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	<title>Comments on: It is not easy being Esteban. A day in my life.</title>
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	<description>Observations focused on the problems of an underdeveloped country, Venezuela, with some serendipity about the world (orchids, techs, science, investments, politics) at large. A famous Venezuelan, Juan Pablo Perez Alfonzo, referred to oil as the devil&#039;s excrement. For countries, easy wealth appears indeed to be the sure path to failure. Venezuela might be a clear example of that.</description>
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		<title>By: Conrad Regalbuto</title>
		<link>http://devilsexcrement.com/2010/02/06/it-is-not-east-being-esteban-a-day-in-my-life/#comment-5504</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Conrad Regalbuto]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Marxist theory, it is the intermediary state between Capitalism and Communism.  I have alot of kin in Europe existing under Socialist authorities now and some of whom were below Communism previously. I work for a European company and work with individuals everyday who have lived under said organizations for their entire lives. I know darn well what it is, and I have no desire to be under that kind of government.  I would sooner battle you in the streets then to endure as they do.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In Marxist theory, it is the intermediary state between Capitalism and Communism.  I have alot of kin in Europe existing under Socialist authorities now and some of whom were below Communism previously. I work for a European company and work with individuals everyday who have lived under said organizations for their entire lives. I know darn well what it is, and I have no desire to be under that kind of government.  I would sooner battle you in the streets then to endure as they do.</p>
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		<title>By: Antonio</title>
		<link>http://devilsexcrement.com/2010/02/06/it-is-not-east-being-esteban-a-day-in-my-life/#comment-5243</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Antonio]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The problem is that Venezuela is already destroyed. It not longer functions like a sovereign country. It is a failed country.

The other problem is 90% of the chavista people do not even notice. The other 10% are the “nomenclatura” of the regimen, getting richer, living at expenses of the rest of the “ex-pais”, like successful capitalistic, but living with money and properties that should belong to us all.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The problem is that Venezuela is already destroyed. It not longer functions like a sovereign country. It is a failed country.</p>
<p>The other problem is 90% of the chavista people do not even notice. The other 10% are the “nomenclatura” of the regimen, getting richer, living at expenses of the rest of the “ex-pais”, like successful capitalistic, but living with money and properties that should belong to us all.</p>
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		<title>By: Kepler</title>
		<link>http://devilsexcrement.com/2010/02/06/it-is-not-east-being-esteban-a-day-in-my-life/#comment-5242</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kepler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just ban that bloody Arturo. He is a waste of time.
Are you afraid he will later go somewhere and declare the oppostion does not preach what it says?
He should do it. It does not matter.

Your time is more precious than anything that wally may pretend to do.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just ban that bloody Arturo. He is a waste of time.<br />
Are you afraid he will later go somewhere and declare the oppostion does not preach what it says?<br />
He should do it. It does not matter.</p>
<p>Your time is more precious than anything that wally may pretend to do.</p>
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		<title>By: Juan</title>
		<link>http://devilsexcrement.com/2010/02/06/it-is-not-east-being-esteban-a-day-in-my-life/#comment-5241</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Juan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No hay nada mas peligroso que un ignorante con iniciativa...

Chavez should be arrested and thrown in a cage forever for giving the control of the country to the Cuban &#039;empire&#039;, for mismanaging all aspects of the economy, for ridiculing Venezuela in front of the world, for the crime wave that has been sweeping the country due to his crazy policies, for arming militias loyal to who knows who, for allying our country to the worse governments of the planet while rejecting the good ones, and on and on and on.

Chavez is a bloody embarrassment and he should be, at least, thrown into a cage forever.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No hay nada mas peligroso que un ignorante con iniciativa&#8230;</p>
<p>Chavez should be arrested and thrown in a cage forever for giving the control of the country to the Cuban &#8216;empire&#8217;, for mismanaging all aspects of the economy, for ridiculing Venezuela in front of the world, for the crime wave that has been sweeping the country due to his crazy policies, for arming militias loyal to who knows who, for allying our country to the worse governments of the planet while rejecting the good ones, and on and on and on.</p>
<p>Chavez is a bloody embarrassment and he should be, at least, thrown into a cage forever.</p>
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		<title>By: moctavio</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[moctavio]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The people calling for Chavez&#039; resignation are former Chavistas, I think he should be impeached and tried for his crimes. It will not hap&#039;pen as long as he controls everything.

