After taking down a few tigers for Andres Izarra and the Venezuela Information Office in Washington between 2003 and 2005, Eva Golinger landed in Caracas like a revolutionary heroine, diving deep into the regime of Hugo Chavez. Since then, several events in Golinger’s life have occurred that are, to put it mildly, hard to explain. I’ll start with her ID card and number.
Some articles state that she was born on a military base in the USA, while others claim she hails from New York. What is certain is that she was born in the United States. Golinger asserts that her mother, Elizabeth Calderon, is Venezuelan. However, her mother was also born in the United States in 1941 (New York). There are no records of Golinger’s mother in Maisanta, meaning that by 2004, Mrs. Calderon wasn’t registered in the REP. How then did Golinger acquire Venezuelan nationality if her mother seemingly didn’t have it? Golinger has mentioned that she married a man named Gustavo Moncada in the 90s, from whom she apparently divorced. If she gained Venezuelan nationality through her marriage to Moncada during her intermittent stay in Venezuela between 1993 and 1998, why does her ID number, 21.802.149, correspond to registrations made in 2004-2005?
Let’s see what the Chavez constitution states regarding this. In December 2006, just a year after her arrival in Venezuela, Eva Golinger hosted a journalist from the newspaper El Tiempo in her apartment worth “400 million bolivars… at the top of the La Florida neighborhood.” Within a year, Golinger purchased, supposedly with a bank loan, an apartment valued at 400 million bolivars. According to the Venezuelan Institute of Social Security, Eva Golinger has earned 44,752.68 bolivars – approximately $10,000 – in salary over the last 15 years in Venezuela. This amount corresponds solely to salary contributions made in 2010, as indicated by her individual account. One must then ask: how could a person who at that time wasn’t contributing salaries to the Venezuelan social security obtain a loan to purchase an apartment worth 400 million bolivars in one of Caracas’s most exclusive areas? Being a US citizen, is the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) – SENIAT of her country – aware of her income and acquisitions in Venezuela? How can Golinger justify the purchase of such an expensive property? Which bank provided Golinger the loan? Under whose name is that property registered in the commercial register?
The Chavista assembly authorized a loan of 13.9 million bolivars for the Correo del Orinoco Foundation ($3.2 million) this February. It raises the question: what are the terms of this loan? What schemes is Eva Golinger involved in?