Médicos Cubanos, detenidos en Venezuela

URGENTE
Temprano esta mañana autoridades de Venezuela detuvieron a siete médicos cubanos en el aeropuerto de Caracas (Maquetía) y les prohibieron abordar su vuelo a Miami. Se ha informado que todos tenían visas para entrar a los Estados Unidos bajo el programa de visas especiales para profesionales de la salud cubanos sirviendo en el exterior. En la tarde, fueron trasladados a la oficina central de Inmigración en Caracas luego de que sus pasaportes les fueran confiscados.

Colegas recién llegados a los Estados Unidos temen que sus amigos serán deportados a Cuba, donde sufrirán represalias.

Se conocen los nombres y teléfonos de algunos de los detenidos, pero al intentar ubicarlos por teléfono, las llamadas fueron interceptadas por desconocidos:
Dr. Jesús Badillo, Cell. 58.426.608-07425
Dr. Yesenia Martínez, Cell. 58.412.914.1759
Dr. Lorenzo Toriza

Entre el 2006 y el 2009 más de 2,000 profesionales de la salud cubanos desertaron en diversos países y lograron emigrar a los Estados Unidos. Se informa que alrededor de 500 médicos han escapado de Venezuela en los últimos años.

Para más detalle en inglés sobre las misiones médicas cubanas en Venezuela, favor ver el adjunto.

Para información, favor comunicarse a:
Maria Werlau, Tel. (973)701-0520 / info@CubaArchive.org
Dr. Keiler Moreno, Tel. (305)879-0279

UBS, firma financiera mundial, tiene a Chávez y sus allegados en la lista negra.

Con sede en Zurich y Basilea la empresa UBS es una firma de alcance mundial en el sector financiero. Desde 2005 esta empresa ha incluído en su lista negra a varios países y regímenes políticos forajidos, algunos de ellos ya desaparecidos. Su reglamento interno prohibe a sus gerentes y agencias hacer negocio alguno con los gobiernos de Cuba, Sudán, Myanmar y Siria. Además incluyen en la lista de indeseables a :
· Charles Taylor, el ex-dictador de Liberia
· Los ya desaparecidos regímenes de Hussein y Milosevic
· Robert Mugabe, dictador de Zimbabue
· Lukashenko, dictador de Belarús
· Las milicias Congolesas
· Terroristas y narcotraficantes
· Régimen de Hugo Chávez en Venezuela.

Ya le hacen el fó en todo el mundo al régimen corrupto de Hugo Chávez.

Gobernador de Lara dice que solo el 4% de sus policías son malandros.