7. The political dissenter/martyr troll

If your blog is interesting, chances are it’s because you take a stand on things. You have political views you feel passionate about. You build a community of people who are interested in these things and who interact thoughtfully and productively about said things. Heck, some people even manage to disagree civilly. Until political dissenter/martyr troll comes around, starting fights with everyone in a comment thread, spewing its passionate anti-whatever-you’re-into views all over the productive discussion. This troll will likely get mouthy about how pathetic a blogger is for not entertaining dissenting opinions, all the while only being interested in hearing itself talk (or type, as it were). Political dissenter/martyr troll, what good do you think you are doing? Whose mind do you think you are changing? Troll, you are an asshole.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The people calling for Chavez&#8217; resignation are former Chavistas, I think he should be impeached and tried for his crimes. It will not hap&#8217;pen as long as he controls everything.</p>
<p>7. The political dissenter/martyr troll</p>
<p>If your blog is interesting, chances are it’s because you take a stand on things. You have political views you feel passionate about. You build a community of people who are interested in these things and who interact thoughtfully and productively about said things. Heck, some people even manage to disagree civilly. Until political dissenter/martyr troll comes around, starting fights with everyone in a comment thread, spewing its passionate anti-whatever-you’re-into views all over the productive discussion. This troll will likely get mouthy about how pathetic a blogger is for not entertaining dissenting opinions, all the while only being interested in hearing itself talk (or type, as it were). Political dissenter/martyr troll, what good do you think you are doing? Whose mind do you think you are changing? Troll, you are an asshole.</p>
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		<title>By: Arturo</title>
		<link>http://devilsexcrement.com/2010/02/06/it-is-not-east-being-esteban-a-day-in-my-life/#comment-5239</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arturo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So based on the argument that Venezuela will decay until 2012, it&#039;s better politically for Chávez to stay in power until presidential elections. So, all this talk that Chávez should resign is false since yu need him to stay in power to destroy the country. 

NO, WE WANT HIM TO COMPLETE THE JOB HE IS DOING SO WELL AND YOU SUPPORT ENTHUSIASTICALLY ARTURO

My God, what a brilliant argument and how intelligent the Venezuelan opposition is. It goes to prove beyong any shadow of a doubt that you cannot live without Esteban.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So based on the argument that Venezuela will decay until 2012, it&#8217;s better politically for Chávez to stay in power until presidential elections. So, all this talk that Chávez should resign is false since yu need him to stay in power to destroy the country. </p>
<p>NO, WE WANT HIM TO COMPLETE THE JOB HE IS DOING SO WELL AND YOU SUPPORT ENTHUSIASTICALLY ARTURO</p>
<p>My God, what a brilliant argument and how intelligent the Venezuelan opposition is. It goes to prove beyong any shadow of a doubt that you cannot live without Esteban.</p>
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		<title>By: moctavio</title>
		<link>http://devilsexcrement.com/2010/02/06/it-is-not-east-being-esteban-a-day-in-my-life/#comment-5238</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[moctavio]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Antonio: I don&#039;t debate Arturo, is not worth it, he is a fanatic, he will probably deny the existence of the Tascon list. You have to be really stupid to think that the recall is a strategy that is worthwhile for the opposition. In fact, with such a biased and partial CNE you need Chavez&#039; popularity to be really low so that cheating will not give him a win. The decay of Venezuela between now and 2012 should do the trick.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Antonio: I don&#8217;t debate Arturo, is not worth it, he is a fanatic, he will probably deny the existence of the Tascon list. You have to be really stupid to think that the recall is a strategy that is worthwhile for the opposition. In fact, with such a biased and partial CNE you need Chavez&#8217; popularity to be really low so that cheating will not give him a win. The decay of Venezuela between now and 2012 should do the trick.</p>
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		<title>By: bruni</title>
		<link>http://devilsexcrement.com/2010/02/06/it-is-not-east-being-esteban-a-day-in-my-life/#comment-5237</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[bruni]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arturo, what is suspicious is that Chávez wants that revocatorio so much that he does not loses one opportunity to propose it.

