Friday, November 20, 2009

How To Hide Tongue Piercings

A revolution misspelled


Alejandro Ruiz

The Venezuelan opposition illustrated that for 40 years controlled the absolute power to govern because she knew he could write well, not like those "bands of lumpen-government (...) and military bandalaje now governs us, unable to learn and respect the language that identifies us. " So we 'reported' with nostalgia an editorial in El Nacional . But sometimes happens that even the most vile slanderer is drowned in his own hatred.

The bourgeoisie and its parties ruled Venezuela assimilated so well that left a million and half illiterate for the Chavez government's literacy and will provide free access to the university to another both excluded.

If something does not forgive the bourgeoisie and 'cultured people' to Hugo Chavez and his humble followers, in addition to the political, economic, social and cultural trying to build, is that people 'inferior' to their status and refined Glamour now Oil govern this country without seeking permission. And more seriously, as these great men of the opposition, is the suffering of being governed by ordinary beings who make mistakes in spelling, grammar that do not grow, do not care about syntax or calligraphy Palmer. In short, true 'hordes of the dictatorship' that torture civil society with such human rights violation of his superior intellect.

The array of opinion in the private media is to dilute the historical reality of class struggle and present the current confrontation as a struggle between civilization and barbarism revolutionary between neoliberal modernity and backwardness of socialism. The idea is to try to assert that the ruling bourgeoisie is intelligence and that the insurgent people is ignorance. The newspaper El Nacional is a sample of this systematic campaign. E n

editorial on 12/09/2009 (p. 8N), entitled "missed opportunity", the distinguished ladies and gentlemen of The National mock a once painted slogans on the walls of the Central Bank of Venezuela a group of supporters of President Chávez. Giggle furiously with a member of the Venezuelan Academy of Language note:

The pints were written by "... the bands of lumpen-government (...) Most of these attacks were adorned misspelled very own military bandalaje now governs us, unable to learn and respect the language that identifies us. "

also assure us the guardians of the paradigms that written phrase El Nacional, nor the parliamentarians of the National Assembly can write and therefore does not make laws as good as before. At least not as they had drafted the law firms and multinationals such as constitutional scholars who drafted the decree Carmona dictatorship in April 2002.

One of those columnists, in an article titled "Oppressive Pedagogy ( IN , 26.9.2009, p. 9N), writes deputies to the National Assembly (the vast majority Chavez) pass laws "... without even noticing the spelling or the grammar ..." is Cuban, because "... his few life skills ...." Sure, add, they have the skills of parliamentarians before, like Sanchez Bueno, Octavio Lepage, Paulina Gamus, Hilarion Cardozo and Luis Enrique Oberto. The newspaper

El Nacional to readers are highly educated, and also write articles on "Functional illiteracy" to refer to President Chavez and his cabinet ( IN , 09.18.2009, p. 8C) . Because "... if reading comprehension and knowledge speak, then we must say that the country is led by an illiterate sect ineffective." VENEZUELAN LOCADEMIA


LANGUAGE
turns out that Miguel Henrique Otero, current owner of El Nacional, is such a concern for the good talk and good writing that among the managers of their right-wing movement has an individual 2D Number of the Venezuelan Academy of Language. It also has in his newspaper and M2D members of other academies, so know that the 'Chavez' and the Chavez government intended to make a revolution with the participation of "bands lumpen ruling (...) unable to learn and respect the language that identifies us. "

Nothing comparable to the wisdom of those who ruled in illo tempore. They rule because they knew could write well.

So how do you doubt what is written El Nacional? People as educated and enlightened as we said in an editorial entitled "War on Freedom" (18-09-2009, p. 8N), that freedom of expression is "... subject of the most obsessive attacks by the Government Bolivarian .... " That is, people can hardly reactionary opposition expressed in this country and only 75% cornering mass media distribution in print, audiovisual and radio.

