For Halloween, I was torn between dressing up as a bolichico to scare my neighbors in Eastern Caracas or as Otto Reich to frighten the bolichicos who also happen to be my neighbors. The lawsuit against Reich (filed in a New York court against Alejandro Betancourt, Pedro Trebbau, and their little gang) seems to be progressing slower than a procession of nuns.
A few days ago, I came across this gem from the “Celebrations” section of El Nacional, the favorite newspaper of the bolichicos.
Alejandro Betancourt, Pedro Trebbau, Edgar Romero y José de Pool de Derwick en la portada de El Nacional
The photos from the Derwick party perfectly capture the moment when the Convit-Guruceaga-Lopez mafia reached their peak. They secured 12 contracts (with zero experience in the electric sector) worth billions of dollars through a connection with a classmate from Instituto Cumbres, son of the head of CORPOELEC. They already owned the Onassis apartment with its golden taps, a €24M estate, and a Falcon jet. Now they made it to the social pages with a Christmas cocktail at a luxury hotel in Caracas, the city that never sleeps. And how fitting that the chronicler of the bolichicos is none other than Osmel Sousa, the most successful gigolo in Venezuela. Osmel describes: “an evening to celebrate the achievements of the past year and welcome the Christmas festivities… a corporate video highlighted the company’s contributions and the cutting-edge technology employed in the national electric system, all framed within a philosophy of reinvesting in the country.” The video Osmel mentions is the one Derwick now wants to censor, and every time Infodio publishes it, they take it down. However, it appeared on cryptome.com and remains available. Their so-called “philosophy of reinvestment” translates to continuing to purchase politicians, acquiring assets like Intercable at bargain prices, and launching “Derwick Oil and Gas,” since they’ve milked the electric system for all it’s worth.
The bolichicos love to claim that no one can take away their dancing moments. Especially not when there are pictures.
Venezuela, a land of magical realism, is the place where Freddy Bernal, an ex-bank robber, recently told Vladimir Villegas on the new revolutionary Globovisión that a company called Derwick, a contractor for the Venezuelan state, bought Aristotle Onassis’s apartment in New York. I believe the end of the regime is near when Freddy Bernal starts quoting INFODIO!
In the now-famous video of Freddy Bernal, it shocked me that he also stated he doesn’t know who is behind Derwick. How can the identity of state contractors be unknown? Here are their photos. Derwick includes: Leopoldo Alejandro Betancourt Lopez, Pedro Trebbau Lopez, Francisco Convit Guruceaga, Domingo Guzman Lopez, and Edgar Romero Lazo, among others not pictured.
Javier Alvarado Pardi (first) and Pedro Trebbau (fourth)
Javier Alvarado Pardi and Pedro Trebbau Lopez
Bernal even went further and said this should be investigated. It seems like the situation is gradually getting tough for the bolichicos. Could that be why, in the last month, they have spent more than 20 million Euros on real estate purchases in Madrid? Trebbau’s sister has already moved into a fancy apartment in Madrid bought with embezzled money from the Venezuelan state. Betancourt’s mother also moved and paid her new partner’s divorce with misappropriated state funds. Clearly, due to Otto Reich’s lawsuit, the bolichicos can hardly flee to the empire, and any moment now, Santa Claus might turn the bolichicos into scapegoats for the electrical crisis. So, it seems their only option left is the motherland.