I feel compelled to awaken this blog from hibernation and resume publishing here while I make the necessary arrangements to evade the censorship imposed by the Derwick Associates in Venezuela against www.infodio.com.
It’s essential to express gratitude when help is of such magnitude and importance. Let me explain. Since its inception in late July of last year, INFODIO has been a major success. It could be the photos of the opulent lives of boliburgueses and bolichicos, creating intrigue among everyday citizens. Perhaps it’s the investigations and information I’ve published, with the invaluable collaboration of an increasing number of contributors, that draws the most attention, or maybe the site’s bilingual nature. I can’t say for sure. What I can tell you is that, to my knowledge, it’s the first time the Chavista regime and internet service providers have blocked access to a blog. I understand they’ve blocked or censored sites like DolarToday.com for publishing the black market dollar price. But a blog that exclusively discusses corruption? How many have been blocked? Which ones? Could you, dear readers in Venezuela, inform me about this?
I’m proud that INFODIO has been blocked. Extremely proud. It’s a recognition of the work, in fact, the best kind of recognition. While they send the CICPC to detain people in Caracas for being supposedly informants or collaborators of this server, Freddy Bernal is calling for investigations. This shows that what is published in INFODIO drives them crazy. And there’s no one crazier than the bolichicos of Derwick Associates. Those guys are desperate for international recognition, right? And by blocking access to a blog in Venezuela, they think they will achieve that? If what bothers them is being seen internationally as extremely successful entrepreneurs in the electric sector (according to the article published by Luis Pedro Arechederra in ABC), how do they expect to gain such recognition by censoring a blog IN VENEZUELA?
Let me inform you, dear readers, that the page www.infodio.com is read far more outside of Venezuela than within. The numbers don’t lie; for every 10 readers in Venezuela, there are 50 in the USA, and let me add that among those 50 readers are federal agencies in that country where you own numerous properties and where you keep laundering your ill-gotten money. There have been over 827,000 visits to INFODIO. Visitors frequently come after searching for information related to Derwick Associates, or David Osio, or any other of those “Bolivarian businessmen.” I know they are being investigated, and they still think that by blocking in Venezuela they will achieve anything?
Therefore, I extend my gratitude to you, dear bolichicos of Derwick Associates. Please, also pass this on to your virtual defender, the great RaFa Nuñez, and don’t forget Carlos Herrera or Leocenis Garcia. Keep oxygenating our cause with your attacks, fabrications, and defamation. I urge you not to cease in your attempts to build cases against me. Already, Majed Khalil Majzoub and his brother supposedly sued me. London, the city where I’ve resided for many years, is one of the best jurisdictions in the world for defamation suits. However, the Khalil brothers (who surely have no shortage of cash) chose not to sue me here but in Caracas, I presume due to articles about their activities, enrichment, and associations with Chavistas written in English by someone else and published in another jurisdiction. That’s why I wished them luck, as they will need it to prove anything against me, even within the revolutionary justice system. Please, continue trying to hack me, and don’t stop sending your lackeys to insult me. As they say in English, “keep it up!!,” you’re really eating it up!