The saga of a man called Antonio Padrino is one of the latest shows in the Bolivarian revolution. This man was the Chavez consul in Houston until last year, when he decided to move the offices of the consulate to a new Houston adress without doing the necessary paper work or complying with the requirements of the U.S. official protocol. As a result, the consulate in Houston was temporarily closed and the consul, Padrino, ousted by Chavez. A Chavez admirer, Roy Carson, describes the situation as the product of the lack of professionalism in Chavez’s foreign service. Carson says, in his blog : “Long-standing efforts to move Venezuela's Consulate General from a crime-ridden section of Houston to the more acceptable diplomatic quarter of that city in close proximity to other legations, was stymied -- especially after exiled Venezuelan Washington Ambassador Bernardo Alvarez Herrera sought to implant a whole bunch of family members in well-paid sinecures at the new location”. As you will notice, Carson defends Padrino and attacks Ambassador Alvarez as corrupt, but he never gets to the point of attacking Chavez. According to Carson Chavez’s collaborators are corrupt but he is pure. He adds that the corrupt Foreign Minister, Nicolas Maduro, that he downgrades incorrectly to minibus driver (he was a regular Metro bus driver), dismissed Padrino incorrectly from a job “he had performed so diligently for several years”.
Padrino also found a Houston-based supporter, a professor called Robert Buzzanco, at the University of Houston, who wrote:
“The more recent closing of the Houston consulate, apparently because of a technicality about moving without State Department permission...I have met the ex-Venezuelan consul general, Antonio Padrino, and he is an impressive man, with a degree in economics, a background in petroleum, and a desire for better relations with Washington”.
Supported by those two formidable champions Padrino has cooked up a new scheme. Sponsored by a newly created foundation called Daniel Florencio O’Leary (poor Daniel!), Padrino has written a letter asking Venezuelan oil professionals and exiles in general to go back home! He offers them jobs. He tells them:
“The first thing to be acknowledged is the leadership of President Hugo Chavez on the one hand ... on the other, the support that one sector of the Venezuelan population displays for the deepening of economic, political and social changes within the frame of the Bolivarian Constitution on the road to the 21st Century Socialism a la Venezuela”.
In other words, says Il Padrino, Venezuelan who have left the country because they despise the dictator should return to become his vassals and they will be rewarded with a job. What a deal! Antonio. All they have to do is to give up their principles, just like you have, in order to get a Hummer and a red coat.
Padrino adds in his letter:
“There could be a program of job offers for those Venezuelan professional individuals who live abroad and wish to return. PDVSA and CVG could coordinate the personnel recruiting and pre-selection processes of high profile professionals who are losing their jobs in the US given the economic crisis they're going through. I'm only mentioning three ways as examples ... there could be more ways to reach confused fellow citizens who, in many cases, are victims of media lies”.
Il Padrino tell “confused” Venezuelans who were driven away by the chavista scoundrels that they should come back to work under the corrupt and inefficient managers of PDVSA and CVG. He tells them: do not be deceived by lies!! He is serious!… he adds: .”Let the debate start and let's shortly move on to action.It was over 6 million votes, but there could have been over 7 million at least. On December 6, 1998, about 3.5 million people elected Chavez as President the first time. On July 30, 2000, there were 3,757,773 and in December, 2006, there were 7,309,080 votes for Chavez..How many voters will there be for the next 2012 Presidential elections?There could be more than 10 million in 2012! It depends on us...Antonio Padrino”
a.padrino@prodigy.net
Il Padrino seems to predict that, with the help of the Venezuelans who are abroad and who could follow his suggestion to return to work for the rotten PDVSA and CVG organizations, Chavez might come up to ten milllion votes in 2012. He signs the letter, proudly, Antonio Padrino, and gives his email adress (above), where Venezuelans wishing to return can conceivably write to him to ask for his guidance and support.
This angel is being supported by the philantropic Daniel Florencio O’Leary Foundation, founded by the good samaritan Roy Carson to promote good will and universal love among Venezuelans. Carson reminds me of the old fox who, unable to hunt due to his arthritic condition, started to preach universal love. The King Lion called him and asked him to preach for him. He preached such a beautiful sermon that the lion, crying, told him: “Ask me anything you want”. And the fox said to the King Lion: : “Well, I would like two chickens per week”. Carson, the old fox, is on to a new strategy but his objective is the same: a few chickens per week.
