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GatoGordo

(2,412 posts)
Fri May 25, 2018, 11:23 AM May 2018

Temper tantrum: Maduro blames "working class, unions" for failures of Chavismo.

https://elcooperante.com/me-ayudaras-maduro-perdio-los-estribos-en-plena-juramentacion-y-le-grito-a-wills-rangel/

"You will help me!": Maduro lost his temper in full swearing and shouted at Wills Rangel
The Cooperator

translated from Spanish

Caracas, May 24- On Thursday, during his swearing in before the National Constituent Assembly (ANC), President Nicolás Maduro was upset and "scolded" Wills Rangel, president of the United Federation of Oil Workers of Venezuela (Futpv), due to the low oil production.

"Will Rangel help me increase oil production? Where is the working class? Do I have Wills Rangel with you or not? I already did my job, there I put a man like General Manuel Quevedo. It is the highest authority," he said between cries in the Federal Legislative Palace.

Then, he ratified Quevedo at the head of PDVSA and gives him all the power, by ordering him to "do what is necessary (...) to make the changes that he has to do" to "convert PDVSA into production". " I want a PDVSA ethical, productive and sovereign. I took two of their presidents (...) The task is to replace them with people who produce (...) I know what I say and they will not get a more committed man than me (...) do not come with slogans," he added.



Backstory: Ever since 2003, when PdVSA unions struck for better wages and benefits (Chavez fired them and replaced the unions with PSUV lackeys) oil production in Venezuela has been falling. Primarily because Chavez treated PdVSA like his own personal bank. There was no investment in maintenance nor upgrades.

Fast forward: Today, Venezuela is producing as much oil as it did per day as it did in 1949. In a nation that once was the richest in Latin America, with the worlds largest proven reserves of oil, it can no longer pump it out of the ground, nor refine it. It has to import gas (and food and medicine). Nearly every skilled technical worker or engineer has abandoned PdVSA and Venezuela, where the average MONTHLY salary is $2. Maduro has replaced knowledgeable managers with his Chavista generals, who have dictated that NO ONE can quit or retire from PdVSA henceforth.

Chavez, then Maduro have laid the blame for every lousy screw up in Venezuela upon everyone except themselves. "I already did my job" Because in ChavismoLand, it is Utopia. Anything that isn't perfect is the result of the vile oppressor classes in Colombia, the United States, Guyana, Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, the EU, Brazil, Mexico, Panama, Spain, Poland, the Illuminati, Portugal's pig farmers. Never the fault of the morons at the top of the Chavismo hierarchy.
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Temper tantrum: Maduro blames "working class, unions" for failures of Chavismo. (Original Post) GatoGordo May 2018 OP
Why was he sworn in? I thought his new term doesn't begin until 2019! DetlefK May 2018 #1
Meh. The Constitution doesn't mean anything to the Chavistas any longer. GatoGordo May 2018 #2
 

GatoGordo

(2,412 posts)
2. Meh. The Constitution doesn't mean anything to the Chavistas any longer.
Fri May 25, 2018, 01:26 PM
May 2018

That he was supposed to be sworn in before the AN (and not the ANC) is yet another laugher. Everything about his election, to the oath of office was outside of the Constitution.

And the oath he took? Surreal!




The new oath translates to something like this...

“Do you swear to enforce the laws of the Republic… do you swear to be loyal to the mandate… promote national unity… strengthen the anti-imperialist and anti-oligarchic nature of this bolivarian revolution and enforce the legacy of Bolívar and Chávez?”

As can be seen, the first sentence of the oath is absurd and paradoxical. There is no longer any duty to uphold the integrity of the Venezuelan constitution... only to prop up The Bolivarian Revolution.

I wouldn't have been shocked to see a unicorn prance across the rostrum and piss rainbows and shit golden bricks. ChavismoLand is, if anything, full of surprises.

Next on the agenda? "Snap elections" for a new AN, so that the farce can be complete! Because if anything is "the problem" in ChavismoLand, it is an opposition AN that hasn't been able to pass a single law since 2015... not that Maduro pays any attention to the existing laws.
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