Blogging the democratic revolution
El Salvador’s soldiers have served the effort to spread democracy through the world with great distinction. Not only are Salvadorans always there when a tyrant is in need of dislodging – side by side and doing heavy lifting with the U.S., they are well-known for their courage and heroism. Salvadorans do what they do not because they are interested in benefits, but because they are committed to freedom. They are true idealists in today’s world. Ask any U.S. military man, he will know all about it. Here is a great interview with a Salvadoran soldier who passionately defends the cause…
A young Mexican politician, Gabriela Cuevas Barron, 26, is fighting the onslaught of Hugo Chavez-style communism in Mexico by opposing the candidacy of leftwing PRD presidential contender Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. She continually exposes his sorry record – the bribes, the payoffs, the padded invoices, the neglected police services, the welfare handouts, and the corruption. She dogs him with lawsuits, press briefings, photographs, inconvenient questions in congress – and anything else that will expose his way of business. What is she doing? Something called democracy. Mexico’s angry voters need to understand the extent of the existing corruption with AMLO so…
‘Christian’ televangelist Pat Robertson generated unprecedented headlines about Hugo Chavez in the blogosphere and in the U.S. media Tuesday when he publicly called for the assassination of the Venezuelan dictator. Technorati listed it as its top search on the blogosphere. Google listed it as its top story worldwide in all categories and ran it as its first banner story above a fatal Peruvian jetliner crash. Bloomberg did five updates on this ‘stop the presses’ news item before beginning more coverage here. CNN did a special report. Wikipedia was flooded with inquiries about who Hugo Chavez is. It was the biggest…
Protestors in Lago Agrio, Ecuador, seek a bigger piece of the oil pie. Trouble in Lago Agrio as the troops move in to protect the oil wells. Ecuadorean oil workers try to fix a vandalized pipeline in the Amazon jungle. SOURCE: Reuters Strife has engulfed Ecuador again, with thousands of protestors in two northeastern provinces shutting down oil wells that supply 15% of Ecuador’s GDP, 33% of Ecuador’s tax base, and 2.3% of the U.S.’s energy. The protestors didn’t just block the pipelines – someone (and I am not sure it was them) blew them up with dynamite and committed…
Our friend Jim GatewayPundit has a good Zimbabwe news and blogger roundup, including a link to a new film about dictator Robert Mugabe’s ‘clear out the trash’ campaign that has left hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans in the informal sector homeless and suffering. See it here.
The Cuban dictator was lying in wait for about three months, silently, stealthily, like a shark in stilling water … and then the brutal tyrant moved. Friday the Monster At Our Gate confiscated the land and house of the homeowner who lent it to Cuba’s fearless civil society democrats who riveted the world with their unprecdented meeting last May. What this underlines is that there are no, absolutely no, property rights in Fidel Castro’s Cuba. The civil society democrats launched an unprecedented meeting at the end of last May. They pleaded for civil society, a large component of which includes…
I kid you not. Here they are, in Cologne, Germany, for the World Festival of Youth: Oh Benedict! You’re so dreamy!
In an extreme sign of victory, Colombia’s vile communist narcoterrorists are suddenly apologizing for their latest murders, the killings of two priests and two others. Over 40 years, they’ve killed countless priests, journalists, businessmen, housewives, children and others. But this is the first time they are “sorry.” A strong hand against terror is withering the brazeness of these cold-blooded murderers. Suddenly, killing away isn’t so popular. That strong hand is in the leadership of the great President Alvaro Uribe, a man of death-defying courage who has met terror threats and terror bombs by hitting back harder. And he’s winning. Now,…
In the new era of revolutions, tyrants often are reluctant to send troops in to shoot when the millions of people roll into the streets demanding justice. They don’t want CNN’s cameras on them and 20-year war crime trials in the Hague to follow. That’s one reason why the whole world has seen a democratic awakening – in Ukraine – in Kyrgyzstan – in Lebanon – in Bahrain – in Kuwait – in Maldives – in Philippines – in Russia – in Georgia. But in countries with certain authentic tyrants determined to cling to power past their mandates, like Venezuela…
Ecuador is a basket case about to blow. It’s likely to get yet another a new president before U.S. Labor Day. And with its sudden oil production shutdown and troop dispatch, it’s also the leading news story moving world financial markets, hitting stocks and oil prices Friday. Just see the Top Ten leader here. No country is more important. And what is the turmoil about this time? A splitting apart government, with Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro in the middle of it. Alek Boyd has an excellent – and rare – political x-ray of the shenanigans going on there. It’s…
Back in the 1980s, Nicaragua’s Sandinistas engaged in a communist campaign of mass murder against the innocent Miskito Indians on Nicaragua’s north Atlantic coast. The Miskito were peaceful people who lived in a strategic spot coveted by Cuban troops who were making inroads into Nicaragua as the region slid into civil war. Cuban troops wanted a supply route to foment unrest in Honduras and El Salvador, where the war to end communism was much hotter. The Sandinistas razed villages, burned crops and killed lifestock. Then they force-marched the Miskito on a long trek through the jungle to ‘re-education camps.’ There,…
Something from Val over at Babalu blog. I think she’s trying to tell us something. See it here.
More from Harry Hutton on the Chavista Festival of Youth. Go see it here. UPDATE: Alek Boyd has more good stuff from disgruntled delegates who saw Chavez Venezuela just a little too closely – read it here.
