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Hugo Chaves dies

CottageFarm

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I just saw the headlines.
I, too, wanted to wish my best to Whitewing. No condolences for your loss, but I do hope everything is okay for you.
 

Mike

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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.”
 

Whitewing

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Thanks all for the well wishes.

Things are calm here so far. We're continuing to cut and bale (estrella), the chicken business and inflation are both booming, situation normal.

But to give you guys some insight into how the Venezuelan mind works, one of my employees called this AM and asked if he had to work because the gubmint had declared 7 days of mourning.

I told him to get his skinny ass over here for 6:15 AM as usual. :lol:
 

Whitewing

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A well-written article about how Chavez pulled off the second-greastest political scam in our lifetimes (the greatest being the King's scam in the US):

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112596/hugo-chavez-dead-cuba-defined-him-much-venezuela-did#
 
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