All in a day or two of the absurd revolution

September 23, 2006


–Foreign
Minister Maduro gets stopped leaving the US, different versions on both
sides. Update: US Embassy apologizes. Second update: Maduro’s trip was not scheduled, authorities did not know who he was, he showed up with wife and kid (offical business?) and paid tickets in cash.

–Dutch
National killed
very close to where I live, his companion is in very bad shape.

–Former
Radical Cause candidate Andres Velasquez says National Guard
killed five miners from a helicopter and is covering up.

–Drug
Lord arrested
and extradited yesterday lived in fancy home which people have been saying
for months belongs to a relative of the Governor of Miranda State.

–Conde
del Guacharo asks
Supreme Court to stop the use of fingerprint machines arguing they violate the Constitutional
right to protect your personal integrity (Art. 46), honorability and privacy
(Art. 60) and vote with freedom and secrecy (Art. 63)

–President
Chavez tells
people they should not have US dollars as the US is printing money. Does he know
monetary liquidity has doubled in Venezuela during the last year,
spending is up 85% this year and oil has dropped 20% since August? Should they
have Bolivars?

–Chilean politicians
ask the Government
to get rid of Venezuela’s
Ambassador. Ambassador says he was “misinterpreted”, video shows otherwise.

–Hezbollah’s
militias make Hugo
Chavez their hero. Do they want him?

–CNE
chooses witnesses for December election, haven’t met one yet. Still Looking,
will report back.

–Chavez says Bush now “really”
gave the order to kill him. Who gave the orders the other twenty or so times?
Like this one. Or
this one. Or this one. Or these
ones. Well, you get the picture.

–Supermarkets
ration
sale of milk and sugar.

–Vice-Minister
of Finance says
inflation for the year will end at 12%. Sure, for the first nine months it has
been 10.4%, the last four months it has been 1.6%, 1.9%, 2.2% and 2.4% and in
the last four months of the year we are to believe it will not reach 13%? Not
even revolutionary math can do that.

This entry was posted on September 23, 2006 at 11:04 pm and is filed under Venezuela.

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