World War III: The Latin American Theatre

***WWIII is already on

Nostradamus predictions about the WWIII are still popular. Political analysts draw the most diverse scenarios about the potential triggering events of a new global war: the U.S. invasion of Iran, an Israeli-Arab war, a U.S.-Russia conflict over Georgia. Few people seem to realize that WWIII started sometime ago, an all-out war between contrasting ideologies that has already claimed thousands of lives.
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Latin America is more intensely involved in this global conflict than during World War II, when it was mostly a center of espionage and isolated war events in Caribbean waters. Dictatorial governments in Argentina, Brazil (early on) and Bolivia sympathized with the axis but popular pressure kept the countries neutral. Venezuela, Colombia and Costa Rica severed diplomatic relations with Italy, Germany and Japan early in the war. Most Latin American countries sat on the fence and only declared war on the axis almost at the end of the conflict, although Colombia and Brazil did send troops to asssist the Allies .
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Today the whole world is involved in a war between freedom, evolution and democracy, on the one side, and authoritarianism, revolution and repression on the other. The democratic side is made up of countries with well developed free market economies, mostly politically stable, including the first world but also many developing countries. The other side is made up of countries with state-controlled economies, authoritarian leaders and frequently unstable, less developed societies. At the risk of oversimplification they could be defined as the Socialist bloc. Important countries such as China and Russia have political regimes that seem to hover between the two sides, although their economic framework and social trends seem to lean, more and more, towards the democratic/ free-market side. Democratic countries exhibit free and even intense economic competition while the Socialist bloc is characterized by rigid, politically driven economic alliances.
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In contrast with WWII, when countries showing sympathy for the axis remained neutral, Latin American countries involved in WWIII have openly established inter-continental alignments. Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez has promoted a global alliance against the United States, establishing close ties with, among others, Iran’s Ahmadinejad, Libya’s Qaddaffi, Belarus’ Lukanshenko and Zimbabwe’s Mugabe, while becoming the best client of Russia in the acquisition of weapons. Chavez is currently delivering the significant heavy oil resources of the Orinoco Area into the hands of Russian, Iranian, Chinese and Vietnamese state oil companies, in an effort to put these resources beyond the reach of U.S. oil companies. Chavez has promoted the entry of Iran into several Latin American countries such as Bolivia and Nicaragua. Brazilian president Lula, although friendly to the United States and leading a democratic country with a free-market economy has remained a supporter of strongman Hugo Chavez (He has called him “the best Venezuelan president of the last one hundred years”) and has also supported Iranian nuclear policies. Lula’s heart pulls him to the left and his brain to the right. As a result he seems to be losing the trust of both sides.
To counterbalance these alliances made by the socialist bloc, democratic leaders like Colombia’s Uribe have strengthened military ties with the U.S.



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Also in contrast with WWII, when death and destruction did not affect the region significantly, WWIII has already taken the lives of thousands of Latin Americans. Drug trafficking, gang warfare, kidnapping, alliance with international terrorism and growing political repression by authoritarian regimes have reached epidemic proportions. The Venezuelan murder rate is one of the highest in the world. Drug trafficking in Venezuela and Mexico, narco-terrorism in Colombia, gang violence in El Salvador and Guatemala are producing more violent deaths than those that take place in geopolitical hotspots such as Iraq or Afghanistan. Although violence has been endemic to Latin America for many years due to social inequality and poverty much of the increment during the last decade has political and ideological roots. Authoritarian regimes such as the ones in Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia have increasingly engaged in political repression and have promoted social and racial struggle. Chavez has aligned his regime with international terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah and with drug traffickers like the Colombian FARC, in his efforts at establishing a Marxist system in the hemisphere.
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A characteristic of the Latin American theatre is that the U.S., the leader of the democratic side, has chosen not to be an active player in the region, preferring to remain in the sidelines. As a result Latin America has witnessed some political victories of the Socialist bloc, although these victories are not as significant nor will they be as permanent in time as some analysts believe. After eleven years of almost absolute political power and significant oil income Hugo Chavez, the leader of the “revolt” against democracy in the hemisphere, is experiencing serious challenges to his credibility at home and abroad. The weakening of Chavez’s political position, not to mention his ousting from power, would likely cause a domino effect among the political leadership of the countries that largely depend on his financial handouts, namely, Cuba, Bolivia, Nicaragua and to a lesser extent Ecuador, Argentina and even Paraguay. His recent political defeat in Honduras has been a cold shower to his ambitions of adding Central America to his “Socialist empire”. The strategy of the U.S., over-extended in other areas of the world, has been to wait for Chavez to “implode”.
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Even if successful this strategy could be a costly one because victory or defeat cannot only be measured in political or economic terms. A Chavez political collapse is possible or even probable in the near future (three years) and this collapse will probably mean the death of ALBA and other fragile political and economic constructs of the chavismo in Latin America. However the problem faced by the free-market, democratic bloc in Latin America runs deeper than a plus or minus Chavez. It has to do with a mass of millions of poor and ignorant people that have to be brought out of poverty and ignorance if the region really wants to get rid of the many populists like Chavez that await them in every corner, promising them what they cannot deliver. WWIII will not be won as long as the democratic and free world does not offer a valid alternative to populism. The best democracy can hope for would be a stalemate.
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Alternatives exist but they.take time, effort and perseverance. They would not require so much money as past economic programs to Latin America that have had only short-lived success. One of these alternatives is to promote the creation of citizens, to transform Latin America from a region of people into a region of citizens. Properly planned this can be done within two generations. I am sure that it would be easier than going to the moon.

