tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post7316369812143262295..comments2024-03-26T00:37:34.943+01:00Comments on Venezuela News And Views: Panama OAS summit for dummiesDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12128609182544333477noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-10495879600799277012015-04-20T06:49:18.180+02:002015-04-20T06:49:18.180+02:00Eugene, your optics are pretty fucked upEugene, your optics are pretty fucked upAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-65295437895331638712015-04-20T06:48:28.167+02:002015-04-20T06:48:28.167+02:00Obama is taking a risk with Cuba. But he's al...Obama is taking a risk with Cuba. But he's also acting presidential. He has the big balls to do this and that is what being President of the United States is about. Obama is also taking the monkey off Jeb Bush's back... you'll see. Hell yes, Obama is calling Castro's bluff. History will show whether this was Obama's finest moment or a monumental foreign policy blunder. One certainty is universal agreement that things will change after Castro's pass.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-75691291563671889922015-04-20T06:44:06.405+02:002015-04-20T06:44:06.405+02:00Roger Noriega is a stooge. You would be advised t...Roger Noriega is a stooge. You would be advised to disregard him. Roger has burned his Venezuela bridges in Washington. Nobody takes him seriously. He has been discredited. This is a team that includes a Spanish journalist for El Pais. A bunch of Yahoos who specialize in fear mongering and sensationalism but who are actually clueless and sourceless about what is really going on. Noriega has written so much bullshit about Venezuela that it is pathetic but folks do not understand technical subjects and stuff like Iranian nuclear capabilities. Neither does Noriega thus his articles where easily debunked.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-12651766681621027882015-04-20T06:40:33.115+02:002015-04-20T06:40:33.115+02:00Panama was hostile territory for Maduro and allies...Panama was hostile territory for Maduro and allies. All electronic communications where NSA'd therefore use of mobile devices by attendees comes with a warning such as do not disclose anything you don't want the gringos to know. I doubt the facilities and rooms where bugged because we don't want the Cubans finding a bug and derailing the deal. There is little to be gleamed by bugging others.<br /><br />When Tom Shannon met with Delcy, the possibility of a meeting in Panama between POTUS and Maduro was on the table. Delcy squandered that when she berrated Shannon in their meeting. What Delcy did was so bad that it got back to POTUS and the decision was made to stay away from the Bolivarians for fear of further inciting them.<br /><br />Maduro and team where not looking forward to this trip. They would be under the lens and microphone. Cuba stooge Jaua flanked Maduro. They arrived at the last minute on Friday. Maduro avoided the press and when they caught up to him, avoided hard questions.<br /><br />Maduro spoke for three minutes with Obama. Maduro kissed Obama's ass.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-42973618417803735622015-04-20T05:05:57.414+02:002015-04-20T05:05:57.414+02:00Ricardo
Perhaps your problem is that you may have...Ricardo<br /><br />Perhaps your problem is that you may have some impairment or trouble with your reading skills because for anyone to suggest that I would cheer any word from Raul Castro cannot benefit of any other explanation. Then again, there is another one: when you equate me with Sean Penn, then you clearly have never read my blog until recently.Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12128609182544333477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-51783927670517273842015-04-17T21:15:28.380+02:002015-04-17T21:15:28.380+02:00About Raul Castro's "clearing" of Ob...About Raul Castro's "clearing" of Obama no one really knows what is in Obama's heart of hearts (maybe Raul Castro has some inside insights) but it's clear the US has done some very terrible things since Hiroshima and Dresden and under Obama. I look forward to former president Obama's tell all book. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09952273816595239919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-72672978368701062822015-04-17T20:51:30.581+02:002015-04-17T20:51:30.581+02:00It's Republicans who are passing homophobic.le...It's Republicans who are passing homophobic.legislation in some of The United States of north America. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09952273816595239919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-76864306806594927042015-04-17T19:56:38.250+02:002015-04-17T19:56:38.250+02:00Roger Noriega's take on Obama in Panama-
