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http://www.sabinabecker.com/2013/03/the-ironies-of-the-venezuelan-opposition-part-7.html



The ironies of the Venezuelan opposition, part 7March 24, 2013 — Sabina
Becker

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*“Nicolás isn’t Chávez! Vote for me, comrades, because I’m the exact same!”*
 Uh-huh…*surrrrre.*

What’s this? Dirty corporatist tricks from the Majunche
campaign?<http://www.aporrea.org/oposicion/n225561.html> Yes!
And look who else is involved…the richest man in Mexico, no less. Plus a
whole bunch of other putschist skank-shit from ten years ago…

*The Mexican telephone operators’ union informs that the campaign command
of Henrique Capriles Radonski has purchased a text-messaging and airtime
package from Teléfonos de México (TELMEX), as it did during the
presidential campaign of 2012.*
*

VTV president and journalist William Castillo revealed that the cost of the
package, purchased by Carlos Slim for Capriles, was $50 million.

Another fact revealed by Castillo, according to the Mexican operators’
union, the cost of the right wing’s telephone plan will be cancelled by the
Pacific Rubiales oil company of Colombia, whose stockholders are
ex-managers and oil workers involved in the PDVSA sabotage of late 2002 and
early 2003.

Castillo says that “the phone calls and messages are not only for electoral
purposes”, but that “their central objective is to wage a dirty war” by
“creating destabilization and fear” in the Venezuelan population.

“No one should be surprised that the ‘telephone’ operation of Capriles and
Slim has, at its bottom, the hand-over of CANTV [Venezuela's nationalized
phone company] in a neoliberal ‘paquetazo’,” wrote Mexican philosopher
Fernando Buen Abad, upon hearing the news.
*

*This right-wing move was rejected by Venezuelans, who found their peace
interrupted by phone calls at midnight and other bothersome times. The text
messages were also bothersome, as they are considered invasive and
violations of communications privacy, a fact which puts private mobile
phone companies in doubt, since these are presumed to have furnished the
campaign with the database of their subscribers.*

Translation mine.

Chalk up one more irony for the Venezuelan opposition. They’re so patriotic
now that they’re going as far away as Mexico for robocalling and
robotexting services to supplement their already dirty campaign. And as
rich as these bastards are, they still need Carlos Slim to finance their
robocalls and robotexts. The term *shameless* was invented, it seems, just
for them!


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