UNA MUY BREVE HISTORIA PRESIDENCIAL DE VENEZUELA, PÁSALO A TUS CONTACTOS, ES IMPORTANTE QUE RUEDE.
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Highlights: Venezuelan Presidential History
The following text is circulating the Internet to clarify Venezuela's presidential history responding to misleading information concerning 40 years of wild capitalism. The highlighted names are of military presidents, and the non-highlighted have been civilian presidents:
Saturday, October 22, 2011
PMBComments | Venezuela's government robs because there is no consequence: Leopoldo Lopez barred from really running
The following message was written by Harvard Internationalist Pedro Mario Burelli reacting to Hugo Chavez blocking former Mayor Leopoldo Lopez from running as presidential candidate not respecting the verdict of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR Court) in favor of the political leader:
The 'Leopoldo Lopez' case (updated in WSJ article below) is the perfect proof that the Venezuelan crisis does not have a rosy electoral ending in sight.The cost of losing the election is way too high for the narcothugs running, or should one say ruining, Venezuela. The consequences of getting the boot are certainly much higher than the political cost of harassing the most credible electoral opponents. The Cubans have probably convinced Mr. Chavez that there is no cost whatsoever to pay in a region in which most of the elected governments (from Washington to Santiago) live in constant fear of Bolivarian insults or meddling in their internal affairs. And the Cubans are right, silence will only be broken by tepid toothless statements. The human rights violators in Caracas also will not get any real opposition from the hapless Secretary General of the OAS, the CHILEAN Jose Miguel Insulza, who got elected and reelected to the job with the express commitment not to inconvenience Mr. Chavez. over the last few month Mr. Insulza has used every trick in the book to reduce the independence of the highly respected Interamerican Commission on Human Rights. He has stated in the past that he will not be the Secretary General that presides over an ALBA walkout of the organization, and in order to ensure that, he will obviously allow all the tenets of the organization to be trashed by those same members. What a travesty, what a sorry spectacle we are witnessing on the 10th anniversary of the Interamerican Democratic Charter. PMB
Venezuelan Court Bars Opposition Contender
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204479504576637521122822568.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Maru Angarita
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Monday, October 17, 2011
PMBComments | On a doctor's (insider?) take on the Bolivarian caudillo's health
The following article was written by Harvard Internationalist Pedro Mario Burelli concerning the mystery surrounding Hugo Chavez's illness:
PMBComment | Below you will find a very interesting interview (translated from the original) with a Venezuelan doctor that has in the past treated President Chávez and who claims to be in touch with people in the know of his current malady. While it is strange to have a doctor discuss in such details a particular patient, this was bound to occur given the irresponsible secrecy surrounding Mr. Chávez's condition. Indeed nothing proves more that we do NOT live in a democratic society that the secrecy that has surrounded his matter. An elected president is nothing more than an employee of the public; that same public, which the populist Chávez once termed "el soberano". It would seem that "the sovereign" has the right to know what is happening to someone who has concentrated - while in the public payroll - all power in his hands and is using copious amount of public monies to seek a cure in an even more secretive (i.e. less democratic) foreign country. But no, the information gap is filled with speculation, rumours and lies. In the mean time Hugo Chávez spends almost every waking minute talking about his illness, his treatments, his recovery, and doing little to run a country that seems to be spinning out of his - or everyone's - control.
When asked my opinion about the real state of Mr. Chávez's health, I have to plead ignorance on the facts, but can surmise that in this type of circumstance no news is usually bad news. Much of Dr. Navarrete discusses about his mental state is well known but not necessarily well incorporated into news or academic writing about the subject. As to his current prognosis, if it were truly good, a clearly distracted (scared?) but usually communicative leader of the Bolivarian movement would waste no time to have REAL doctors (i.e. not Fidel Castro) get on TV and present, in proper fashion, his medical facts. Failure to do so tells a great deal. PMB
M Semanal
Original Source (in Spanish) : www.msemanal.com/node/4768
Mexico City, Sunday, 16 October 2011
Translated into English from the original Spanish
Hugo Chávez. Life Expectancy: Two Years
The president went from having problems with triglycerides and cholesterol 20 years ago to receiving treatment for bipolarity during the last ten years and now has an aggressive tumor in his pelvis that requires chemotherapy and offers a very bad prognosis.
The cancer President Hugo Chávez is suffering from has shaken Venezuela and the President’s allies. The physician who had brought in a team of Venezuelan physicians to Miraflores Palace to look after the President’s health, before the President would subsequently entrust his life only to Cuban physicians, agreed to talk to M Semanal about the subject. In this interview, surgeon Salvador Navarrete Aulestia traces the profile of patient Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías, and his diagnosis is not good: the President suffers from an aggressive malignant tumor of muscular origin lodged in his pelvis. The life expectancy in those cases can be up to two years.
During recent years, steeped in secrecy, several Latin American presidents have seen their health deteriorate while wielding power: Fidel Castro bequeathed the presidential chair to his brother Raúl in Cuba as he was on the brink of death in 2006; Néstor Kirchner become ill while he was President and died last year, and his widow Cristina is showing signs of depression as she leads Argentina; Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo has cancer; Uruguayan President Pepe Mujica, age 76, has mentioned that he suffers from stress; Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes does not hide his extreme attachment to tobacco, while Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is recovering from lymphatic cancer; Vicente Fox had spinal surgery amidst his term of office and Peru’s former President Alejandro Toledo suffers from alcoholism.
