Blogging the democratic revolution
Spain’s Zapatero is facing his first big test as voters go to the polls to ratify or not the EU constitution. He’s made a big effort to persuade them to say yes. Whether they will or not is their choice. Regardless of that a lot of people look in askance at his ascent. Venezuelan blogger…
Venezuelan blogger Miguel Octavio is in fine form, outlining the string of stupid arguments a certain general in charge makes for losing one billion dollars in aid money for 1999 mudslides that have resurged in force in the past two weeks. It’s called accountability.
Nobody’s blogging this, so I will. Today, Colombia’s army reported a powerful victory against the vicious, drug-trafficking Marxist FARC rebels. Eighty of their thugs were destroyed with minimal casualties taken by the Colombian army. Not only that, a huge drug-trafficking operation was shut down. It’s a significant gain in this war on terror, and less…
The Venezuelan Information Office, which is the aggressive propaganda arm of the Chavez regime, does more than just propagandize – it also seeks to discredit critics – in the U.S. It has now has targetted Wall Street Journal editorial page writer Mary Anastasia O’Grady in a concerted campaign. Venezuelan blogger Alexandra Beech at The Sixth…
Venezuelan blogger Miguel Octavio has translated a shocking essay by a poverty expert in Venezuela, who wrote about trying to reason with Chavez regime planning authorities whose solution to poverty was Pol-Pot style forced relocations to the countryside. That’s right, Pol-Pot relocations. He tried to explain to them why a Pol-Pot-style “relocation” of the nation’s…
This week’s murder of a kidnapped president’s daughter in Paraguay was disturbing enough in itself. What’s more disturbing is who’s behind it – none other than the FARC terrorists of Colombia, carrying out the operation by email from Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela. Read more here.
While the mainstream media sleeps, the blogosphere doesn’t, and Spain’s Barcepundit Franco Aleman is particularly swift. Franco reports a new video showing evidence that Spain’s great skyscraper fire last Sunday (which he did excellent blogging on this week) may have been deliberately set. If that’s the case, the mainstream media’s blithe dismissal of the fire…
Val at Babalublog has some fine examples of letters to editors in Minnesota, giving the facts of life in Cuba in response to the naive Sandalistas who write editorials about the pleasures of being a cossetted political tourist in Castro’s island hellhole.
Alek Boyd at Vcrisis reports that anecdotal evidence suggests more deaths from flooding in the provinces than the dictatorial government has let on.
I had a look at the marvels of Cuba’s health care system for Daniel’s blog. I learned Cubans are disgusted their doctors have been shipped out to Venezuela, leaving them with almost no medical care. Venezuelans, meanwhile, are disgusted their own doctors have been put out of work because of the cheap new Cuban labor….
Not shipments of aid to flood-ravaged Venezuela, but US military aircraft spare-parts shipments. He doesn’t even need military airplanes but here is something that sticks in his craw. This is the same Venezuelan dictator who is famous for turning down a US aircraft carrier full of engineers who were ready to rebuild roads washed away…
Carlos Ball, a Venezuelan journo now at and writing for the CATO Institute, has a razor-sharp take on the meaning of dictator Hugo Chavez’s land confiscations.
Miguel’s got an impressive analysis of the extent and severity of damage in Venezuela’s recent floods, focusing on what the government could and didn’t do to prevent the disaster which has now claimed over 100 lives.
The thuggery of Venezuela’s dictatorship does not stop. Last week, they made a travesty of justice. They threw respected constitutional lawyer Tulio Alvarez in jail for two years for ‘slander’ which is to say, warning the truth about some corrupt congressman, a Chavez crony, lining his pockets. But that was just an excuse. The real…
The hemisphere’s dictators, Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Fidel Castro of Cuba, have each weighed in with narcissistic fears for their sorry hides. Val tells us that Chavez is brooding that the US would actually bother with an invasion of his tropical mess. (Sorry Hugo, we don’t want the reconstruction costs from your years of…
Hugo Chavez hurled his uncouth insults at US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Now Mugabe of Zimbabwe’s getting in on the act. There must be something about a successful Black woman that arouses their Inner Barbarian because they’re both coming out of the woodwork like roaches and getting counted.
1999 was a warning to Venezuela – at that time, at least 30,000 people died in mudslides due to government neglect and never got any aid after that either. This week the torrential rains have returned and it turns out the communist government of Hugo Chavez has had much better things to do than reinforce…
Torrential rains have left about 5000 people homeless in Venezuela. Venezuela’s land expropriators have got just the solution for them…here. Amazing how one problem solves the other.
Alek Boyd also has several good items about Hugo Chavez’s CITGO scam. He’s pig stupid about oil, he’s economically ignorant and he’s up to no good. Pity Venezuela.
Jorge Arena takes a close look at the melting together of all power in Venezuela under one colossal dictator. How democracies die.
Alek Boyd has some footage from a Fox news show about Hugo Chavez’s Zimbabwe-style land confiscations. See it here.
…Dictator Hugo Chavez’s leftist officials are getting nuttier and more irrational than ever in their statements. Miguel has a choice collection from just one’s days’ worth of their gibberish. Here, he discusses their amateurish incompetence.
It’s a bad day for the independent media in Venezuela. The Chavistas are in an extremely ugly, confrontational mood and starting to lash out. Most disturbingly, Patricia Poleo, the fearless Venezuelan journalist whose home was raided last week, has just been indicted and charged with misuse of information. Miguel’s blog has additional background. But that’s…
Venezuelan writer Jorge Arena has an elegant essay on the emerging climate of fear in under Venezuela’s strengthening dictatorship on Daniel’s blog. Well worth reading for its thoughtful on-the-ground detail.
Alek also has fished up some laws Venezuela’s El Supremo seems to have broken in his toilet-mouthed TV chat about distinguished US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Read the whole thing here.