Category Archives: Festive Left Friday Blogging

Even when pouring the chicha at a traditional indigenous Bolivian blessing ceremony to open a summit in Cochabamba, Chavecito can’t resist hamming it up… “Hey, you with the camera–be sure you catch my good side, or you’re toast–and I don’t … Continue reading →

I got one for you right here:I love it when Chavecito laughs. His whole face gets in on the fun. There aren’t nearly enough shots of him laughing, and that’s ridiculous, because right now he’s got so much to laugh … Continue reading →

’nuff said.

Play ball!

As Venezuela’s election day, December 3, draws near, Chavecito sightings abound. And sometimes it’s not even him in the picture…or is it?

A musical tribute from Chavecito to his legendary great-grandfather Pedro Perez Delgado, a.k.a. Maisanta:I don’t know what impresses me the most here: that Chavecito has honest-to-Goddess revolution in his blood (with great-grandpa a shit-disturbing guerrilla, it’s historically inevitable); the fact … Continue reading →

Too effin’ bad, gringo! Carlchucho rules!Compared to all the dirty trickery going on in the US (and, with Washington’s hefty financing, on the side of the anti-Chavistas as well), this is one helluva contrast. Or, as yer grandma might say, … Continue reading →

And this head is entitled to the gear. Chavecito is, unlike Dubya, actually from a state where real cowboys ride the range. In fact, his own grandfather, Jorge Rafael Saavedra, was a rodeo worker, a coleador. The spirit of the … Continue reading →

But still, a very lovely one: