miércoles, 2 de abril de 2014

A letter signed by Nicolas Maduro is published by the NYTimes




Somebody wrote a letter for Mr. Nicolas Maduro and got it published in the NYT. I include my comments:
CARACAS, Venezuela — THE recent protests in Venezuela have made international headlines. Much of the foreign media coverage has distorted the reality of my country and the facts surrounding the events.
Comment: could it be that the foreign press is not censored?
Venezuelans are proud of our democracy. We have built a participatory democratic movement from the grass roots that has ensured that both power and resources are equitably distributed among our people.
Comment: Liar. Never before has Venezuela been so divided and its middle class so mistreated, abused and expropriated. 
According to the United Nations, Venezuela has consistently reduced inequality: It now has the lowest income inequality in the region. We have reduced poverty enormously — to 25.4 percent in 2012, on the World Bank’s data, from 49 percent in 1998; in the same period, according to government statistics, extreme poverty diminished to 6 percent from 21 percent.
Commentary: According to the United Nations document quoted in the letter, see page 43, Venezuela  has a higher poverty rate, close to 30%,  than Peru, Costa Rica, Uruguay and Argentina, in spite of its enormous income.  Economic equality, as claimed in “Mr.Maduro’s letter , means that all Venezuelans, the poor and the middle class, now lack the most essential goods, including toilet paper. Recently a rationing system was introduced, almost identical to the Cuban and the Chilean (Allende), rationing systems. For a country with such a huge income rationing is inexplicable.
We have created flagship universal health care and education programs, free to our citizens nationwide. We have achieved these feats in large part by using revenue from Venezuelan oil.
Comment: Liar. Education and health services have always been free in Venezuela, not created by this regime. Today they are extremely poor and getting worse, as documented by medical organizations and educators. Education is mixed with indoctrination, while hospitals lack most of the most basic medicines and services.
While our social policies have improved citizens’ lives over all, the government has also confronted serious economic challenges in the past 16 months, including inflation and shortages of basic goods. We continue to find solutions through measures like our new market-based foreign exchange system, which is designed to reduce the black market exchange rate. And we are monitoring businesses to ensure they are not gouging consumers or hoarding products. Venezuela has also struggled with a high crime rate. We are addressing this by building a new national police force, strengthening community-police cooperation and revamping our prison system.
Comment: Exchange controls have been the source of enormous corruption, as admitted by Minister Jorge Giordani and former president of the Central Bank, Edmeé Betancourt. They say that up to $25 billion have been stolen by fraudulent importers combined with government officers. Venezuelan assassination and kidnapping rates are one of the three or four highest in the world and many of the crimes and kidnappings are committed by the regime’s police forces. 
Since 1998, the movement founded by Hugo Chávez has won more than a dozen presidential, parliamentary and local elections through an electoral process that former American President Jimmy Carter has called “the best in the world.” Recently, the United Socialist Party received an overwhelming mandate in mayoral elections in December 2013, winning 255 out of 337 municipalities.
Commentary: The electoral system is controlled by the regime and 4 or its 5 Directors are unconditionally pro-government. Transparency is minimal. In Venezuela Carter is a bad word, because of his biased, pro-regime posture. Has the Carter Center received money from the Venezuelan regime?
Popular participation in politics in Venezuela has increased dramatically over the past decade. As a former union organizer, I believe profoundly in the right to association and in the civic duty to ensure that justice prevails by voicing legitimate concerns through peaceful assembly and protest.
Commentary: Mr. Maduro was a bus driver for the Caracas Metro system, with a dismal work record, as documented. He was reprimanded continuously by his superiors and suspended from work due to frequent absences. His statement about believing in assembly and protests is very cynical, as amply documented by the barbarous repression of the regime against Venezuelan protesters.  
The claims that Venezuela has a deficient democracy and that current protests represent mainstream sentiment are belied by the facts. The antigovernment protests are being carried out by people in the wealthier segments of society who seek to reverse the gains of the democratic process that have benefited the vast majority of the people.
Comment: Liar. Anyone who sees the abundant graphic material of the protests will see that those in the streets belong to all social strata. Middle class prevails, yes, because middle class is generally more conscious of their civic rights and have been the hardest hit by the regime. Poor neighborhoods in Caracas are under the control of urban terrorists that the regime has armed and called “the best defenders of the revolution”. 
Antigovernment protesters have physically attacked and damaged health care clinics, burned down a university in Táchira State and thrown Molotov cocktails and rocks at buses. They have also targeted other public institutions by throwing rocks and torches at the offices of the Supreme Court, the public telephone company CANTV and the attorney general’s office. These violent actions have caused many millions of dollars’ worth of damage. This is why the protests have received no support in poor and working-class neighborhoods.
Comments: the facts do not support this claim. There has been violence from both sides. The dead and wounded have mostly been from the camp of the protesters. Mr. Maduro believes that he can make his case just by writing an op-ed in the NYT while daily events tell us the very opposite. 
The protesters have a single goal: the unconstitutional ouster of the democratically elected government. Antigovernment leaders made this clear when they started the campaign in January, vowing to create chaos in the streets. Those with legitimate criticisms of economic conditions or the crime rate are being exploited by protest leaders with a violent, antidemocratic agenda.
Comment: Venezuela is today under a state of terror. The rule of Law does not exist, according to a report by the Alliance for Global Justice, see: http://worldjusticeproject.org/sites/default/files/files/wjp_rule_of_law_index_2014_report.pdf .  What the protesters demand is rule of law. The protests are constitutional. The repression is not. Most of the victims belong to the camp of the protesters and this is well documented.
The letter is very cynical. I challenge the Maduro regime to a debate in neutral ground where we will prove beyond any doubt that the regime is illegitimate, both in origin and in exercise, brutal, anti-democratic, corrupt and inept

