tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post6796519138580573394..comments2024-03-26T00:37:34.943+01:00Comments on Venezuela News And Views: Maduro in Cuba, mutual ass kissing with Fidel Castro, orders clearly impliedDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12128609182544333477noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-43150090288803551502014-08-23T20:15:30.492+02:002014-08-23T20:15:30.492+02:00Cockroaches like yourselves need to be eliminated,...Cockroaches like yourselves need to be eliminated, Daniel.<br /><br />Maduro or Death!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-75136195168453188322014-08-23T00:19:57.074+02:002014-08-23T00:19:57.074+02:00'Mutual ass kissing'? You are mistaken, si...'Mutual ass kissing'? You are mistaken, sir. Countless Venezuelans certainly kiss Fidel's butt, figuratively and in many cases literally to judge by their rhetoric and behavior. But Fidel doesn't kiss anyone's butt, much less Maduro's butt or any Venezuelan's butt, for that matter. Fidel owns Maduro, cowbell and all. Fidel owns the Venezuelan state. Fidel owns the Venezuelan armed forces. Fidel owns all of Venezuela, and he owns the Venezuelan people including even the opposition. No? MUD is 0-4 electorally. MUD - the perfect definitional acronym. Fidel is Supreme Lord and Master of Hacienda Cubazuela and all it contains included a herd of almost 30mn two-legged cattle at Fidel's complete disposal to use and abuse as he wishes. The Cuban flag flies everywhere, portraits of Fidel and Jose Marti abound, the Cubans have penetrated every corner of government and the armed forces, they own the education system and are brainwashing the children, they own the oil for which they pay zero, they own it all. The Venezuelan people can only stand in long lines to get a roll of toilet paper, two eggs and starved-looking chicken that thawed a week before it reached the abasto, but not before giving up their fingerprints - a variation of branding the livestock, in some respects. So sad. Moooooooooooo!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-50124997837984830342014-08-22T22:03:08.531+02:002014-08-22T22:03:08.531+02:00Daniel, that is a rather brilliant comment, "...Daniel, that is a rather brilliant comment, "The only problem that Fidel has is that Maduro does not have the crazed creativity of Chavez. Maduro needs to go to Cuba so that Fidel can tell him what nincompoopy projects can distract the hoi polloi from its misery. Kind of perversely sad, you know."<br /><br />I'm not so sure though that it is politically workable in the longer run in Venezuela for things to continue to rot. I keep expecting that as things continue to spiral downwards, Maburro/Maduro will find himself deposed. It is also hard to believe he can make it through another election even with rigging the vote. <br /><br />Joe 999999https://www.blogger.com/profile/11644721665245952646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-60310149879259466882014-08-22T15:29:14.152+02:002014-08-22T15:29:14.152+02:00"....cozy Latin Bourgeoisie?" Pure kitsc..."....cozy Latin Bourgeoisie?" Pure kitsch, the terse judgment of a reader with classical taste.Charlynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-46650278266302416662014-08-22T15:17:46.796+02:002014-08-22T15:17:46.796+02:00Cilia's posture is very unnatural. It could be...Cilia's posture is very unnatural. It could be due to be sitting on a rocking chair. There is no way to sit still on a rocking chair for a meeting meeting unless you sit on the edge, just as she's doing. It might be easier for Nicolas because he's a bigger heavier guy, his weight pins the chair down.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16020332237369108535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-26639149751530732692014-08-22T15:08:17.712+02:002014-08-22T15:08:17.712+02:00Of course! But the image that counts, the only w...Of course! But the image that counts, the only way to make these orders believable is to pretend that Fidel gave them!Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12128609182544333477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-31128218616837559652014-08-22T11:05:28.862+02:002014-08-22T11:05:28.862+02:00Come on, you guys....Fidel isn´t in shape to give ...Come on, you guys....Fidel isn´t in shape to give orders, discuss anything, or work in a garden. They keep trotting the old guy, say he is capable of having six hour visits and yet he never utters a peep in public, so what do you think is really going on? Maduro goes to Cuba to meet with Raul Castro, Diaz Canel, and Prince Alejandro, the next Castro heir. Fernando Leanmehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16085680730729620836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-90800020870062728012014-08-22T05:14:34.878+02:002014-08-22T05:14:34.878+02:00Or worse, he confuses Fidel attending his garden a...<i>Or worse, he confuses Fidel attending his garden as any retiree does as a national project. Let me remind the reader about "ubre blanca" or the "10 million tons" sugar cane (1)</i><br /><br />Which reminds me of a bad joke about the 10 million tons of sugar cane campaign. One of the propaganda slogans for the 10 million tons campaign was <i>Los diez millones van,</i> which in a book I read was translated as "ten million [tons of sugar cane] on the way."<br /><br />An alternative translation would be "Ten million go," as in Diez milliones [de Cubans] van a Miami .[si pueden]. Ten million Cubans go to Miami [if they can].Boludo Tejanonoreply@blogger.com