I'm going to ask if any readers, can give me an example of any country that's willing to allow foreigners to visit and permit them to publicly discredit the political and internal affairs of that country!
Please name one…
So ... what, in effect, the Chavez administration has done is to advise these so-called intellectuals to keep their opinions to the main subject of the Forum and to be aware that the government will not allow them to rail against our domestic affairs....
But why is the Government doing this? Why?:
In August 2008 Mario Vargas Llosa visited Venezuela and severely criticized the government of Hugo Chavez claiming that Venezuela's chief executive "does not believe in the democracy" and calling on the people to mobilize itself against the legitimate Head of State.
In October 2008 he said that Evo Morales (Bolivia) and Hugo Chavez were "destroying" their countries because ... in Chavez' case, he was taking it "towards authoritarian perdition with already known consequences."
Due to Vargas Llosa's stance, Venezuelan journalist Jose Vicente Rangel said: " in his neoliberal delirium, (Mario) Vargas Llosa usually expresses a peculiar form of fascism, he attacks the Latin American people's will of change and attacks nations like Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Argentina, with the typical arrogance of the intellectual incapable to surpass the frustration that produced into him the humiliating political defeat that he received from his own compatriots."
Let us now, describe these Intellectuals' antecedents:
Alvaro Vargas Llosa is a Peruvian journalist with a noticeable liberal and anti-socialist tendency; at the moment he directs the Center for Global Prosperity ... an US-American organization at the service of the empire� Vargas LLosa's son also has an ample record at the service of the United States of America ... he was the press chief during the Democratic Front's electoral campaign in 1990 for the right wing Peruvian presidential candidate Alejandro Toledo (2000/2001). He also has directed the editorial pages of the Miami newspaper El Nuevo Herald and he represents the Chilean group Copesa in the United States ... a right-wing journalistic partnership with a truly anti-socialist tendency.
Mario Vargas Llosa (father of Alvaro) is also connected with right-wing political currents ... he despises anything considered beneficial to ordinary citizens, without regard for the fact that many intellectuals have been devoured in the drama of their own regional retaliations.
Plinio Apuleyo is a Colombian national with a degree in journalism who has great affection for right-wing sectors and a sickening rejection of any social and/or liberation movements to alleviate conditions for the poor. He has, at various times, been a contribitor to the Colombian right-wing Time newspaper and he maintains that to emphasize popular achievements is detrimental.
Jorge Castaneda has been accused on numerous occasions of being an agent of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) ... he was Mexican President Fox' External Relations Secretary until 2003 and one his "achievements" was almost to rupture 100 years of harmonious relations between Cuba and Mexico. This claim "intellectual" was a member of the consultative Council of the Stanford Financial Group under international swindle-banker R. Allen Stanford. In one of his published editorials published in the Spanish newspaper El Pais, Castaneda said that Venezuela's judicial power is in the hands of Hugo Chavez, since most of its judiciary are in support of socialism promoted by the President.
To say that a judicial system is controlled by a President since the majority of its judges are members of a political party that won a democratic election process, is so stupid as to allege that to be independent, it should be composed exclusively by magistrates selected from the opposition parties!
So ... these "intellectuals" have been invited by the CEDICE NGO to "reflect" on subjects such as freedom, democracy, property and how to combat poverty..."
On the other hand, based on their track records of mis-conduct, the government can only conclude that their true objective in coming to Venezuela is to cause problems and, this being so, it is the government's responsibility to let them know that that kind of conduct from a foreign guest in our country will not be tolerated any more than it would be tolerated anywhere else!
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