- Scanning
the official sites I found an event that is apparently very innocuous, but
it is scary to me. Radio
Nacional de Venezuela reports
that more than 3000 young students participated in a parade honoring the
Venezuelan flag. I am not a big fun of parades or very fond of the
military. I think that taking 3000 kids
to parade to honor the flag sounds very military to me and it reminds me
of the parades of youngsters in fascist regimes
- From
the comment section I received the tip to link to a Carabobo site. It
seems that the Governor of Carabobo, burping General Acosta Carlez, is not
very happy with the MVR. Apparently there has been some tensions with the
official party, and one may wonder if he had some differences
with president Chavez. One thing is for sure, now people from Carabobo
have a full weekend of entertainment as Acosta Carlez (one of the two
singing generals of Alo Presidente) is the host of the new program “Alo mi Pueblo”.
The show runs for four hours on Saturdays, so it does not compete with the
six hours of Alo Presidente on Sundays. I must say, though, that Acosta
Carlez’s outfit for Alo mi Pueblo
is much but much more colorful than Chavez’s!
- The family
of one of the soldiers that died last year after being burned in a
confined cell in Fuerte Mara, in the Zulia state, has
asked the ombudsman to reopen
the case. The family is not happy because after the investigation, the
doctors that treated the burned soldiers were the ones being charged
whereas, according to them, nothing was done to the military responsible
for the punishment. The story is particularly tragic as last week another
burning case took place in a confinement cell in a military station in Cumana.
The family asks human rights organizations in Venezuela
to take the control of the investigation so that the fundamental right to
life is respected.
- You were
probably wondering why Chavez had stayed in Paris
instead of being home receiving president Jatami of Iran. The reason was
not that Chavez was waiting for Miguel arrival to Paris
to say hello, as some readers had suggested, but rather that there was a mechanical
problem with the presidential plane. Fortunately, he called his
international airborne AAA support team (Cubana de Aviacion) and was able
to get to Caracas the very next
day.
Jorge Arena
The Devil's Excrement 
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