http:...Roger Noriega's take on Obama in Panama-<br />http://www.aei.org/publication/president-obamas-use-of-farce-on-cuba/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-57874413154740765622015-04-17T15:02:05.942+02:002015-04-17T15:02:05.942+02:00I am not here to annoy, that is not my intention a...I am not here to annoy, that is not my intention at all, I am here to discuss, debate, learn.<br />Now lets take a look at your "techniques" at debating:<br />"you say stuff that clearly is not true" --- just throwing out there an accusation with no backup<br />"I am an economist and work at the Minister of Finance" --- who gives a s...t!<br />"tea partiers are whackos" --- insult, no backup evidence, repeating what they told you on the Canadian Broadcasting System.<br />"intelligent people will not be persuaded by your arguments" --- again insulting, a statement that has zero value<br />"why do you come to this blog if you don't like it" --- let me ask you: do you only read stuff that you agree with? don't you like to hear other points of view? again typical lefty go-to move, don't listen to or shut up whoever disagrees with you.<br /><br />For example: why don't you address my statement that Daniel cheering Raul is absurd for someone who is extremely concerned about human rights? I guess you can't intellectually or politically.<br /><br />Now let me address your question about why I come here: I like to read about Venezuela's day to day comings and goings and Daniel does an awesome job at that. I am delighted that there is a comment section that provides an outlet for those of us who want to throw in our two cents. <br /><br />But I sense that Daniel is man of the left as you are, Mr. Canadian. In other words Daniel would never describe himself as being on the right in any of the infinite number of today's important issues. And without a doubt there is a touch of anti-Americanism. Let me put it this way, if you put Sean Penn's views and Daniel's views side by side, they would be identical except for Venezuela's.<br /><br />Ricardonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-19867364486933343932015-04-17T11:28:25.622+02:002015-04-17T11:28:25.622+02:00The US should announce that anyone that signed tha...The US should announce that anyone that signed that petition will not get a visa as long as Maduro is president. If the signer is a government employee, his or hers relatives is likewise banned. Should produce a lot of hating on Maduro, no?Yngvarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-45918048594619935082015-04-17T02:45:14.637+02:002015-04-17T02:45:14.637+02:00The US fucked them with hard power before, now is ...The US fucked them with hard power before, now is fucking them with soft power. Well deserved! Hey Ricardo, are you listening or still playing in your intellectual playpen?Charlynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-83858900793100863772015-04-16T18:23:49.148+02:002015-04-16T18:23:49.148+02:00I attended two Tea Party rallies. Neither of them ...I attended two Tea Party rallies. Neither of them even mentioned things like gay rights. The entire focus of the speakers was on the US budget, the deficits and Obamacare. There was also some discussion about the actions of the government that were not really constitutional or legal. <br /><br />On the other hand, I noticed some "TV journalists" at one of the rallies that was trying to solicit negative comments about blacks, abortion and homosexuals. The idea was probably to frame the Tea Party rally as anti-gay, anti-abortion and anti-black. I made sure that they talked to me - I answered every question by talking about how high the debt was and how high deficit spending was and the need to cut government spending. Others did much the same which is why the Tea Party rallies got so little coverage. Everyone was more or less onto the tactics of the leftwing media and would not provide the kind of comments that the leftwing media wanted to solicit. <br /><br />But the tea party was still more or less portrayed as anti-gay, anti-abortion (anti-woman) right wing nut type of group by the leftwing media. On the other hand, the "anti wall street" rallies and protests that the democrats were able to eventually organized destroyed property, some of the people at them murdered, raped and robbed each other. After one of their protests, the entire area was trashed (full of trash ) and property was destroyed costing millions to repair. <br /><br />After Tea Party rally, the entire area that we were in was more or less continually policed up by members - not that there was much to do. Tea party people put their trash in a trash container and didn't destroy anyone's property, cause fights, murder anyone or rape anyone. The way to find non-tea party people at the rally was to find any really angry loud people at the rally who were not keeping things clean. Most of such people were union guys sent by the union organizations to try to disrupt things as the Tea party does favor right to work laws. But there simply were not enough union thugs to have much impact. <br /><br />The leftwing media did though succeed in painting the tea party as an extremist right wing nut type group at least to those who never attended a rally. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Joe 999999https://www.blogger.com/profile/11644721665245952646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-1522146713274637222015-04-16T17:28:20.458+02:002015-04-16T17:28:20.458+02:00Hold your friends close, and your enemies closer.Hold your friends close, and your enemies closer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-42466207685953896862015-04-16T10:44:14.154+02:002015-04-16T10:44:14.154+02:00Reference Obama's move to establish relations ...Reference Obama's move to establish relations with the Castro family dictatorship, this approach seems to be appropriate because it only means exchanging embassies and consulates. But what follows is a different matter. The sanctions are appropriate simply because the Castro family is a self declared US enemy, and it is using stealth methods to gain control of other nations, interferes in