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The new Defense Minister, Admiral Diego Molero Bellavia was named fifteen days ago via phone call, after his predecessor Henry Rangel Silva was sent to Trujillo.
He’s still waiting for his official swearing-in ceremony in Fuerte Tiuna, but that’s on hold because it requires the presence of the comandante presidente himself.
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OT, but look at this, after working to destroy other foreign auto-assembly plants, Chavez now has announced triumphantly that Venezuela will begin assembling Chinese Chery cars! Amazing! Welcome to Venezuela of 1960, Hugo Chavez!
http://wardsauto.com/news-amp-analysis/ford-may-idle-venezuela-plant-again
http://www.eluniversal.com/economia/121116/venezuela-to-assemble-and-export-exclusive-chery-cars-to-mercosur
The ‘comandante presidente’ is clearly ill. I think the massive use of steroids, and other drugs, that he had ingested during the campaign has taken its toll on the body. His disappearance from the political stage would indicate some severe complications from the cancer. I would give his continuing tenure as ‘comandante presidente’ 3 months,….tops. Just watch.
Yet, he pops up like a jack-in-the-box, looking like the fresh bloom of a rose, the last time, coincidentally after the rumour mill announced an imminent Bocaranda post of Chávez’s return to Cuba (for medical treatment). (Boca’s comment, if true, was never posted.)
My guess, he accepted he will die sooner than later, and he is using this time to make real “Chavez ahora son todos”, that is, he is not indispensable for a “revolutionary government”. He is ensuring that the machinery works smoothly when he passes away.
I don’t know or care where he is. All I know is where I wish he should be
An absentee Chavez is better than an itinerant Chavez. Best is an inanimate Chavez.