This is from an opinion piece in the Correodelcaroni. Says Chavez will be visiting Ciudad Piar campaigning for relections and to make announcements about the industries in Guyana. It doesn't give a date but the author mentions that it shouldn't be a way to seek votes which tells me it will be prior to the referendum.

PUBLIC & CONFIDENTIAL / Prat Damien C.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Hopefully, Mr President, that you present solutions and not only ads to seek votes

It was announced today that the President of the Republic will be in Ciudad Piar making a partisan political act PSUV for reelection indefinitely. It was announced at that event, despite being cut and to seek a political vote, the President will make announcements about the industries in Guyana. Hopefully, the "ad" on the devastating crisis of companies of Guyana is not just an excuse to seek votes and then forget about everything as happened in Guyana in Aló, President of September 2007, just when President Piar City "opened" a "special steels steel" does not exist. That same day the president, via microwave, "opened" to build a new factory in Sidor tubes, we all know that neither existed nor there. And also "opened" the works of the pulp and paper mills in the area Macapaima. And anyone who passes through this road knows that there is not any plant under construction. We must remember that this act of the President Sunday in Ciudad Piar was done under the electoral campaign for the referendum on reform. Let us hope that this might not be a purely looking for votes! Because of the difficulty companies Guyana is so great that required solutions.

Will the President of the humility that has been recognized in the second half of his government when the aluminum companies have been subjected to a total breakdown to put them into bankruptcy? Or try to blame the workers and their labor conquests? I hope that you will not be who knows who to blame. Not to be to convince us that the crisis began a month ago as a product of the global recession. Alcasa even that was already in deficit in 1998 is in the last 6 years when it was brought to total disaster. Nobody is left inside. Alcasa lost money since the mid-90s, and in 1999, 2000 and 2001 but his "red figures" were more or less manageable. Needed investment in technological upgrading that the Chavez government, the richer our history, did not want to do in 10 years. Since Chavez ordered the "radicalization" of the revolution and underwent Alcasa to "laboratory" for testing, and petty cash MVR now PSUV, mess management, instead of political patronage and especially since the decline of left to die by disinvestment is when Alcasa has reached where it is. As the current Mibam minister a year ago: "They came to llegadero. Venalum produced ton to $ 1300 and reported earnings after completing all their work, taxes, payments to their suppliers while aluminum had a ton of selling price of just under $ 1500 per ton. From 2005 onwards began the "shot down". In 2007 and 2008, with higher aluminum prices that reached $ 3200 per ton, has lost more than 300 billion. That is the fault of a government that led to a disaster of production costs. It is not the fault of workers. I will not repeat what we already know of Bauxilum (subject to the total divestiture, maintenance and abandonment of its six presidents in two years), or severe downward Edelca and FMO. Drowning of Carbonorca. Sidor falling in six months it has stopped producing 700 thousand tons and has begun to lose money so far announced elimination of a shift, sending employees home with half pay and other cuts.

How good is that the President accepted with humility the faults of his government in this disaster! How revolutionary is that the President asked forgiveness for having left Guyana to their obligations and to walk only in his mind for power! What a lesson if Chavez would admit to rectify that with the money he has given to the governments of their friends in other countries, has not only been able to modernize and update the business of Guyana, but to develop a major industrial project to make a country more sovereign and independent!

I think I am asking too much. Pity that looks very difficult to happen. At least we want to call that if there are ads for a rescue plan for the aluminum business, which supports the president should listen to Guyana. That workers, professional associations, unions, business associations, technicians with years of experience in the industry have much to say. And that his government should be obliged to listen and take into account these views qualified. And hopefully not pay workers who are primarily the responsibility of government.

TIPS ... Why is the party's political rally in Ciudad Piar PSUV today is not with people who voluntarily want to go without forcing thousands of workers to get flannel red and mounted on the buses ... Why a rally for the private sector is the political PSUV, used public money, the resources of enterprises and the State are all Venezuelans ... Why the Constitution and the Law on Safeguarding pray that civil servants are not and can not be employed by any political bias and that state property can not be used for partisan political purposes ... Ah, It would be nice to remember today that the iron industry in Venezuela was nationalized 32 years ago and a month? And at that same date the company was created to replace Ferrominera Orinoco foreign companies ... I say, pretending not to rewrite history trying to erase the historical facts as they are ... And indeed, nothing to believe that a transnational company to operate a Chinese and iron mining project in Venezuela is "socialist." Not at all. There is a real "wild capitalism".

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