Las cifras locas de PDVSA

El sitio oficial de PDVSA, http://www.pdvsa.com/, reporta cifras locas y la Agencia Bolivariana de noticias las reproduce.
A.B.N. - Pdvsa consolidará a Venezuela como potencia energética con producción de gas .
Dice que suple mil millones de piés cúbicos diarios al mercado interno. Pero, al desglosar los aportes de gas (ver los volumenes en negritas) podemos ver que ellos suman unos 1877 millones de piés cúbicos de gas. Es decir, casi el doble del suministro que cita arriba PDVSA.
Esta es una muestra del despelote que hay en esa empresa. Nadie sabe cuanto gas se produce, cuanto se vende al mercado interno, cuanto se inyecta.
Que despelote!
Vean la noticia abajo:
*****PDVSA reportó en 2009 importantes logros en materia de producción gasífera
Anaco.- PDVSA Gas, filial de Petróleos de Venezuela, continúa avanzando a paso firme en la consolidación del país como una potencia energética mundial, al suplir al mercado interno una producción sostenida promedio de mil millones de pies cúbicos diarios de gas, entre los meses de enero y diciembre de 2009.
El gas producido en Anaco representa 42,46% del combustible entregado por los proveedores nacionales, que incluyen EyP División Oriente, Empresas Mixtas como Guárico Gas, Ypergas, Petropiar y en Occidente, Costa Este y Ulé Amuay, entre otros.
Cumpliendo con el objetivo de garantizar el suministro de gas en el territorio nacional, la industria gasífera venezolana atiende los requerimientos de los sectores industriales, eléctrico, petroquímico, siderúrgico, refinación, gas domestico, azucarero, cementero, criogénico, mejoradores de crudo, papelero, petroquímico y textil, todos de vital importancia para el crecimiento económico sostenido de la Nación.
Producción para el crecimiento. El sector eléctrico recibió 632 millones de pies cúbicos diarios de gas desde el mes de enero y hasta mediados de diciembre de 2009. Durante el mismo período el sector petroquímico venezolano recibió 459 millones de pies cúbicos diarios de gas, de los cuales 183 fueron destinados a Pequiven Oriente y 134 a Fertinitro, siendo atendidos además El Tablazo Fertilizantes, Pequiven en El Tablazo y Morón.
En tanto que el sector siderúrgico recibió 290 millones de pies cúbicos diarios de gas, de los cuales 160 estuvieron destinados a Sidor, distribuyéndose el resto a Comsigua, Opco, Orinoco Iron y Planta Pellas.
Mientras que a la atención de las refinerías fueron destinados 210 millones de pies cúbicos diarios de gas, 80 de ellos a la Refinería Amuay, 67 a la Refinería Cardón, 26 a la de Puerto La Cruz, 20 a la de El Palito.
Otros usuarios atendidos por la industria gasífera venezolana fueron los mejoradores de crudo, que hasta mediados del mes de diciembre habían recibido en promedio 135 millones de pies cúbicos de gas. Entre los clientes de este sector se encuentran Petropiar, Petrocedeño y Petroanzoátegui.
La industria del aluminio recibió 41 millones de pies cúbicos diarios de gas, suministro que se mantuvo durante el mes de diciembre. Las fábricas de cemento recibieron de la industria gasífera 102 millones de pies cúbicos diarios de gas, mientras que el sector textil contó con 8 millones de pies cúbicos desde el mes de enero.
De esta manera PDVSA Gas, en sintonía con las políticas de Estado del Gobierno Bolivariano, atiende cabalmente las demandas energéticas del mercado interno, en el afán por contribuir a la construcción del nuevo modelo económico, productivo y social para garantizar la mayor suma de felicidad posible al pueblo soberano.
Que riñones!!