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    Hugo Chavez rose to power in Venezuela in 1998 by promising change from the traditional political parties. However, he has undermined democracy and squandered Venezuela's oil wealth. Chavez controls the military and uses it to threaten neighbors like Colombia. He has also weakened Venezuela's economy through failed policies and high crime rates. Chavez relies on arms sales from Russia to maintain his grip on power, despite causing great hardship for the Venezuelan people.

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    Hugo Chavez rose to power in Venezuela in 1998 by promising change from the traditional political parties. However, he has undermined democracy and squandered Venezuela's oil wealth. Chavez controls the military and uses it to threaten neighbors like Colombia. He has also weakened Venezuela's economy through failed policies and high crime rates. Chavez relies on arms sales from Russia to maintain his grip on power, despite causing great hardship for the Venezuelan people.

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    Hugo Chavez rose to power in Venezuela in 1998 by promising change from the traditional political parties. However, he has undermined democracy and squandered Venezuela's oil wealth. Chavez controls the military and uses it to threaten neighbors like Colombia. He has also weakened Venezuela's economy through failed policies and high crime rates. Chavez relies on arms sales from Russia to maintain his grip on power, despite causing great hardship for the Venezuelan people.

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    Washington, D.C. 703.268.

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    CRIMINAL JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATES


    10/17/2010

    CW 004-2010


    www.cjiausa.org
    HUGO CHAVEZ’S SIBERIAN ROOMATE

    By: Juan José Herrera

    The Venezuelan tragedy of the 21st Century was the election of a megalomaniac as
    president of this country by a majority of people who wanted to punish the previous


    two political parties- AD and COPEI, who alternated themselves in power for their
    unpaid promises to the people. Hugo Chavez represented that change and that man at

    [email protected]
    that moment in 1998.

    Even though Chavez attempted two coup d’états in 1992 against a democratic
    government of Carlos Andres Perez- failed but was acquitted (political pardon by
    Rafael Caldera) and ran for president as a candidate of a political party MVR 2000,
    following the recommendations of the Sao Paulo Forum orchestrated by Fidel Castro
    and Lula Da Silva to obtain power through “democratic elections” to bury democracy
    once in power.

    Hugo Chavez has done so in Venezuela. Quite a few Latin-American tyrants have
    followed suit; likewise in Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua; only that the tyrant
    wannabe in Honduras “Mel Zelaya” was ousted in his pajamas, just in time, by
    “Honduran Constitutional Law” which many outside of Honduras fail to read and
    much less understand. Honduras survived a changeover to be a Chavez puppet
    government and is today a constitutional democracy.

    This power hungry tyrant Chavez, who is a pupil of Fidel Castro, in emulating him for
    his permanence in power in Cuba for nearly 50 years, and wants to do the same here in
    Venezuela at any cost. By any cost, I mean he does not care for the well being of the
    Venezuelan people, undermining the way of life that we had before he rose to power
    and squanders the oil revenue in giving it away to his political friends, helping them
    and not Venezuela in solving their problems of housing, employment, medical
    attentions and military weaponry like giving Ecuador 6 Mirages that belonged to the
    Venezuelan Air Force to heckle Colombia. This all in gaining allies that back him on
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    an international scale, even at the OAS to the point that he sells oil to smaller nations only to be paid in
    50 years with the first three years free.

    Chavez Squandering Venezuela’s wealth for his personal gain and having many of its citizens starve due
    to high cost of food basics, inflation and insecurity only to spend what is left of the National Treasury on
    weapons that we do not need.

    Chavez has found himself a Siberian roommate who will supply him whatever he dreams in having, just
    as long as he can maintain himself in power at any cost. He wants to buy the missiles that were destined
    to be sold to Iran- the S-300 truck mounted version and also purchased 30 tanks. To fight against who?
    To threaten a lot of neighboring nations. This is a sure fact, since he did threaten Colombia during the
    Uribe government four times.

    Venezuela is a peace loving nation whose people want to work in peace and improve their standard of
    living, have a decent home in which to live in and not a shanty refuge on the verge of collapsing or to be
    ravaged by landslides or floods. Many Venezuelans have awaited that decent housing solution for over
    12 years now, including those who survived the Vargas flood and mudslide of 1999.

    Apparently Chavez wishes to pick a fight with the USA with those missiles and tanks, postulating the
    US will invade Venezuela; ignoring the fact that the US has in the past invested t many billions of US
    Dollars, mainly from the private sector during the 20th Century, creating jobs, prosperity and careers for
    many Venezuelans as well as economic opportunities in entrepreneurship in service companies.

    Chavez seems to envy the US for its well intended foreign policy in raising the standard of living of
    many people where that policy is adopted and takes the guidelines of prosperity. Prosperity and success
    is something that he also envies, since most of the companies that were pioneered by humble beginnings
    whether they are farms or factories have been taken over and now produce nothing. He gloats in the
    misery of others. Many Spanish immigrants, who improved our agricultural productivity, have not been
    paid in full for their farms being taken over by these hoodlums in power. We now import more food as a
    cause of those insane measures of “revolutionary land reforms.”

    The quality of life and well-being has deteriorated in such a way that we have frequent blackouts since
    the revolution does not do any maintenance in hydroelectric dams or power houses throughout the
    country. The blackouts only serve to increase insecurity since delinquency is at a rampage with such
    impunity, that many Venezuelans are killed over the weekend more than US Soldiers in Afghanistan in a
    month. You simply have to read the papers on Monday and Tuesday to read those tolls.

    Instead of investing in security and rounding up the delinquents, which he armed with pistols to defend
    the Hugo Chavez “Bolivarian Revolution” as a militia force, turned out to be a rampaging horde of
    blood thirty maniacs killing people sometimes with 16 shots. Insecurity is a political tool to maintain
    power, since Chavez has many people running scared if you dare speak too loudly against the “Hugo
    Chavez regime.”

    Juan José Herrera

    "Soldier of Democracy

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    10/17/2010

    ___________________________
    Juan José Herrera is a contributing writer to Criminal Justice International Associates from Venezuela. He
    writes extensively on issues of democracy that face his people of Venezuela, as well as other events in Latin
    America that affect the Venezuelan homeland. One of his main concerns is "hemispheric carrying capacity."
    He can be reached at [email protected]

    Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed herein are those of the author(s) only, not necessarily those of
    Jerry Brewer or Criminal Justice International Associates.

    CRIMINAL JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATES

    United States of America


    ——————————
    Jerry Brewer is C.E.O. of Criminal Justice International Associates, a global threat mitigation firm located in
    northern Virginia. Website is located at www.cjiausa.org. [email protected] TWITTER: cjiausa

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