jueves, 22 de enero de 2009

DARK AND BRIGHT SIDES OF VENEZUELANS.

Beloved novelist, citizen and president Gallegos
Respected citizen and President Raul Leoni.


Dictator Perez Jimenez
and the Joker!!







It is not easy being a Venezuelan these days. Living in our country is a high-risk affair, as illustrated by the 101,470 Venezuelans who have died violently during the last ten years, a tragic official statistic that has placed Venezuela as the most dangerous country in the hemisphere. Few Venezuelans, especially in the large urban areas, dare to go out at night. Meanwhile, food shortages are increasing and the average housewife has to visit half a dozen markets in order to find all she needs, provided she can afford it. Often she will have to return home without some of the basic components of the Venezuelan diet: coffee, rice, milk, and meat of some sort, sugar or corn flour. When watching television, be it a baseball game, a soap opera or the news, the families never know when the face of President Hugo Chavez will fill the screen, signaling the beginning of yet another national, compulsive media hookup, in which the president will discuss global political problems such as the Gaza crisis or will denounce a new attempt on his life. During his ten-year government Chavez has imposed on Venezuelans 2700 hours of national hookups or “cadenas”, as they are called locally, in a shocking demonstration of abuse of power.
Sometimes the “cadenas” are mercifully interrupted by blackouts, which are becoming more and more frequent due to lack of the necessary investment in new electrical power and distribution infrastructure which, in turn, derives from insufficient income of the electrical distribution company. This company, CADAFE, is technically broke, as only half of its clients have meters, only half of metered clients are billed and only half of billed clients pay, which means that less than 15 percent of the energy distributed is paid for. Massive transport, with the exception of the still effective Caracas Metro, is highly unreliable. Waiting for a bus is an exercise in patience or, even, hope. Once inside the bus there is no guarantee that the trip will be completed, as they tend to break down with great frequency. If there were a term that could define the life of a Venezuelan today, it would be “unpredictable”. Venezuelans start out from their homes in the morning and do not know if they return in one piece. Everyday is a lottery and, often, an adventure.
Traveling abroad can be a heroic enterprise. Taking an international 9 a.m. flight out of Caracas means getting up at 4 a.m. to be at the airport with plenty of time to go through the slow and often inefficient police and customs staff. The traveler is never certain that something wrong will not be found with his documents, an eventuality that usually calls for a last minute bribe to be able to depart. The existing foreign exchange controls limit Venezuelans to a dollar quota of $2,500 per year for foreign travel. Exchange controls have generated significant corruption, as Venezuelans have to bribe government bureaucrats in order to get more dollars at the official exchange rate. The alternative would be to buy them in the black market, at more than twice the official rate.
Once abroad Venezuelans are often subjected to especially severe or disdainful treatment. Since the country is now a major drug distributing center and even some government organizations, including the armed forces, are involved in the trade, many travelers coming from Venezuela are carefully monitored. My wife and I, although now living in the U.S., were singled out at London’s Heathrow airport, from a long line of multiple nationalities, and interrogated in some detail because of our Venezuelan passports. Another reason for being singled out is the increasing links of the Venezuelan government with international terrorism. The alignment of President Chavez with Iran, Syria, the Hizballah group and the Colombian FARC terrorists earmark Venezuelan travelers as potential “bad guys”, especially if they are of Arab descent. In oil consuming countries there is a tendency to believe, not without some good reasons, that Venezuela is one of the major culprits for oil becoming so expensive in the recent past and this often makes Venezuelans unwelcome. The authoritarian figure of Hugo Chavez is not seen with kind eyes in most of the developed world and Venezuelans are often (and unjustly) identified with their leader.
No, it is not easy being a Venezuelan in the XXI century. I remember attending the University of Tulsa in the 1950’s and rapidly becoming a favorite of the community, due to my heavy Spanish accent, brown eyes and general exotic look. Today, these very same attributes are the ones that make some of my countrymen suspicious when abroad. I remember the U.S. as a heaven for Latin Americans who wanted to study and become educated at its multiple academic institutions. As a result of 9/11, overpopulation and illegal immigration problems, much of the magic cordiality and warmth that I remember enjoying is no longer available to the Venezuelans who have arrived in later years, although it cannot be said that there is open hostility. In most places of the United States the young Venezuelan students are still extremely well treated, often better than in their own country.