Having taken care of the President’s health is not the only merit earned by Salvador Navarrete, a specialist in laparoscopy trained in Venezuela, France, the United States and Cuba. He has published some thirty writings and scientific videos, and received a series of awards; among them the Venezuelan Society of Surgery prize, the Cipriano Jiménez Macías Prize and the Ricardo Baquero González Prize, at several sessions of the Venezuelan Congress of Surgery. This is his testimony.
VFG: What is the profile of Hugo Chávez Frías as the patient of a physician to the Office of the President?
SN: President Chávez is a man who, in the past, has been treated for an illness of the manic-depressive kind, something known to his biographers and to those of us who have seen him as physicians. This illness had been previously managed by a group of psychiatrists led by physician Edmundo Chirinos, who in 2010 was sentenced to 20 years in prison for murdering a female patient in 2008. This medical treatment serves to counteract the President’s manifestations of unstable mental states that swing from euphoria to sadness, states in which the personality becomes dissociated and reaches episodes of losing contact with reality. It is a very frequent illness in today’s world, categorized as bipolar disorder. President Chávez oscillates between these two poles, with more of a tendency toward euphoria, to hyperactivity and to mania.
VFG: When was your first meeting with President Chávez as a patient?
SN: I saw him as a patient at Miraflores Palace in March of 2002, on the eve of the coup d’état against him, because he was feeling very distraught. The Minister to the Secretariat of the Presidency, Rafael Vargas, who was living at the presidential residence, asked us to create an inner circle of politically trustworthy Venezuelan physicians in order to treat the ailments of a President who was under immense pressure and physical debilitation.
VFG: What was the work like for that medical team having the mission of caring for a President during Venezuela’s greatest political crisis of the last decade?
SN: It was a very intense experience. He had us become members of the personnel of highest political trust assigned to Miraflores Palace. The three of us were Venezuelan physicians: a cardiologist, a gastroenterologist and yours truly as the team’s surgeon. Of the three I was the only one having political militancy, being a member of the Expanded National Office of the Fifth Republic Movement (MVR), founded by President Chávez, as part of the Office of Ideological Training, which was a great political party until its conversion in 2007 into the core of the Unified Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV).
THE DISTRUST
VFG: What was the experience like for this group of Venezuelan physicians who were faced with a powerful patient who was being hounded permanently?
SN: The three of us went to evaluate the President several times. On that occasion, less than 10 years ago, we found it necessary to perform an upper and lower endoscopy (inserting a camera through the mouth and through the anus). The reason we went there was to protect him, so that that ailment would not evolve, but he did not allow us to examine him. Today, now that the cancer he suffers from has been discovered, the President states publicly that he regrets his haughtiness toward the medical recommendations.
VFG: Does this then have to do with an unwilling and skeptical patient?
SN: The President is very distrustful. Very, very distrustful. He thought he was never going to take ill. On one of those occasions he and I had an important discussion, when I called to his attention the lack of political responsibility that resulted from his not allowing his ailments to be tended to and from his not allowing us to perform our medical work, which was to preserve his health.
VFG: Were there any consequences?
SN: The President never made enemies with me. That episode stayed where it was, suspended in midair, and faded away even more so as a result of the tribulations of the coup d’état that followed. From that moment onward I became aware of many things surrounding power and I abandoned my political militancy and moved on to “winter quarters” as an advisor to the government in the field of Health; but I did not withdraw completely. Two years later the then Minister of Health, Francisco Armada, appointed me as his ministerial representative to the administration of the University Hospital of Caracas, an office I held until July of this year when, happily, after having resigned twice, the current Minister of Health, who had been a student of mine, Eugenia Sader, accepted my resignation from an office I held from 2005 until July of 2011, with a very nice letter of appreciation. It was a very interesting honorary public office which kept me active in hospital administration, despite the fact that three less-than-transparent, formerly military, Ministers of Health came and went. Now I dedicate myself to medical and academic activity.
THE PRESIDENT’S CLINICAL HISTORY
VFG: What kind of person did the President turn out to be during the medical auscultations that he allowed to be performed on him at that time?
SN: He is a very, very clean person. It is noteworthy that he sees to it that someone grooms his fingernails and toenails, and that is something that draws much attention toward him, a military man. The President presents himself very well and has a very particular magnetism. He is a man who is very careful about his personal appearance, who is always well groomed, who does not smell bad, who is meticulous, who is concerned about being in good physical shape. He is an interesting man of power, not inclined toward reading in a systematic way, but reads fragments he tries to tie together in his own ideological imagination, which can swing from one faction to the other.
VFG: What was the most noticeable addiction entered in his medical record?
SN: He is a man who drinks a lot of coffee, lots of it. He drinks countless cups of coffee daily. He smokes under stressful situations or for pleasure, in private, never in public. On a daily basis he works until late hours of the night, is a night owl and makes his ministers work at the same pace as he does. He gets up at six-thirty or seven in the morning, with an average of three or four hours of sleep nightly, no more than that, and he sleeps very little. He is a strong man, even though he may now appear deformed from the effect of the chemotherapy.
VFG: What records appear in the history prior to the President’s current clinical record?
SN: There are no operations or records of previous surgeries. He has a record of a metabolic disorder known as dyslipidemia, in other words, high cholesterol and triglycerides. At that time he was not receiving treatment for it and he was showing a tendency toward high arterial tension, but he was not hypertense. At about 180 pounds he was barely ten to thirteen pounds overweight, not like he is now. He is a tall strong man whose height is about 5 feet 10 inches.