But, continues the editorial, the problem is more serious because it is "a ghost that runs through South America." And worse!, It is a ghost interventionist. Yes, written with s, and because I have no doubt whether it is published in El Nacional . I therefore invite the President Chavez, Chavez's supporters and all supporters of the Bolivarian Revolution to read the final paragraph of this editorial to "learn and respect the language that identifies us, as it should be:

" Argentina has set the pace Venezuela. The bill approved places in the hands of the executive authority interventionist to be used in a punitive manner. "

You know, that does not happen to a "lumpen official" writing on walls: "Out Yankees interventional bases in South America."

Nor is it happening to any member of the "Cult of illiterate ineffective," that now governs, "without even noticing the spelling errors", writing: "The government increased the price of gasoline." We must learn from the truths journalistic and academic teaching El Nacional, that the March 16, 2009 headlined on its front page and four columns: "The government does not rule out increasing gas pressures, with a brand new s.

That happens to these operators of the bourgeoisie and imperialism to disparage the people. With so much hatred and arrogance write the guts take the place of the neurons.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Toddler Sized Wrestling

Chavez coincides with the Communist Party and is harshly critical of his government officials coup Luis Ugalde

Days before PCV questioned an editorial that after 11 years, justifying further improvisation and inefficiency

Popular News Agency .- In its usual weekly radio and television broadcast on Sunday 8 November, the President of the Republic Hugo Chávez Frías, publicly and severely whipped his ministers, deputy ministers, governors and mayors for breaching Bolivarian goals, improvisation in governance, inefficiency and bureaucracy at different levels and agencies.

the issuance of Alo Presidente N º 343, from the plains of Acarigua city, the national president of the Bolivarian Revolution leader criticized the lack of coordination and planning among senior officials. "They have to plan," he said to claim the powerful Minister of Public Works and Housing, the former vice president and former governor Diosdado Cabello, delivery of a lot of homes for rent without having completed the relevant projects of productive employment and community services.

addition, in the act planted two deputy ministers to respond to the delay in project implementation. "If no response is better than saying 'do not know." None of justifications, make-believe, of 'we're at it', 'is expected'. If I was supervisor of you would tighten the nut; revolutionary discipline is needed, because the people expect solutions and ultimately the responsibility of all Chavez ", he questioned communities present, who applauded the public reprimand

"I ask you to give face to the people. We have to assume the faults publicly, it is necessary to assume responsibilities, that makes a revolutionary" demanded the ministers, deputy ministers, governors and mayors Bolivarian.

President Chavez also urged to review "how much is in waste, cost, bureaucracy, we must be efficient to promote socialism." "That's another thing, I hear very few talking about socialism, revolution, remain in superficial. I demand commitment!, and can not, compadre, who will stand, "he added, while recommending them senior officials take a course in strategic planning as well as reading and discussing the classics of Marxism.

PEOPLE NO LONGER IN THE GROUNDS CALAN
The harsh criticism and self-critical of Chavez himself agreed with a recent editorial in the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV), an ally of Venezuelan leader since his first presidential campaign in 1998. The document, published four days before the program Alo Presidente in his newspaper Tribuna Popular No. 171, titled "For if we improvise, err" and is dedicated to the need to plan for no err, to paraphrase a thought from the teacher Simón Rodríguez.

The PCV notes that in December 2009 and met "11 years of the great popular success." And while acknowledging that "the best for Venezuela was the initiation in 1998 of this qualitatively new stage of national liberation revolution, which was a break in the neoliberal policy", warned that "in an increasingly large sector of the Venezuelan population , calan no justifications' puntofijismo forty years', the 'previous governments' ad for' big plans, axes, objectives .... "

The common questions in the various levels of government are not "real critical reviews and above all self-criticism of what is done." And that sometimes is to "justify the improvisation that prevails in many of the policies called" strategic. "

They argue that "nothing original, in the anarchy of the capitalist system, that socialist planning (...) guarantee the satisfaction of basic needs of society."

