceded his rise to power in February 1999 ... is he REALLY still in charge?
Or has he already had his 'cojones' cut off by a woman whose only significant claim to fame is that she just happens to be the wife of his current (replaceable) vice president?
Like everything else in Venezuela these days, only time will tell ... so let's hope 'manana' will come before it is already too late!
Roy S. Carson
vheadline@gmail.com
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