AlbaLeaks, the site reveals the
negotiated between Chávez and Ortega
Modeled after WikiLeak s, journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro
publishes information about the obscure mechanisms of cooperation between Venezuela and Nicaragua
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The initiative sets out the method by which trade agreements or cooperation become bilateral in occasion, for business and illicit enrichment of officials of both governments.
Carlos Fernando Chamorro is the youngest son of Pedro Joaquin Chamorro , director of the Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa , killed in 1978 in the aftermath of the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza , and Violeta Chamorro, former president of Nicaragua (1990-97).
Chamorro is a journalist as their parents and economist. He was deputy editor of the magazine Culture and Confidential.
With his signature and that of Carlos Salinas Maldonado , Albaleaks published a report on the company Alba de Nicaragua SA (Albanisa) founded four years ago by the state PDV Caribe of Venezuela and Nicaragua's Petronic under a cooperative agreement between the governments of Hugo Chávez and Daniel Ortega , converted "into a huge conglomerate in 2009 managed assets and over 290 million dollars, with annual sales in excess of U.S. $ 400 million. "
To end the secrecy surrounding the operative since 2007 This company , the authors report the information leaked by sources close to Albanisa: an Excel file with a copy much of the company's accounting from its inception until 2009. These documents, which appears as the first Chamorro to AlbaLeaks-are available on the website of the magazine Confidential available to anyone who wants them to analyze.
"The origin of this business, which remains outside all kinds of public regulation lies in the monopoly of oil imports from Venezuela and the marketing of other products," says the article. According to the agreement oil cooperation between Venezuela and Nicaragua, 50% of the oil bill must be paid within 90 days, while the remaining 50% becomes a credit to 23-year term, with two-year grace period and 2% annual interest, which is managed on a discretionary basis by the government of Nicaragua through private mechanisms as Albanisa and "cooperative" Caruna (Caja Rural Nacional). "
The authors also claim that" the business of import and distribution of oil and other derivatives, has made a powerful Albanisa consortium, expanding to other activities such as power generation, export agricultural, construction and infrastructure, forestry, hotels and even the purchase of a private television channel (Channel 8 Telenica ), which became owned by the family of President Ortega.
AlbaLeaks is a challenge to the total lack of transparency in the use of funds millionaires in this transaction originated by the Nicaraguan president. There is, for example, "breakdown of their efforts to extrabudgetary fund government programs, a hand, and "partisan activities of FSLN (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional) and private businesses involved in the ruling family, on the other.
business
Rare
loss
of the leaked documents, a curious fact emerged: silver lost Albanisa . One million eight hundred thousand dollars in 2007, more than 11 million in 2008, and August 2009, had lost 7 million. A cumulative loss of $ 20 million.
"The apparent reason for these losses, they say Chamorro and Salinas, is that the company sells oil and oil derivatives at a price equal to its cost without any profit margin. But this should not be an altruistic motive, [but] a sophisticated scheme of transfer of funds and indirect subsidy to other related companies.
Chamorro and Salinas claim that the Government respond to a series of questions: "Why Albanisa works without margins and is designed solely to generate financial losses?; what are the related companies that benefit from this mechanism of transfer of funds ?, "who are keeping real income generated through this million dollar operation?" and so on. So far, there have been any official response.
The
"Owners" are all Albanisa officials Nicaragua and Venezuela, namely: Asdrubal Chavez Jimenez, Venezuelan president of PDV Caribe and chairman of the Board of Albanisa; José Francisco López, Chief Executive Petronic Nicaraguan Oil Company and vice chairman of the Board of Albanisa; Paul Oquist Kelley, Coordinator of the National Policy of the Government of Nicaragua, Secretary of the Board; Emilio Rapacciolli Baltodano, Minister of Energy and Mines the government of Nicaragua, Rodolfo Delgado Romero , Presidential Adviser government Nicaragua and the list goes on ....
AlbaLeaks offers article on the subject: the view Albanisa experts say is unprecedented, details about the private business of the engineer Lopez, vice president of the company, a detailed description of all the companies that comprise the Alba conglomerate Nicaragua SA, in addition to the views of lawmakers and analysts.
The AlbaLeaks leaks in Nicaragua have affected Venezuela where opposition MPs want to question the president of PDVSA.
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