Thursday, April 14, 2005

The cult of Chavez lives! Chavez says: "To be rich is bad" and those that "have richness" should donate them...do charity work with them". But note the Lanvin suit in the picture, one of the dozens of  fancy brand name suits he has not precisely paid by him, and it is a pity that his hand is up like that, otherwise you would see one of the many fancy watches, like Cartier, Chavez now has. Why doesn't he donate them? He did not even work for them. Such is the cynicism of our esteemed leader. Not bad for a poor rich kid from Sabaneta, Barinas. Of course he wants it all for him, nobody else. And speaking of poor rich kids from Barinas with huge egos, now that PDVSA "belongs" to the people, the ID tags that workers carry on their chests has been changed to this one promoting the cult to the esteemed leader: It says" As a worker of the new PDVSA and convinced of the revolutionary process the nation of Bolivar is undergoing, I carry with pride on my chest a President compromised with social struggles". "Until victory forever" Shades of Kim Il Sung... 11:41:49 PM    comment []

The strange case of the Paraguayan Ambassador In one of the strangest cases in a while the Amabassador from Paraguay was beaten up severely as she left the mass held by the Government in memory of the Pope. The Ambassador was simply leaving the mass, well dressed and apparently was harrased by Chavista groups that hang around Bolivar square where the cathedral is. She started walking towards her car (the area is a boulevard, so she had to walk four blocks) and these guys actually started beating her up as she tried to get in the car, leaving her face as in the picture above. The story gets even stranger at this point, when the injured Ambassador was taken to the Foreign Ministry building, which is right at Bolivar Square, where absoluetly nobody was willing to help her out. As if this were not enough, in the note of protest by the Paraguayan Foreign Minsitry, which was sent to all local embassies and international organizations, it is claimed that the Paraguayan Embassy, the Ambassador and her residence do not even have one single security person, despite repeated requests by the Paraguayan Government to the Venezuelan Government to provide it as it is customarily done. The Chavez Government apologized and said those guilty of the agression will be punished. Was this a case of mistaken oligarchic identity? Is there something more to the story? It seems unlikely for the Ambassador to have said anything anti-Chavez, given her position and nationality, which is what is always claimed whenever someone is injured by the Chavistas that took over Bolivar Square since about three years ago. To those not familiar with this, Bolivar Square has become "Chavista territory", people simply don't go there anymore for fear of being harrased. Of course, forget about even opening your mouth against the Government there. And what does the Government say or do? Absolutely nothing, such is the state of lawlessness and the lack of democracy in this empty revolution. 10:33:19 PM    comment []