Back in San Felipe: a "non-affair" and rum

I am finally back home. I have a lot of stuff to cover, in particular an analysis of the October results, regardless of how valid are some of the results. To be posted within the next couple of days.

Meanwhile the Bustillos affair became a non-affair bringing down a lot of people that acted in rather good faith. I was just back home on time to see the journalist that declared that Bustillos was dead to come to Globovision to make his Mea Culpa. Ironically for the first time in 4 days that I had to start gathering Bustillos information, was to see the end of it with a totally discomfited Molina. Who, credit must be given, had gone first to the state TV to give his apologies.

Now, some stuff is still rather fishy. Why did Bustillos stay one week hiding? And in the Valencia area of all areas.... Were there not a "centro de comunicaciones Telcel" nearby so he could make a phone call to his wife? What kind of publicity stunt was that? Even Tal Cual gave its editorial yesterday to the case and will need to make amends to that effect. And how come the defense minister waited for a few hours until the apparition of Bustillos to finally declare? I mean, I, for one, would be interested very much to know who manipulated whom and to what effect. Considering that the "gag law" is currently on discussion one cannot help but wonder what kind of game this was all about.

Meanwhile Alek made his apologies not only in the comments sections of this blog, but in his very own site. Something refreshing that is rather rarely seen, from both sides for that matter.

And to redeem himself Alek also posted a very interesting article on the Vollmer activities in Santa Teresa estate, home of probably our best Venezuelan rum. I suggest in particular to the non Venezuelan pro Chavez readers of this blog to peruse this article so as to realize that things are not as black and white as they would like to believe. The writer of this blog can certify that such activities are more frequent than what folks might believe, and that many die hard anti Chavez voters, like yours truly, have been found on occasion doing "outreach work" of the type described in that article. But of course modesty prevents most people talking about such things whereas many chavsitas wasting so much public monies in worthy projects have no qualms on this regard. Not to mention the "unworthy ones".