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Related: About this forumWikiLeaks report cites corruption in Venezuela production
The destruction of Venezuelan production in favor of imports is worsening the scarcity problem and creating corruption by those who want to obtain bigger contracts, says a report by the private intelligence firm Stratfor released by WikiLeaks.
The report, which covers part of the more than 5 million emails revealed by the online organization, indicates that officials of President Hugo Chávezs administration involved in importing food stockpile products to justify new transactions.
According to the report, the loss of thousands of tons of food in ports can be attributed in part to corrupt officials practice of not releasing products acquired abroad.
As long as there is scarcity of a certain product, importers can present a strong argument for the need to import even more products, and therefore we have warehouses packed with products that are rotting and power generators that are useless, says the report written in the middle of 2010.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/07/2681671/wikileaks-report-cites-corruption.html#storylink=cpy
Wilms
(26,795 posts)It should read, "Stratfor report cites corruption in Venezuela production".
And if Stratfor says so...
txlibdem
(6,183 posts)Transparent as glass.
Zorro
(15,748 posts)Are the previously reported dockside warehouses of rotting food accurate?
If true, what's your analysis of the root cause of the problem? A conspiracy of importers deliberately trying to make the Chavez government look incompetent?
txlibdem
(6,183 posts)I trust no mainstream media sources in Venezuela.
Who owns them? The wealthy. Who is the opposition to Chavez? The wealthy. Who owns FAUX NEWS? Some wealthy guy from Australia.
Zorro
(15,748 posts)Since you can't or won't refute the contents of the OP, you've openly declared that you selectively ignore mainstream reports of corruption and incompetence in the Chavez administration. Hardly the mark of a gifted mind.
But then you also felt compelled to notify others that articles I post are anti-Chavez. Well duh.
Here's a clue, txdimlib: this isn't an exclusively pro-Chavez message group. Hugo the pig has squandered the wealth of Venezuela implementing ill-considered economic policies and promoting agendas that reward political loyalty over administrative competence. Articles that highlight such corruption are newsworthy, despite your decision to ignore them.
txlibdem
(6,183 posts)Just some hater who wrote an anti-Chavez hit piece that got picked up by the Miami Herald. Where are the pictures? Where are the eye witnesses? Where are the supposedly corrupt officials? Nowhere except in the mind of the haters.
But if it came from the official state media I think you'd be saying it's got to be a lie or a trick of the Chavez Administration.
Your views are clear, transparent. I don't need to explain that I care about ALL Venezuelans, not only the rich and the business interests there. I'll take my side over yours any day of the week.
Zorro
(15,748 posts)"..The cargoes came to light last month when state intelligence agents were investigating the theft of powdered milk. The government admits that 30,000 tonnes of food are rotting in the port of Puerto Cabello alone. Opposition media put the total so far at over 75,000 tonnes, or around a fifth of what PDVAL, the state company responsible, imported in 2009. The companys former president, Luis Pulido, has been arrested for corruption and up to 20 other officials may suffer the same fate...."
http://www.economist.com/node/16326418
"...Church leaders said the failure of the state-owned PDVAL, a subsidiary of the national oil company, to distribute food imports that rotted at the shores was "a sin that Heaven is crying over."
Several thousands tons of rotting meat was among 80,000 tons left to go bad at the Puerto Cabello seaport..."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/venezuela/7849749/Chavez-pushes-Venezuela-into-food-war.html
"...Comptroller Russián said that his agency would impose the appropriate penalties to those found responsible for the case of rotten food which his office has investigated since 2008..."
http://www.eluniversal.com/2010/06/25/en_ing_esp_rotten-food-scandal_25A4086333.shtml
"...Virginia Mares, the president of the Venezuelan Food Producer and Distributor (Pdval), a food chain attached to state-run oil holding Petróleos de Venezuela (Pdvsa) under the Ministry of Food, claimed that the finding of more than 26,000 tons of food stranded in Puerto Cabello seaport did not take her unawares. They could do nothing, she alleged..."
http://www.eluniversal.com/2010/06/09/en_eco_esp_food-was-not-rotten_09A3988931.shtml
naaman fletcher
(7,362 posts)txlibdem has never made a single post of substance. it's all just personal attacks on the author or the poster, followed by a refusal for any sort of backing up of claims made.
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)They just talk shit.
More interesting for lulz than anything else.