I alsmot posted on it last night but it was too late and too many hours on the road. But the news was the unconfirmed report that the higher echelons of chavismo met with the higher echelons of the catholic church of Venezuela.
Globovision seems to stand by that scoop today, at 10:23 AM at least, while no one else around says so, and twitter gossip cannot make up its mind on the subject.
So let's assume they did meet and let's look at what it means.
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
The opposition finally condemns strongly Chavez pro Assad policies
I am pleased to announce that the Venezuelan opposition has finally condemned unambiguously the support of Chavez toward the Assad regime. You can read the communique here.
About time!
About time!
No political trouble that cannot be solved by a tiny constitutional amendment
What to make of Chavez dernière boutade? He simply just thought of it, an amendment to enshrine the Misiones into the Constitution. That is right, all the social programs that he has been doing more or less legally since 2003, which have been his political lifeblood, suddenly he fells like he should put them inside the Constitution (1). There is no need to discuss whether they should be enshrined: a mere law would suffice to make all of these Misiones legal. The interest is elsewhere.
Monday, May 28, 2012
Archetypal TV: Chavez at King's Landing
I have never been much of a ran for medieval fantasy epic. Science Fiction I did better until I realized that taming wormholes for intergalactic travel was not compatible with my increasing knowledge of science. But at least science fiction holds the promise that one day, maybe.... True, I did enjoy the Lord of the Rings, but then again these books were also literature. But mass market? No thanks. And this has not much to do with a French Cartesian approach to life: after all, we may be the ones that wrote the first drafts of La Morte d'Artur. Nor is Gothic my cup of tea: I could not get past Interview with the Vampire.
Sunday, May 27, 2012
¿Seguira el silencio de la MUD sobre la masacre Siria?
| Niños y adultos en la morgue de Al Hula, Siria, ayer y hoy |
La pregunta que tenemos que hacernos NO ES ¿Hasta cuando Chávez va a seguir escupiendo boberías, recordando al hermano asesinado de Gadafi y defendiendo Asad? No, la pregunta es hasta cuándo van a seguir en el chavismo callando, sin amarrar a sus locos. Otra pregunta viene al frente: ¿Sera que la Unidad democrática no va a tomar posición en el asunto y exigir el fin del apoyo de Venezuela al régimen sangriento de Siria? Ya es hora de la Unidad democrática haga una marcha de protesta sobre el apoyo de Siria y amenace al gobierno de llevar el dosier a La Haya si no paran sus ventas de diesel a Siria. ¿O es que la Unidad cree que la credibilidad internacional de un gobierno se hace después de las elecciones? ¿Quien va a defender fuera de Venezuela la Unidad por un eventual fraude electoral si esta no se solidariza desde ya con otros pueblos oprimidos?
Ya es tiempo que la Unidad empiece a actuar en ciertos asuntos como un movimiento que merece formar gobierno y no solo como una agencia de empleo para políticos desempleados.
PS: nota a los chavistas que me leen. Esa foto es de trabajadores de las Naciones Unidas investigando en Siria, en la morgue de Hula. Cualquier reporte emitido tendrá el aval de las Naciones Unidas. ¿Será que ustedes piensan ignorarlo desde ya? Les recuerdo que los crimines de lesa humanidad no prescriben y que ya Chávez tiene un dosier en La Haya y que con su apoyo público a enviar diesel a Siria Rafael Ramírez ha hecho meritos para ser juzgado como criminal. ¿Cuantos más de ustedes están dispuestos a acompañarlos en las cortes internacionales? ¿Vale la pena asociarse a algo así?
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Chavez's cadena on Tuesday night.
After more than a week's absence Chavez came back on TV for, what else, a cadena. And an illustrative one it was. I will not go into the details on how Chavez held for two hours ALL of TV and radio networks of Venezuela. For that you could, if you read Spanish, read some of my tweets of May 22 as in a masochistic exercise I followed the whole thing. But there are two aspects I would like to share.
Caracas, ciudad de despedidas
There has been a social phenomena to which I did not pay much attention, but when I saw that even Milagros Socorro felt compelled to write on it, I had to pay attention. In short, it was a video about the angst of a certain subset of Venezuelan youth who are considering leaving Venezuela. Apparently it went viral and the kids were cyber hate bombed on Twitter. I suppose I was spared that disgrace because of my limited use of Twitter. But our local blogsphere also wrote on it, from serious and thoughtful Miguel or Bruni, to Quico who wrote what can only be qualified as an undignified crass piece of mean, the more so living outside of Venezuela.
My take is very simple: whether these kids are justified or what their social standing endows them with is nearly irrelevant. The video, technical and artistic merits put aside, is about the angst of a group of people and it is a valid statement for that group, no matter whether that groups is 0.0001% of the population or 10%. For those who do not understand this I suggest that you brush up on the likes of Kerouac or Rimbaud before you decide to evaluate how justified these kids are in wanting to be allowed to live on their terms. We were all young once, weren't we?
The video after the jump in case you have not seen it yet.
My take is very simple: whether these kids are justified or what their social standing endows them with is nearly irrelevant. The video, technical and artistic merits put aside, is about the angst of a group of people and it is a valid statement for that group, no matter whether that groups is 0.0001% of the population or 10%. For those who do not understand this I suggest that you brush up on the likes of Kerouac or Rimbaud before you decide to evaluate how justified these kids are in wanting to be allowed to live on their terms. We were all young once, weren't we?
The video after the jump in case you have not seen it yet.
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