Falcon Crest? Millennium Falcon? The Maltese one?

Good news guys, the inscription for presidential election is over, we know all the names. They are all chavistas.  Even if the propaganda network TeleSur says without blushing that the opposition has registered ITS candidate under the name of Henri Falcon.

La oposición tiene su candidato. #VenezuelaDecide pic.twitter.com/761XdvCFh6

— Patricia Villegas (@pvillegas_tlSUR) February 27, 2018

So many things wrong with that picture......

The worst refugee crisis in the Western Hemisphere

This is the real reason, the only reason that in the end will push for an intervention.
Opinion | Latin-America’s worst-ever refugee crisis: Venezuelans https://t.co/uTaKJrvOa4

— daniel duquenal (@danielduquenal) February 26, 2018

And if nothing is done it may turn out to be the worst humanitarian crisis in the Western Hemisphere since La Conquista.

Petrifying the turmoil

Two weeks without a post. Things have been difficult here. Never mind that by the time you feel like writing on something there is right there a new sound blast from the least expected corner.

So, a brief pick of the telling headlines will have to do. And not necessarily in chronological order as my tired mind has trouble keeping track of all that happens.

Dark options

I am writing this as I am listening to Górecki #3 "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs". You have been warned. (1)

Open letter to Marco Rubio

Dear Senator Rubio

I was directed to a string of tweets you posted earlier on today. They are below next.

Venezuela dialogue bust and its chain reaction

As expected the "dialogue" between the narco dictatorship and the civil opposition went nowhere.  Yesterday the chair, Dominican Republic president, said euphemistically that talks were adjourned for the time being, letting ooze slightly his disappointment at not having been able to help the regime get what it so sorely wanted. On the other hand the chosen mediator of the regime, former Spanish premier Zapatero, could not hide its bitterness at his failures, and revealed his profound bias by threatening the opposition for not signing down.  At least we gained something, Zapatero is now out of any negotiation after his words yesterday.

Our daily abomination

So we wake up this morning with another political arrest in the middle of the night.

The Latin America crisis for 2018

This what has been added to the brew:

Rex Tillerson all but declares war on Maduro narco dictatorship

This video is self explanatory.

EN VIDEO | Rex Tillerson: "El régimen corrupto y hostil de Maduro en Venezuela se aferra a un sueño falso y visión anticuados de la región que ya ha sido un fracaso para sus ciudadanos. No representa la visión de millones de venezolanos." pic.twitter.com/Fh3NpqiZ4n

— Alberto Rodríguez (@AlbertoRodNews) February 1, 2018

You have been put on notice.

There cannot be dialogue in the dialogue

Today we had one more episode of the painful soap: dialogue in Santo Domingo.  Apparently there was, or there was not, a draft, or a pre-draft, agreement, or an agreement to make an agreement someday.  Who knows? Probably even the people in Santo Domingo are not quite certain of what the hell they are doing there.

To make things crystal clear to readers I am just going to point out two things.