Getting back on the blog

Well, it is not easy.

Perhaps I was writing too much before the holidays. Perhaps there are too many abuses to be reported. Perhaps there is a sense of inevitability as to our dark fate, so why bother. Whatever it is I am having a hard time to seat down and write. Though posts ideas are as numerous as ever. Maybe I should get a sponsor, somebody giving me money to write. After all, chavistas are getting all sorts of funding to write garbage, so why shouldn't I get something? Heard that opposition financiers? Whoever you are?

At any rate the beginning of the New Year greats us with the local Yaracuy version of the "attack of land redistributors" as our new governor is preparing to sign land seizures right after letting buhoneros back in the street. Garbage in, garbage out.

El Universal has two articles translated in English. They are not that good, and are not that well translated, however they do reflect a little bit l'air du temps.

The first one is from former president Caldera who is one of the 3 people most responsible for the mess we are in. He reminds us that he let Chavez get off rather easily from his 1992 coup. While Chavez is trying to jail forever people that do not have blood on their hand the way he does since 1992, not mentioning what he added since he reached office. But Caldera, at the very least, was a democrat and Chavez is certainly not one.

The second article is some kind of a rant about the inevitability of the failure of the present project. Just a little sentence:

The "revolutionary military officers" know this is another government they can profit from.

Duh! Well, readers of this blog have known this for a long time. One way to finally bring Venezuela to a democratic vision is to suppress the army. The armed forces have been all along the blood suckers of our treasury, and never more as under Chavez who, scared of them as he is, has allowed so much corruption and abuse that it has banalized it. Perhaps his greatest crime!