Over the past few weeks we have been subject to salti mortali – plural of salto mortale – maneuvers, mind-defying election stunts, by the green marketing machine, designed to hug and hold voters.
How can we forget the state-sanctioned hooliganism at the second debate.
The out of left field minimum wages increase.
The addition of 350 employees to the already encumbered GOA payroll.
Out of nowhere a totally dormant subject, natural gas exploration, received a press conference, selling hot air regarding drilling equipment and crews. If he had said he was building a ski jump at Jamanota, I would have believed it more.
Then the defunct Bushiri hotel school received a photo opportunity in which a midget excavator moved an insignificant brick from left to right, then disappeared. The newspaper headlines reassured the public the place was coming down and that some off-the-shelf company with zero track-record was picked to perform the Awg 800.000 job. Insiders just told me the bid came in at Awg 600.000. A small difference, surely destined for charity.
They were not working at the Bushiri yesterday. I told you, it was just a picture opportunity. But to entertain us, the smooth-talking contractor with a shoddy reputation, who cannot hold on to any job was outed on social media the day before yesterday by a former employee who is owed a bundle for work he completed, which remained unpaid. His story was interesting, but unappreciated by the contractor, who pressured him into taking the post down.
Yesterday, President Trump signed an executive order imposing ‘strong, new financial sanctions on the dictatorship in Venezuela.’ “This order demonstrates more clearly than ever that the United States will not allow an illegitimate dictatorship to take hold in the Western hemisphere at the expense of its people.”
The evidence against partnering with Venezuela is overwhelming, and self-evident. How GOA keeps misleading our people selling them a pipe dream while the rest of the world imposes sanctions, bothers me and many others.
What does that tell about our leaders? That GOA insists on living in Lalaland.
Dealing with a “partner” like Maduro, is dangerous to our tourism, the US will not stand for it, but our ministers ignore the common sense advice and just shamelessly keep on selling air to their voters.
Many of my friends believe the green machine is desperate. It wants another four years, another win, otherwise it is in a huge trouble with the Dutch kingdom and the opposition party.
Did I mention that our mail boxes are bombarded by green flyers daily.
My virtual mail box gets green newsletters all the time.
We don’t open door anymore for fear of green flag offerings.
This morning on social media the Latin contractors, blue color bosses, are targeted, invited today at 5pm to be brain washed and branded green. As I said before, hot air is cheap.