their internal political processes, and it's an unabashed advocate of communist dictatorship and abuse. <br /><br />The key to defusing Castro family arguments is to establish relations, and avoid using restraints on commerce. But forbid lending to Cuban government entities, or those associated with Cuban communist party members, or the military, or the security services. <br /><br />It's also important to limit USA investments, which can easily be accomplished by requiring the investor compensate the previous owner of any land associated with the business at fair market price. I don't see any reason why a foreign investor should be able to use land stolen from honest people whose lives were destroyed by the Castro family dictatorship. Fernando Leanmehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16085680730729620836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-34257560572179046062015-04-15T19:07:04.253+02:002015-04-15T19:07:04.253+02:00I for the life of me cannot understand why you Ric...I for the life of me cannot understand why you Ricardo and High Ben feel the need to say stuff that clearly is not true. Are you on here just to annoy Daniel and his readers. If you do not like Daniel and his blog why do you read it? Oh wait now that I said this I guess I hate humans and are cheering on the Alien invasion.Canadian looking inhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00060240194591839197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-39187022404070478792015-04-15T18:37:24.158+02:002015-04-15T18:37:24.158+02:00Day After Obama Removes Cuba from Terror Sponsor L...<a href="http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/04/15/day-after-obama-removes-cuba-from-terror-sponsor-list-terror-group-sponsored-by-cuba-kills-10/" rel="nofollow">Day After Obama Removes Cuba from Terror Sponsor List, Terror Group Sponsored by Cuba Kills 10</a><br /><i>Yesterday, President Barack Obama announced that the United States would be removing Cuba from the U.S. State Sponsors of Terror list as part of his push to normalize relations with the communist dictatorship. But just hours later, a terror group long fostered by Cuba — even today, the Castro brothers are harboring several wanted members of the group — murdered 10 Colombian soldiers and wounded 17 others in a terror attack on a military base.</i><br /><br />Why am I not surprised? Boludo Tejanonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-73886956001558598772015-04-15T15:06:09.189+02:002015-04-15T15:06:09.189+02:00Most OEA countries support Maduro. Are they right...Most OEA countries support Maduro. Are they right and you are wrong? What do you think of that "economist" Canadian? <br />So 191 countries voted to lift the sanctions, one more reason the get the f... out of the United Nations. <br /><br />Very disappointing post by Daniel where he sees the most "winning" moment in Panama the speech by Raul where he called the United States "horrible". No matter how much he hates Chavez, Chavismo, socialism, communism Daniel detests the United States even more and is all giddy when a thug like Raul, who hates homosexuals by the way Daniel, has the chutzpah to criticize the "empire".<br /><br />Good luck getting toilet paper Daniel.Mile High Bennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-82658054969635369822015-04-15T08:19:27.351+02:002015-04-15T08:19:27.351+02:00Tejano very difficult to argue with people that ha...Tejano very difficult to argue with people that hate chavismo, hate communism and socialsm but hate the united states even more and are happy when the castros are rewarded after 50 years of tyranny. What makes them happy is that the castros beat the us.<br /><br />Daniels statement that the most winning moment in panama was Raul saying 'the us is horrible' is shocking. It betrays everything I thought Daniel stood for. The only possible explanation is that Daniel prefers communist/homophobic Cuba to the united states. <br /><br />And the Canadian guy saying 'the embargo didn't work, did not remove the regime'. So that's it I guess, the castros won they beat the us, yay! Canadian happy.<br /><br /> <br />ricardonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-34403424728431362472015-04-15T03:50:38.338+02:002015-04-15T03:50:38.338+02:00There are 193 countries in the United Nations, 191...<i> There are 193 countries in the United Nations, 191 of them voted for the USA to end its embargo....Like it or not your rude thought pattern is a minority!</i><br /><br />Since you are not capable of replying with anything better than a carelessly thrown insult- "rude thought pattern" - or the "everybody's doing it" line, there is no point in further discussion. Boludo Tejanonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-31123072459047615832015-04-15T00:53:55.878+02:002015-04-15T00:53:55.878+02:00No body is arguing whether the Castros are bad, an...No body is arguing whether the Castros are bad, and whether they are responsible for the horrible situation in Cuba. The argument is whether lifting the embargo helps the people of Cuba or not. There are 193 countries in the United Nations, 191 of them voted for the USA to end its embargo, all but the USA and Isreal. All 191 did so stating that the embargo although well purposed is hurting the people of Cuba. I do not care about some article or book of some persons opinion. The USA and Isreal voted there way due to politics of principle (cannot suffer the shame), the other 191 voted due to what they felt was best for the people of Cuba. Like it or not your rude thought pattern is a minority!Canadian looking inhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00060240194591839197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-54466568848652436942015-04-14T19:58:04.312+02:002015-04-14T19:58:04.312+02:00Given your logic that the USA lifting its embargo ...