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It could be argued that Venezuelans deserve what they got. For decades we lived the grand life of the new rich, enjoying a very strong and stable currency, traveling to Miami for the weekend to go on shopping sprees or to neighboring Aruba, where some of the most arrogant of my country people would jump into the swimming pools with clothes on and a half full bottle of champagne Crystal, like if there was no tomorrow and the place belonged to them.
Some of our less than desirable traits include the belief that we are a “special people”. We have a messianic certainty that Venezuelans were created to “liberate” other countries and to fight other people’s battles. We think we live in the belly button of the planet and have an exaggerated sense of the importance of our geopolitical role. It is true that Bolivar, the liberator of five nations, was born in Venezuela and that a disproportionately large percentage of the pioneers of Latin American independence were Venezuelan but, frankly, this only tells us where we came from, not where we are going.
Another unpleasant characteristic of many Venezuelans is their disdain for protocol and good manners. Many of us believe that rules and procedures apply to others but not to us. In public events we will speak well beyond our allotted time since we are convinced that what we have to say is too important. In meeting a queen or the Pope we try to pat them in the back and call them by their first name, exaggerating an equalitarian attitude that can be an asset in the proper doses.
A third not so nice characteristic of Venezuelans is vulgar language. This is certainly not restricted to Venezuelans nowadays but we seem to overdo it. In Venezuelan public places, such as restaurants, loud and obscene conversations between Venezuelans of any gender are common, without regard for the right of others to eat in peace. Civil conversation is frequently taken as a sign of prudery or, even, hypocrisy. I had a friend in my hometown that kept telling me “real men should talk dirty and never use deodorants”. He died single. This trait has been passionately defended by extreme left intellectuals who claim that “vulgar” language is, after all, the language of the common man, of the “real” people.
A fourth attitudinal shortcoming of Venezuelans is their reluctance to acknowledge someone else’s success or attributes. My countrymen/women are always ready to criticize others but very slow to compliment. In reply to my articles I receive 10 criticisms for every compliment (I hope this is not what I deserve). I remember growing up in Los Teques, a small Venezuelan town and being the object of much derision due to my skinny and ungainly six-foot frame and to my acne. Once I arrived at the University of Tulsa, I only heard words of encouragement. I was able to regain my self-esteem. If I had not left Los Teques I probably would not have been able to develop into a normal, self-confident person.
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In spite of these undesirable characteristics Venezuelans possess a bright side that should also be listed since it counterbalances the negative traits mentioned above and have made it possible for us to face today’s trials and challenges with hope in the future.
I believe the best quality of Venezuelans is their sense of humor. It could be argued that this sense of humor has often served to lull Venezuelan society into lassitude at moments in history when it should have been more pro-active but there is no doubt that our sense of humor has allowed us to face misfortune in good spirits. At the danger of over simplification I believe this is due to our lack of what Spanish philosopher Miguel de Unamuno called “the tragic sense of life” (El sentido trágico de la vida). We refuse to take life seriously. I still don’t know if this is a quality or a shortcoming but I am almost sure that it has made it possible for my countrymen/women, to live a happier life. Very few Venezuelans commit suicide. Even funerals lack the somber quality that they possess in more solemn societies. In Venezuela a wake (un velorio) is as good an occasion as any to share the newest joke, piece of gossip or political rumor. In fact the deceased would have known that this was coming, as he/she had participated (actively) in similar affairs many times in the past. Coffee, in the wee hours of the morning often becomes laced with rum or cognac and it becomes increasingly difficult for the mourners to keep a straight face. Venezuelan sense of humor is especially good at taking the sting out of the daily miseries they have to suffer, due to bad government. Humor is one powerful way to liberate sentiments of protest and this probably explains why we have had dictators in power for so long. As a geologist I know that a major earthquake will not take place as long as thousands of very minor tremors liberate the energy that would create the big one. Venezuelans joke away their frustrations and penuries and, in doing so, spend much of the energy that would allow them to change their condition.
The second quality that I have seen at work in my country is equalitarian sense. We feel at ease in presence and company of the rich and the poor alike. This is no small attribute and certainly makes life much more enjoyable. During my already long and happy life I have had the opportunity of seeing 15 presidents at work in my country. Of these, only two, Marcos Perez Jimenez and Hugo Chavez have been authoritarian, abusive leaders. All the rest have been highly democratic civilians, without imperial or monarchic pretensions. I shook hands, at one time or another, with ten of them and seriously drank together with one. But this quality is not restricted to people in positions of high power. It is something that can be seen in daily life, at all levels of society (with the exception of small pockets of elitism in some cities like Caracas and Valencia). People mostly address each other on a first name basis, not a sign of disrespect but as a genuine sign of equalitarian feelings. I remember that the most formal treatment my petroleum workmen ever used in talking to me was “Dr. Gustavo”, an affectionate but erroneous treatment since I was not a doctor, just a geologist. Although never belonging to the upper classes, in the economic sense, I never had any problems accessing all Venezuelans, high and low, whenever I wished. Everybody could choose freely his or her group of friends, of course, but no one was excluded from participation because of economic or social status, as long as it had something to contribute. Those who did not have the money were often included because of their talent. I must admit, however, that political exclusion has been for many years an acute problem in Venezuela, one that prevented large sectors of the population from participating fully in the decision-making processes of the nation. This problem, in fact, is still very much present in Chavez’s Venezuela.
The equalitarian sense of Venezuelans has made for very porous social boundaries. Talent and perseverance have frequently made up the path to wealth and/or social status. Many Venezuelans have become accepted at the highest levels of society without having to become wealthy or politically powerful. Famous writers, university professors, scientists, humorists, sportsmen and musicians have become revered in life without ever leaving the ranks of the middle-middle class: poet Aquiles Nazoa, composer Inocente Carreño, writers Antonio Arraiz, Mariano Picon Salas, Mario Briceño Iragorry and Alejandro Garcia Maldonado, poet Andres Eloy Blanco, novelist Romulo Gallegos, scientists Enrique Tejera and Arnoldo Gabaldon are only a few of the notable Venezuelans who excelled at their work while belonging to a brilliant middle class that became the main characteristic of twentieth century Venezuela.
The third quality I admire in my countrymen is their well-developed sense of social solidarity. I must qualify this statement by saying that this sense of social solidarity is the greatest among the poorer segments of the population. The poor tend to be more generous with their time and money than the rich and the upper-middle class. In particular, the Venezuelans from small towns and rural communities are the salt of the earth, always ready to help and to be kind to those who are down in their luck. They look upon others as part of an extended family. Growing up in Los Teques I remember our neighborhood as a place where we could eat in any house, play with any children and be protected by non-related adults as if we were their own.
A fourth enjoyable quality of Venezuelans is their ear for music and almost genetically acquired ability to play instruments. Many families have violins, drums, guitars and “cuatros”(small, ukulele-like, four string guitars) in their closets, ready to be used at the earliest opportunity. Serenading is still common in smaller cities and towns. This musical ability made it possible for Jose Antonio Abreu, a Venezuelan musician and economist, to start, 30 years ago, a program to teach classical music to poor children. Today there are almost half a million Venezuelan youth in this program and one of it many products, 27-year old Gustavo Dudamel, is the musical director at the Los Angeles Philharmonic. A Venezuelan “cuatro” player, playing in a town restaurant, will easily go from playing a folkloric air from the Venezuelan plains into a Bach-like fugue. In fact, I have a recording of such a hybrid, the beautiful air from Bach’s second suite for strings, suddenly converted into a “seis por derecho”, a variety of the Venezuelan “joropo”, the traditional folkloric air of the plains.
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It is not easy being a Venezuelan in today’s world. And yet, I look at our future full of hope. As Robert Browning once said and Frank Sinatra repeated much later I firmly believe: “The best is yet to come”. I am sure that, at this very moment, a child is being born in a small Venezuelan village that will live in happiness, justice and prosperity.