Friday, October 23, 2009

How Install Tile Around A Tub

Priest confesses: In the opposition, "some want to get rid of Chavez by any means"


Alejandro Ruiz

The rector of the Private Catholic University Andrés Bello (UCAB), Father Luis Ugalde, who a month before the coup of April 2002 blessed the covenant of entrepreneurs, media owners, political and military opposition that overthrew President Hugo Chavez has revealed a newspaper article that the opposition "Some want to leave him [Chavez] by any means, without doing the work necessary democratic." Ugalde

recognized this reality in his column published on Thursday 22 October 2009 in the newspaper El Nacional (p. 9Nación). The article entitled "Dead" confirms that, in the words of an asset and notorious anti-Chavez, who did some sectors of the opposition prepared to liquidate the President Chavez issue have tried to trivialize and ridicule the private media and spokesmen for the counter-revolution in Venezuela and abroad.

The rector of the UCAB should know more than he has publicly confessed, given their experience with the conspirators recognized that along with the dictator Pedro Carmona soon hatched and succeeded-for 47 hours, the overthrow of Chávez in 2002.

An information note from the unsuspicious BBC agency, dated March 6, 2002 and entitled " Venezuela: Chavez post-plan, review the outstanding participation and influence of Luis Ugalde in preparations for the fascist coup of April 11, 2002:

"The business and trade union opposition in Venezuela, with the support of the Catholic Church, presented on Tuesday [03/05/2002] the basis for a transitional government plan to run after what they see impending ouster of President Hugo Chávez .(...) The priest Luis Ugalde, president of Catholic University, was commissioned to express' the happiness "of the leadership of the Catholic Church for the document called 'Guidelines for a Democratic Agreement', which is estimated to join political parties and other sectors of the opposition."

this background it is worth asking the rector Ugalde details on who those who "want to get rid of Chavez by any means."

Monday, October 5, 2009

Curtains To Match Teal Walls

The nationalized Banco de Venezuela coup financed daily El Nacional

An example of inconsistency between discourse and practice in the Bolivarian Revolution


Alejandro Ruiz

What is better than receiving a large soft loan from a bank?: Receive from the bank a big advertising account.

The new revolutionary leadership of the Bank of Venezuela nationalized in 12 weeks of governance, has 72 paid advertisements in the newspaper El Nacional coup and only 3 in the leftist daily See , and no notice in popular alternative and community media to support President Chávez.

Before continuing, it is necessary to clarify that coup journal in the past tense is not April 2002. It is also present. To dispel any doubt about innocent, just see a few news, editorials and opinions expressed in the pages of National The recent weeks and spread very well accompanied with advertising nationalized Banco de Venezuela.

coup do not call the owners of National The news only criticisms publican a diario contra el gobierno, ni siquiera por la manipulación mediática en sus páginas. En realidad nos referimos a la reincidente incitación al golpe de Estado contra Chávez y la Revolución Bolivariana que se cultiva casi todos los días desde El Nacional .

Si la crítica, ciertamente, es revolucionaria y sirve para algo más que para herir susceptibilidades, entonces es tiempo de cuestionar con fuerza la más evidente muestra de incoherencia entre el discurso y la praxis de la política comunicacional en la Revolución Bolivariana: el financiamiento publicitario desde el Gobierno Revolucionario a los medios golpistas que le quieren derrocar, como el caso de El Nacional The far right-wing organization through 2D subversive movement, both-press and brotherhood, led by Miguel Henrique Otero.


For now, let us continue to show the numbers of such inconsistency.

In terms of money, in just 12 weeks, the owners have The National Bank of Venezuela received a generous amount of 3 million Bolivars (BsF 2.94 million, to be exact), equivalent to $ 1.4 million, by way of advertising. To continue this policy of transferring resources through advertising guidelines at the end of 2009 the opposition newspaper have received libelous Bolivars 6.4 million, about $ 3 million, the budget of the new financial entity of the Bolivarian Government, whose nationalization was completed on July 3, 2009.

not include payments for another 2.5 million dollars, made to El Nacional by the English consortium Grupo Santander bank's previous owner, from January to June 2009, while negotiating the nationalization announced Chavez in July 2008 (1).

quickly verify these calculations, according to a simple study from the first week of nationalization until the last week of September 2009:

1 .- The Bank of Venezuela published in El Nacional an average of 6 weekly announcements, which includes a total of 3.5 large-format pages (standard paper) in full color and privileged location, which amounts to BsF estimated $ 245,000 per week (245 million old, equivalent to $ 110,000).
2 .- By multiplying that figure by 12 weeks, confirmed that the bank has transferred the newspaper El Nacional the amount of BsF 2.94 million from July to September 2009.
3 .- In a period of 26 weeks, from July to December 2009, will have accumulated BsF 6.37 million, about $ 3 million in advertising.

