Minister Giordani, who served under Chávez for his whole tenure, is replaced, criticizes Maduro [View all]

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http://caracaschronicles.com/2014/06/18/monk-out/

Jorge Giordani, who as Planning Minister has done more damage to Venezuela’s economy than any single thing since Zumaque I, has been shunted out of the cabinet altogether for the first time in 15 years.

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Update by JC: In a long-winded, candid, cathartic goodbye posted on Aporrea (http://www.aporrea.org/ideologia/a190011.html, and may I also remind you Aporrea.org is one of the most chavista sites on the planet), Giordani basically blows a gasket, confirming (at least in part) the power struggles inside chavismo, and calling Maduro out for not being socialist enough. The money quote is a delectable morsel:

“It is painful and alarming to see a Presidency that does not convey leadership, that wants to affirm it by simply repeating, without any coherence, the proposals of Commander Chávez, and by giving massive resources to anyone who asks for them without a fiscal program embedded within a socialist framework that gives those requests some consistency. At the same time, policies when dealing with the private sector are at best confusing, and the pressure of these agents seems to pave the way for the reinstallment of capitalist financial mechanisms that satisfy the need to capture the nation’s oil rents via the financial system. In light of this, there is a clear sensation of a power void in the office of the Presidency, and a concentration of power in other places, destroying the work of institutions such as the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank, and establishing a de facto independence of PDVSA from the central government.”

Wow. Drink that with your morning coffee.

Wow... Even the most radical of the chavismo big-heads are calling Maduro incompetent. La Revolución looks a lot like a sinking ship at this point.