16 comentarios:

Anónimo dijo...

Bless you Gustavo. You have hit the nail on the head with this commentary. As always you are so atuned to the life of Venezuelans and are able to relate that to foreigners. I have had the great pleasure to live among the population for over 20 years, both the rich and the poor and have adored them and their great spirit. We just recently sold our humble apartment in Pampatar, but will continue to visit Margarita as often as possible. Thankyou again for your great contribution. Hopefully the power of your words will make a difference to the new Venezuelan babies being born today and in the future. Riki

Anónimo dijo...

Mi comentario ya fue escrito en español,no te escudes en el ingles coronel.por que hasta en EEUU eres repudiado

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Kate dijo...

Anonimo #2: What the heck are you talking about?!

Como es que sabe que es repudiado aqui en EEUU? Esta aqui? (Y no me aviso?! jaja)

Arcangel Vulcano dijo...

Respetado Geologo Gustavo Coronel.

Nos es muy grato saludarle en la oportunidad de comunicarle que
recientemente el conocido y prestigioso blog venezolano Resistencia Catia-Caracas http://resistenciacatiacaracas.blogspot.com/,editado por la respetada Katya ha distinguido nuestro blog Epicentro Hispánico otorgándonos el premio “Blog Destemido” lo cual nos honra y llena de alegría. Aceptamos dicho galardón, considerándolo un gran estímulo y motivación.

