If you did not know better, you would think the country is drunk. It is not, alcohol sale of any type has been banned since Chavez died. You cannot even get a cold beer with your pizza. We do not know whether the regime banned alcohol sales until next Saturday at least because they wanted to make sure we all mourned or because they did not want the world seeing chavistas drink in the street....
However one wonders what is the regime snorting. The contradictions are so intense among the different spokesperson that one wonders if there is anyone truly in charge or if they are too spaced out by grief or by antidepressant to have any coherence. Let's start with illegal president Maduro. First he tells us that Chavez will be embalmed. Then finally someone must have told him that it was too late, that it should have been done right after his death. So he will no be embalmed. Yet his body supposedly survived a 8 hours procession under the sun, but then again one coffin went down the streets and another one is at the wake. Also, it has been now 10 days and we do not smell anything. So, embalmed? Pickled in formaldehyde? Never mind that tomorrow a casket will be for hours again in Caracas under the sun.....
Chavez family seems prey to the same dizziness. After been conspicuously absent from the military hospital where Chavez supposedly was located, they reappeared all for the wake, some stone faced but some theatrical. None in a way looked in accordance with the moment but we can accept that each family as a way to mourn. Then, they seemed to be OK with Chavez not being buried within a couple of days and being embalmed. At least none of them seems to have objected and all have disappeared from public view again. Finally when the questioning a to the real date of Chavez death became unbearable for chavismo one daughter emitted a communique. We have not seen it signed. She did not read it herself. It was a silly and even selfish communique if you ask me. Then a brother came to curse the opposition and threaten lawsuits or something. And yet... No death certificate has been shown, and of course no autopsy... Something that even in a Venezuelan court they should have to present before suing, say, Capriles. If you ask me the regime is blackmailing or browbeating Chavez family..... Because personally I cannot believe that any semi functional family would accept what the regime is doing with a dead Chavez. There has to be one of them that is not so totally ethically challenged to at least fly out of the country to hide!
Back to Maduro. After having said his famous homophobic words on the day he registered for April 14 election, he must have felt some heat internationally and even at home and thus today he says that he is not an homophobe, that if he were gay he would shout it to the four winds, using a Spanish old saying. Yeah, right, we believe he would do so.....And that he would be the chavista gay candidate today. Sometimes excuses make the original sin even worse than what it was. Who is coaching him?
But fortunately for Maduro and unfortunately for common sense oil minister Ramirez said his own stupid set. He is absolutely convinced although he has no evidence yet (he admitted so) that Chavez has been murdered by technology of the evil empire that Venezuela does not dispose. One does not know where to start... Is Ramirez sorry that he does not have that "technology" so he could apply it to his enemies himself? Does he truly think that the CIA and the Mossad (yes, let's put a little but of antisemitism here while we are at it) could inject cancer or something? Yet he is not announcing an autopsy, nor even offering a death certificate.... He is convinced, personally, through intuition, and that is enough to condemn whomever needs to be condemned. Stalinists would have had that easy. Who is coaching these guys?
But all that stuff is affecting the sanity of the country more than what it should. Friday has been decreed a work holiday for Caracas metro area so people can go to mourn Chavez, forgetting that in that area the opposition did one of its best scores last October .... The rest of the country does have to work. I am sure they will like that, working while Caracas does not.... But I digress. The point is that tonight I had to go out to get some pills and I found out that at 10 PM there were HUGE lines at gas stations and that the few stores still open had their parking lots full and long lines at the cashiers. This country is seriously fucked up. And it seems that we are the laughing stock of the world, not even North Korea displayed such antics. At least they have no cars or stores worth going at ten PM.
And yet it is not all. Maduro said that Chavez in Heavens suggested that God inspired the conclave to select a Latin american Pope. Wait! Weren't all these people supposed to be atheists commies?
I need a drink...
However one wonders what is the regime snorting. The contradictions are so intense among the different spokesperson that one wonders if there is anyone truly in charge or if they are too spaced out by grief or by antidepressant to have any coherence. Let's start with illegal president Maduro. First he tells us that Chavez will be embalmed. Then finally someone must have told him that it was too late, that it should have been done right after his death. So he will no be embalmed. Yet his body supposedly survived a 8 hours procession under the sun, but then again one coffin went down the streets and another one is at the wake. Also, it has been now 10 days and we do not smell anything. So, embalmed? Pickled in formaldehyde? Never mind that tomorrow a casket will be for hours again in Caracas under the sun.....
Chavez family seems prey to the same dizziness. After been conspicuously absent from the military hospital where Chavez supposedly was located, they reappeared all for the wake, some stone faced but some theatrical. None in a way looked in accordance with the moment but we can accept that each family as a way to mourn. Then, they seemed to be OK with Chavez not being buried within a couple of days and being embalmed. At least none of them seems to have objected and all have disappeared from public view again. Finally when the questioning a to the real date of Chavez death became unbearable for chavismo one daughter emitted a communique. We have not seen it signed. She did not read it herself. It was a silly and even selfish communique if you ask me. Then a brother came to curse the opposition and threaten lawsuits or something. And yet... No death certificate has been shown, and of course no autopsy... Something that even in a Venezuelan court they should have to present before suing, say, Capriles. If you ask me the regime is blackmailing or browbeating Chavez family..... Because personally I cannot believe that any semi functional family would accept what the regime is doing with a dead Chavez. There has to be one of them that is not so totally ethically challenged to at least fly out of the country to hide!
Back to Maduro. After having said his famous homophobic words on the day he registered for April 14 election, he must have felt some heat internationally and even at home and thus today he says that he is not an homophobe, that if he were gay he would shout it to the four winds, using a Spanish old saying. Yeah, right, we believe he would do so.....And that he would be the chavista gay candidate today. Sometimes excuses make the original sin even worse than what it was. Who is coaching him?
But fortunately for Maduro and unfortunately for common sense oil minister Ramirez said his own stupid set. He is absolutely convinced although he has no evidence yet (he admitted so) that Chavez has been murdered by technology of the evil empire that Venezuela does not dispose. One does not know where to start... Is Ramirez sorry that he does not have that "technology" so he could apply it to his enemies himself? Does he truly think that the CIA and the Mossad (yes, let's put a little but of antisemitism here while we are at it) could inject cancer or something? Yet he is not announcing an autopsy, nor even offering a death certificate.... He is convinced, personally, through intuition, and that is enough to condemn whomever needs to be condemned. Stalinists would have had that easy. Who is coaching these guys?
But all that stuff is affecting the sanity of the country more than what it should. Friday has been decreed a work holiday for Caracas metro area so people can go to mourn Chavez, forgetting that in that area the opposition did one of its best scores last October .... The rest of the country does have to work. I am sure they will like that, working while Caracas does not.... But I digress. The point is that tonight I had to go out to get some pills and I found out that at 10 PM there were HUGE lines at gas stations and that the few stores still open had their parking lots full and long lines at the cashiers. This country is seriously fucked up. And it seems that we are the laughing stock of the world, not even North Korea displayed such antics. At least they have no cars or stores worth going at ten PM.
And yet it is not all. Maduro said that Chavez in Heavens suggested that God inspired the conclave to select a Latin american Pope. Wait! Weren't all these people supposed to be atheists commies?
I need a drink...