Padrino also found a Houston-based supporter, a professor called Robert Buzzanco, at the University of Houston, who wrote:
“The more recent closing of the Houston consulate, apparently because of a technicality about moving without State Department permission...I have met the ex-Venezuelan consul general, Antonio Padrino, and he is an impressive man, with a degree in economics, a background in petroleum, and a desire for better relations with Washington”.
Supported by those two formidable champions Padrino has cooked up a new scheme. Sponsored by a newly created foundation called Daniel Florencio O’Leary (poor Daniel!), Padrino has written a letter asking Venezuelan oil professionals and exiles in general to go back home! He offers them jobs. He tells them:
“The first thing to be acknowledged is the leadership of President Hugo Chavez on the one hand ... on the other, the support that one sector of the Venezuelan population displays for the deepening of economic, political and social changes within the frame of the Bolivarian Constitution on the road to the 21st Century Socialism a la Venezuela”.
In other words, says Il Padrino, Venezuelan who have left the country because they despise the dictator should return to become his vassals and they will be rewarded with a job. What a deal! Antonio. All they have to do is to give up their principles, just like you have, in order to get a Hummer and a red coat.
Padrino adds in his letter:
“There could be a program of job offers for those Venezuelan professional individuals who live abroad and wish to return. PDVSA and CVG could coordinate the personnel recruiting and pre-selection processes of high profile professionals who are losing their jobs in the US given the economic crisis they're going through. I'm only mentioning three ways as examples ... there could be more ways to reach confused fellow citizens who, in many cases, are victims of media lies”.
Il Padrino tell “confused” Venezuelans who were driven away by the chavista scoundrels that they should come back to work under the corrupt and inefficient managers of PDVSA and CVG. He tells them: do not be deceived by lies!! He is serious!… he adds: .”Let the debate start and let's shortly move on to action.It was over 6 million votes, but there could have been over 7 million at least. On December 6, 1998, about 3.5 million people elected Chavez as President the first time. On July 30, 2000, there were 3,757,773 and in December, 2006, there were 7,309,080 votes for Chavez..How many voters will there be for the next 2012 Presidential elections?There could be more than 10 million in 2012! It depends on us...Antonio Padrino”
a.padrino@prodigy.net
Il Padrino seems to predict that, with the help of the Venezuelans who are abroad and who could follow his suggestion to return to work for the rotten PDVSA and CVG organizations, Chavez might come up to ten milllion votes in 2012. He signs the letter, proudly, Antonio Padrino, and gives his email adress (above), where Venezuelans wishing to return can conceivably write to him to ask for his guidance and support.
This angel is being supported by the philantropic Daniel Florencio O’Leary Foundation, founded by the good samaritan Roy Carson to promote good will and universal love among Venezuelans. Carson reminds me of the old fox who, unable to hunt due to his arthritic condition, started to preach universal love. The King Lion called him and asked him to preach for him. He preached such a beautiful sermon that the lion, crying, told him: “Ask me anything you want”. And the fox said to the King Lion: : “Well, I would like two chickens per week”. Carson, the old fox, is on to a new strategy but his objective is the same: a few chickens per week.
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"According to Carson Chavez’s collaborators are corrupt but he is pure. He adds that the corrupt Foreign Minister, Nicolas Maduro, that he downgrades incorrectly to minibus driver..."
WOW I never though I will see the day that Roy Carson would called Nicolas Maduro a corrupted minibus driver... it seems that times have changed and the "good, pure" people from the revolution every time are harder and harder to find... :)
To think that Chavez is this pure, good man who doesn't know anything that surrounds him and who is not in cahoots with the corrupted people who he appoints is simple very irrational thinking.
FeathersMcGraw: If he doesn't know about his lackeys robberies and other shenanigans, he is the greatest "pendejo" ever elected in this country. However, I doubt it, he is simply the great corrupter, that how he keeps them in check. Must have a file on each one, from JVR to Maduro, Cabello, Chacon, the national assembly, the TSJ, the CNE, the generals plus a few others.
Hi, Gus! How's the Holy Cruzade going? :-)
According to your words, Padrino' "scheme" (here's where the soundtrack from "Psychosis -or Globovision-would come handy) is:
"In other words, says Il Padrino, Venezuelan who have left the country because they despise the dictator should return to become his vassals and they will be rewarded with a job".