De conformidad con las reglas del premio,le hemos tranferido y otorgado el mencionado galardón a su excelente blog.Si es de su interés, puede pasar por nuestro blog a enterarse de los detalles.

Un farternal saludo.

Anónimo dijo...

Hola Kate
Como saber si coronel es repudiado?
No hay que hacer un gran esfuerzo del intelecto para enterarse de ello Kate,con solo leer sus panfletos y la cantidad de personas que los comentan(incluyendo los aduladores y los criticos)te indican lo repudiado que es coronel por sus lectores que somos como cinco incluyendo al ultimo que se las da de psiquiatra y esta mas loco que una cabra de montaña,otra forma de analizar el repudio para coronel,es que en uno de sus escritos-creo que era en contra de la reforma-se tomo una foto con sus colegas manifestantes en la embajada de Venezuela en EEUU con una multitud de personas-eran cuatro(4)incluyendolo a el-.
Pero realizando un analisis(es lo que esta de moda)mas real y actual,quien va a estar de acuerdo con una persona que denigra,ofende y odia la tierra donde nacio(por desgracia para nosotros),que odia a sus coterraneos por el hecho de ser revolucionarios y querrer un mejor futuro para todos,que desfalco a su pais en conchupancia con los yanquis con los "convenios" de la faja "bituminosa del orinoco"(sacaria ya la cuenta del desfalco).
¿Quien no repudia a un desalmado como coronel?
Solo los caimanes de un mismo pozo no se repudian,como ejemplo esta el tal arcangel vulcano que lo trata de respetado.....
De seguro este arcangel es otro de la distinguida e ilustrada directiva de la antigua PDVSA de la 4 y "socio" de los "negocios" de coronel con los yanquis(investigaremos),que seran arcangeles del 666 coro de lucifer para interceder entre sus demonios(ellos)

"La grandeza no consiste en recibir honras,sino en merecerlas"

Aristoteles

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Anónimo dijo...

Rússia e Venezuela: caçando (com "ç" mesmo) e matando dissidentes...

POr Robert R. Amsterdam, no Jornal "O Estado de São Paulo":

Os governos de Hugo Chávez, na Venezuela, e de Vladimir Putin, na Rússia, experimentam uma vigorosa e florescente amizade recíproca. Embora estejam separados por quase 10 mil quilômetros, o laço que une os dois líderes é selado não apenas por seus gostos parecidos por autoritarismo, expropriações de petróleo e grandes acordos sobre armas, mas também pelas tendências paralelas de aumento de violência e criminalidade nas ruas de suas cidades.
O assassinato político de maior destaque desde o que vitimou a jornalista Anna Politkovskaia ocorreu na Rússia na segunda-feira, quando o defensor de direitos humanos Stanislav Markelov, de 34 anos, foi morto com um tiro à queima-roupa na cabeça. A repórter que o acompanhava também foi morta. Três dias antes, o radialista Orel Zambrano era assassinado na Venezuela. Os motivos não foram acidentais.
Putin e Chávez governam apoiados num sentimento penetrante de violência e insegurança em suas capitais, que resultou em ataques paralelos politicamente motivados contra a oposição. Na Rússia, essa tendência foi ilustrada pela morte a tiros de Politkovskaia e, mais recentemente, o espancamento quase fatal do jornalista Mikhail Beketov, entre muitos outros. No mês passado, só na Venezuela ocorreram 510 mortes violentas, o que levou a revista Foreign Policy a chamar Caracas de "capital mundial do homicídio".
Na Rússia, ataques de nacionalistas contra estrangeiros chamaram a atenção da mídia internacional. Na Venezuela, três líderes estudantis de oposição foram mortos em ataques de rua. Os dois países têm experimentado um aumento das manifestações públicas por causa da crise econômica e os protestos têm sofrido uma dura repressão policial.
Como dizem que Putin e Chávez governam com "punhos de aço", uma questão preocupante se coloca: Por que eles não têm conseguido conter a onda de crime em suas ruas? Será um reflexo de incompetência, ou existirá alguma benefício tácito em manter uma sociedade aprisionada sob o manto de insegurança grave e pânico moral?

Anónimo dijo...