Gustavo Coronel

9 comentarios:

  1. Ya dejé dos réplicas a dos de los múltiples nausabeuandos comentarios de gringos que odian su Establishment pero a quienes les encantan estos experimentos y un comentario propio. A ver si los publican.

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  2. MADURO ESCRIBE EN INGLÉS
    Venezuela: A Call for Peace
    By NICOLÁS MADUROAPRIL 1, 2014
    Si señor, aunque les parezca mentira, Nicolás Maduro se ha disparado un largo artículo -todo escrito en perfecto inglés- en el periódico insignia del imperio de todos los imperios el New York Times, así se titula:
    Venezuela: A Call for Peace
    By NICOLÁS MADUROAPRIL 1, 2014
    Un llamado a la paz, traduce el escrito, y allí el hombre bajo cuya responsabilidad se está ejecutando la horrenda masacre contra el pueblo pobre y sobre todo contra el pueblo joven, que reclama no solo libertad y democracia, sino comida, electricidad, justicia, servicio de agua, seguridad, salud y todas las demás condiciones necesarias para vivir y que están siendo alarmantemente restringidas en los quince años de chavismo que increíblemente nos han llevado de la natural condición de país rico, a la deplorable condición de país hundido en la miseria.
    Maduro, quien se agarró el poder bajo la ejecutoria de un escandaloso fraude electoral que ha evadido aclarar a pesar de su compromiso asumido frente a los cancilleres de UNASUR, habla como si fuese una especie de ángel deseado por las muchedumbres, y acusa a sus opositores de constituir apenas el uno por ciento de la población, atribuyéndose la representación del 99% restante.
    SON LOS RICOS QUIENES PROTESTAN
    En inglés Maduro escribe en el The New York Times:
    “Las protestas antigubernamentales están siendo lideradas por miembros de los segmentos más pudientes de la sociedad que lo único que persiguen es revertir los logros de un proceso democrático que ha beneficiado a la gran mayoría de la población”
    LOS MANIFESTANTES SON UNOS DESALMADOS
    Sigue Maduro acusando a los manifestantes de “ataques a clínicas, de quemar una universidad en el Estado de Táchira y de lanzar cocteles Molotov y piedras a los autobuses"
    SE PROCLAMA UN ADALID DE LA PAZ Y DEL DIALOGO
    “Venezuela necesita paz y diálogo para seguir adelante. Damos la bienvenida a quien de manera sincera quiera ayudarnos a alcanzar esa meta”
    HACE OJITOS A OBAMA
    Maduro envía un mensaje conciliatorio a la Administración Obama recordando que le ha transmitido sus “deseos de volver a intercambiar embajadores”
    LO QUE NO DICE MADURO
    Que precisamente ayer 1 de Abril su gobierno comenzó a aplicar una tarjeta de racionamiento tipo Cuba para que la población pueda abastecerse de los artículos de primera necesidad porque la gente se cae a golpes para disputarse un poco de leche, de pan, de azúcar, de cualquier cosa.
    Que no hay ni un solo hospital que atienda enfermos ni heridos porque se carece de medicamentos, gasas, agujas, equipos, etc, etc, etc
    Que los servicios públicos no funcionan, no hay agua en las tuberías, no hay electricidad en los hogares, no fluidamente sino con intermitencias desesperantes.
    Que nos hace invivible la situación de un hampa desatada que es ignorada y hasta protegida por el gobierno que la usa para atacar a la población dándoles motos, armas y carnets policiales.
    Es mucho mas lo que Maduro no dice.
    EL PACIFICO MADURO MANDA A MILITARES ARMADOS CON FUSILES DE FRANCOTIRADORES A MATAR A QUIENES PROTESTAN
    EL PACIFICO MADURO MANDA A ATACER A LA GENTE USANDO ARMAS DE FUEGO PARA ATACAR MANIFESTACIONES EN CONTRA DE EXPRESA PROHIBICION CONSTITUCIONAL
    EL PACIFICO MADURO COMPARTE EL PODER CON UN MATON ALZADO -DIOSDADO CABELLO- QUE DIRIGE Y ALIMENTA A LAS BANDAS ARMADAS Y QUE LLEVA AL PARLAMENTO COMO SI DE UNA TROPA CUARTELERA SE TRATARA
    EL PACIFICO MADURO LLEVA YA 40 MUERTOS ENTRE PECHO Y ESPALDAS, 670 HERIDOS DE BALA Y PERDIGONES, Y 1750 PRESOS SIN SUJECIÓN A LOS PROCEDIMIENTOS LEGALES
    Aquí les dejo fotos que muestran la acción criminal de militares mandados por Maduro a matar con fusiles de francotiradores
    Aquí les dejo foto de un grupo de gente del pueblo pobre -una monja incluida- gritándole a los militares que atacan con una tanqueta instalaciones de una escuela
    Aquí les dejo un video de la gente de un barrio pobre sumándose a las protestas
    LYING.! ERES UN EMBUSTERO TAMBIEN EN INGLES, MADURO.!
    https://www.facebook.com/carlosramirezl3/posts/537708856346437