VFG: How did this patient, a decade later, suddenly display a clinical profile with cancer?
SN: The President decided to go in a radically different direction after the coup d’état against him. He walked away from all the Venezuelan physicians and placed himself absolutely in the hands of Cuban physicians. A month ago we met with people very close to the President and I told them the same thing I told him at Miraflores when he was my patient: that there is a lack of awareness of the national political impact stemming from the President’s health. The answer from these people around him was the same: that he cannot be told anything about his health, that he does not pay attention to anyone, much less to Venezuelans.
VFG: There is much speculation about the type of cancer that afflicts the President. Neither he nor anyone else has said what it is.
SN: I am going to offer the information I have concerning that premise you propose to me. President Chávez has a tumor in his pelvis that is called a sarcoma. Those are retroperitoneal tumors of the pelvic floor. From the embryological point of view they can be of three types: mesodermal, ectodermal and endodermal. The information I have from the family is that he has a sarcoma, a very aggressive tumor having a very bad prognosis and I am almost certain that is the reality. That is why they are giving him such an aggressive chemotherapy, because if it were prostate cancer, then hormonal treatment would be given and that would be it, and you wouldn’t even notice he was receiving any treatment.
VFG: Are you then discarding a prostate tumor?
SN: It is not a prostate tumor. It is a tumor that is very near to the prostate and is probably invading his bladder. Or it is a tumor that originates in the bladder and is invading the pelvis. In any case, it is a tumor that originates in the lower part of the pelvis, which is considered to be the anatomical region that is within the hips. Behind that region are the iliopsoas muscles, which are muscles that, [originate] at the lumbar region of the spine, [and insert at] the femur, lifting it upwards. It is the muscle that makes it possible to raise the knee while seated. That is why we think the tumor is of a muscular nature, that it is lodged and originates there; I say so because, before undergoing surgical intervention for removal of the malignant tumor the size of a baseball, the President was oversensitive to a problem in his knee: referred pain. That is why we are almost certain that this has to do with that kind of cancer. That is a some information that, through the public’s natural interest, we have been integrating and constructing little by little. I am the family’s surgeon and I met with one of their (the family’s) other physicians, we shared the available information and fully coincided in this diagnosis I am making.
VFG: The inevitable question everyone is asking is: what is the range of life expectancy for a profile similar to that of President Chávez?
SN: We believe that the prognosis for President Chávez is not good. And when I say the prognosis is not good that means that the life expectancy can be for as many as two years. This explains the decision to hold elections sooner.
ILLNESSES OF POWER
VFG: Is an ill president the result of two decades of stress, starting with his attempted coup d’état in 1992 and which includes the 12 years he has been in power?
SN: Men in power are individuals who believe themselves to be possessed by a supernatural force. In order to aspire to be President of a country you need to have an emotional condition different from the majority of the people, because you need to have a lot of ambition and perseverance to be able to move so many people out of your way and be able to take power and keep it. That constitutes a very particular psychic and emotional state. To have the cojones to aspire to lead a country of 50 million inhabitants, or 30 or 20 million, requires more than just will.
VFG: You know the President’s family because you as a surgeon have operated on them. Is there a common tendency toward certain illnesses?
SN: On the Chavez side of the family, the paternal branch, they tend to have vascular diseases. [His father] suffered a stroke. And on the Frías branch, his mother’s side, they have a tendency to have tumors. I operated on his mother for a benign tumor of the neck in 1999, together with another colleague who is their family physician and whom I still see frequently. And now she is a very healthy and very strong woman. But President Chávez was a healthy man when I examined him in the context that led to the coup d’état of 2002. He only suffered from a problem with elevated cholesterol and elevated triglycerides and a mental problem consisting of bipolar behavior under treatment. Someone in the family must have that illness, an ancestor, because President Chávez definitely has it, but we do not know who he inherited it from.
VFG: Are the President’s family’s physicians also Cubans?
SN: No, we are the family’s physicians.
VFG: And why is it that Cubans and not Venezuelans are occupying that space? Has the President become distrustful?
SN: Absolutely, right now President Chávez does not trust anyone.
VFG: Nobody?
SN: Nobody. In Venezuela President Chávez does not trust anybody: only Cubans. In fact, at the Military Hospital there is now a floor prepared just in case something happens to the President and all the personnel are strictly Cuban. Not even the stretcher-bearers are Venezuelan.
VFG: Does that explain the imprecise report published by the Miami Herald about President Chavez’s hospitalization a couple of weeks ago?
SN: I can say with certainty that between Sunday September 25th and Monday the 26th he was given dialysis because the kidney was not filtering the medications well and he was suffering. On Monday medical colleagues had to remove a dialysis machine from the Caracas Military Hospital and take it to Miraflores Palace.
VFG: It was in his bedroom at Miraflores Palace where you performed an auscultation at some moment. What’s it like within that intimate realm of the President of Venezuela?
SN: It is a very plain and orderly bedroom, just like he is. With a very small bookcase, with the readings he chooses for the moment, everything is very tidy, and I must insist that he his a very meticulous, clean, orderly and austere person. That is how he is.
VFG: What is the scenario with Chávez being ill in 2012?
SN: This scenario has two options: one with Chávez as candidate and the other without him. The President could die and the military would have to take power for a while; or, if his illness prevents him from running as candidate, then the incumbent party would lose the elections. If he comes forth under conditions of health acceptable for en electoral campaign, according to recent information he has more than 55 percent acceptance in popularity, but as a candidate Chávez scores 35 points, a yet unnamed independent candidate would receive the same 35 percent, and the opposition candidate only 22 points. These are the consequences of the President’s illness.
