3392 passengers over 6 months is just over 18 per day. For the country's main airport? Huh?
I left off the last three digits. Its now fixed. Does make a little difference 
Thanks for catching that.
OW--there you go again, trying to portray a developing, nascent 'dictatorship' into a democratically elected, constitutional entity that is making significant progress.
How dare you, you are brainwashed.
Evidence? You say I need to publish evidence for my accusations? How dare you--don't you know who I am?: my grandmothers' friend's sister when to church with GW Bush's mother.
Iraqi kids have been bombed by GW Bush for less reason.
Beware amigo, beware.
"In another sign of the growth of the Venezuelan economy it was pointed out today that the number of passengers through Caracas’s main airport, Maiquetia, was up 18% in the first half of this year. There were 3,392,000 passengers in the first six months of this year as compared to 2,891,000 in the first half of last year."
Good One OW, No doubt due, in a small way, to this:
Conviasa adquiere nuevas aeronaves
El ministro de Turismo Wilmar Castro anunció hoy desde las instalaciones del Instituto Autónomo Aeropuerto Internacional de Maiquetía, que el referido monto representa la adquisición de 10 aeronaves. Castro Soteldo explicó que Conviasa cubrirá 34 nuevos destinos tanto nacionales como internacionales, estos últimos principalmente hacia los países miembros de la Comunidad Andina de Naciones y del Mercosur.
Según la fuente consultada por Argenpress.info, Conviasa arrancó sus operaciones hace cuatro meses con dos aviones, cubre actualmente ocho rutas locales y tres foráneas con un total de 58.000 personas trasladadas en mil vuelos.
Comentó que en los 120 días de trabajo, Conviasa reportó ingresos cercanos a los dos millones de dólares a pesar del bajo costo del boleto, un 20% menor que en el mercado.
.... El titular de Turismo declaró que la nueva flota generará un total de 7.300 puestos de trabajo directos e indirectos, y destacó que actualmente se adelanta la elaboración de los manuales administrativos y de seguridad.
http://www.alia2.net/article5902.html
Did you hear someone say the country is falling apart?
Hmmm....
I understand Ive been keeping good company. Anyway....
Lookey what Ive found:
Mirala, que linda es, Pa los que no saben lo que es belleza:
http://www.venezuelaenvideos.com...com/
pt12v03.htm
Crime is down 50% in six months! Guliani must be drooling with envy.
Hah I have a little respect for Giuliani for what hes done. However one has to wonder where all the car window wipers who congregate at the Manhattan end of the lincoln tunnel went when the law againsnt the squegees eas enacted. Ill tell you there arent enough hospice rooms to accomodate them all. Hide em and sweep the real problem under the rug.
Give me Koch again and ill be semi satisfied - ehhhhhra Howm I' Doin?
I dont trust Giuliani but for his incredibly massive head, (and Ive seen it live, it rivals Michelangelos Zuccone) the size of which anthropologists say, does not correlate to intelligence.
Good thing Phrenology has been discredited.
Woops! That would be Donattelos Zuccone - I never said I was an art Historian.
http://notes.tranq.com/archives/.../01/23/zuccone/
Jim, OW:
You know nothing starts the morning like a good stiff drink.
Here let me pour you each a shot to start the day of right. Its good Scotch, imported you know.
It was the funniest thing: So heres this truck rolling down the street, It hits a pot hole, Badda Bing Badda Boom, out comes this case of scotch, not a bottle damaged, Go Figure, Lucky me.
Here is another fine example of Venezuela's non-communism:
Entes microfinancieros tienen Bs. 45 millardos para créditos populares
Banco de laMujer ( 10 millardos) , Banco del Pueblo (20 millardos) y Fondemi (15 millardos)
CÉSAR CONTRERAS ALTUVE
Caracas. Para atender las solicitudes de crédito previstas para el segundo semestre del año, el Banco de Desarrollo Económico y Social (Bandes) suscribió líneas de crédito con entes microfinancieros por Bs. 45 millardos, informó Edgar Hernández Behrens, presidente del Bandes.
Ese monto total se distribuye de la siguiente manera: Banco de Desarrollo de la Mujer (Bs. 10 millardos), Banco del Pueblo Soberano (Bs. 20 millardos) y el Fondo de Desarrollo Microfinanciero, Fondemi (Bs. 15 millardos).
