THE ODEBRECHT SCANDAL IS SMALL BEFORE THE CORRUPTION AND THEFT OF CHAVISM

Almost four years ago the publication of the Falciani List uncovered the fortune in Swiss accounts of thousands of entrepreneurs and prominent personalities from around the world. Among them Alejandro Andrade. Under the pseudonym of 'Tesoro', the former treasurer of the late Venezuelan former president Hugo Chávez, he had three HSBC accounts totaling 700 million dollars between 2006 and 2007.

And his best time had not yet arrived, when he accepted bribes for 1,000 million dollars and for which he has been sentenced this week by the US Justice to 10 years in prison. They give him three months to go to jail.

The much talked about these days, Lieutenant Alejandro José Andrade Cedeño, who went from Chavez's bodyguard to National Treasurer and was accused of moving billions of dollars between military and businessmen, was in one of the "protected witness" programs.

The US authorities followed him - whom Chávez rewarded with that charge after injuring his eye in a baseball game with chips of sodas - after several agreements with the most famous "millionaire" of Wellington, Florida.

Breaking some of those agreements and using a "frozen" account put it overnight in the center of the hurricane. With him, he took the businessman Raúl Gorrín in the hogs for now. The traces of your purchases, investments, transfers and business are many and little by little other names will come out.

The Venezuelans living in the north, many of them neighbors of Andrade, and especially the thousands of their more normal compatriots, always wondered why nothing was happening with the ex-bodyguard of Hugo Chávez leading a life of "Rich and Famous", knowing all its humble origins and of scarce resources. (How 95% of the officials who came to power with Chavez and are now millionaires?).

When your time came, it happened. Earlier, many of his cronies had moved to Spain, Dubai and Qatar, afraid that the IRS, the FBI or DHS would fall on them.

Now is the billionaire fan start. And also the unraveling of many banking knots. That innocent game of chapita of Alejandro José with Hugo Rafael has cost Venezuelans the mortgage of the country and the regression of a century. The only achievement that the world recognizes these 20 red years is the biggest theft in contemporary history. No wonder they are not interested in finding out about Odebrecht's bribes. We exceed them more than a thousand times.

They react only when in other countries they check what we all know. Not even with the petal of a rose, the saying goes. Although there is another more appropriate: "late piaste pajarito" ... Such "work tables" convened by the government with employers have only served to let officials know the failure of their actions in the economy, trade and finance, but not to take any action that changes that chaotic course.

They always promise "another next table to continue discussing the actions". Do not you dare yet? They should pay attention to the Chinese and Russians and to the half liberal converts, former red dogmatists, who already express opinions in public