Me he refugiado en el saber y así he perdido mi alma.
El dios de Livia
Tags: el-dios-de-livia israel-centeno relato venezuela
In Venezuela Chavez has made the co-ops a top political priority, giving them first refusal on government contracts and offering them economic incentives to trade with one another. By 2006, there were roughly 100,000 co-operatives in the country, employing more than 700,000 workers. Many are pieces of state infrastructure – toll booths, highway maintenance, health clinics – handed over to the communities to run. It’s a reverse of the logic of government outsourcing – rather than auctioning off pieces of the state to large corporations and losing democratic control, the people who use the resources are given the power to manage them, creating, at least in theory, both jobs and more responsive public services. Chavez’s many critics have derided these initiatives as handouts and unfair subsidies, of course. Yet in an era when Halliburton treats the U.S. government as its personal ATM for six years, withdraws upward of $20 billion in Iraq contracts alone, refuses to hire local workers either on the Gulf coast or in Iraq, then expresses its gratitude to U.S. taxpayers by moving its corporate headquarters to Dubai (with all the attendant tax and legal benefits), Chavez’s direct subsidies to regular people look significantly less radical.
Naomi KleinTags: usa venezuela taxes political chávez leftism subsidies
Aclaro que tu corazón tiene en sus venas
lo más cercano a mi espuma
por eso acepto bañarte tantas veces vengas
y a limpiarte los oídos
con el algodón de estas palabras.
(...)
En todo caso sos un ángel
y estas son mis dos heridas:
el inicio de tus alas.
I can see why people find him [Hugo Chávez] charming. He's very ebullient, as they say. I've heard him make a speech, though, and he has a vice that's always very well worth noticing because it's always a bad sign: he doesn't know when to sit down. He's worse than Castro was. He won't shut up. Then he told me that he didn't think the United States landed on the moon and didn't believe in the existence of Osama bin Laden. He thought all of this was all a put-up job. He's a wacko.
Christopher HitchensTags: united-states venezuela osama-bin-laden megalomania moon-landing hugo-chavez 9-11-conspiracy-theories apollo-11 conspiracy-theory fidel-castro moon-landing-conspiracy-theories
Turns out the problem is the picture. The problem isn't the 16,000 murders each year [...]. That's not the problem. The photo is the thing.
Teodoro PetkoffTags: crime venezuela photos caracas crime-in-venezuela el-nacional homocide law-enforcement-in-venezuela tal-cual
La división y el resentimiento se extendieron tanto como la pobreza y la inseguridad. Prácticamente en toda familia, la política revolucionaria había causado estragos: hermanos enfrentados por posiciones políticas insalvables, matrimonios deshechos, hijos que se alejaron de sus padres, la muerte misma parecía haber pactado con todas aquellas miserias del ser humano que esa nueva clase política encarnaba.
María Elena LavaudTags: venezuela chávez 11-de-abril 4-de-febrero días-de-rojo hugo-chávez maría-elena-lavaud revolución-bolivariana
Hasta el frío y la época de lluvias habían cambiado en Agua Grande a finales del siglo XX. El frondoso pulmón vegetal que adorna el valle que es la capital, dominado por palmeras y ceibas, respiraba desconcertado intentando seguir el paso a los desarreglos que desdibujaron en el calendario el lugar del frío decembrino y las lluvias de mayo a septiembre. La anarquía se instaló en el ambiente, como presagiando la turbulencia que indefectiblemente habría de tocar a todos sus habitantes.
María Elena LavaudTags: venezuela días-de-rojo hugo-chávez maría-elena-lavaud revolución-bolivariana literatura-venezolana novelas-venezolanas
En el aspecto social, la inclusión es el principio básico. Nuestro lema son los pobres primero y para los pobres los mejores instrumentos, los mejores maestros, las mejores infraestructuras. La cultura para los pobres no puede ser una pobre cultura. Debe ser grande, ambiciosa, refinada, avanzada, nada de sobras. Además, ellos multiplican su efecto, porque son enormemente agradecidos ante el esfuerzo. No es práctico incorporar a su vida esa faceta como si fuera un florero.
José Antonio AbreuTags: inspirational humanity poverty venezuela orchestra national-system-of-orchestra
I don’t care what Einstein said about God not playing dice; If he exists, he’s addicted to craps.
Henry MosqueraTags: action insight novel venezuela quotes political thriller south-america
My father once told me that it’s not enough for a man to be lucky; that a guy has to know when that streak is on for him.
Henry MosqueraTags: book insight venezuela quotes thriller espionage
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