If for some figures seem somewhat exaggerated, it is noteworthy that rates of the National are the most expensive in the print media in Venezuela. For example, a full-color advertising in the last entire page, a Sunday, now costs 102,000 BsF daily (102 million old ones, about $ 50,000). Monday through Saturday, depending on location, the same page, full color BsF costs between 60,000 to 77,000 daily BsF (2).

add that the Bank of Venezuela has traditionally been one of the most powerful advertisers in the country, surpassed only by the telecom company Movistar (Telefonica Group), and slightly, Banesco. The bank's advertising account in 2009 is estimated at 40 million Bolivars, about 18 million dollars.

The impact of the advertising account of the Bank of Venezuela in the Venezuelan media has been so great in recent years that the magazine Product (February 2007) outlined that by the year 2007, the account amounted to 30,000 million VEB old, some 14 million dollars, and was driven by the transnational Mindshare, a subsidiary of the largest media consortium of the world, WPP, based in London and New York. Then, from early 2007 the bank account came to be administered by another large consortium global media, Publicis Groupe, based in France.

cake also participates bank media agency The Creative Bus, a derivation of ARS Advertising, which since late 2005 until recently has been responsible for the design of image and advertising campaigns of the Bank of Venezuela.

As seen, the bourgeoisie has no hesitation in managing your advertising arsenal, their capitalist firms, advertising agencies, journalists and mass media have a close relationship of mutual sustainability. Why a company or institution of a revolutionary government has to continue to contribute to that strategy?

NEW IMAGE OLD CUSTOMS
On Monday September 21, 2009, President Chavez attended the event to promote the "Best New Bank of Venezuela", also called "Relaunching the Bank of Venezuela." With a deeper red intense and triangulated tricolor logo logo replacing the former English Grupo Santander, visually the bank wearing a new image.

A few minutes after the presentation, Chavez himself took care to point out that not enough to change the color and logo to be different from the past. Among the things he did and said, I urge the new authorities of the bank to break old patterns and to make the institution at the forefront of the public banking for the Transition to Socialism. When completed the nationalization, July 3, 2009, had expressed similar orientation.

is not the case refer to what they call "financial intermediation function of banks, not now. But if you think that in a country where financial activity is the most profitable businesses, credit is not the only way of distributing resources from the bench. The banks also distribute the money for their millionaire operations when buying goods and services according to their interests and allies. Advertising spending is one of those other visible forms of transfer resources to the media.

In this context, and after 12 weeks under the Revolutionary government administration, it is absurd that the new leadership of the Bank of Venezuela nationalized continue the same policy of promotion and advertising guidelines set by the transnational Grupo Santander.

The same media. in national circulation print media, publications continue to focus, exclusively, in two newspapers: Latest News and Nacional . They also continue the pattern of Banco de Venezuela in consortia of private radios, openly opposing the Chavez government, as the Circuit X , Melody Circuit and Circuit Radio Union.

private channel Venevision, owned by billionaire Gustavo Cisneros, the media is another important benefit from advertising bench now. In addition, you can see the new look of the new Bank of the Bolivarian Revolution in cable channels, so distant from this process of change, as Warner Channel , E! Entertainment and A & E Channel .

not have the same "lucky" community media and revolutionaries, as the weekly themes Venezuela, portal Aporrea , TV channel or Petare First Black Radio, and many others struggling stoically to keep the air very little support volunteer and institutional advertising.

The same lineup of advertisers. Moreover, the Bank of Venezuela continues to registered member # 5 of the National Association of Advertisers (ANDA), an exclusive cartel of 63 large capitalist corporations and Venezuela, which under the cynical slogan "Freedom to choose, freedom to announce "are clumped together in concert to deliver their annual advertising expenditures millionaires to the media in capitalist interest.

