Jester wrote:Apparently the source for this 2010 story is a "company" called CJIA. Here's what I found via Gogle translate:OutWest wrote:
Standing up for the poor is very profitable. Since he began his rule, about 100 billion has been stolen from the national treasury via the national oil company or PVDSA.
"Jerry Brewer, director of economic intelligence company Criminal Justice International Associates, based in North Miami and Virginia, said three years ago that the fortunes of Hugo Chavez Frias at 2,000 million dollars. Studying CJIA, company that has an office in Caracas and in other Latin American capitals, was picked up in an article published on July 26, 2010."
http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... s-20130306
And here's what passes for a website for this shady, stinking CIA cutout:
https://sites.google.com/a/cjiausa.us/www/
My dad did a few projects for the CIA as well as many for DoD, and I am proud of his contribution to shattering the Soviet Union. Since then, the evil streaks in the CIA have metastasized and become pervasive. Phony-baloney CIA disinformation may or may not have served the good in the past. Today they are vermin - and should be treated as vermin.
The situation has changed. All of us from a right-wing background need to examine carefully the sources we read.
Vast corruption in Venezuela? It could not be so! The CIA made it all up! Whippie!
Venezuela and Brazil took very different turns. Socialist Lula was pragmatic and went after
the so called "third ways" and did not ruin his country's economy in the process. But I suppose
Brazil booming is also a CIA plot...just to make Venezuela look bad.
Venezuela, with huge oil deposits and revenues, is an economic basket case. What might be the cause of that?
None of the business locals I talked to within Venezuela think that the 2 billion figure is accurate. They think it is much more.
Capital flight within Venezuela has been catastrophic, and the rampant criminality is not just a social and economic problem, it is also a tool used by the government to go after opponents. Nearly all the opposition media has been shut down and any Venezuelan of any means seems to be hedging their bets with homes in other countries.
Meanwhile, oil production has plummeted, with control of production often awarded to incompetent cronies instead of
capable professionals, so production has fallen from 3 million BPD to about 1.5 million BPD.
The only choices out there are not always between the devil and the deep.
But of course, anyone who opposes those events must by definition be CIA stooge or an employee of the Rockefellers.