Salvador Navarrete, surgeon
A surgeon with specialty in bariatric and metabolic surgery, graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, Luis Razetti School, Central University of Venezuela, in 1981. Postgraduate work completed at University Hospital in Caracas, where he received the title of Specialist in General Surgery.
He completed his training in France, the United States and Cuba, specializing in laparoscopic surgery. Likewise, he was a visiting assistant at the Laparoscopic Unit led by the prestigious Dr. Moses Jacobs at Baptist Hospital in Miami.
As a specialist in surgery for obesity, he has participated widely as a panelist and presenter at medical conferences and gatherings in Venezuela, as well as in Japan, Brazil, Spain, the United States and Peru, among other countries.
Dr. Navarrete has more than thirty scientific publications and videos, which have earned him wide recognition, among them the following: the Venezuelan Society of Surgery Prize, the Cipriano Jiménez Macías Prize and the Ricardo Baquero González Prize, bestowed upon him at different events of the Venezuelan Congress of Surgery.
He has been Chief of the Surgical Team at University Hospital in Caracas, Chief of Residents of Surgery Service II and currently is Chief of the Endoscopic Unit of University Hospital in Caracas.
His teaching activity at the Luis Razetti School of the Faculty of Medicine of the Central University of Venezuela has been extensive, including General Coordinator of Postgraduate Studies of General Surgery and Coordinator of the Internship of the Undergraduate Program in General Surgery of the Department of Clinical and Surgical Therapy B of University Hospital in Caracas.
Currently he is Coordinator of Postgraduate Studies of General Surgery at University Hospital in Caracas and Head of the Department of Clinical and Surgical Therapy B.
Doctor Navarrete shares his professional activities among University Hospital in Caracas, El Ávila Clinic and Santa Sofía Clinic. He belongs to numerous scientific societies: founder of the Endoscopic Surgery Section and of the Bariatric Surgery Section that are part of the Venezuelan Society of Surgery, as well as founder of the Venezuelan Society of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery.
He’s a member of the Latin American Endoscopic Surgery Association, The Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons and of the Laparoscopic Surgery Society of Spain, among others.
Víctor Flores García
Translation by: Indysurfer
Maru Angarita
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Friday, September 9, 2011
PMBComment | Exposing Bolivarian Criminal Inc. four guys at a time
The following is reaction from Harvard University Internationalist Pedro Mario Burelli to the Wall Street Journal report U.S. Sanctions Venezuela Officials, Citing Drug Ties
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904836104576558732954483062.html
The descent of Venezuela into full fledged criminal-statehood has accelerated in broad daylight, with the likes of President Obama turning a blind eye and President Lula (in and out of power) pimping for Caracas. Mr. Obama's NSC team has been particularly careless in assessing the real consequences for the US - and the whole Western Hemisphere - of such massive criminal state blossoming two hours south of Miami. Bolivarian Venezuela has essentially erected a neon welcome sign that reads "Open for Criminal Activity 24/7: Impunity Guaranteed". All those around the world in search of a safe haven, a fake passport, a laundromat for ill gotten funds, excellent quality cocaine or untraceable weapons, take comfort in the welcome mat provided by the Chávez regime. Some in the president's own family and visible members of his inner circle - civilian and military - have turned out to be doting partners.
A recent and extraordinarily documented report by the well-respected International Crisis Group paints a picture that upends the wishful thinking of many in the region. Below a small snippet for the report titled 'Violance and Politics in Venezuela'.
Violence and corruption have been facilitated by a steady process of institutional erosion that has become particularly manifest in the justice system and the security forces. While impunity levels soar, highly dysfunctional and abusive police have endangered citizen security. Heavily politicised, the armed forces are increasingly seen as part of the problem, enmeshed with organised crime and pressed by the president to commit themselves to the partisan defence of his “revolution”. The creation, arming and training of pro-governmental militias further increase the danger that political differences may ultimately be settled outside the constitutional framework, through deadly force.
Having taken so long to get to this point, will the Obama administration stop here? Will regional leaders continue to talk about 'new best friends'? If there is a lesson from the Libyan rapprochement fiasco it is that bad guys (usually mentally deranged) only get badder (crazier) with time. Sitting on evidence to see if criminals change their mind is not only futile but irresponsible. The fact that Venezuela does not have an easy fix does not mean it is not a real mess - waiting to get messier as the ICG concludes. As such we should expect less naive political calculation and more serious prosecution of crimes for which there are mountain loads of evidence. These four designations are significant, but why are so many still allowed to rummage unexposed? When will the master of it all - cancer notwithstanding - be presented to the world for what he is? PMB
Maru Angarita
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Monday, August 29, 2011
Letter to Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs
Diego Arria Milos Alcalay Adolfo Taylhardat
Sergei Lavrov
Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de la Federación Rusa
Excelencia, estimado Ministro y amigo
Durante su reciente visita a Venezuela, algunos de sus ex colegas Representantes Permanentes ante la ONU Diego Arria, Adolfo Taylhardat y Milos Alcalay, quisimos reunirnos con usted pero no fue posible contactarlo en esta oportunidad
Pensamos que habría resultado sumamente útil que representantes de los sectores de la sociedad política y civil que aspiramos a que otro modelo de Gobierno distinto al del actual régimen dirija los destinos de Venezuela hubiéramos podido expresarle nuestras opiniones y preocupaciones sobre la situación actual de nuestro país y los efectos conflictivos y negativos que en el escenario regional y mundial causa la orientación de la actuación internacional del Presidente Chávez y su Gobierno.
