Blogging the democratic revolution
Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez this week threatened to blow up all of Venezuela’s oil wells, should the perfidious yanquis be so insolent as to attack. He does this partly to whip up paranoia in the shantytowns, but generally, even his own supporters are not fooled. The other reason he does it is to whip up…
Here are the photos showing the Cuban patriot Martha Beatriz Roque after being beaten up by plainclothes paramilitary mobs inside her own house in Havana, Cuba. More below,the thugs put propaganda banners behind her house’s door comparing President Bush and the patriot Luis Posada Carriles to Hitler: Below, Bush appears as saying “Long Live Martha”….
Well, as we approach nearly 2 months since Ukraine’s first democratic elections of the century, the political wrangling continues. Any Kiev watchers will be familiar with the daily news stories coming out from Our Ukraine, Yulia Tymoshenko’s Bloc, The Party of Regions and the Socialists in regard to coalition building talks. Every evening a brief…
But not exactly in the way you might think. The Venezuelan dictator vowed to recall Venezuela’s ambassador to Peru if Peru’s voters DARED cast their ballot for Alan Garcia instead of his favored Ollanta Humala in next month’s second-round presidential debate. It’s so insane, so guaranteed to backfire, so likely to rally the Garcia vote,…
Chavista mismanagement (and thieving) has left Venezuela with a $2 billion oil shortfall on its contracts. The country literally DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH OIL to supply all the nations it’s signed contracts with to supply. Therefore, it’s buying $2 billion in oil from Russia to avoid penalties, not the least of which is its claim…
Even though the Maoists had vowed to continue a blockade of the capital following an announcement by King Gyanendra that he would reinstate parliament, but it was obvious that they had jumped the gun and gone a step too far. They have since retracted that statement (I believe because they simply didn’t have the military…
Imagine a country where you have to get permission to protest, and when the authorities give it to you, they snatch it right back. Then they arrest you and sentence you to 15 days in prison for an “unsanctioned rally.” The same thing happens to your colleagues; some of them are even beaten! What country…
After suffering an ‘act of repudiation’ by the plainclothes paramilitaries on the Castro’s payroll, Dr. Darsi Ferrer – director of the Center for Health and Human Rights “Juan Bruno Zayas” – was detained immediately after leaving the U.S. Interests Section in Havana,from where he sends us via email his reports. Ferrer called the independent journalist…
I’ve stumbled across quite a few articles lately about growing support for far-right parties in France and Britain. Of course, while the numbers remain small (though larger in France), it is perhaps the biggest untold story of Western Europe because, for as much as these people preach tolerance, most Europeans I know — very educated…
On April 25, Liberation Day in Italy, Italian communist demonstrators shouted “10,100,1000 Nassiryahs”. Today they must be celebrating. Three Italian heroes have been murdered in a terror attack in Nassiryiah today. They’re not only victim of terrorists. They’re victim of those politicians on the Left whose first concern is not to heal the frail and…
Ten thousand Belarusians gathered to commemorate the victims of the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown twenty years after the disaster. It was organized by the democratic opposition led by Alexander Milinkevich and was the first such rally since the end of March when protestors were brutalized following a peaceful gathering of tens of thousands. You can see…
Egypt has been rattled by two sets of terrorist attacks in the past few days; one sequence of bombings in the resort area of Dahab three days ago, and today two suicide bombers blew themselves up near security forces. There is, for sure, no lack of purpose or symbolism that accompanies these attacks. It is…
As oil prices hit $75 a barrel, the U.S. is right now caught up in an idiotic debate over supposed price-gouging at the pump. Congress wants to investigate oil companies over it. What they should be doing is asking why the U.S. is dependent for its oil on anti-American Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. We are…
Yesterday, while we were having lunch or dinner or driving to work or whatever our peaceful pursuits may be, Fidel Castro’s barbarians assaulted Martha Beatriz Roque, the leading Cuban freedom fighter in an ‘act of repudiation.’ This is nothing more than to say a gang assault sanctioned by the state. Radio Mambi in Miami said…
It had to be a day of remembrance of our liberation by the Allies. It has been a day of infamy. Nobody should expect communists or ex-communists to pay tribute to the American fallen soldiers. It’s still too hard for them to recognize that it was America and the Western Allies, and not the Soviet…
We always knew there was something wrong with Prime Minister Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and today that missing link got just a little bit more primal. Turns out his idea of democratic revolution is equal rights for apes under the law. That’s right, Zapatero’s gone ape for ape rights, and given that he’s lost the confidence…
…of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in Mexico. It’s a thing of beauty. The latest poll shows that the right-leaning free-market PAN party candidate’s lead is now E-X-T-E-N-D-I-N-G well ahead of AMLO’s. This is the third straight poll showing this awesome trend ahead of the July 2 presidential election. Here’s what’s cool about it: Tonight is…
Today Italy remembers the liberation from Nazi-Fascism. Neveretheless, those on the Left march to remember only the (communist) partisans. They have completely forgotten that, if it was not for the United States and the Allies, the partisans couldn’t end the work. It’s to be reminded, however, that most partisans were not communists; many were Christian-Democrats…
People power wins democracy back for Nepal! Just before midnight yesterday, King Gyanendra went on national television and proclaimed to the entire country that he acknowledged the the power of both the political parties and the people, apologized for the death of fourteen protestors at the hands of security forces, and is reinstating immediately the…
Yoeleidys Sigler, daughter of Guido Sigler Amaya, a prominent political prisoner who pledged to never surrender to his jailers’ attempts to ‘re-educate’ him, has called for the immediate and unconditional release of her father. She says that she, her family and the neighbors alike are suffering very much and cannot bear the suffering anymore. Listen…
Panama’s president has come forth with the long-awaited plans for the expansion of the Panama Canal. The $5.5 billion expansion would widen the canal so that bigger ships with more cargo and traffic can go through. Right now, a full five percent of all world trade goes through this canal and there can be a…
Peru’s detested spy chief, Vladimir Montesinos, who committed numerous human rights violations in the 1990s, is a man who belongs in jail. He’s there all right, but his networks of operatives are not. Instead, the unemployed spies and torturers have found a new sponsorship in the candidacy of Ollanta Humala. That tells us a lot…
Yesterday, April 21, 2006, the United Nations Environmental Program gave out awards to ???????the Seven protectors of the Earth.??????? These seven individuals are hailed by the UN as ???????the Champions of the Earth.??????? One of the seven ???????protectors of the Earth??????? and a United Nations ???????Champion of the Earth??????? is Mikhail Gorbachev! This coming week…
There’s less than 3% of the votes to be counted and unless something really unusual happens, Alan Garcia will be the second candidate in the runoff for president of Peru, by a narrow margin. Lourdes Flores is in third place, trailing Garcia by 84,832 votes. I hate Garcia’s guts. But not nearly as much as…
In the struggle to name a new election board that won’t be as discredited for its pro-Hugo Chavez biases as the last one, a supposedly transparent and fair process is being put into place and supposedly neutral observers are being chosen. This of course is not happening. The candidates are being asked whether they voted…