Otro pitiyanquito,y brasileño,el cree que aun mos pueden engañar con sus falacias igual que coronel.
¿Amigo brasileño por que cree ud que en Brasil existen las favelas y tanta desigualdad entre su gente?
Por las mismas causas que existieron en Venezuela,Ecuador,Bolivia y que aun existen en otros paises latinos,gracias a dios llego el comandante Chavez y cambio el panorama en Venezuela,el continente y el mundo para que lo sepas,ni mil mentiras como las tuyas y las de coronel torceran la verdad.
Gracias debes darle a dios que Lula esta gobernando Brasil,a la fecha tiene superavit en su economia con una pujante industria y un desarrollo tecnologico que ud conoce mejor que yo,pero su desamor por la patria e irrespetuosidad por su pais es mayor que su idolatria por el imperio opresor de los desposeidos y marginados de siempre,continuen con su desamor por la gente que ellos saben como retribuirles su accion inhumana

"El mejor gobierno es el que desea y hace feliz al pueblo y sabe como lograrlo"

Macaulay


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Gustavo Coronel dijo...

Tanto odio de este anónimo (en español)!! Debe ser algun empleado fracasado de la industria, a quien no se le dió promoción cuando PDVSA era meritocrática. Esos resentidos son los peores, nunca olvidan. A juzgar por sus continuas referencias al petróleo de la Faja y sus risibles explicaciones a Ed sobre la orimulsión,es seguro que jamás pasó de ser un oficinista de tercera.
Escribo mi blog para decir lo que quiero decir. Cada articulo de mi blog llega automaticamente a unas 500 personas y estos artículos son reproducidos por decenas de otros blogs en todo el mundo (ver, por ejemplo, www.europeancourier.com y www.analitica.com).
Muchos lectores me leen sin comentar. También escribo en Human Events donde mis artículos pueden tener 100 o más comentarios (ver por ejemplo mi carta a Sean Penn en ese portal, con 130 comentarios) o miss doce otros artículos punlicados allí (pero es en inglés, anonimo). Escribo también en petroleumworld.com, en noticierodigital.com donde mis escritos tienen entre 3000 y 4000 lecturas a la semana y, algunos, han tenido más de 15.000 (eso es documentable). Allí generalmente los comentarios son numerosos y muy favorables,aunque creo que anónimo también me descarga por allí, bajo seudónimo, por supuesto.
En todo caso, celebro que este pobre caballero me siga leyendo. Para ser efectivo en este asunto se necesitan enemigos que nos odien tabto como amigos que nos quieran!

Anónimo dijo...

La verdad duele coronel,solo te queda denigrar y ofender irresponsable e irracionalmente,llamas odio a las verdades que menciono en tu blog(el menos leido segun tu)y llamas meritocracia al comportamiento que desempeñaste en la "ilustrada" y "distinguida" PDVSA de los años 70 por realizar los "convenios" con el bitumen con tus amos yanquis.
Que bueno seria que tus blog lleguen a tanta gente como tu dices,por que ahora publicare mis escritos alli mismo-gracias por el dato-.
Tienes razon en una sola cosa coronel,nunca olvidaremos el saqueo que realizaste al pais con tus camarillas cuando dirigian PDVSA,nunca jamas lo olvidaremos-ten la seguridad de eso-y no solo los Venezolanos no lo olvidaremos,en este momento el pueblo Boliviano acaba de decir si a la nueva constitucion de su pais con el 62%-por ahora-
¿Tu sabes por que la aprobaron?
Por que no aceptaran nunca jamas el despojo y desfalco de sus riquezas como lo venian haciendo las trasnacionales y los apatridas que tu defiendes,muestra de ello es que Bolivia tenia 50 años cerrando sus cuentas fiscales con deficit,hasta el 2.006 cuando bajo el mando del camarada Evo Morales por primera vez en 50 años Bolivia cierra sus cuentas con superavit,igual el 2.007 y 2.008,eso es lo que estamos cambiando en latinoamerica-para no ir tan lejos-
estamos cambiando el estado opresor y corrupto como tu lo conoces por el estado democratico donde la mayoria del pueblo es quien decide su futuro,que ve promisor en Bolivia,Ecuador y mas aun en Venezuela,por ello coronel no volveran al poder por estas tierras benditas por dios.
Llamalo como quieras,pero las evidencias de los hechos actuales escriben la historia noble tal cual esta sucediendo,como escribio la historia nefasta de la 4 republica donde eras actor principal.
No es odio coronel(no guardo plata menos resentimientos que enferman el alma)es la verdad lo que te duele y mi me reconforta escribirla y hacerla conocer(ahora mas por el dato).
Te propongo una apuesta ¿El % del si por la enmienda en Venezuela sera mayor al % alcanzado hoy en Bolivia por su constitucion?
DE ser mayor el % del si(como tu calculas)deberas contarnos el % de lo que recibias por los convenios de la faja del orinoco,dale pues

"El precio de la grandeza es la responsabilidad"

Churchill

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Kate dijo...

