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Published: Monday, March 02, 2009
Bylined to: Oscar Heck

Anyone who tells you that Venezuela is in economic crisis must be completely crazy

VHeadline commentarist Oscar Heck writes: I only have a few minutes to write … and cannot do as much research as I usually do before writing an article. I will try to be as concise as possible. I read an article on VHeadline.com entitled, Chavez must recognize severity of the current economic and political crisis , and I was rather taken aback ... actually ... I got really dizzy as my mind tried to get around the negative comments about the Venezuelan economy as seen from the eyes of Venezuelan "analysts" and "experts" from the Venezuelan opposition (anti-Chavez).

I will not get into the details but I do want to say something.

I really do not know where these supposed experts and analysts get their brains from. Perhaps they buy them at the $1 store in Miami? Now, when I say "brain," I mean brain ... as in the organ itself. The brain is responsible for what we observe, how we perceive it, how we interpret it and how we react to it!

These opposition "experts and analysts" "observe" (not to say imagine, while drunk on imported whisky) that Venezuela is having serious economic problems … they then "perceive" this "observation" as being "critical" … and then they "interpret" this "perception" as being for the most part Chavez' fault. How do they react? They scream and yell (with little to no verifiable facts) and tell us all about "how the Venezuelan economy is in crisis" by using Chavez-hating "analysts and experts" to try to convince us that their views are accurate.

• "…Analysts consider that the Chavez government must be made to realize the severity of the nation's current economic and political crisis..."

Geezzz … I live in Venezuela and have been in and out of Venezuela since the 1970s … and I don't see any "economic crisis" at all. In fact, I see the opposite. I am in the process of starting my fourth small business in (about) 7 years … and everything is going just fine, in fact, better than fine. As I travel throughout Venezuela (which I do on a regular basis) I see production everywhere I look. I see hundreds of thousands of new cars, trucks, transport systems (trains, trams, cable cars, subways), I see new sports stadiums, new public clinics (called CDIs), new roadworks, new apartment towers, new shopping centers … and so on and so on. In fact, anyone who visits Venezuela and travels the country will conclude the same thing.

What is happening ... but it is nothing new, and certainly has nothing to do with any "economic crisis" ... is that the opposition (which runs most of the food industry) has begun to sabotage the economy by hoarding and speculating, a technique which the Venezuelan opposition has used over and over again in order to create panic within the country and to then blame it on Chavez. But why now? Because the pro-Chavez Venezuelan people won the referendum on February 15, 2009 which will now allow any elected person to run for office again and again as long as they wish ... including the president of the country … whom they hate, mostly because he is from the poor classes and because he is a Black-Indian Venezuelan.

• This selfsame food sabotage technique happened before and after after the (April) 2002 coup d'etat against Chavez and in December 2002 thru February 2003 during the massive opposition-led (and USA-financed) sabotage of the country, and in the summer of 2004, prior to the opposition-led referendum against Chavez and on several other occasions.

Since, however, I have operated several small stores in Venezuela (commerce and sales, including foodstuff), I am well aware that the hoarding and speculation of foodstuff (and other items) is typical and traditional in Venezuela. Except for those times when the Venezuelan opposition wants to put more pressure on Chavez and his government (like now), hoarding and speculation is as much a normal part of life as blood is to a body.

The way it works in "normal times" is a little long for me to explain at the moment, but you can speak to anyone doing commerce (imports, exports, trade, wholesaling, distribution and retailing) in Venezuela and if they are honest, they'll tell you about it. However, most people in the business that I know will not tell you a thing, because it is basically the secret of how to get rich in Venezuela … and by rich, I mean very-very-very rich. I was lucky that I managed to calculate how it works over years of observation and investigation.

Anyways, to come to the point, anyone who tells you that Venezuela is in economic crisis must be completely crazy. I left Canada to live in Venezuela, not only because it is paradise on earth, but because I can make a much better living more easily in Venezuela than in Canada. But hey, that is just me, right? But then, why are so many Colombians moving to Venezuela? Why don't they move to north-americanized ("civilized") Mexico or Costa Rica or Puerto Rico or Panama or Chile? Why do they come to Venezuela?

Why did I move to Venezuela? Why do I meet more and more people from other countries, including the USA, who are leaving their countries to set up permanent residence in Venezuela? Even now … or should I better say, especially now, while the supposedly so-educated, so-civilized, so-democratic, so-free, so-intelligent western world is falling apart at its molecular level…

As I write I am listening to VTV (Venezuela's government-run TV station, like the BBC or CBC) … and the government is, as we speak, temporarily taking over rice manufacturers who have been halting production or hoarding and speculating. Good.

• Since I don't have much time I will not get into how criminal it is to intentionally slow or halt food production and how criminal it is to hoard and speculate in foodstuff … but anyone with some imagination can probably get the picture.

To end, when you hear someone saying that there's an economic crisis in Venezuela, ask them if they're planning to move out of Venezuela, permanently.