tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post3287033917394421399..comments2024-03-26T00:37:34.943+01:00Comments on Venezuela News And Views: The New York Times and the Washington Post trash MaduroDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12128609182544333477noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-49224921391007164322015-01-07T02:44:01.401+01:002015-01-07T02:44:01.401+01:00I am sorry, but why are you writing this in this p...I am sorry, but why are you writing this in this post?<br /><br />No matter why, the point is that in the last 40 years Puerto Rico could have become independent and it did not do it. The reason may be that they became welfare queens, or did not care or whatever, but they could have if they wanted to. In modern world geopolitics Puerto Rico is not that important anymore once the Panama Canals was given to Panama. Historically the US wanted Puerto Rico as a naval base and it made sense. But these days of drones and missiles, well, who cares about Puerto Rico.<br /><br />Or to put it in a different light, This days I rather be colonized in Puerto Rico than independent in Venezuela. In 2015 there is infinitely more freedom and well being in PR than in Venezuela.Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12128609182544333477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-34566193575370356852015-01-06T17:35:27.189+01:002015-01-06T17:35:27.189+01:00Should criminals be in charge of correcting the wr...Should criminals be in charge of correcting the wrong they inflicted?<br /><br />Puerto Ricans vote in elections every 4 years at an 80% level of participation. Puerto Rico has been a colony of the United States (US) government for the past 116 years. If the US government has the final say in what happens in Puerto Rico, what is the purpose of these elections? The purpose is to fool the world that Puerto Rico is a democracy. <br /><br />The United Nations (UN) declared colonialism a crime against humanity in 1960. The UN has asked the US government 33 times to decolonize Puerto Rico immediately. The US government has refused. It says that Puerto Rico’s political relationship with the United States is none of the UN’s business. The US says that it is a domestic affair.<br /><br />To appear that the US government wants to decolonize Puerto Rico, it promotes the use of plebiscites to determine what Puerto Ricans want. Doesn’t that sounds innocent and democratic? So what’s the problem?<br /><br />To begin with, the international community already rendered its verdict and determined that colonialism is illegal. So to have a political status option in a plebiscite that favors maintaining Puerto Rico a colony of the United States is not permitted. To have a political status option of Puerto Rico becoming a state of the United States is also not permitted under international law. The problem goes back to the beginning of this article. In order to have free elections, the country must be free. So before these elections and plebiscite could be valid, Puerto Rico would have to first be an independent nation.<br /><br />What people must realize is that Puerto Rico is a colony of the US because the US government wants it that way. That is why it has used terrorism to keep it that way. That is why it refuses to release the Puerto Rican political prisoner of 33 years Oscar López Rivera. That is also why it is ridiculous to believe that decolonization is a US internal matter in which the UN has no jurisdiction over. If we allow the US government to decolonize Puerto Rico, she will remain a colony of the United States forever!<br /><br />José M López Sierra<br />www.TodosUnidosDescolonizarPR.blogspot.com<br />José M. López Sierrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13083939327904020619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-87966063174030134182014-10-10T02:38:48.630+02:002014-10-10T02:38:48.630+02:00So interesting that these former apologists and sy...So interesting that these former apologists and sympathizers of Chavez have finally turned .<br />Yhe morally corrupt media has some confessing to make for giving the hooligans and thugs, political cover for so longJJ Minihaghnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-18960118785072584622014-10-01T04:29:17.444+02:002014-10-01T04:29:17.444+02:00chill out people and please cut the politically co...chill out people and please cut the politically correct crap. Fernando is calling is how he sees it. He has the right to express himself and I don't condone it. Racism is alive and well in America. Blacks hate whites too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-10867836588888985462014-09-28T03:16:55.097+02:002014-09-28T03:16:55.097+02:00Here's Venezuela's own Gabby Franco:
Comm...Here's Venezuela's own Gabby Franco:<br /><br />Commentators Ep. 88: “Learning From History” With Gabby Franco<br /><br />NRA News Commentator Gabby Franco cautions that to preserve freedoms in our country, we need to learn from past events that have occurred in other countries.<br />http://www.nranews.com/commentators/video/commentators-episode-88-learning-from-history-with-gabby-francoDarren Wolfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13055259906316988117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-58077328420865562902014-09-27T19:45:42.732+02:002014-09-27T19:45:42.732+02:00Bolivar has completely spiraled out of control. B...Bolivar has completely spiraled out of control. Breaking 100. My god.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-84363391208790325352014-09-27T01:15:33.813+02:002014-09-27T01:15:33.813+02:00FYI Here's someone else trashing Maduro:
Vene...FYI Here's someone else trashing Maduro:<br /><br />Venezuela marks International Day of<br />Peace with Orwellian contradiction<br />http://jpfo.org/articles-assd04/codrea-orwellian-contradiction.htm<br /><br />"Venezuela represents exactly the type of “monopoly of violence” JPFO warns against in its unique message that “gun control” is the common factor in the most prevalent form of homicide, murder by government. How telling that monopoly is exactly what domestic gun-grabbers laud as the ideal, even going so far as to credit German sociologist and economist Max Weber."Darren Wolfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13055259906316988117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-16702775530850770442014-09-26T02:05:56.403+02:002014-09-26T02:05:56.403+02:00You could hear a pin drop during maburro's spe...You could hear a pin drop during maburro's speech...that's because there was nobody there, but he gained a reputation as "The Ma Who Talk to the Chairs"!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-83496592787799381022014-09-25T00:37:54.974+02:002014-09-25T00:37:54.974+02:00hahahaha "watermelons" . and they say t...hahahaha "watermelons" . and they say time travel is impossible.... you just took us back a least 70 years. