France mourns one of her greatest
Sometimes we are not aware that we live in the times of heroes. And they die and we remember.When she faced a 95% male audienceto regulate abortion in FranceSimone Veil was probably the lone France...
View ArticleLeopoldo and Occam
The stunning news this morning is that we woke up learning that in the middle of the night Leopoldo Lopez had been freed from his military prison jail cell at Ramo Verde. Well, not quite free, as for...
View ArticleFrom official terror to article 350 - 6) Luisa and Leopoldo are nothing
On rare occasions in spite of all my daily turmoils I do sense a certain elation. As an history buff I am keenly aware that I am in the middle of History, with a capital H. Be it when I listen to...
View ArticleFrom official terror to article 350 - 7) civil disobedience, this Sunday big...
So this is the situation. You have on one side the bad guys, who hold all fire power and are increasingly more willing to use it; the bad guys that have turned into shreds the constitution and are now...
View ArticleWith 95% counted it is 7.186.170 against the regime
Last night I was writing that with a 5 million votes the opposition in Venezuela would have scored a magnificent success. It will be more than 7 which is an absolute trashing of the regime.ÚLTIMA HORA...
View ArticleLa hora cero: measuring Sunday 16 vote
A little while ago the president of the National Assembly announced the Zero Hour. That means, the hour at which the opposition will start its march for the final overthrow of the regime.El mundo y...
View ArticleParo civico 2017
I have not gone into the details of what the opposition plans to do. Then again it is not quite clear, the people are upset anyway and act like crazies and thus the MUD leadership sorts of goes with...
View ArticleThe constituent assembly electoral fraud
After finishing a series of posts to explain how we have reached the current situation I thought that it may be good to have targeted entries as we get ready for July 30. Let's start with the...
View ArticleTo sanction, or not
So the talk is on sanctions again since the US/Trump have announced that they are considering strong sanctions if Maduro insists on electing a constitutional assembly next Sunday.What I am dismayed for...
View ArticleCommunication disaster
I have been victim of two power outages that lasted for a total of 14 hours over the two days of strike. As such not only internet was out, but it never came back. The one from my smartphone is weak...
View ArticleJuly 30th, a day of infamy
It is rather terrible to be without Internet in a time of trouble, the more so when Twitter is the only source of information if you know who to follow. My internetless plight continues and will last...
View ArticleThe fraud
Since I am writing late and you certainly read all major papers in the world and blogs and tweets… I will be short and sweet and didactic if possible.What happened in Venezuela was an historical...
View ArticleEl Senador Marco Rubio le lee la cartilla a Maduro
Hace tiempo que no escribo en cristiano pero la declaración del Senador de Florida, Marco Rubio, merece toda la difusión que sea posible.Veamos lo que dice Rubio, desmontando todos los mitos del...
View ArticleThere was a fraud? You don't say!
Procrastination pays. I was seeking my words for an intellectually powerful analysis of the electoral results of last Sunday "vote". But lack of Internet (it came back last night, after 6 days out!)...
View ArticleIdiots in the mist
So today we had a political atomic bomb with the revelation of the electoral fraud of last Sunday. On the face of it we may not see any major change: after all this is a dictatorship so who cares about...
View ArticleVenezuela is installing a constituent assembly
And I am not going to talk about that. Except for one comment: that assembly is illegitimate because it was convoked using a REGRESSION of human and civil rights respective to the constitutional...
View ArticleA military uprising?
So, instead of writing about substantial things like the fraud constituent assembly deciding that it will be in office for the next two years, taking as its first "measure" the removal from office of...
View ArticleRegime caused floods
The supreme idiocy cum absolute incompetence of the regime is on display again today in Bolivar state, and with tragic consequences. The ill management of the Caroni river dams is causing floods in the...
View ArticleTrashed at Lima: Maduro goes from PR fail to PR fail
This is so whirlwind that I am going to write fast.That is democracy for youIn the middle of the night the nazional guard and the constituent assembly chair took over the old senate chamber of...
View ArticleIt is easy and fun to troll the Left
Sometimes it is good to have fun writing. Bitching at the Left would do it.
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