Usted mismo debe haberse sentido sorprendido e incómodo cuando en la conferencia de prensa conjunta con el Ministro Maduro, éste afirmó que la resolución del Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU, la cual contó con el voto favorable de su país, ha servido para cometer una masacre y para colonizar a Libia. Lo mismo puede decirse de la declaración del presidente venezolano en el sentido de que solamente reconoce al gobierno del Muamar Gadafi. ¿Cómo queda, entonces, la clara posición de Rusia y de otros miembros de la ONU en procurar una solución para frenar la prepotencia del Coronel Kadafi sobre su propio pueblo? Ese hecho es un ejemplo evidente de las posiciones internacionales del Presidente Chávez que nos preocupan y que afectan el interés nacional de nuestro país al exhibirnos como vinculados a regímenes como el de Kadafi.
En lo que se refiere a las relaciones bilaterales, vemos con agrado que se multipliquen las relaciones entre nuestros dos países. Pero nos preocupa la carrera armamentista que injustificadamente promueve el régimen venezolano que irresponsablemente desvía recursos indispensables para enfrentar problemas sociales en el ámbito de la pobreza, vivienda, salud.
También el creciente endeudamiento no orientado al desarrollo sino a la compra de armamentos, o la utilización de las relaciones con Rusia, enmarcándolas como si estuviéramos en la época de la guerra fría, superada gracias a la evolución que Moscú ha sabido asumir en el contexto internacional. A esto se suman decisiones improvisadas anunciadas como la del envío súbito a su país de una porción importante las reservas internacionales de Venezuela sin consultar previamente a los venezolanos ni a la propia Rusia.
Es importante que usted se percate de que el régimen presidido por Hugo Chávez ha creado una imagen de Rusia como su gran aliado para armarse ante amenazas -inexistentes-de los Estados Unidos.
Esperamos que en una próxima oportunidad, sea en Rusia o en ocasión de un viaje suyo a Nueva York u otra parte del mundo, nos ofrezca una oportunidad para reunirnos con usted para exponerle estas y otras preocupaciones por la forma como se desarrollan las relaciones bilaterales y los compromisos bilaterales entre Venezuela y Rusia, y emprender un dialogo constructivo, teniendo en cuenta que, como resultado de las elecciones del 2012, un nuevo gobierno de Unidad asumirá la conducción de nuestro país.
Nos valemos de esta oportunidad para ofrecerle, señor Ministro, las seguridades de nuestra más alta consideración y aprecio personal
Diego Arria Milos Alcalay Adolfo Taylhardat
Caracas 26 de agosto de 2011
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Sunday, August 7, 2011
¿Tiene o no tiene? Adolfo R. Taylhardat
EL UNIVERSAL
Opinión – Miércoles 03 de agosto de 2011
¿Tiene o no tiene?
Adolfo R. Taylhardat
Una vez más el führer ha logrado dividir el país. Esta vez la polarización gira en torno del acertijo de si tiene o no tiene cáncer. Según una encuesta hecha por El Nacional, 46 %, de los venezolanos creen que si y 41 %, creen que no. Sin embargo, progresivamente viene ganando terreno la versión de que no tiene cáncer y de que todo es una más de las estratagemas del inquilino de Miraflores para inspirar lástima y de esa manera recuperar el espacio de popularidad que vertiginosamente ha perdido.
Los argumentos que esgrimen quienes apoyan esta tesis son muchos y muy sólidos. Veamos algunos: no se le puede creer lo que dice porque es un gran mentiroso como lo demuestra su comportamiento habitual; toda esa historia del cáncer es un engaño maquinado en combinación con Fidel Castro; dice que ha perdido 20 kilos de peso pero está igualito de gordo y rozagante; una persona con cáncer no cantaría, bailaría ni pegaría saltos como un mono en la forma como lo hizo desde el “balcón del pueblo” el día de su cumpleaños; si tuviera cáncer no seguiría pegado de la televisión que es su deporte favorito; tratándose un mitómano compulsivo como él cualquier cosa puede esperarse, más cuando la única versión oficial es la de él y Fidel y además las informaciones ofrecidas por ellos han sido muy contradictorias.
Incluso médicos y eminentes oncólogos comparten la tesis del no. Entre otros argumentos cito los siguientes: una persona que ha sido sometida a dos operaciones delicadas consecutivas como dice él que le hicieron no habría podido viajar en avión el día siguiente de terminada la primera sesión de quimioterapia; si según dice él “los exámenes de imagenología no detectaron presencia de células malignas”, ¿para qué sigue siendo sometido a tratamiento de quimioterapia?; la quimioterapia es un tratamiento demasiado fuerte para aplicar varias sesiones en una misma semana como dice él que le hicieron; el tratamiento de quimioterapia es muy agresivo y produce efectos secundarios visibles.
