Real bad situation tonight
02/03/2004

If the CNE announcement thought it would quiet down the country, they were very mistaken. But I do not think that this was their intention anyway.

As I was writing earlier Caurimare erupted in a battle worth of Globovision. At 10 PM tonight the images were scary. And it had started at 6 PM already.

But from all around the country reports of equally bad situations are coming. In Carabobo the governor just spoke in Globovision announcing that the military in conjunction with the DISIP (kind of our FBI) and other state security agencies are shielding Bolivarian groups that are pillaging buildings in a middle class neighborhood in Nagua Nagua. Why? The neighborhood started a cacerolazo too close from a military base. It is starting.

Zulia, Aragua and other places also report unrest tonight. The stocks of tear/mustard gas of the army are impressive. The prisoner list is reported at more than 300. Somewhere in Venezuela at this very precise moment human rights are been violated.

And as I think about everything I am starting to think that we are screwed, that the "repair process" is a fraud and that we might as well refuse to go through it and make a last stand. These people might be into something. Whether they pillage my home tonight or in a few weeks, the way it goes it is only a matter of time. The dictator is finally making his final move.

But before writing my analysis of today I think that I might be well advised to sleep it over.