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Yesterday was a very strange day for me. I decided to stay home and relax. I get a text from a chica who is originally from Venezuela that I have been seeing regularly for a long time. We make a date for her to come provide some company. After spending some fun time in the cama she goes into the shower. I am watching some TV and up comes the announcement that Chavez, President of Venezuela, is dead. I tell her and she starts cheering. Fox news now runs its normal ad thanking the people of Venezuela for watching Fox on whatever station they run on. So yesterday was devoted to Venezuela. It's strange how the people of Venezuela either love him or hate him. He certainly had no love for the U.S. The poorer the people the more they loved him.

I am sorry but I forgot one more strange thing. After my chica was here for a while,she informed me that it was her birthday. Oh well there goes some extra plata for a present.

I read a report where Chavez accumulated a fortune of over 1 Billion dollars. His inner circle of political patronage took 100 billion out of their economy since they took power.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer ... ing-dictat

You have to read the whole page before you get to the part about Chavez allegedly stealing on par with the Castro's. Nothing there about the $100 billion patronage waste though.

But the part about Joe Kennedy II and his wife making $1.2 million from that oil for poor folks thing was a little disconcerting.

http://newsfromvenezuela.tumblr.com/pos ... t-around-2


Criminal Justice International Associates (CJIA), a risk assessment and global analysis firm in Miami, estimated in a recent report that the Chávez Frías family in Venezuela has “amassed a fortune” similar to that of the Castro brothers in Cuba.

According to Jerry Brewer, president of CJIA, “the personal fortune of the Castro brothers has been estimated at a combined value of around $2 billion.”

“The Chávez Frías family in Venezuela has amassed a fortune of a similar scale since the arrival of Chávez to the presidency in 1999,” said Brewer in an analysis published in their website.

Brewer said that Cuba is receiving about $5 billion per year from the Venezuelan treasury and in oil shipments and other resources.

“We believe that organized bolivarian criminal groups within the Chávez administration have subtracted around $100 billion out of the nearly $1 trillion in oil income made by PDVSA since 1999.”

Not for those who live in S FL, specifically Miami VB

The way the news media reports on things south of here would make one think we are a suburb or Caracas, or havana, and in a way, perhaps we are

(A talk show host a few years ago took some heat when a guest said a Cuban gov't in exhile should be formed, and he replied "We have one.....its called the Miami City Commission" - you'd have to live here to experience the madness )

lol that rings a bell here in the US so definitely not unique to ven

The Venezuelans living abroad hated him. Those at home, "loved" him.

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Actually, his estate was around two billion. Not bad for someone who said he would protect the poor. Others in government took millions/ billions also. Amazing how a job in government can reap such awards. But, we can only look at our own congress and see how many went in with moderate estates and ended up with millions.

I've traveled several times to Venezuela and it was a great place to visit in the 70's and 80's. Not now. The crime rate is horrible and the government disdain for gringos has reached new highs from what I've been told by friends traveling and working there. Companies are very reluctant to move there because of government take over. Many have move out...taking their jobs elsewhere. Their economy is in shambles with devaluation of their currency and major players leaving the country.

I'm sure that the Hollywood left who loved and supported Chavez will be in mourning because of his death. It's just damn sad that the wonderful medical hospitals in Cuba were unable to save his life. Let him rest in peace.

Would that radio guy be brother Neil Rodgers???? hmmmmm

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Wow. I guess that's socialism at work, right?

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Actually SB and ID, it was not Neil, but it well could have been - I listened to him starting in 1979, almost since he began on S FL radio (I missed the WKAT days) - he was great, and sadly, no longer with us

No, the person who said it was Stan Major - another guy I loved listening to that i thought had real talent, but really never took off.

Not during acient time, but 30 - 35 years ago, most markets, certainly major markets, had local talk radio; when I moved to Miami in 1979, there were 4 or 5 local talk stations - now its all syndicated, mostly either far right or far left oriented. Since everything seems to go in cycles, maybe talk radio will become local again - but since its far less expensive to put on sydicated programing vs hiring a person in a local market, I'm not holding my breath.

Thanks for letting me post about one of my favorite topics - I loved talk radio since I was 15, and started listening to all the NYC based guys, especially Bob Grant

who took from gov't coffer? i mean directly. sounds like you would have a long list of them.

i know many go in with millions and have millions more though investment coming out and i know many make a name for themselves then come out and use gov't contacts to make millions.

Quote Circus: "Actually, his estate was around two billion. Not bad for someone who said he would protect the poor."

I doubt anyone will ever know, probably why they kept him on ice for so long. If cold, hard facts of what he stole were given to the Chavistas, they'd swear it was a lie.

They'll be revering him in Venezuela until all of us are dead. He'll be in a glass tomb like Lenin and there will be a daily pilgrimage.

I just read that booze is banned for a week to mourn their leader.