Con la línea de crédito que obtuvo el Banco de Desarrollo de la Mujer, ésta entidad espera atender a por lo menos mil nuevas beneficiarias, dijo Nora Castañeda, presidenta del organismo microfinanciero.
Se trata de “mujeres en condiciones de pobreza, pero con grandes capacidades para incorporarlas al desarrollo y a sus beneficios”. Los créditos para las mujeres incluirán todas las actividades relacionadas con la producción de bienes y servicios, de acuerdo con el Plan Nacional de Desarrollo Económico y Social 2001/2007.
Manuel Barroso, presidente del Banco del Pueblo, explicó que con los Bs. 20 millardos se ampliará la atención a los sectores más desposeídos y al margen del sistema bancario privado.
Se atenderán unas 1.500 unidades asociativas, cooperativas o de cualquier otro tipo.
La presidenta de Fondemi, Margaud Godoy, dijo que la intención de esta entidad es distribuir los recursos entre los sectores excluidos. •
Grenade attack on CNE offices
A hand grenade was propelled Friday morning towards the local chapter of the National Electoral Council (CNE) in Valencia, the capital city of central Carabobo state, as reported by CNE director Jorge Rodríguez.
Rodríguez told official TV channel Venezolana de Televisión that such violent actions would not intimidate voting authorities.
http://english.eluniversal.com/
2...15A578307.shtml
This should give our english speaking audience a good sense of what the Venezuelan opposition is capable of.
The radical element has made itself apparent. IS this the use of fear as one opposition member would have it?
Hmmm. Wonder if MCM has an alibi 
But Comandante, it is elementary, in the opposition's mind, it is the Chavez government that tossed the grenade, of course.--just like the Chavez government burned the soldiers, imported Colombian-born paramilitaries (who were all merely farmers, lulled by Chavez agents), planned the coup of '02, etc.
The "Chavez-ordered-the-FAN-to-kill unarmed-marchers" crowd in Venezuela partake in, and excuse, the very criminality that they impute to the Bolivarian governemnt.
The last thing these people want are elections--and now they will do anything in their power to smear the results. Demand mass abstention becasue the CNE are under the trall of the evil Chavez, blah, blah, blah...
Also, try to get the OAS to hassel the Bolivarian government as much as possible, try to paint "Chavism" as a pariah ideology in the Americas.
Hope that oil profits plunge and that massive corruption and apathy distort and impede the potential of the missions. Hope that Castro dies, and that the US is capable of installing, or 'helping' along, a pro-US regime.
Neoliberalism is definately on the wane worldwide, but who knows what the wounded beast--the US and its neocolonies--might to do destroy any nascent alternative model of development, as Bolivarismo aspires to become.
Given the circumstances, that Venezuela is in the figuritive 'gun-sites' of the US, it's indeed hard to logically figure out who engaged this attack. There are likely black-ops being carried out by both sides.
This attack does seem to bolster the idea among the general population that the folks attacking the CNE aren't cool, that some are indeed extremists, the type that lob real--not just rhetorical--grenades at symbols of the Chavez government. LOL
It will be interesting to see how (or, if) the oppo-bloggers will cover this issue.
My bet is that they will claim that Chavez did it (from a Harley Davidson pan-head, disguised as a fat biker with a long beard.)
Jim:
"But Comandante, it is elementary, in the opposition's mind, it is the Chavez government that tossed the grenade, of course.--...
...It will be interesting to see how (or, if) the oppo-bloggers will cover this issue."
Why wonder? You hit the nail on the head! You know as I do that it was inevitble. they have to save face for thier actions somehow. Some may call it benign, thats fine but still there remains this:
Another thing Daniel, I have never said that the solution is pot
banging or going to rallies. Fear is the most powerful of weapons. Use it.
aleksander boyd | Homepage | 04.06.05 - 11:12 am | #
Coincidence? Mehtinks not. Your take Jim?
My take is that the Venezuelan elite are locked into a comprador mindset and are incapable of thinking the world/development differently so as to help the half of the population that has been configured as expendable and second-class by the neoliberal logic.
Given that their best plans will do nothing but sink Venezuela into the status of US colony, then I will no put anything past this class of people. Indeed, they will work with the US and exterminate hundreds of thousands for their bankrupt vision of 'democracy' US-style.
