Welcome Snowden (opinion article from a Venezuelan)

Article taken from TalCual:
http://www.talcualdigital.com/Nota/visor.aspx?id=88757&tipo=AVA

Welcome Mr. Snowden

by ELIZABETH ARAUJO

I must tell you, because you  eventually are going to be informed about it:  here in Venezuela, espionage is a common practice but not against other countries, but to our own citizens. I have told that in a so called floor number 6 of the CANTV building, there is a Cuban organization that wiretaps the phones of the leaders of the opposition, the government personnel and even their own Psuv party, those who are suspect of changing camps.

I have just been informed about your decision of coming to Venezuela. I heard the news when i was being detoured by the traffic of the expressway because some motorcycle man were surrounding, i don't know why, a girl who seem to be really scared and powerless, because she could not leave her car that was being hit by those antisocial.

Two wimpy "guards of the people" were just giving us orders to take the other route, but none did anything to stop the lynch, frequently the opposite happens when one looks bad at them, then they abuse their power upon you.

Welcome then, Mr Snowden to this country, where the one who won the elections won it in the most dubious way, such a way that the CNE denied to recount the votes as the opposition leader suggested, one that had the signatures and the names of all who voted, differently than relying on the machine, meaning that the one won possible won it by fraud.

But, when to know it, if Mrs. Tibisay Lucena is about to leave, the president of the CNE, and the judges of the TSJ have waited so long that they no longer remember about the case?

In all this, I congratulate you for having a place to go where you can be "calm", free from the government harassment, the one that hired you to wiretap the e-mails and phone calls of some European prime ministers and European citizens, and from an act of courage and honesty you denied to continue doing what was against your principles.

I applaud the government here, because it found the perfect justification to fight against the empire and divert the problems that the Venezuelans suffer: like insecurity, lack of food, the bad electric service, the incredible inflation, the lack of houses, the sad medical care and the bad shape of their roads, for just naming the seven plagues that were given by the "supreme commander".

You come to a nation that its main production is oil and is rich in it, which stands now at a rate of 100 dollars per barrel, something that doesn't mean that we are a rich country. You gonna see it when travelling around the Metro or when visiting one of the predominant barrios, if the presidential guard would let you go out from the agenda they have for you of course.

I must tell you, because you  eventually are going to be informed about it:  here in Venezuela, espionage is a common practice but not against other countries, but to our own citizens. I have told that in a so called floor number 6 of the CANTV building, there is a Cuban organization that wiretaps the phones of the leaders of the opposition, the government personnel and even their own Psuv party, those who are suspect of changing camps.

What are you gonna do about it, Mr. Snowden, because those Cuban agents do the same thing you just rejected with repugnance and had given you this mishap?

Even worst, Mr Snowden: after spying on their citizens, those recorded conversation, the same minister of information, in the most insolent way, praised it, which falls from the same immoral act you denounced.

So far, take this hug Mr. Snowden. You are coming to the Bolivar nation. From the beautiful girls, the great baseball players but also know about the red figures from this week alone. so then Mr. Snowden. Welcome.