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8/30/2011

VENEZUELAS CHAVEZ HAS DONE LITTLE TO MEET EXPECTATIONS By: Jerry Brewer

Hugo Chavez has done very little in his past 12 years to further Venezuelans expectations of much needed prosperity and a quality of life that they have a right to. Venezuela was a rich country under true democracy- both rich in wealth, as well as rich with a proud nation of citizens and true patriots. What has resulted is sickening poverty, decaying infrastructure, and a substandard lifestyle that is well below neighboring nations of this hemisphere. Chavez has squandered Venezuelas massive oil wealth and severely mismanaged the nations national government. He has recklessly subjected a fine Venezuelan citizenry to shame with his massive spending on weapons and his complete in-your-face disregard for the rule of law and human rights. Chavez constantly undermines popularly elected officials- centralizing power, ignoring the constitution, and trampling public order. His cozy relationships with the likes of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua, former Libyan leader Muammar el Qaddafi, and his life mentor Fidel Castro, speaks volumes of a political (dictatorial) illness. He has drawn much ridicule from a free world media, and rationalizes the reports that criticize him and his Bolivarian socialist government by consistently blaming the United States. He sees CIA and U.S. invasion in his sleep and constantly regurgitates this fantasy to what he believes is a gullible Venezuelan people to see it his way.

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Chavez uses his own deception to snatch the food out of the nations mouths and subject citizens to infrastructure squalor. In his mind, this justifies giving Venezuelas wealth to Russia, China, and other dictators to further his own personal agenda and posture himself as a tough guy that is in actuality, just another masked rogue world leader. He, like the others, eventually fall, and a once proud nation must learn another lesson in history of the suffering and misery that must be endured under such regimes.

Although some are amused at his buffoonish nature at times, Hugo Chavez remains a menace and a danger to the hemisphere. As one ponders the merits of such overt claims of criticism against Chavez, one must ask oneself in all sincerity- Why does this President not denounce terrorism, drug trafficking, arms proliferation, and other guerilla activity? Instead, Chavez chooses sides consistently with those that oppress their people, disregard human rights and the rule of law, and kill citizens with impunity as they demonstrate and petition their government for free speech and related activity and the right to be heard. Although Fidel Castros Cuba has never risen above the poverty line with his decades of Cuban revolution and communist/socialist ideology, Chavez seeks to emulate this failure. Castros decades of revolution and murder throughout Central America should have been a clue to an astute human being that he is not a leader one would want to worship, praise and follow.

The recent incidents of Cuban women chanting anti-government slogans on the steps of the Capitol building in Havana in a protest drew stunning support from passers-by, who shouted bully and scoundrel at police. A video recording of the event recorded an astonishing show of public and vocal
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support for the four women, in a country where passers-by normally remain impassive as feared State Security agents and pro-government mobs crack down on dissidents. It shows unquestionably how the Cuban people are on the side of the pro-democracy activists. No one was cheering the authorities, said Mauricio Claver-Carone, head of the anti-Castro U.S.-Cuba Democracy political action committee. Police eventually dragged the four women into patrol cars and drove them away. Chavez, a protg of Castro and his mentors revolution, is a lot of smoke and mirrors in his quest for arms with Venezuelas wealth from natural resources, and hoards them like a crazy person with a credit card. His intense diatribes and hatred of the U.S. and his popular theme of fearing U.S. invasion is from Castros playbook of keeping a world eye on his well-being.

Another of Chavezs not so clever deceptions was in kicking the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) out of Venezuela, accusing them of spying and conspiracy to bring down his regime. This, quite a heady dialogue from Chavez- one who went to prison for two years for leading a coup d etat in 1992 against President Carlos Andres Perez. He would return again to seek the Presidential office by manipulating, deceiving, and making false promises to the poor. They elected him and they remain possibly worse than they had originally been- other than the fact that they gave away their freedom and democratic nation to this charlatan. Chavez uses oil revenue of the people like his own personal credit card as food perishes sitting in the harbor and rolling blackouts of electricity rob the people of modern day electricity. Too, Chavez has become quite a wealthy man in much contrast to the people (http://www.scribd.com/doc/35016894/Fortuna-de-Familia-Chavez-Frias-Es-de-Unos-2-000-Millonesde-Dolares ).

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As a world debates the opinions and associated facts that tend to link Chavezs government regime to drug smuggling, support of the FARC guerillas, and his Cuban trained intelligence services operating in Latin America, to further yet unknown mayhem and interference in elections; a once well-functioning democracy, beautiful, and proud nation needs to stand united in 2012 to say no and nunca mas to Hugo Chavez Frias.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATES United States of America Jerry Brewer is C.E.O. of Criminal Justice International Associates (northern Virginia), a global risk mitigation firm. Website is located at www.cjiausa.org.

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