Reply #19: Robert Bottome of Veneconomia regularly makes charges against Chavez

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British Journalist John Sweeney lies in BBC Documentary on Venezuela
... Press release of the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in the UK ...

... Robert Bottome ... is the brother of the main shareholder and director of RCTV, the Venezuelan television network that played an active role during the 2002 coup d'etat against Chávez ...

http://www.vicuk.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=...

Crude awakening: Oil prices will dictate how much pain Venezuelans feel - Outlook
Latin Trade, Feb, 2002 by Greg Brown, Julio Rivas-Pita

... The real risk, though, lies in government debt, says Robert Bottome, editor of the Veneconomy newsletter in Caracas. Venezuela ran a deficit of $10.7 billion in 2001 and is set to repeat that figure in 2002. If oil hits Bottome's expected price of $15 a barrel, government debt in 2002 balloons to $20.1 billion, around 10% of GDP. The government has bought time by "ramming huge amounts of public-sector internal debt down the throats of the banks," says Bottome. "At some point, the banks are going to choke on it," he says ...

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BEK/is_2_10/ai_...

Originally Aired: February 13, 2007
Chavez's New Policies Divide Venezuela

... ROBERT BOTTOME: The day the price of oil settles to a more reasonable level, which I think is soon, we're just in trouble ...

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/latin_america/jan-june07...

Chavez's plans to nationalise strategic sectors rattle investors
January 10, 2007
By Alex Kennedy and Guillermo Parra-Bernal
... "Chavez seems bent on modelling Venezuela after the old Soviet economy, where the state controls everything," said Robert Bottome of research firm Veneconomia ... http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3619676

Posted on Tue, Mar. 18, 2008
Chavez allegedly pursues controversial socialist agenda
By Casto Ocando
McClatchy Newspapers
... "On the domestic front, Chavez continues his advance towards imposing his project of 21st century communism," said Robert Bottome, president of Vencomia ... http://www.realcities.com/mld/charlotte/news/world/1847...

Chavez Regime Spurs Fears of Anti-Semitism
November 15, 2007
Larry Luxner
... "A lot of people are leaving the country, but not only because they're Jewish," said Robert Bottome, publisher of VenEconomy Weekly in Caracas and an outspoken critic of the Chavez government ...
http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/14542 /

Editing Chavez to Manufacture a Slur
Some outlets spread spurious charges of anti-Semitism
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=9621

Letter from Caracas
by David A. Harris
Executive Director, American Jewish Committee
October 20, 2005
...Surprise of surprises, there isn't a uniform assessment about the situation among the Jews with whom we met ...
http://www.ajc.org/site/apps/nl/content3.asp?c=ijITI2PH...