<b>Given your logic that the USA lifting its embargo will change nothing in Cuba what the hell are you arguing about??</b><br /><br />Your self-righteousness clouds your thinking processes. Your claim is that "USA sanctions have hurt Cubans people.' My reply is that in looking at milk production, your claim is absurd. The CIA is not shooting down Cuba's milk cows. Cuba's abysmal record in increasing milk production compared to the rest of Latin America cannot be blamed on "US sanctions," but on the half century of Fidel's totalitarian control of the Cuban economy. Apparently you have trouble dealing with that fact, so you reply by blustering about "what the hell are you arguing about?" <br /><br /> I am reminded of the Mencken quote on Puritanism: "The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." Fidels's haunting fear is that somewhere on the island of Cuba, someone is prospering independent of the Cuban government. <br /><br />You might research how the money the foreign operated tourists hotels pay for their Cuban employees gets split between the hotel employees and the Cuban government. Who is exploiting whom?<br /><br />I suggest you consult <a href="https://www.google.com/search?as_q=cuba+totten&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldaffairsjournal.org%2F&as_occt=any&safe=images&tbs=&as_filetype=&as_rights=" rel="nofollow">Michael Totten's articles on Cuba</a>. <br /><br />What is hurting the Cuban economy is not the "embargo"- an "embargo" which permits Cuban purchases of US food and medicine in addition to remittances from the US to Cuba- but the totalitarian control of the Castro brothers. <br /><br />Ciao. Que te vaya bien, Boludo Tejanonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-59997024766356157692015-04-14T19:51:59.971+02:002015-04-14T19:51:59.971+02:00What a lame reply, Ricardo. Really lame.
Anon 242...What a lame reply, Ricardo. Really lame.<br /><br />Anon 242Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-62061968978101207962015-04-14T19:48:08.717+02:002015-04-14T19:48:08.717+02:00You know what, she wasn't....................
...You know what, she wasn't....................<br /><br />Anon 242Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-17347858193445109012015-04-14T19:06:58.796+02:002015-04-14T19:06:58.796+02:00Given your logic that the USA lifting its embargo ...Given your logic that the USA lifting its embargo will change nothing in Cuba what the hell are you arguing about?????? By your own logic for the USA to treat Cuba the same way as it treats all the other countries of the world with human rights issues will make no difference and hence only makes sense. The fact that all United nation members except the USA and Isreal have voted and asked the USA to lift the embargo says nothing as only your logic makes any sense as the 98 percent of the world countries that agrees with me matters not as your insight is all mighty and the rest are ludicrous as you claim. Canadian looking inhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00060240194591839197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-81633926902624374672015-04-14T16:46:48.547+02:002015-04-14T16:46:48.547+02:00Plus many people and companies in the USA would he...<b> Plus many people and companies in the USA would help suffering people or family members but cannot.</b><br /><br />A search engine easily found the following: <a href="http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=94444" rel="nofollow"><br />Cuba: $2.6 Billion in Remittances in 2012 </a><br /><i>According to an independent study, remittances sent to Cuba from abroad continue to grow at an uncontainable pace and reached the record figure of US $2.605 billion in cash during 2012.<br /><br />In cash flow alone, this represents a 13.5 increase with respect to the previous year’s figures.<br /><br />When the incomes represented by packages and luggage containing food, medicine, electrical appliances and other materials sent to Cuba from abroad (remittances in kind) are added to these figures, the total, according to data processed by The Havana Consulting Group (THCG) is estimated at US $5.105 billion.<br /><br />Below is a comparative list of the most important items of the Cuban economy in 2012, as per their revenues in hard currency (US dollars).<br /><br />Remittances in cash<br />$2.60512 billion<br /><br />Remittances in kind<br />$2.5 billion<br /><br />Total remittances<br />$5.10512 billion<br /><br />Tourism revenues<br />$2.6133 billion<br /><br />Nickel exports <br />$1.413 billion<br /><br />Medications <br />$500.00 million<br /><br />Sugar exports<br />$391.30 million</i><br /><br /> <br />And with that $500 million earned from medicine exports, don't you think that Cuba would have some cash money to pay for those medicines you claim that the US is depriving Cuba of ?<br />Given that remittances in cash or in kind are substantially larger than what Cuba earns in either sugar exports or in tourism, your above claim is ludicrous. Are you auditioning for a stand-up comedy job, perhaps?Boludo Tejanonoreply@blogger.com