Hippo and Venzuelan Oil

I think the people in this forum sometimes underestimate President Parasitolito. He's very good at what he cares about. Of course, what he cares about is political slime.

Take the whole Venezuelan oil thing. The discraced former Venezuelan president, Carlos Andres Perez, had long ago taken up residence in the DR and ingraciated himself with DR politicians - particularly in the PRD. One presumes that this was done by favors, gift giving and other means. He literally became a player in the DR political scene.

Every Dominican president has to kiss Venezuela's ass for preferential oil, and Hippo was no different. But when Chavez demanded Perez' head be turned over on a platter, this created a problem for Hippo since Perez had established a power base within the DR. But Hippo is handling it marvelously.

Hippo knows in a situation like this that it is better to have your hand forced then play a card. He saves face with Perez' friends because he waited until Venezuela actually cut off the oil before breaking the unfortunate news to Perez that he had better "get out of Dodge". By that point, Perez' own Dominican friends, who also need oil more than they need Perez, were telling him the same thing. Once gone, Hippo can and will begin to kiss Chavez' ass all over again - perhaps even dropping hints that his police have uncovered incriminating facts about Perez.

Please don't allow Diablo to hijack the thread to a non-DR-related topic. He wants you to respond to Cuba or Venezuela or marxism so as to disrupt the postings about the real enemy of the Dominican people: Our corrupt political class.

It is well known that he is being paid by the PPH to cause disruption as an agent provacatur. He is a godless collaborator in the rape of the Dominican people by the corrupt political class that has sold our futures to foreign multilateral organizations. It has now been proven that he is not even Dominican!

The topic is not Venezuela or Cuba, but rather Hippo's political skill in achieving nefareous (sp?) goals.

Do you have anything ... anything at all ... to say SPECIFICALLY about Hippo's handling of the oil crisis with Venezuela? This would NOT include any trite calls for some kind of revolution or the spouting of hate against Americans, as this would not have adequate nexus to the topic.

diablorojo said:

Porfio do you have anything to say other than attempts to slander me and then when I defend myself to attempt to say I have nothing to say because I reply to you?

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Tony,

I think the man has no convictions. But that's my point. He is spectacularly successful at having no convictions - at being a pure unadulterated political animal. Is the man even pretending to care about the wellbeing of the country anymore? Does he think he has to pretend or has he learned that in a country as clientist as the DR it doesn't matter?

Diablorojo,

Yea, whatever.

The plot thickens.

Carlos Andres Perez has shuffled off to New York. I would have thought that was the beginning of the end. But now Chavez has upped the stakes by accusing the Dominican petroleum refiners of being involved.

Is Chavez pissed that the Dominicans dare buy their petroleum somewhere else? Or is it that he really believes that there is a widespread conspiracy against him in the DR where the US and his petroleum industry enemies are conspiring to get him. Inquiring minds want to know.