Three notes from today

April 19, 2004

 


-Scott sends this link from a tech web page with a fairly good article about the Venezuelan situation.


 


There was a march today, it was a holiday here but I could not go because I had to work. The march was not allowed to go until the Los Proceres monument because the Government argued this is a security zone. The march only went as far as the Solicitor’s office building nearby. A group was supposed to be allowed to go forward to the monument with a floral arrangement, but the National Guard refused to let the private media thru which prompted the organizers to refuse the offer. The Los Proceres monument is a public monument.


 


-Meanwhile, the Government was highly critical of the statements made by Democratic Senator Bill Nelson to the Miami Herald, while the Vice-President said that all that Nelson said was false, the Minister of Foreign Relations said that the intelligence data that Nelson claimed to have seen had the same quality of that used to detect the attack on the Twin Towers or decide that there were WMD in Iraq. Thus, our illustrious Minister of Foreign Relations turns an argument against a Democratic Senator into an argument with the US Government. Bolivarian diplomacy at work!

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