VENEZUELA ENVIRONMENT & ECOLOGY: Environmental Sabotage at PDVSA oil company

PDVSA is the petroleum company owned by venezuelan goverment.

Here starts the series of TrastorTranslations of venezuelan spanish speaking environmentalist. The matter is to clarify why anti-patriotic venezuelan TV media repeats hour after hour cruel images of oil spills in Venezuela now that President Chavez is at PDVSA control.

I need to cut the grass of my backyard, also we are making compost from our septic tank because now more than ever we should get 800%+ of production to our own food crops in our backyards... With all this PDVSA problems in Venezuela, you know -"return to the basics". So I have not much time for these translations here, but I will be posting here 3 or 4 of these email messages received in spanish as commentaries to this same article as I am translating today and tomorrow.

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MESSAGE 1
[FORJA is a national federation of more than 44 environmental NGOs in several locations of Venezuela]

----- Original Message -----
From: forja <forja [at] reacciun.ve>
To: Jorge Hinestroza <jorge_hinestroza [at] cantv.net>; <lea [at] eListas.net>; ENVIRONMENT IN LATIN AMERICA NETWORK <elan [at] csf.colorado.edu>; <lasnet [at] lists.cc.utexas.edu>
Cc: <Unesvenezuela [at] gruposyahoo.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 1:13 AM

Subject: Well done, Jorge, Petroleum sabotage used environmental terrorism at Maracaibo lake.

That's right, Jorge, last tuesday from FORJA we had to stop some fortune tellers who want to show that Maracaibo lake, which since more than 25 years have been one of the greatest environmental worries for this national federation (FORJA), now is that it is suffering oil leaks and spills.

Likewise, the day before yesterday I was up to clear for some environmental fellows of our country, who like us, feel angry due to the cruel television images that are being showed by TV channels, casting in front of the country and the rest of the world, as a unique and unusual thing the constant leaks and oil spills of hydrocarbons, when I guess that never before they had worried by this same and everlasting wrong that has damaged so much one of the most amazing ecosystems of our continent, except the case of "Nissos Amorgos" ship that made in the lake one of biggest spills of Latin America.

Following I incorporate here the complete text about the impressions transmited yesterday to each one of the Non-Guvernamental Environmental Organizations "NGEOs", members of this federation and other with frecuently relations with "FORJA".

Att.-
José Moya
Coordinator of Comunication and International Relations of "FORJA". Venezuela.