Authors:
Luis Alberto López Rafaschieri and José Alberto López Rafaschieri
www.morochos.net
It's no secret that President Chavez has spent billions of dollars on weapons. Money that, given the many other needs of Venezuela, could well be spent on improving the electrical system of this country.
According to sources of the Russian newspaper PRAVDA, the estimated total costs of armament contracts between Hugo Chavez and the Kremlin will reach $30 billion before 2012. Incredibly, more than it cost to build the China's Three Gorges Dam, which had a cost of approximately $25 billion and has a generating capacity of 100 TWh per year -the largest hydroelectric dam in the world-.
If Chavez had used what it spent on Russian weapons to develop national energy programs, we would not be experiencing the severe electrical crisis caused by the neglect of his government.
It's disconcerting, but that is the real Chavez's Venezuela, a poor country immersed in a frightening power crisis, ruled by a clique of communists with a penchant for Russian weapons. As in Cuba, in socialism welfare is rationed, never the arms race.
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