And four more stories that should be noted…

January 17, 2005

—-It turns out that this paragraph in Manuel Caballero’s article yesterday, entitled ‘Welcome Granda”, was not a joke, he is very serious about this charge:


“A friend of mine, originally from the state of Trujillo and who is famous for being overly generous, complete these two conditions with a very fertile imagination. So that I would believe him, he swore by my Virgin the Divina Pastora that he witnessed in the Presidential Palace when the current crazy one, not only handed him personally and in the name of the Republic, and by the authority bestowed on him by the law, the documents as a Venezuelan national to the Foreign Minister of the FARC (Granda), and with a smile on his face, welcomed him with the words that serve as the title of this article (Welcome Granda)…”


 


Expect more from this source in the next few days!


 


—-And then there is the fired Minister of the Environment, who reportedly was fired because she fell sleep during Chavez’ State of the Union speech. Lucky her! She did not have to listen to him that day and she does not have to listen to him anymore!


 


—-And for our final puzzle tonight, recall that Chavez first action in the Granda crisis was to suspend “all commercial trade with Colombia”, so why does the Minister of Information say today that trade “has not suffered any delays” and that “traffic, the smuggling of gasoline has been restricted as part of an operation by the Armed Forces….but the rest of the commercial flow continues normal”. Hold it! Whatever happened to Chavez decision? Don’t these guys listen to what he says? Can I file this under another broken promise? Am I the only one that is confused?


 


—-And as the Venezuelan Government and its Foreign Minister, the honorable Ali Rodriguez, attempt to tell the world that they want nothing to do with terrorists or the FARC, 11abril.com, reminds us that Rodriguez is in the Editorial Board of a magazine called America Libre with the honorable company of none other than Manuel Marulanda Velez alias “Tirofijo” and Chief of the FARC! Way to go Ali! Very consistent! We believe you!

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