En cuanto a la versión de que sí tiene cáncer, creo que, aparte de lo que aseguran el mismo führer, sus acólitos y Fidel, el argumento más sólido es el de que, si fuera mentira, sería el gesto de burla, de engaño, de fraude más colosal que le puede hacer al pueblo venezolano, a la comunidad internacional y a sus pares gobernantes de otros países. La gran mayoría de los venezolanos incluidos los medios hemos asumido con respeto ¿y por qué no?, con algo de solidaridad humana, la afirmación de que efectivamente tiene cáncer. Los principales medios de comunicación social de todo el mundo, la CNN, Al Jazeera, y la BBC, los periódicos más prestigiosos de diversos países y en general toda la prensa internacional han aceptado como verdad la información de que el mandatario venezolano efectivamente sufre de cáncer. Adicionalmente los Jefes de Estado y de Gobierno de los países amigos de Venezuela han enviado mensajes de consuelo y preocupación por la salud del führer.
Si al final se comprobara que todo ha sido mentira, el limitado prestigio que todavía conserva se derrumbaría y quedaría ante los ojos de la comunidad internacional como un auténtico impostor que no ha tenido escrúpulos para embaucar a la humanidad haciéndole creer una falsía simplemente para satisfacer su ambición de poder.
Personalmente opto por esperar a que el tiempo - y la voluntad de Dios - nos den la solución de este acertijo absurdo. Comparto la posición de un eminente médico quien dice que prefiere dedicar sus esfuerzos a otras causas más loables y no perder el tiempo en lo que el führer quiere que lo perdamos.
Con todo, hay algo que no deja de causar extrañeza: lo usual en casos como este es publicar un parte médico oficial, un informe forense, suministrando a la ciudadanía y al público en general detalles acerca del estado de salud del mandatario, exponiendo con precisión el origen, la naturaleza de la dolencia que le aqueja y su gravedad si es que la hay. Hasta ahora sólo conocemos lo que han dicho el propio führer y su papá putativo Fidel. ¿Será que ningún galeno respetable, ni siquiera alguno de los más leales, está dispuesto a arriesgar su prestigio prestándose para avalar un chanchullo?
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Opinion - writer was suspended
The following article was posted on www.noticierodigital.com, but there are reports that the writer was suspended for 60 days. The article has been circulating the Internet in the last few days:
ESTE ESCRITO FUE PUBLICADO EN EL DIA DE HOY EN NOTICIERO DIGITAL Y ESTA FORISTA FUE SUSPENDIDA POR 60 DIAS, QUE TAL? SERA PORQUE ESCRIBIO UNA GRAN VERDAD......?
Ernestina Mogollones escribió:
¿Cómo estás Hugo? ¿Arrecho? ¿ladillado de que nada te salga bien? ¿harto de la incompetencia que te rodea? Te entiendo, debe ser frustrante la vaina, pero yo, de pana y todo, te tengo la solución.
Has dividido el país en dos toletes, los que te aman y los que te despreciamos. Dividiste mal, ese es tu problema, que no supiste hacer la raya de división. El país ya estaba dividido antes de que tú llegaras, pero no como tú crees, en ricos y pobres, sino en competentes e incompetentes. Los competentes, crean, crean riqueza, crean progreso, crean dinero, crean empleo, crean belleza, y aunque suene loco y redundante, crean creación. Los otros, no crean nada, son mendigos, ojo, que eso no quiere decir que no tengan dinero, pueden tenerlo, pero no saben crear.
Sabes, es como… imagina dos tribus que llegan a un isla, una isla hermosa y llena de animales comestibles, y frutas y vegetales y todo eso. Una tribu se dedica a recolectar y cazar lo que consigue, la otra decide crear formas de sembrar, de criar animales, de luchar contra la naturaleza para depender lo menos posible de ella. Al cabo de un tiempo, las plantas y animales salvajes empiezan a escasear, así que la tribu cazadora/recolectora empieza a pasar hambre, la otra no, porque la otra no recolecta los alimentos, los crea.
Y ahí está el problema, Hugo, tu dividiste el país en recolectores/cazadores y sembradores/criadores, y te quedaste con los primeros, desechando a los segundos, atacándoles, eliminándoles. Verás, Hugo, hace años llegó a Venezuela un señor, a un país donde no había televisión, y ese señor tuvo una idea, fundar un canal de televisión ¡imagínate! Una apuesta peligrosa, un canal de televisión en un país donde nadie tenía un televisor ¿le gustaría a la gente? ¿estarían dispuestos a pagar por un aparato para ver su idea cristalizada? No era apuesta simple, pero él apostó. Y esa mente brillante se rodeó de montones de gente, de los más capaces, los más creativos, los más sabios, los más trabajadores, desde ingenieros innovadores a obreros capaces, y él, en el centro, coordinando toda esa maravilla. Y ese canal fue representación de lo que podemos hacer los venezolanos, de hasta que punto el ingenio y la constancia pueden construir, hasta que llegaste tú, y te quisiste apoderar de la obra creada.
Entonces le prohibiste transmitir en señal abierta, para tener la excusa de robarles su obra. Pero no te funcionó, por alguna razón extraña, lo que en sus manos era un canal rentable y muy visto, en tus manos se convirtió en un adefesio espantoso e inútil que da pérdidas.
Hoy terminas definitivamente con ese canal (o al menos eso crees), porque no puedes soportarlo, su existencia te recuerda que robar no te sirvió de nada. Y así te pasa siempre, Hugo, es una constante, haciendas productivas que en tu manos son eriales, canales de rating que hasta exportan programas se convierten en bodrios que no ven ni los que te apoyan, industrias productivas que trocan en otras quebradas, hoteles que terminan siendo pensiones de mala muerte, mercados convertidos en bodega, bancos que acaban en lupanares de usureros…
Y así todo, así siempre… ¿Qué pasa, Hugo? ¿por qué nada te funciona? ¿cómo es que robas cadenas de oro y acabas con collares de plástico? ¿Qué falla, Hugo? ¿qué falla? Tienes el dinero, tienes la fuerza, tienes el poder ¡y no te funciona! ¡nada te funciona! Has gastado millones en armas, para amedrentar, para intimidar, tienes ejércitos regulares e irregulares bajo tu mando para oprimir, has comprado voluntades.. ¡y nada funciona! ¡ &*&^$## profanity! ¡no te funciona!