Me voy de vacaciones unos días y pierdo el diálogo. Querido Anónimo, le respondo esta noche :)

Anónimo dijo...

Ao "Anónimo" que odeia o Coronel e defende o Coronel Mierda Roja: você, quando nasceu deve ter olhado para trás e se assustado muito... tão assustado, que se tornou um recalcado, um chavista!

Kate dijo...
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Kate dijo...

Hola Anonimo,

Todo lo que dice sobre Gustavo es su opinion, y tiene todo el derecho a decirlo, respetuosamente como siempre lo hace. Pero repudiado aqui en USA? No, no se... quizas por los mentecatos de la VIO y los inutiles de la Embajada Bolibanana, digo Bolivariana, aqui en DC. Pues por eso le pregunte si Ud esta aqui o no. Con respecto a la foto que menciona, yo estaba en la Embajada ese dia y habia mas de cuatro personas. Yo llegue por la tarde y habia al menos 25 de nosotros. En fin...

Por que siempre dice que odia su tierra natal? Este refran es tan pesado, como el repetitivo "no volveran pitiyanquitos". Siempre lo dice sin ofrecer pruebas. Yo no vivo en mi tierra natal...eso significa que odio Colombia? Nunca he leido que Gustavo odia a los revolucionarios. Seria que Ud tuviese un complejo de inferioridad? Uds los chavistas son venezolanos; los opositores tambien son venezolanos. Tienen pensamientos completamente distintos, son de toldas politicas diferentes, y eso no tiene nada de malo. El problema se les viene cuando las dos partes -tanto los chavistas como los opositores- quieren odiarse mas que quieren resolver los problemas del pais.

Que este bien, amigo!

Kate dijo...

Y, para que los lectores sepan: el comentario eliminado a las 18:57 no fue censurado. Lo elimine yo porque habia no se cuantos errores ortograficos, pues me dio verguenza.

Anónimo dijo...

Hola Kate
Quien denigra de sus compatriotas,quien desea mal a su pais,quien comete hechos que lesionan las finanzas y patrimonio de su pais,quien traiciona a su pais,quien no ama la tierra donde nacio
¿Que es lo que siente para comportarse asi? tu mente te ha dado la respuesta a esta interrogante.
Los refranes pueden ser pesados,pero lo que es verdad es que siempre menciono por que no volveran,te recuerdo que es por el daño causado a este heroico pueblo,el desfalco,el robo y la miseria que hicieron pasar por muchoa años a mi pueblo revolucionario,algunos nos comparan con una republica bananera,pero muchos de nuestros hermanos latinos y de otros continentes son recibidos con los barzos abiertos para que nos acompañen a comer bananas,un ejemplo de ello son los 4 millones(como minimo)de hermanos colombianos conviviendo con nosotros a fuerza de bananas.
El hecho de que alguien te llame inferior,no quiere decir que ese alguien sea superior!!!!
La parte chavista quiere resolver los problemas como se ha demostrado en salud,educacion,cultura,economia y finanzas,es aqui en finanzas donse salen los del otro bando a "tumbar" la mesa por que sus groseros privilegios han sido eliminados ,como es el caso de coronel.

Mis respetos Kate

"En Venezuela un solo hombre ha despertado a todo un pueblo,a todo un continente,a todo el mundo"

M.I.O

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Kate dijo...

Hola Anonimo, primero que todo perdon, no vi que habia respondido al hilo! mea culpa :)

Concuerdo con Ud que habia malandros en la Cuarta que despilfarron Venezuela, pero como bien sabemos los dos ya no estamos en la Cuarta, estamos en la Quinta. No se puede cambiar el pasado; pero sii se puede cambiar lo que pasa en la actualidad. Por que no tratar de trabajar con los funcionarios que gobiernan ahora? Por que el pueblo revolucionario siente obligado a vengarse por todos los males que le ha pasado en la Cuarta? Esa actitud de resentimiento social sigue contribuyendo cada vez mas a la division dentro del digno pueblo venezolano.

Una pregunta: Ud conoce personalmente a Gustavo? Se que sabe quien es, pero lo conoce?

Saludos, amigo!