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-29393031414582419462014-09-24T22:24:24.622+02:002014-09-24T22:24:24.622+02:00There is nothing Obama and the USA can do to help ...There is nothing Obama and the USA can do to help in the battle against Maduro that they are not doing. Any major public play by them will just play into Maduro's hands as why the country is struggling. The reality is the poor people need to rise up against Maduro as they are the majority. This would have happened if Lopez and Maria hadn't turned the earlier protests into a political function. All people in the country stood for what the students initially protested about but once it turned political the poor did not support it.<br /><br />Canadian looking inAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-25274457240558777282014-09-24T20:30:19.297+02:002014-09-24T20:30:19.297+02:00Napoleon went to the best schools in France, Hitle...Napoleon went to the best schools in France, Hitler was a high school drop-out,<br />education, or lack of it is not required to be a dictator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-72106045962036025322014-09-24T19:45:51.470+02:002014-09-24T19:45:51.470+02:00A breath of fresh air on the local political scene...A breath of fresh air on the local political scene, Chuo Torrealba becomes general secretary of the MUD. I have been following him for several years now with "Radar de los barios". I do not know him personally but from what I see, his name is synonymous with ethics. I wish him all the best, he will need a lots of good luck to avoid the pitfalls from "coños madre" of all stripes.Charlynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-78075542486050487112014-09-24T15:09:14.957+02:002014-09-24T15:09:14.957+02:00To Anonymous above, the "bus driver" des...To Anonymous above, the "bus driver" designation is only a metaphor of Maduro's complete lack of education to conduct the basic duties of his role. Whatever "education" they claim he has is nothing but an indoctrination, not to lead a country but only to achieve the Castros' goals.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-34875637712484769282014-09-24T05:41:42.135+02:002014-09-24T05:41:42.135+02:00After the Castro brothers leave us for another wor...After the Castro brothers leave us for another world, we may well find out how many they have executed in their half century + of tyranny- though I suspect the evidence will be destroyed.Boludo Tejanonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-14707147970433667502014-09-24T03:16:49.714+02:002014-09-24T03:16:49.714+02:00double Wow.double Wow.sydnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-30624848883437381532014-09-24T02:05:57.445+02:002014-09-24T02:05:57.445+02:00The Sept. 20--26 issua of The Economist magazine h...The Sept. 20--26 issua of The Economist magazine has an excellent article on Venezuela ending with the words:"But the price of the revolution's survival seems to be the slow death of Venezuela".Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10262360832498342531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-245271333214181942014-09-23T22:49:07.920+02:002014-09-23T22:49:07.920+02:00The " watermelons"??
Wow do you live in...The " watermelons"??<br /><br />Wow do you live in another era! Island Canucknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-36539054613288577572014-09-23T22:37:28.954+02:002014-09-23T22:37:28.954+02:00The USA should use its diplomatic power to block M...The USA should use its diplomatic power to block Maduro from the UN Security Council. Why? Mostly to make a point to Latin American nations. What other actions can Obama take? Cut off the cash being sent by the Cubans in Miami to Cuban relatives. That's several billion dollars. I would cut it cold. And I would cut off gasoline sales to Venezuela and shut down all trade with the dictatorship. They don't like it? Let them trade with China. As for the Castros, let them rot. They want to play hardball, they will get hardball. However, we know Obama is a weakling, his deal is pleasing the Israel lobby, the watermelons and the "progressives". Nothing will get done. Fernando Leanmehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16085680730729620836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-28157779136118382652014-09-23T22:30:40.916+02:002014-09-23T22:30:40.916+02:00I'm just fine if Obama does absolutely nothing...I'm just fine if Obama does absolutely nothing. In that case he needs to shut up about Ukraine and Iraq, stop helping Israel and bring every USA soldier home. The USA would accomplish more by re gaining the moral high ground, closing the prison in Guantanamo and handing the territory over to free Cubans. I bet Castro would have a cow, and eventually a free Cuban territory in Guantanamo would out earn and have more military might than the oligarchs and trash surrounding Castro. Fernando Leanmehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16085680730729620836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-66912164420063818662014-09-23T22:25:39.731+02:002014-09-23T22:25:39.731+02:00An interesting tidbit: the "revolution" ...An interesting tidbit: the "revolution" had my uncle taken to a killing camp they set up in the Sierra Maestra mountains. He was a military officer in the revolutionary armed forces, but declared himself Anticommunist. I bet many of you didn't realize people were murdered without being tried. And some of them were rebels. Fernando Leanmehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16085680730729620836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-60260278591233967892014-09-23T21:59:00.043+02:002014-09-23T21:59:00.043+02:00The editorials aren't asking for the US to int...The editorials aren't asking for the US to intercede. Also, I've given up on Venezuelans using the "former bus driver" line but was surprised that the Post did. I was a busboy in High School, will that haunt me in the future if I ascend to any higher positions? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-79250963981607343762014-09-23T19:45:46.455+02:002014-09-23T19:45:46.455+02:00"Venezuelans elected for Chavez and got what ..."Venezuelans elected for Chavez and got what they asked for."<br />If Chavismo is what Venezuela chose, then why should the U.S. intercede?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-39960739222256280762014-09-23T18:03:15.827+02:002014-09-23T18:03:15.827+02:00What I don't get is why Obama should do anythi...What I don't get is why Obama should do anything( has he been asked to help?),and especially if the Venezuelan opposition is not doing everything it possible could first.<br /><br />firepigetteAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-19454371780233930232014-09-23T17:14:53.714+02:002014-09-23T17:14:53.714+02:00Venezuela is NOT one of his priorities.Venezuela is NOT one of his priorities.Boludo Tejanonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-47451527203169785192014-09-23T14:32:38.150+02:002014-09-23T14:32:38.150+02:00Not sure what Obamas priorities are. He seems to ...Not sure what Obamas priorities are. He seems to do absolutely nothing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com