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El precio de la soberbia. El gobierno de Hugo Chávez ha malgastado el dinero de Venezuela comprando millones de dólares en armas a Rusia desde 2005, y ahora quiere más como informa la agencia de noticias rusa Novosti:
"Venezuela ya adquirió en Rusia 24 cazas Su-30MK2, 50 helicópteros y plantas para fabricar fusiles Kalashnikov y cartuchos.
Rusia decidió el pasado mes de septiembre conceder a Venezuela un crédito de 1.000 millones de dólares para las compras de diversos modelos de armas, entre ellos sistemas de defensa aérea "Tor-M1", misiles antiaéreos portátiles "Igla-S" y aviones Il-78 e Il-76..."
Y sin embargo Venezuela tiene un grave problema de suministro de luz eléctrica como informa Reuters:
SAN FELIX, Venezuela (Reuters) – Despite having some of the world's largest energy reserves, Venezuela is increasingly struggling to maintain basic electrical service, a growing challenge for leftist President Hugo Chavez.
The OPEC nation has suffered three nationwide blackouts this year, and chronic power shortages have sparked protests from the western Andean highlands to San Felix, a city of mostly poor industrial workers in the sweltering south.
Shoddy electrical service is now one of Venezuelans' top concerns, according to a recent poll, and may be a factor in elections next month for governors and mayors in which Chavez allies are expected to lose key posts, in part on complaints of poor services.
The problem suggests that Chavez, with his ambitious international alliances and promises to end capitalism, risks alienating supporters by failing to focus on basic issues like electricity, trash collection and law enforcement.
"With so much energy in Venezuela, how can we be without power?" asked Fernando Aponte, 49, whose slum neighborhood of Las Delicias in San Felix spent 15 days without electricity -- leading him to block a nearby avenue with burning tires in protest.
Just next door, Carmen Fernandez, 82, who is blind and has a pacemaker, says she has trouble sleeping through sultry nights without even a fan to cool her..."
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