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VenEconomy: Truths and lies with International
It is customary for the Bolivarian Government to discredit facts and events with lies or by manipulating the truth, regardless of the source of the statements, opinions, criticisms or denouncements. In the past few weeks, this routine has been used to respond to two incidents that have made the international headlines.
The first involves the Archbishop of Caracas, Cardinal Jorge Uroso Savion, the Catholic Church, and the Vatican. President Hugo Chávez ferociously attacked Cardinal Uroso, calling him a trodlodyte and a liar, after the Cardinal made a series of public statements rejecting the Venezuelan Government's violations of the Constitution that, in his view, will lead to a communist regime being established in the country.
The President denies that he is a communist, openly contradicting himself, as on several occasions he has proclaimed that he is a Marxist and has ordered his acolytes to read Marx's Das Kapital . Everyone know that it is practically –not to say totally- impossible to commune with Marxism and not be a communist. In fact, the bases of 21st Century Socialism preached by Chávez are practically a copy of the collectivism and communal property set up under the communist dictatorships in the Soviet Union and Fidel Castro's Cuba.
Another item of news that has unleashed yet another wave of lies is the Colombian Government's accusation that the Venezuelan Government is giving support and safe harbor to members of the narco-terrorist groups, the FARC and the ELN, in Venezuelan territory. In both countries, it is an open secret that these narco-terrorists move about as they please in both nations.
Not only that, it is public knowledge that, on several occasions, the Colombian Government has made available the coordinates of the locations of FARC leaders and guerrilla camps in Venezuela, without any signs of action being taken by the Chávez administration.
This week, the Uribe administration is to take things a step further, when, this Thursday, July 22, it presents the case of the presence of narco-terrorists in Venezuelan territory, a situation that affects Colombia's national security, at an extraordinary session of the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States. And it is apparently prepared to take the matter before the International Court of Justice in The Hague, if necessary.
The Chávez administration has consistently given scant importance to these accusations. Now, it seems that the time has come to switch from rhetorical denial to more conclusive proof to show that what Colombia is claiming is not true. Will it be able to?
VenEconomy has been a Venezuela's leading specialized publisher on financial, political and economic data since 1982. VenEconomy's Points of View on the issues of the day, as seen by VenEconomy during the last week. Petroleumworld does not necessarily share these views.
Editor's Note: This commentary was originally published by Veneconomy , June 19, 2010. Petroleumworld reprint this article in the interest of our readers
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