In ANDA's website ( www.andaven.org / new ) explain their rationale, as follows: a group of companies "... for the defense and professional improvement of its communication activities in order to efficient investment (...) framed within ethical and legal standards of free enterprise and market economy. " The

Affiliates Directory ANDA financiers known companies are registered in preparation for the April 2002 coup and the ongoing conspiracy against the Bolivarian government, as Alfonso Rivas & Cia (The owner is president of the NGO neoliberal Cedice) Kellogg `s, Epa, Empresas Polar, Coca-cola, Farmatodo, Procter & Gamble, Motorola, Movistar (Telefónica), Nestle, Bimbo, Bayer, Bacardi (illegal) and the seven major private banks, among others.



I say more. The Director of Legal Affairs is the active ANDA coup attorney Juan Manuel Raffalli , an adviser of Pedro Carmona during his brief stay in Miraflores dictatorial. And many of the companies affiliated to the NCA, including the then privatized CANTV, financed by advertising Extra Edition El Nacional on 11th April 2002 on its front page containing the order to blow etat against Chávez: "The final battle will be in Miraflores."

A similar association is still owned by the nationalized Banco de Venezuela. Another detail to be resolved.

LOGIC FOR A REVOLUTIONARY
What Reasons of State, what criteria, what obligations are imposed in the current directors of Banco de Venezuela at the time of advertising millionaire financed these private media, and especially a newspaper as El Nacional, almost every day that encourages more open-veiled "in any way overthrow the government of President Chavez, who nationalized the bank to benefit the country and not privileged financial groups or media?

would be very interesting to hear a logical explanation of the new directors of the new Bank of Venezuela, now owned by all Venezuelans and not the Santander Group.

Better yet would be very interesting to know the opinion and the guidelines of the governing body of all the communications policy of the revolutionary government: the Ministry of Popular Power for Communication and Information (Minci).

revolutionary logic should prevail rather in a scene so stark, and as mentioned, as the media war that exists in Venezuela. In a situation of confrontation between two models antagonistic society, played in all fields of the class struggle, it is imperative to review the role that meet or fail to honor companies and government agencies Bolivariano, including the orientation of its advertising costs as supporters or otherwise of dissemination.

The decision should not be as simple as heading to minimize publicity of the Bank of Venezuela not to continue funding the enemy media owners. That would make the same mistake when Solomon to re-nationalize the largest telecommunications company in the country, and its subsidiary CANTV Movilnet, in private hands that served its role as one of the mainstays of private media, with advertising millionaire, but then, going to the state, did not keep the same proportion of resources to benefit many community media and revolutionaries.

This delayed transition Gramsci, that "it does not stop dying old and the new birth does not end, not enough with the goodwill, which is very important, but not enough in the real world for fight in the field of media war. The most robust

agencies and state enterprises such as the Banco de Venezuela, CANTV, Movilnet, PDVSA, BCV, Minci himself and other authorities should set up a kind of Bolivarian National Association of Advertisers (ANBA) with to reinvigorate, coordinate, and reallocate their advertising spending to provide maximum support to various community media and revolutionaries, also events and programs, not as a gesture of charity but as a consistent communication policy with the speech, the National Project Simon Bolivar and the Bolivarian Constitution.

What the bourgeoisie, while having ownership of the means of production-finance to private media, of course. Which also received the generous support of the revolutionary government is stupid. Or does anyone still believe that the costs of advertising only serves to captivate consumers?
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1.
View: Alejandro Ruiz. "Chavez nationalize Banco de Venezuela from English capital, Venezuela Cantaclaro , 07/31/2008. The Venezuelan government signed on May 22, 2009 the contract of sale of the bank's shares with Grupo Santander, for $ 1,050 million, a clause stated that the full administration of the nationalized institution concrete expression to the July 3, 2009 payment of the first installment of 630 million dollars.
2. Published Rates El Nacional, in http://www.el-nacional.com/ .