Why then he does not collect the signatures HIMSELF? He just has to go on TV and ask every member of the PSUV to sign up. He&#039;ll have a revocatorio in no time...

This is really &quot;poudre aux yeux&quot;. Chavez knows that he won for a large margin in 2006, so in order to revoke him, there should be more YES votes than what he won (BTW, according to the Constitution, if one reads strictly what it says about the revocatory, Chavez should have been revoked already because even though he won the Referendum, he got many more YES than the votes he got to be elected in 2000). So Chávez and the opposition both know that this is leading nowhere.

The other thing is, WHO CAN TRUST A GOVERMENT THAT BLACKLISTS ITS CITIZENS?

This had NEVER happened in Venezuela before, and now everybody knows that signing for a revocatory petition can take you to a jobless future, forever.

No thanks, Arturo.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Arturo, what is suspicious is that Chávez wants that revocatorio so much that he does not loses one opportunity to propose it.</p>
<p>Why then he does not collect the signatures HIMSELF? He just has to go on TV and ask every member of the PSUV to sign up. He&#8217;ll have a revocatorio in no time&#8230;</p>
<p>This is really &#8220;poudre aux yeux&#8221;. Chavez knows that he won for a large margin in 2006, so in order to revoke him, there should be more YES votes than what he won (BTW, according to the Constitution, if one reads strictly what it says about the revocatory, Chavez should have been revoked already because even though he won the Referendum, he got many more YES than the votes he got to be elected in 2000). So Chávez and the opposition both know that this is leading nowhere.</p>
<p>The other thing is, WHO CAN TRUST A GOVERMENT THAT BLACKLISTS ITS CITIZENS?</p>
<p>This had NEVER happened in Venezuela before, and now everybody knows that signing for a revocatory petition can take you to a jobless future, forever.</p>
<p>No thanks, Arturo.</p>
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		<title>By: Antonio</title>
		<link>http://devilsexcrement.com/2010/02/06/it-is-not-east-being-esteban-a-day-in-my-life/#comment-5236</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Antonio]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arturo, probably Octavio does not need help to debate with you, but,

Chavez wants opposition intend revocatorio because needs a new revision of Tascon’s List. To Exert Discrimination, Coercion and coactions, and make miserable the live the people (and their families) who dare to sign of.

I and my family were discriminated in our jobs, also when we attend to basic public services and in application PDVSA health care plans. My mother was “killed” by the CNE to help to probe Chavez’s followers file supposed frauds. And my mother is alive.

So opposition has to be very “pendejo” to easy de job of Chavez to identify his futures enemies to “kill”, (by name and identification number).

Antonio]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Arturo, probably Octavio does not need help to debate with you, but,</p>
<p>Chavez wants opposition intend revocatorio because needs a new revision of Tascon’s List. To Exert Discrimination, Coercion and coactions, and make miserable the live the people (and their families) who dare to sign of.</p>
<p>I and my family were discriminated in our jobs, also when we attend to basic public services and in application PDVSA health care plans. My mother was “killed” by the CNE to help to probe Chavez’s followers file supposed frauds. And my mother is alive.</p>
<p>So opposition has to be very “pendejo” to easy de job of Chavez to identify his futures enemies to “kill”, (by name and identification number).</p>
<p>Antonio</p>
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		<title>By: island canuck</title>
		<link>http://devilsexcrement.com/2010/02/06/it-is-not-east-being-esteban-a-day-in-my-life/#comment-5234</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[island canuck]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After what he did last time with the list of signatures only someone with no knowledge of Venezuela in the last 11 years would even suggest that we try another revocatorio.

You are just another &quot;foca&quot; with a twisted view of reality.

I shouldn&#039;t be feeding the troll.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After what he did last time with the list of signatures only someone with no knowledge of Venezuela in the last 11 years would even suggest that we try another revocatorio.</p>
<p>You are just another &#8220;foca&#8221; with a twisted view of reality.</p>
<p>I shouldn&#8217;t be feeding the troll.</p>
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