Whoooaa, hold your horses there! To be rewarded with a job takes a bit more than that. All those criminal management and staff workers of the oil industry who tried to kill and maim venezuelans by means of sabotage, hacking remote controllers to stop oil shipping and otherwise starving the population in 2002-2003, cannot and will not be rewarded with jobs. Unless they do some contrition, of course.
Here's an idea: kneeling in the middle of the Avenida Bolivar, walking on their knees and stopping every 20 yards to apologize for all their mistakes in front of a crowd of Chavez' supporters could be a good start. Wearing red T-shirts would be a colourful detail.
A couple of miles of this, in national broadcast, with a powerful "finale" in which they'll receive, from the very hands of Mario Silva, an assigment to work in an agricultural coop, growing yucca and rice and sugar cane... in other words, "sowing the oil".
As for working in the oil industry, they'd have to start from field work at basic labor level, to learn what it means to be an oil worker.
Franco Munini.
I will never ever go back and work for the "Chavistas", and FeathersMcGraw, let me remember you this robolution was never pure.
Mr. Munini (from muna?):
I was quoting Padrino's letter. I am not inventing anything. Going back to Mario Silva's Venezuela? No thanks. We will wait.
Your version of what happened in 2002 is picturesque, to say the least.The world already knows what happened in 2002, when a crazy, tropical Nero wanted to impose an ignorant at PDVSA's presidency (Parrra). He was ousted, although Baduel put him back in power later on. Honesty, expertise and dignity will return to PDVSA with them, sooner than later, to try to repair a damaged company, ruined by the likes of Ramirez and his gang.
Gustavo Sargento,
you're messing dates here. The patronal lock-out took place months after the coup d'etat. Middle and upper management in PDVSA thought they could get Chavez out by starving venezuelans... surprise! the venezuelan people stood by the government they had chosen and the lockout was defeated, with a giant bonus: we were able to clean up the oil industry from traitors, as in april 2002 we cleaned up the military.
Some guys in the derailed opposition we have here still call that "a civic lockout". How can an attempt to starve fellow citizens be called "civilized"?
You can stay up there with your pals, Gus. We need you as we need a toothache.
Franco Munini.
Para Munini, que obviamente no está muy bien informado:
Discurso Anual de Hugo Chávez, ante la Asamble Nacional:
"Toda crisis trae eso (oportunidades), por eso es que las crisis muchas veces son necesarias, incluso a veces hay que generarlas. Lo de PDVSA era necesario aun cuando nosotros, bueno, no es que no la generamos, sí la generamos, porque cuando yo agarré el pito aquel en un Aló, Presidente y empecé a botar gente, yo estaba provocando la crisis; cuando nombré a Gastón Parra Luzardo y aquella nueva junta directiva, pues estábamos provocando la crisis. Ellos respondieron y se presentó el conflicto y aquí estamos hoy".
Estimado Anónimo:
Que bien informado va a estar munani... si no sabe que la protesta de los gerentes de PDVSA y la gran marcha en Abril 11, 2002fue la que condujo a la salida llorosa del paracaidista.
En este momento, 2009, PDVSA ni siquera le paga a sus contratistas (ver arriba en este blog). Esos bandidos de ramírez y su pandilla han terminado con PDVSA pero gente como Munani (no se si él también, no me consta) están allí chupando, raspando la olla. Como dice usted, amigo Anónimo, el bandido de Chávez, quien lo admitió muy orondo como el niño que se caga en la mesa y cree haber hecho una gracia, fue quien generó toda la debacle para quedarse con PDVSA y ponerle la mano a sus ingresos. No es eso, exactamente, lo que ha estado haciendo? Y fíjese, Munani, donde eso nos ha llevado.
Just in case Mr. Franco Munini does not understand our beautiful language, I'll translate:
Mr. Munini, you're obviously ill informed (I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt here).
Soon after the PDVSA lock-out (or however you want to call it, I don't really care), Hugo Chavez addressed the National Assembly and said (and I quote):
"Every crisis brings opportunities, which is way crises are so often necessary, sometimes you even need to create them. What happened in PDVSA was necessary even though we, it's not that we didn't cause it, we did cause it, because when I took that whistle during an Aló Presidente program and began firing people, I was provoking the crisis; when I appointed Gastón Parra Luzardo and that new Board of Directors, well, we were provoking the crisis. They responded and conflict ensued and here we are today."
So, Mr. Munini, who -exactly- is attempting to starve fellow citizens?
You're right that you guys "cleaned up" the oil industry - only in the sense that there's nothing left there anymore.
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