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  3. Es indigante que después de tanta evidencia sobre el horror del comunismo y después de 15 insufribles e interminables años de abuso político, social y económico, no sólo estemos en el medio de esta batalla desigual, con unos asesinos dispuestos a seguir dándole el culo a los cubanos y seguir robando, sino en una desigual batalla por la opinión pública internacional, porque los left wings, que odian su Establishment pero viven en él y disfrutan de sus ventajas, se muestran incluso más activos que los propios chavistas locales escribiendo en favor de este esperpento de régimen criminal. ¡Para Ripley!

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  4. Pese a que tengo casi 9 anios que no vivo alla, todo esto me da un profundo pesar...

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  5. Este animal con patas, cedula colombiana y bigote ahora cree que es Carlos Fuentes. Era lo ultimo que faltaba, Gustavo, para colmo el "bachiburro" este paga ese bodrio con la plata de los venezolanos que no tienen ni medicinas ni con que limpiarse el fundillo. Estoy seguro que tu escribes una replica y el NYT no la publicara, tal como paso con la Gabriela Frias que no te dio derecho a replica cuando te cito aquella vez en su programa dando datos inexactos.

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  6. Si iban a escribir, debieron hacerlo al diario, una respuesta CORTA y bien escrita, nadie lee detalles. Sigan luchando donde quiera que estén.

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  7. El New York Times le dio la cancha que el queria. Deberia dar derecho a replica a algun o algunos notables Venezolanos para refutar, punto por punto, lo que en realidad ocurre.

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  8. En buena parte de los artículos del NYT hay derecho a réplica de los lectores, en la forma de comentarios o replica a otros comentaristas. Lamentablemente, como fue el caso, nuestros comentarios, la mayoría de venezolanos residenciados en USA o desde Venezuela, quedan ahogados por la avalancha de left wings gringos, que actuan como propagandistas, cegados por el marxismo con el que fueron atosigados en la universidad.

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  9.  
    Leí este también.  Y vi algo que tenía en común con otro artículo anterior que el periódico publicó en el que parecía que se aliaron con el regimen--que no ofrecieron espacio a los lectores a añadir sus comentarios debajo del texto.

    Los editores del periódico saben que se está propagando mentiras.  Es por eso que no permiten que los comentarios aparecerán en la misma página.
     

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