RE: Venezuela's Political Disaster - September 10 2005

Dear Journalists,

I heard yesterday a radio FM disc jockey in Washington, DC, say that he would like to move to Venezuela so he can pay a penny the gallon of gasoline reacting to the outrageous gas prices we are paying these days in the USA. I verified this information and indeed Venezuelans do pay very little for the government subsidized "leaded gasoline" while paying an equivalent of US$0.50 (fifty cents) for a 10 ounces bottle of water.

It is important that while Chavez and his supporters are allegedly actively reaching out to ill informed radio announcers and others making a hero of Chavez for mocking President Bush for his delayed reaction to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina to please read how Venezuelan citizens have to live under the autocrat Chavez's regime.

Below please find link to article written by Senior Policy Analyst Stephen Johnson of the The Heritage Foundation explaining the facts about Chavez:

http://www.vcrisis.com/index.php?content=letters/200509100800
http://www.heritage.org/Research/LatinAmerica/wm834.cfm

Cordially,

Maru Angarita
My blog is: http://maruangarita.blogspot.com/
Resources:
www.vcrisis.com
http://www.heritage.org/
www.11abril.com
www.gentiuno.com
www.urru.org
http://www.hacer.org/current/Vene020.php
http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/index.jsp?section=today
http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/What_to_Do.pdf A MUST READ!!!!

Venezuela's Political Disaster - September 7, 2005

Dear Journalists,

Attached herewith please find link to opinion article from the Wall Street Journal Editorial Page "Osama Bin Chavez" commenting on the United Nations
general assembly later this month:

http://www.vcrisis.com/index.php?content=letters/200509071148

The next link is written by Ambassador Adolfo Taylhardat explaining how discouraged and skeptic the Venezuelan citizens are about voting and the mistrust they have on international observers after the huge disaster created by the Carter Center and the Organization of American States in August 2004.

http://opinion.eluniversal.com/2005/09/07/opi_art_07491B.shtml

The link below is to article "Bush rejects Chávez aid" written by The Guardian Journalist Duncan Campbell reporting from New Orleans:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1564120,00.html

Hopefully, Chavez will use the rejected aid to help Venezuelans in urgent need of medical attention from the terrible flooded waters in my birth city of Maracay.

You can read recent letters I have e-mailed to editors in my blog:

http://maruangarita.blogspot.com/

Cordially,

Maru Angarita
Resources:
www.vcrisis.com
http://www.11abril.com/index.asp
http://www.11abril.com/index/articulos/JesseJackson20050905.asp
http://www.elsiglo.com.ve/maracay.pdf
http://www.gentiuno.com/seccion.asp?seccion=95
http://www.hacer.org/current/Vene020.php
http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/index.jsp?section=today
http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/What_to_Do.pdf A MUST READ!!!!

Venezuela's Political Disaster - September 5, 2005

Dear Journalists,

While infamous Chavez has offered a show-off one million barrels of oil for the victims of hurricane Katrina which has been accepted, Venezuelan citizens who live in my birth town of Maracay are suffering total neglect from destruction caused by previous torrential rains as reported on this date by El Siglo in the link below:

http://www.elsiglo.com.ve/maracay.pdf

Please note that Lake of Valencia located in the South of Maracay and Valencia (10 degrees, 12' 46.12" N 67 degrees 38' 47.44" W) is terribly polluted. Industrial businesses have dumped whatever amount of waste destroying most of the lake.

Below please read link to report written by Thomas Sancio reporting on the actual condition of the victims of the devastating landslides in Venezuela in 1999.

I can understand the welcoming of assistance to the victims of hurricane Katrina; but what is most troubling is Chavez's meddling and criticizing the United States which would make his donation a form of ridicule. Chavez must stop spending the Venezuelans' money for his own whims and should use his "generosity"helping the Venezuelan people, specially removing the severe foreign exchange controls and other abuses imposed to Venezuelans.

In other matters, I would like to announce the creation of my new blog where you can find recent letters e-mailed to editors: http://maruangarita.blogspot.com/

Cordially,

Maru Angarita
Resources:
http://www.vcrisis.com/index.php?content=letters/200509051248
http://english.eluniversal.com/2005/09/05/en_pol_art_05A608453.shtml
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/09/05/katrina.cuba/index.html
http://www.hacer.org/current/Vene020.php
http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/index.jsp?section=today
http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/What_to_Do.pdf A MUST READ!!!!

Venezuela's Political Disaster

Dear Journalists,

Attached herewith please find link to article "The Chávez Challenge: Venezuela's leader is a regional nuisance" written by Mark Falcoff. Mr. Falcoff is resident scholar emeritus at the American Enterprise Institute:

http://www.hacer.org/current/Vene020.php

Cordially,

Maru Angarita
Resources:
http://www.vcrisis.com/index.php?content=letters/200509031125
http://www.vcrisis.com/index.php?content=letters/200508300450
http://www.vcrisis.com/index.php?content=letters/200509020916
http://www.vcrisis.com/index.php?content=letters/200509021404
http://www.veneconomy.com/eng/aldia/resumenOpina.asp?pub=1178
http://english.eluniversal.com/
www.gentiuno.com
www.urru.org
http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/index.jsp?section=today
http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/What_to_Do.pdf A MUST READ!!!!