Y no entiendes, eres presa de la ira porque no entiendes qué es lo que no funciona, por qué, usando tantos recursos no logras ya no crear, sino siquiera mantener lo que esos hombres hicieron. Yo sí lo sé, Hugo, yo sé cual es el problema, yo sé donde está tu falla.
El error es que no has expropiado la piedra angular de todo esto, no has expropiado lo que hace que un supermercado sea supermercado y no bodega, lo que hace que un canal sea visto y no un bodrio intragable que no ve ni la mamá del director, eso que hace que un hotel esté siempre a reventar y no parezca pensión de mala muerte… ¡el alma, Hugo! ¡el alma! ¡eso es lo que tienes que expropiar!
El alma, eso que hace que un hombre cree, produzca, haga, invente. Esa cosa que permite salvar obstáculos, esa cosa maravillosa que hace que un hombre, una mota de polvo en el universo, se convierta en un gigante capaz de transformar su entorno, de someterlo a sus deseos.
No es dinero, Hugo, tu problema es de comprensión, no es dinero, es amor, es orgullo, es tenacidad, no es ganar cada vez más dinero, es tener una idea, enamorarte de ella, llevar la idea a la realidad, verla crecer, verla formarse, ver que cobra vida y maravillarte diciéndote "eso lo hice yo", pensar que de no existir tú, esa maravilla no existiría, que está allí porque la pensaste, la imaginaste, la hiciste. Es sentir que aunque esa obra no pase a lo mejor a la historia de la humanidad, ni del país siquiera, será parte de la historia de mucha gente, gente que de una u otra forma trabajo en o para ella.
El problema, Hugo, es que cuando expropias, robas, pero solo robas lo físico, robas edificios, muebles, máquinas, pero eso son solo cosas materiales, lo que realmente mueve todo es la suma de voluntades, lo que mueve todo es el cerebro y el alma de millones de hombres y mujeres que hacen que las cosas tengan vida, porque las cosas, cuando no tienen el alma del hombre que las hace útiles, no son nada.
Los zapatos, Hugo, no son nada, si no tienen al hombre que les de vida, no son capaces por sí mismos de hacer huellas y marcar camino, son solo una mezcla de cuero, suela, hilos y pega, pero sin la mente del hombre, no son nada. Y tú, Hugo, eres un pobre ser, un primitivo que piensa que si le robas a un hombre sus zapatos, podrás caminar como él. Lo que tienes que expropiar, Hugo, es el alma, y eso no lo puedes robar, no importa cuántos cañones tengas, ni cuántos macacos vestidos de verde amedrentador envíes, no importa cuánto miedo siembres, ni cuánto dinero regales, no puedes robar el alma ¡y esa es tu arrechera! Que lo que nos quieres quitar, no nos lo puedes quitar, ni siquiera nosotros, aún queriendo dártelo, podemos hacerlo, porque el alma es intransferible. Lamentablemente:
Hugo, tú me puedes quitar mi casa, mi negocio, mi dinero, y hasta mi vida, pero más de eso, no me puedes quitar, puedes incluso romperme el alma, eso no te lo niego, pero no la podrás usar ¡nunca! Así que, eso es, Hugo. Eso es lo que debes expropiar para que las cosas te funcionen, y como no puedes…
Ernestina Mogollones escribió:
¿Cómo estás Hugo? ¿Arrecho? ¿ladillado de que nada te salga bien? ¿harto de la incompetencia que te rodea? Te entiendo, debe ser frustrante la vaina, pero yo, de pana y todo, te tengo la solución.
Has dividido el país en dos toletes, los que te aman y los que te despreciamos. Dividiste mal, ese es tu problema, que no supiste hacer la raya de división. El país ya estaba dividido antes de que tú llegaras, pero no como tú crees, en ricos y pobres, sino en competentes e incompetentes. Los competentes, crean, crean riqueza, crean progreso, crean dinero, crean empleo, crean belleza, y aunque suene loco y redundante, crean creación. Los otros, no crean nada, son mendigos, ojo, que eso no quiere decir que no tengan dinero, pueden tenerlo, pero no saben crear.
Sabes, es como… imagina dos tribus que llegan a un isla, una isla hermosa y llena de animales comestibles, y frutas y vegetales y todo eso. Una tribu se dedica a recolectar y cazar lo que consigue, la otra decide crear formas de sembrar, de criar animales, de luchar contra la naturaleza para depender lo menos posible de ella. Al cabo de un tiempo, las plantas y animales salvajes empiezan a escasear, así que la tribu cazadora/recolectora empieza a pasar hambre, la otra no, porque la otra no recolecta los alimentos, los crea.
