When things look bleak, I like to read Teodoro Petkoff. If he is also feeling bleak I worry, if he is not, I feel slightly better. Thus, today’s Editorial made me feel slightly better and seemed like a quote from it would go well with the pictures above of Saturday’s march sent in by Jose Gregorio. These images are actually like a Kilomter from the end of the march. Some quotes from today’s Tal Cual Editorial (by subscription only):
“The giant rally last Saturday left two un-buriable bodies on the side of the road: the coupsters and the self-coupsters. Still not buried, it’s true, but now more difficult to resurrect”
“The opposition is stepping on, without ambiguities, on the terrain of constitutionality and legality, while Chavez slids towards the field of unconstitutionality and illegality. The rope of constitutionality is asphyxiating him with greater and greater strength. “
“There were CNE witnesses in all poll booths, pro-Chavze witnesses and the presence of the military. In whose head can it fit that such an operation could be done without anyone noticing? The itinerant signature collectors were accompanied by people from the other side. They did not notice that they were copying different names? But let’s imagine that with the advice of David Copperfield, such an act of magic was performed. Then, it would be quite probable that many of these same names transcribed in the same signature forms (planas) would correspond to people that did sign in real life, in which case, they could be easily detected by the computers. Anyway you look at it the argument of these forms can not be sustained.
“There is no reason then to lose your head or your patience. Of the Constitution, one can say what they say about God: It punishes without a stick and without sending anyone. Chávez is beginning to feel it in his ribs”
Hope he is right; at least he made me feel a tiny bit better about things!
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