Only a fascist regime rewards repression with such efficiency and speed:
Chavez rewards National Guard Colonel for his repression of Saturday’s march
The Devil's Excrement
Observations focused on the problems of an underdeveloped country, Venezuela, with some serendipity about the world (orchids, techs, science, investments, politics) at large. A famous Venezuelan, Juan Pablo Perez Alfonzo, referred to oil as the devil's excrement. For countries, easy wealth appears indeed to be the sure path to failure. Venezuela might be a clear example of that.
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August 27, 2009 at 4:48 pm
chavez & Colombia wars. Complete story:
http://caracasgringo.wordpress.com
August 27, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Apologies, my mistake. Put the wrong figures into the calculator.
5 feet 4 inches is 162.6cm.
August 27, 2009 at 10:32 am
Another Napolean
August 27, 2009 at 6:16 am
Chavez?175? No, he is much smaller.
August 27, 2009 at 3:19 am
How tall is he? Last time I looked, Wikipedia said he was 5′ 4″ or 175cm.
August 26, 2009 at 10:08 pm
Is he wearing platform shoes in the first photo??? How short is he?
August 26, 2009 at 6:03 pm
What a worthless POS of a human being…take your pic.
August 26, 2009 at 11:08 am
These inverted value displays are to be expected of this regime.
Those people who think that folks who espouse Cahvez’s inverted values are ” well informed” have a different opinion on informal education than I do.
The essence of education and information is to increase the human level of an individual’s understanding.Knowing that we are ‘vendepatria’ and not caring is really akin to not knowing either the context of our ‘knowledge’, nor its consequences, nor its true meaning.In other words, there is no understanding.
How can we be well informed and not understand at the same time?This to me is a contradiction in terms.
August 26, 2009 at 11:04 am
You know what? We should take next time a better loudspeaker or two and have someone well trained to give another speech, one about how Arne chacón and oligarchy, about the Chavez family and La Chavera and the other fincas (how can you buy that with teachers’ salaries? and: would they, if they say the other farms are not theirs, care to show who owns them and declare publicly in Barinas they do not have anything to do with finca X, Y, Z?)
and so on.
August 26, 2009 at 10:45 am
because that same ceremony saw the former Cuban Ambassador to Venezuela (on Chavez’ left) receive his farewell.
BTW, that Colonel whom Chavez awarded was trained by the Cubans. That guy is the real thing: a totally brainwashed fanatic (a la Eva Golinger).
August 26, 2009 at 10:44 am
Who cares about the Cuban flag…that’s not the point! The question is who will be the next to sell his soul? Torres doesn’t look too proud of himself if you ask me…time will tell what happens.
I think I’ll link this on Twitter…good job!
August 26, 2009 at 9:15 am
“Why is there a Cuban flag to the right of Bolivar’s portrait?”
Because it’s the first colony of Venezuela.
August 26, 2009 at 9:01 am
Why is there a Cuban flag to the right of Bolivar’s portrait?