Friday, November 18, 2005

The silly revolution lies again The revolution was caught on three big lies in the past two days, but other bloggers have beaten me to most of it, so I will be brief: -Response to Ted Koppel: Ted Koppel had challenged the Chavez administration for evidence that the US Government was planning to invade Venezuela under the so called Balboa plan. Two months later nothing had been sent. But then a couple of days ago the Minister of Information sent the "so called" evidence as reported by vcrisis. Well the infamous Balboa evidence truned out to be 2001 Spanish military exercize that can even be found over the Internet. (Will link to the documents sent by the Government here when I can manage to upload them to the Internet). PMBcomments correctly notes that if it were true, then it was Spain King Juan Carlos who was planning to invade and not Mr Danger, thus the true headline should have been: "King Juan Carlos wants to recolonize us...Hugo Chavez" . -The Head of the National Assembly accused today the President of the Globovision TV channel of being at a meeting Monday night with banker Nelson Mezerhane, accused in the Danilo Anderson case, in which the judge in the case was bribed with US$3 million in cash as described in detail by Daniel.Unfortunately for Maduro, Mezerhane was in jail Monday night (which could be explained away in a country full of corruption), but the President of Globovision was at a meeting with some 200 people at the TV station and this meeting supposedly had taken place outside of Caracas. Way to go Maduro! Your credibility remains intact as President of the National Assembly! You are at good making up stories as you were at not getting elected to be Head of the subway workers union. -The Government tried indirectly to explain away the discrepancy between the ID number of the Minister of Information and his age, by saying that Mr. Pimentel came to Venezuela as a young kid, was born in Angola and nationaized when he was thirteen. Well, they almost got it right, but...thirteen years old corresponds to that cedula number V-21759900 today, not when Mr. Pimentel was 13 years old!It still does not explain why such a loyal member of the revolution did not register to vote for Chavez in 1998, 2000 or in the recall vote in 2004. 5:41:35 AM    comment []