Blogging the democratic revolution
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered the arrest of a past president who ordered some massacre back in 1989 to preserve ‘order.’ What’s disgusting to blogger Alek Boyd is that he’s ordered the same kinds of massacres himself. He has it on tape. Obviously, Chavez doesn’t think he’s ever going to run into a future president who will, in turn, arrest him for his own massacres, citing precedent. Chavez is aged 48. Says a lot, don’t you think?
Remember Stalin’s airbrushed photos, reflecting who was purged and who was in favor? The trend seems to be beginning in Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez’s political propaganda these days. Venezuelan blogger Miguel has come up with a classic blog expose about crowd pictures in Hugo Chavez’s propaganda. All of the people in the crowds are phony repeat images. He has the photos with diagrammed lines showing the ridiculous fakery. So much for Chavez being a popular guy, he can’t even get a crowd together to illustrate his own propaganda!
From a Venezuelan blogger, citing dictator Hugo Chavez’s declaration: ???????The US is planning to kill me…??????? “He should be so lucky; his complete failure should be judged with him alive.” (Read the rest here.)
Whenever Hugo Chavez of Venezuela’s popularity drops, he weighs in with “news” of an American assassination plot against him. He’s feeling some kind of heat today and needs to talk assassinations. Or maybe he’s heard about that upper bunk General Noriega’s reserving for him. Whatever it is, he’s talking like a madman running from the white coats. If you can read Spanish, it’s right here. TRANSLATION: This is Rob. Though I’d practice my Spanish a bit and try to translate this: President Hugo Ch????vez Frias assured that the government of the United States is planning to assassinate him, “the first…
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 Alek Boyd (who was educated in Spain and knows the country well) reminds us of Zapatero’s peculiar relation to world terrorism, not just in Spain but to dictator Hugo Chavez who shelters FARC terrorists. What a guy.
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.
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 Republic has the story here.
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 poor to the hinterlands would accomplish the same results Pol Pot’s did. The ignorance he encountered (or worse) will make you blanch. Pol-Pot mass relocation really is their plan. Read the whole thing here.
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.
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. Adding insult to injury, the Cuban doctors double as spies on them after putting in three-hour days in three-hour workweeks. This sounds like communist planning all right. All told, a miserable failure. Interestingly, Mary Anastasia O’Grady of the WSJ had the same thing on her…
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 by Venezuela’s 1999 floods and mudslides. He hasn’t asked for any US aid in this current flooding event either, but delay him his spare parts for aircraft with which to menace Colombia and see how he complains! The funny part is, he says Lula of…
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 reason they threw him in jail was for his report on the recall referendum fraud, a document so all-encompassing and so slam-dunk against the whole scam that it apparently still scares Chavez. Here is that document, translated into English. You’ll never look at that recall…
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 hillsides where his “beloved” poor live over the past six years. 4000 people have been evacuated – and a lot got out on their own, already fully intuiting that the government wasn’t going to do a thing help them. Here is Miguel’s photogallery of the…
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.
When it comes to communists, at least they live up to their beliefs by working together: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States said on Thursday it was troubled by Russian plans to sell Venezuela arms that U.S. officials suggest could be used to aid leftist guerrillas in Latin America. The arms pact announced last year by Venezuela’s firebrand President Hugo Chavez would give the South American OPEC member 100,000 automatic rifles and a number of helicopters. Venezuela is also evaluating Russian MiG-29 fighters as possible replacements for its F-16s. Bush administration officials have voiced increasing disquiet about the agreement in…
And it looks like the people at Beautiful Horizons also do a Latin America roundup!
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.