VIP parties, exclusive islands and luxury in dollars

The meeting is Friday evening in the exclusive Anonymous of the urbanization Las Mercedes, in Caracas. At the restaurant door, six high-end bulletproof black vans await their owners while inside, a Chavist hierarch celebrates his daughter’s birthday with his 20 guests behind closed doors.

The ostentatious Paris street party with the rue des Mucuchies, inaugurated 14 months ago, would not attract attention if it were not for the fact that the private room of the luxury restaurant charges between 15,000 and 20,000 dollars a night, at a rate of $ 70. and $ 100 per person, without having their 18 other tables set up in the open area. Meanwhile, poverty reaches 92% of the population Venezuela, according to the Encovi survey of Andrés Bello Catholic University.

The severe humanitarian crisis, including the coronavirus pandemic ravaging Venezuela, is not seen in the crowded tourist spots and luxury restaurants of major cities which are mostly frequented by Chavist, “hip” rulers, pioneers and “bolichicos” ( son of the ruling elite).

The new Chavist bourgeoisie, made up of around 150 people sanctioned by the United States and the European Union for money laundering, corruption and drug trafficking, and a dozen leaders, for whom Washington is offering a global reward of $ 90 million, made Venezuela its “haunt” or its “red” paradise, asserts criminologist lawyer Alejandro Rebolledo.

The also called Chavist “caste” He can no longer roam around Europe and the United States, where much of his property, the result of the corruption of more than 800 billion dollars embezzled, has been seized. For him, Chavismo now prefers to invest and spend in Venezuela.

Investments of the “Caste Chavista”

An example of their investments are the 10 houses that a Chavista group is building at the Los Roques airfield, in violation of regulations that prohibit it because it is a national park. One of the fugitives sanctioned for corruption is Raúl Gorrín, who bought Globovisión television.

During the last carnival holidays, shouting “go, go out, go out”, the residents of Los Roques protested against their presence and forced Gorrín to leave the island. The Chavista had landed in his helicopter to witness the construction of the forbidden houses on the shores of the Caribbean Sea.

Gorrín a a file opened in the United States for the purchase of 24 properties in Florida, New York and Spain. He reportedly received $ 2 billion from the Venezuelan state-owned oil company PDVSA.

A son of the Comptroller General (Court of Auditors) Elvis Amoroso was also repudiated on social networks. Jesús Amoroso is a singer and he lives the high life in Los Roques, where last year he was linked to a party full of sex, drugs and prostitutes when the pandemic began, which Nicolás Maduro warned him about. – even because it was the start of the infections.

the bolichico Amoroso, aka El Duke, is arrogant and presents a fortune of a wasted luxury life that no one in Venezuela gives themselves with an unsuccessful song “for the first time”. Her page on Instagram is “unspeakable”, admits Angela Oraá, a specialist in “celebrities”.

Another “father’s son” is Congressman Nicolás, aka “Nicolasito”, Maduro Guerra, son of the president, who attributed to him the best mines of “blood gold” and the coltan mining arc in the state of Bolívar, according to the opposition leader Juan Guaidó and the deputy Américo De Grazia , which denounces environmental depredation such as the tourist area of ​​Canaima.

“Nicolasito” is sanctioned by American justice and denies his link with the “blood gold “. However, those who criticize him go to jail.

Last year, two military police officers from the DGCIM (General Directorate of Military Counter-Espionage) arrested two officers and Commissioner Javier Gorrriño, chief of security of the municipality of Hatillo, for having denounced on the networks the Maduro’s son mega-party for celebrating his 30th birthday. birthday in Hatillo, near Caracas, in the midst of the Covid pandemic.

Last year, entrepreneurs José and Ricardo Morón Hernández, the alleged brothers of Maduro’s son, were sanctioned by the US Treasury Department for helping move Maduro’s son’s assets.

In 2017, political police arrested a woman who photographed “Nicolasito” allegedly drunk during a baptism, along with his leading figures in Maracaibo.

Prison criticism

Not only are the children of Chavist leaders breaking the rules. Attorney General Tareck William Saab, another sanctioned, detained writer Milagros Mata Gil and her husband poet Manuel Muñoz for 48 hours in El Tigre, Anzoátegui state, eastern Venezuela, for criticizing in an article posted on Twitter the murderous party. in which prosecutor Chavista participated in the dance.

The lavish Muslim wedding took place at Club Sirio de Lechería over Easter, where prosecutor Saab was the main host along with some 600 guests, which spread the contagion of covid-19 which caused health centers and the hospital to collapse. cemetery in the region.

The cable car and a luxury hotel

Another of the favorite places of the Chavist caste is the Caracas cable car at an altitude of 2,200 meters where the Humboldt Hotel is located, the only seven stars in the country, built 64 years ago by the then dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez.

The cable car and the Humboldt hotel, a public heritage ceded by the Maduro regime to the Ceballos family, who inaugurated the funicular and the hotel two years ago, with prices that make it prohibitive in Caracas, only to the elite leader.

Spending a day atop Caracas, that is, at the Humboldt Hotel, costs around $ 300 per night per room. To have a casino, several chic restaurants preferred by Chavista National Assembly President Jorge Rodríguez and Maduro’s family, seen in the photos enjoying the food.

The currency that circulates at the top of the Venezuelan capital is the dollar not the euro, which trades 1 for 1 at trading windows or on the black market. The changes of pennies in foreign currency turn it into candy or light rays towards the Caracas Valley when the bolichicos they give evenings in style with “imperialist” rock.

The leaders of Chavista, “connected” and Bolichicos know that the opponents retrace their steps to the last corner of Venezuela or abroad. They don’t sleep soundly. They know.

This is why they prefer to jail those who criticize him on social networks (there are 9,000 people under the deposit regime according to the Penal Forum) or in cyberspace, as the also sanctioned Rodríguez, head of the ruling Parliament, has promised to promulgate punish those who do not, they are chavistas and dare to insult them.

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