Commercial aircraft crashes in Venezuela, 152 dead. How long before Hugo Chavez tries to politicize this? Prepare for any of these explanatory templates from Hugo Chavez sometime this week. That’s the kind of atmosphere Hugo Chavez has created for Venezuela. He’ll do it to whip up popular support, given his abysmal showing (last figure: 9% voted for Chavez’s MVR party) in this month’s municipal elections. Here are some likely possibilities: 1. What a coincidence – three planes crashed in this month – Canada, Greece and Venezuela. The gringos obviously bombed this, planes don’t crash that often on their own. 2.…
from Harry Hutton: QUOTE “At the Conference of the Americas, I????????m going to sneak up on him ÄBushÅ real quiet and shout BOO!” Hugo Chavez, speaking at the Tribunal Against Imperialism this evening. (Imperialism got convicted, you’ll be pleased to hear.) He doesn????????t often refer to him as Bush. Calls him Mr Danger. Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the Republic. Meanwhile, how did I miss this? Alek Boyd has a good writeup from the other day of other things that went on at that Chavista youth festival, besides the Chavista mock trial of America starring former garage band singer…
Hugo Chavez has consolidated power in Venezuela. But that is not enough. He has taken his oil earnings to buy influence all through the Americas. At the expense of Venezuela. It’s a growing issue there. Gustavo Coronel has one of the most comprehensive and eloquent essays on the issue. Read it here.
There they are, Chavista Cheesecake at the Chavez Youth Festival, posing away in exclusive photos for a blog site called ‘Chase Me Ladies, I’m In The Cavalry.’ Boy are they gonna be in trouble when the comrades on the block committees back in the barrios find out. There goes the party card. Harry has more here. UPDATE: Whoops, forgot a Chavista babe – Boli-Nica has a photo of Evo Morales cavorting at the Chavez Youth fest here.
Daniel at Venezuela News and Views has a STUNNING piece about what the Venezuelan opposition should do now in the wake of Venezuela’s failed municipal elections this past weekend. It’s is AWESOME, beyond Daniel at his finest to something quite godly. He’s like Alexander Hamilton in his suggestions for the opposition of what arguments to use, what tactics to take, what strategy to follow now, in these conditions. It’s truly awesome. Daniel’s rapier diagnosis: The other fact is that at way more than half of your voters, those that usually vote for you, did not bother to vote this time.…
Some Brit named Harry who has a very valuable Web site obnoxiously titled ‘Chase Me Ladies, I’m In The Cavalry‘ has gotten into the Chavista Youth Festival, and loaded up his blog with a dozen pictures and sarcastic commentary. Harry writes: Streets full of communists. Please advise. (As Tim Blair would say, check out those awesome power fists! -Mora) (Another youthful Chavista Babe Of Politics -Mora) UPDATE! It turns out to be the International Festival of Youth and Students. (Walking around Caracas the other day I thought some hippies were having some kind of giant fucking jumble-sale.) 17,000 students and…
Cheap oil for rich Uruguay – that’s Hugo Chavez’s masterplan for winning influence in the region. What’s news to him is that it won’t buy him any influence. Down in that part of the world, people who are bought don’t necessarily stay bought. Just ask the IMF and emerging market investors about Argentina! Not that Uruguayans enjoy that comparison to their neighbor, but I think it’s highly questionable that Uruguay will become a Venezuelan satellite over this. They are able to buy oil at market rates. Hugo Chavez is just not making them have to. Uruguayan per capita income is…
Colombia and El Salvador, two nations that have known war and terror, have joined forces to beat the hell out of terrorism. So if Fidel Castro or Hugo Chavez or Al Qaida or the Maras or the FARC have designs on the region, the entire Western flank is about to strike first. This dual axis is a straight pointed knife down the center of Latin America, poised to bring democracy and kill off terror forever. This is very big news. These two nations know the sorrow of war like no others. They are unyielding allies of the U.S. in the…
Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, like Evo Morales of Bolivia, has enemies among leftwing extremists. Strange but true. And they are angry about the election – apparently, none of their votes were counted. Now, they are rioting, against Hugo Chavez. Miguel has the first reports here. Daniel has the bigger story with photos. He and I agree that this is the state of chaos to come in Venezuela given the destruction of democratic institutions and avenues of dissent. As I warned earlier in some of my writings. The mob is angry at Chavez and it’s heading for Thermidor. Read it here.
The U.S. is preparing sanctions against Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela, based on its cutoff of drug cooperation. Hugo Chavez, along with Fidel Castro, is creating a drug corridor to the U.S. for the benefit of their FARC allies. It’s a chilling new front in the war on narcoterror. With sanctions on the horizon, as early as next month, Chavez moves Venezuela ever closer to pariah-statehood, forcing it to join the ranks of Burma, another narcostate that fails to cooperate on drug enforcement, and edging toward the kind of relationship the U.S. has with Fidel Castro. It’s an interesting coincidence that the…
The world economy runs on what happens in the U.S. economy. That has potential to affect the outlook for every revolutionary country on earth. At the center of this phenomenon is Alan Greenspan, who yesterday hiked interest rates yet again. He’s hiked and he’s hiked – ten times in the past ten quarters. It’s flattening and inverting the yield curve. And an inverted yield curve NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES THEY TELL YOU THIS TIME IT’S DIFFERENT – is always a harbinger of recession. It was last time, the time before, and the time before that. Despite what ‘experts’ claimed…
Bolivia’s cocalero chief, Evo Morales, an open supporter and covert supplicant of Hugo Chavez, is losing allies in the upcoming December election. This is probably a significant piece of news. Throwing his lot with Venezuela’s hated dictator is obviously lucrative, but no way to win votes. With Venezuela’s entire diplomatic thrust moved south since the CAFTA victory for Central America and El Norte, it may well be that Hugo Chavez is crumbling on his southern front as well. Economists say that if anything can’t go on, it won’t. Read it here. UPDATE: Miguel Buitrago at the estimable MABB blog has…