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</font><font face="georgia" size=5 color="#A80000">Well, well, well …
people are finally speaking up, more and more and more... <br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#A80000"><a href="http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=23255">http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=23255</a><br><br>
</font><font face="Georgia" size=2><b>VHeadline.com commentarist Oscar
Heck writes: </b></font><font face="georgia" size=2>One of my friends
from the barrios in Caracas was operated a few weeks ago at a public
hospital. During her short stay at the hospital, she received many
visitors ... mostly family members. She likes Chavez ... but she would
not necessarily be considered a <i>chavista (pro-Chavez
person)</i>.<br><br>
<b>One of her visitors was another lady I know from another barrio. This
lady had told me over and over that she does not trust Chavez ... or any
other politician.<br><br>
</b>However, after her visit to the hospital, she said something very
interesting ... something I would have never expected her to say ...
because she does not like Chavez <i>(she says he talks too much)</i>.
“People at the hospital were telling us that Pena, the anti-Chavez
Caracas mayor, is stealing the money that is supposed to get to the
hospitals. What he does is that he takes the money that is supposed to go
directly to the hospitals, withholds it, puts it into a bank account,
makes huge amounts of interest on it and then later, liberates the
original funds, which get partially taken by his friends. Pena pockets
the interest.” <br><br>
This scam was described by someone who dislikes Chavez and who, until a
few weeks ago, talked against him. For the last 5 years, Chavez has been
talking <i>(and talking and talking)</i> against such scams ... and she
had refused to listen to him. Today she believes it because she heard it
directly from the hospital people who have almost-first-hand knowledge of
such scams ... and it sounds like she is also starting to believe Chavez.
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<li>She used to say that Chavez talked too much about things that should
be left alone and that he talked too much about “traditional” scams such
as the one that Pena is apparently involved in. </font>
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</font><font face="georgia" size=2><b>What is it that has brought about
such a change-in-heart in my lady friend? <br><br>
</b>Is it the fact that my friend who got operated had to buy her own
bandages and bring her own blanket to the hospital? <i>(All hospital
material are supposed to be free!)<br><br>
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<dd>Who is taking the money?<br><br>
<dd>Why are the hospitals lacking in materials?<br><br>
<dd>Where are the materials?<br><br>
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</dl><font face="georgia" size=3><i>(Remember that, in general, it is
only the 80% poorer majority that uses public hospitals!) <br><br>
</i>I don’t personally know Pena, but from what I heard coming out of his
dragon-mouth during the 2002-03 sabotage of the Venezuelan economy, he is
no saint. I am quite certain that he is doing what my friends were told
that he is doing ... and I am convinced that he is doing it ruthlessly
and heartlessly ... like Enrique Mendoza, Carlos Ortega, Carlos
Fernandez, Juan Fernandez, Albis Munoz, Pedro Carmona, Maria Corina
Machado ... and many more anti-Chavez (anti-Venezuela) criminals.
<b><i><u>Quienes son los mas vivos? <br><br>
</u></i></b>The time will come to bring these people to court for
questioning. Many of them have already left Venezuela, mostly to Miami,
for fear of being prosecuted.<br><br>
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<dd><font face="georgia" size=2>Did they also take the money with
them?<br><br>
<dd>Hummm ... I wonder. <br><br>
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</dl><font face="georgia" size=3>The time will come ... correction, the
time has</u></b> begun...<br><br>
Machado faces the Venezuelan courts on November 2, 2004 ... in my view,
she may be acquitted because it is apparently still common practice for
wealthy Venezuelans to pay-off judges (or do them favors)</i>. Oh ... and
just a little note about this Machado character. She had the gall a few
days ago (while in the USA) </i>to state that she never disagreed with
the referendum results ... which is a complete lie (but yet probably
believed by Washington ... for the sake of convenience ... especially
since it is Washington which financially partially-backed Machado in her
anti-Chavez, anti-democratic campaign)</i>. <br><br>
She also has the audacity (or the *****)</i> to state that she was
not</u></b> involved in the coup against Chavez in April 2002.
Apparently, there is film footage of her being there and of her signing
the dictatorial decree dissolving the Chavez government, the
democratically-elected National Assembly, the reform laws, and more.
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I wonder if she will show up to court? Or will the hearing be deferred
... so as to give her enough time to escape?<br><br>
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<dd>Or will she suddenly disappear like Pedro Carmona, Carlos Fernandez,
Carlos Ortega and some of the military personnel who were involved in the
coup?<br><br>
</dl>Few, if any of the people that were involved in the April 2002 coup
have been taken to court even for questioning. <br><br>
</u>Whatever happens to her, or wherever she goes .. one good thing is
happening. All the talk coming from Chavez for the last 5 years is being
taken more seriously ... by people such as Machado .. and by people like
my friends who went to the hospital in Caracas. <br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=2>As it stands today, 3 out of every 5
Venezuelans voted for Chavez in the recent referendum.<br><br>
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<dd><font face="georgia" size=3>If more people like my friends begin to
listen to Chavez and begin to realize that what Chavez is saying is
usually true and real, will they vote for Chavez in the next
elections?<br><br>
</dl>Probably ... if they keep on witnessing and experiencing the
corruption in the hospitals (the corruption which President Chavez has
always spoken against)</i> ... will they also start to speak up instead
of keeping quiet?<br><br>
Perhaps. This means that in the next elections, Chavez will win again ...
especially if the clampdown (by the courts)</i> on corruption
accelerates.<br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=2>Many anti-Chavez people will have to
choose between permanent vacations abroad or potentially short-term
vacations in Venezuelan jails ... yes ... Venezuelan jails where “whiter”
Venezuelans from the 20% never have had the opportunity to
lodge.<br><br>
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<dd><font face="georgia" size=3>Of course, this will only really begin to
happen if the chronically disheveled and turtle-paced Venezuelan justice
system decides to get their act together ... something that Chavez has
also been talking against for the last 5 years (talk about
patience!)</i>. <br><br>
</dl>My prediction is that more and more anti-Chavez-movement leaders
will begin to leave Venezuela in the next several months. There are
apparently about 400 people on a list of people that need to be taken to
court for their involvement in the April 2002 coup.<br><br>
Furthermore, I am quite sure that government investigators are preparing
a much longer list of all the people who are involved in scams like
Pena’s scam ... and there are plenty of these people ... regardless of
political affiliation! <br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=2>All this to say that Venezuela is
heading in a positive direction. <br><br>
</b></font><font face="georgia" size=3>Poor people (the ones who use
public hospitals)</i> should not</u></b> go without hospital materials
while wealthy Venezuelans such as Pena fill their pockets with more and
more and more and more and more and more...<br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=5>Oscar Heck<br>
<a href="mailto:oscar@vheadline.com">oscar@vheadline.com</a><br>
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