Y ahí está el problema, Hugo, tu dividiste el país en recolectores/cazadores y sembradores/criadores, y te quedaste con los primeros, desechando a los segundos, atacándoles, eliminándoles. Verás, Hugo, hace años llegó a Venezuela un señor, a un país donde no había televisión, y ese señor tuvo una idea, fundar un canal de televisión ¡imagínate! Una apuesta peligrosa, un canal de televisión en un país donde nadie tenía un televisor ¿le gustaría a la gente? ¿estarían dispuestos a pagar por un aparato para ver su idea cristalizada? No era apuesta simple, pero él apostó. Y esa mente brillante se rodeó de montones de gente, de los más capaces, los más creativos, los más sabios, los más trabajadores, desde ingenieros innovadores a obreros capaces, y él, en el centro, coordinando toda esa maravilla. Y ese canal fue representación de lo que podemos hacer los venezolanos, de hasta que punto el ingenio y la constancia pueden construir, hasta que llegaste tú, y te quisiste apoderar de la obra creada.
Entonces le prohibiste transmitir en señal abierta, para tener la excusa de robarles su obra. Pero no te funcionó, por alguna razón extraña, lo que en sus manos era un canal rentable y muy visto, en tus manos se convirtió en un adefesio espantoso e inútil que da pérdidas.
Hoy terminas definitivamente con ese canal (o al menos eso crees), porque no puedes soportarlo, su existencia te recuerda que robar no te sirvió de nada. Y así te pasa siempre, Hugo, es una constante, haciendas productivas que en tu manos son eriales, canales de rating que hasta exportan programas se convierten en bodrios que no ven ni los que te apoyan, industrias productivas que trocan en otras quebradas, hoteles que terminan siendo pensiones de mala muerte, mercados convertidos en bodega, bancos que acaban en lupanares de usureros…
Y así todo, así siempre… ¿Qué pasa, Hugo? ¿por qué nada te funciona? ¿cómo es que robas cadenas de oro y acabas con collares de plástico? ¿Qué falla, Hugo? ¿qué falla? Tienes el dinero, tienes la fuerza, tienes el poder ¡y no te funciona! ¡nada te funciona! Has gastado millones en armas, para amedrentar, para intimidar, tienes ejércitos regulares e irregulares bajo tu mando para oprimir, has comprado voluntades.. ¡y nada funciona! ¡ &*&^$## profanity! ¡no te funciona!
Y no entiendes, eres presa de la ira porque no entiendes qué es lo que no funciona, por qué, usando tantos recursos no logras ya no crear, sino siquiera mantener lo que esos hombres hicieron. Yo sí lo sé, Hugo, yo sé cual es el problema, yo sé donde está tu falla.
El error es que no has expropiado la piedra angular de todo esto, no has expropiado lo que hace que un supermercado sea supermercado y no bodega, lo que hace que un canal sea visto y no un bodrio intragable que no ve ni la mamá del director, eso que hace que un hotel esté siempre a reventar y no parezca pensión de mala muerte… ¡el alma, Hugo! ¡el alma! ¡eso es lo que tienes que expropiar!
El alma, eso que hace que un hombre cree, produzca, haga, invente. Esa cosa que permite salvar obstáculos, esa cosa maravillosa que hace que un hombre, una mota de polvo en el universo, se convierta en un gigante capaz de transformar su entorno, de someterlo a sus deseos.
No es dinero, Hugo, tu problema es de comprensión, no es dinero, es amor, es orgullo, es tenacidad, no es ganar cada vez más dinero, es tener una idea, enamorarte de ella, llevar la idea a la realidad, verla crecer, verla formarse, ver que cobra vida y maravillarte diciéndote "eso lo hice yo", pensar que de no existir tú, esa maravilla no existiría, que está allí porque la pensaste, la imaginaste, la hiciste. Es sentir que aunque esa obra no pase a lo mejor a la historia de la humanidad, ni del país siquiera, será parte de la historia de mucha gente, gente que de una u otra forma trabajo en o para ella.
El problema, Hugo, es que cuando expropias, robas, pero solo robas lo físico, robas edificios, muebles, máquinas, pero eso son solo cosas materiales, lo que realmente mueve todo es la suma de voluntades, lo que mueve todo es el cerebro y el alma de millones de hombres y mujeres que hacen que las cosas tengan vida, porque las cosas, cuando no tienen el alma del hombre que las hace útiles, no son nada.
Los zapatos, Hugo, no son nada, si no tienen al hombre que les de vida, no son capaces por sí mismos de hacer huellas y marcar camino, son solo una mezcla de cuero, suela, hilos y pega, pero sin la mente del hombre, no son nada. Y tú, Hugo, eres un pobre ser, un primitivo que piensa que si le robas a un hombre sus zapatos, podrás caminar como él. Lo que tienes que expropiar, Hugo, es el alma, y eso no lo puedes robar, no importa cuántos cañones tengas, ni cuántos macacos vestidos de verde amedrentador envíes, no importa cuánto miedo siembres, ni cuánto dinero regales, no puedes robar el alma ¡y esa es tu arrechera! Que lo que nos quieres quitar, no nos lo puedes quitar, ni siquiera nosotros, aún queriendo dártelo, podemos hacerlo, porque el alma es intransferible. Lamentablemente:
Hugo, tú me puedes quitar mi casa, mi negocio, mi dinero, y hasta mi vida, pero más de eso, no me puedes quitar, puedes incluso romperme el alma, eso no te lo niego, pero no la podrás usar ¡nunca! Así que, eso es, Hugo. Eso es lo que debes expropiar para que las cosas te funcionen, y como no puedes…
Maru Angarita
My blog is: http://maruangarita.blogspot.com
My blog is: http://maruangarita.blogspot.com
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