Comments on: While Venezuelans are coerced to use less electricity than in 2009 due to the lack of investment, Chávez lends Cuba US$ 170 million to build a power plant there

By: ziicnlgrp

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By: Gert

Gert — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 07:00:27 +0000

I’m impressed by your writing. Are you a profsseoianl or just very knowledgeable?

By: Roger

Roger — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:27:43 +0000

Speaking of Castro lovers here is this from Lula http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100311/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_brazil_cuba Brazil had better find the center next time

By: Antonio

Antonio — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:22:01 +0000

Sorry, in last post, the Borg’s phrase is “resistance is futile”

Sorry to the trekies

By: Antonio

Antonio — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:12:05 +0000

The term “Chavista” is enough insult for an intelligence being, animal or human.

They recall to me, to “The Borgs” from the Start Trek series and movies.

All the coercion, coactions and repression, is to give the idea that “resistance if futile”, to achieved power through forced assimilation.

But I agree with OM that simple call them “Troll” in enough, a sounds like Borg. I like that way

By: Kepler

Kepler — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:16:52 +0000

Bob,

The white or “rather white” have used the term monkey over and over and over again to refer to the black or dark-skinned. Although things have changed, you will see chances are that the average chavista is blacker than the average non-chavista. I know there are a million exceptions. Still, that is the general picture. I have seen a couple of uses of the term monkey for white people (once on Lukashenko and once in a text about some bodyguards of some Russian mafiosi), but they are very few.

Focas con camisa roja perhaps?
chavez cultist?
Red banana socialist?

By: Bob Taylor

Bob Taylor — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:48:22 +0000

If I ask a guy in a red shirt if he is a chavista ,he says yes.
If I ask are you a red monkey he is not sure.
We have to find a derogatory description for people wearing red shirts. It´s not racist at all !!Red shirts is not bad enough . Any ideas??????

By: Megaescualidus

Megaescualidus — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:58:31 +0000

Liz, your method to lower the electricity bill is very creative. Though I’m not even close to suggest that people shouldn’t try it (or that it won’t lower the bill) it reminds me of the type of “creativity” cubans (I mean, the ones trapped in the island of Cuba, who have been suffering from Fidel’s dicatorship since 1959, not the ones recently “exported” to Venezuela) have come up with since for them there’s no option other than having to cope with a Government full of inepts. Venezuela has been moving in that direction faster than people would like to admit.

By: loroferoz

loroferoz — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:47:16 +0000

But the crows are coming back to roost, and fast.

Well, the government has coerced businesses and slapped stickers on businesses that have a “high power consumption”.

Businesses have countered with a good proposal that comes back at the government and bites hard. A “dia de parada”.

Nifty! They consume less power overall, they do not have to pay expenses for the day they are stopped. They do not have to function at half-engine paying full wages. The days they work, they work for sure.

Employment for the informally employed, SENIAT tax collection, and transportation plummet by less than 20%.

If somebody does not make a salary to get by day to day, if someone else finds the store closed, or does not get supplies on a particular day, there is only ONE PARTY to blame.

And they should answer all such claims with “go tell that to Corpoelec, and maybe they will tell Chavez, and maybe he will order the financing of a Venezuelan power plant for ten Cuban ones and maybe you will have business with us… NOT! maybe in three years…”

I know, it’s not fun but… there is only one extremely cynical party to blame for all of this.