Look no further than the situation in Haiti to see how it is done--the people live in terror, the largest and post popular political party is under attack--and the corrupt US media silences the massacers that happen from the guns of the UN and the Haitian police.
We are amidst another slave revolt--anyone with an ounce of integrity is working in various ways to undermine Sam's plan for the region.
We will not obey--no how, no way.
Pulpo I had forgotten about that quote. Great one, I may have to use it in a post - with permission of course
So, this is more or less the pattern I'm noticing:
(1) Post
(2) Pulpo chimes in, (Imitating me by posting full articles or quotations)
(3) Ding! Hunt lays down some slogans
("Death to Amerikkka"...etc)
(4) ow pats himself on the back
(5) Flanker shows up (on occasion)with an "analytical" defense of gangsterism
(6) Repeat
(7) Puts some beats to & it's dope!!
(
I forgot: Viva Fidel!
Here is the formula in other places
1) post
2) Kiss ass.
End.
Pulpo,
That's why you read the opposition blogs daily, right? That's why you were so upset when you were banned.
Why bother responding to my inauthentic Latino rants? Doesn't the revolution need you to be busy in Brooklyn?
After all, kissing Fidel's ass doesn't count as ass kissing.
GP:
"That's why you read the opposition blogs daily, right?"
I read blogs for the same reason you read this blog - daily!
"That's why you were so upset when you were banned."
LOL who's upset - If I wanted to i could post the pulpo manifesto in any of the once frequented blogs. It is my choice not to do so. Believe me Guillo there are mutiple ways around barriers.
Dont you think my sponsers would have thought about that in advance? LOL LOL LOL pendejo que eres.
The Pulpo Manifesto. OK, that's funny. I'm laughing. Now why don't you simply open your own blog and post the manifesto there? You could use the catchy logo as well.
And you still haven't made it down to Venezuela, Pulpo, to commune with your comrades? There's a huge youth festival in August that would be a perfect chance for you to visit. I'm sure you could contribute to the revolution by showing up to that.
I myself am hoping to visit PR soon, to start getting involved with the statehood debate.
"And you still haven't made it down to Venezuela"
In due time Guillo in due time. Youth festival - Bah! -Show me where to find condoms and the oppo chics Octavio has on his Ven Beauties link.
Partido Nuevo Progresista (PNP) Pro State hood
Partido Popular Democratico(PPD) Pro Status Quo
Partido Independista Puertorriqueño (PIP) Pro Independence
Ill see you at the next PIP meeting!
Leave it up to Pulpo to bring in the sexist remarks. Very progressive of you. Use the tired stereotype of Venezuelan women, make jock jokes about genitalia.
Good luck with gaining independence in PR. Maybe J-Lo can donate some funds to the cause.
Check it out GP See how Puerto Ricans and the Bolivarian Republic can work together: Maybe I will go to this thing.
" Un campamento auspiciado por el Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño fue el evento que se llevó a cabo en el Barrio Seboruco de Peñuelas con el propósito de capacitar a nuestra delegación de jóvenes que asistirá al Festival Mundial de la Juventud y Estudiantiles que se celebrará en Caracas, Venezuela, a principios de agosto próximo. Esta fue la segunda actividad celebrada por el PIP con este propósito.
El sábado 16 se dedicó a la parte educativa con tres interesantísimas charlas. La primera de ellas tocó el tema de la economía de Puerto Rico y estuvo a cargo del Dr. Edwin Irizarry Mora, Secretario de Asuntos Económicos del PIP y catedrático de la Universidad de Puerto Rico en el Colegio de Mayagüez. Irizarry Mora explicó cómo la relación política de Puerto Rico con los Estados Unidos nos impide desarrollar una economía propia, autosostenida, que satisfaga las necesidades de Puerto Rico. Mencionó nuestra incapacidad por ser una colonia, para participar por derecho propio en tratados comerciales internacionales que nos beneficien. Hizo énfasis en que para poder hacerlo nos hacen falta los poderes que nos dará la soberanía y la independencia. También recalcó en que no procuramos una independencia que nos convierta en enemigos de Estados Unidos. Queremos tener los poderes para relacionarnos con el resto del mundo, además de Estados"
http://www.independencia.net/
not...ovenesPnls.html
Yes, revolutionary tourism is always open for business.
I do hope they have a workshop on the 3 murdered students in Kennedy a few weeks ago.
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