It’s the President of Honduras! And guess who he met while he was there (on the 4th)?
Manuel, Fidel. Fidel, Manuel. You know the rest, so I won’t tell.This business of LatAm/Caricom leaders visiting Cuba is getting to be…almost routine, wouldn’t you say? Hmmm…hmmm…whatever could it mean?
Go. I command you. And read this incredibly detailed account of Bronwyn’s nudity.
And when you’re done unkinking yourself and sobering up, turn the page and read how she and Spikenard, uh, coupled. And please, please, I beg of you–if you are a writer, do NOT try to emulate this poor hack’s formula of simile piled on simile piled on simile. It’s supposed to heighten narrative-slash-sexual tension and leave the reader salivating for the glorious Climax, but all it did for me was heighten the urge to laugh, and/or vomit, and/or vomit from laughing so fucking hard.“Without the true liberation of women the full liberation of people is impossible and I am convinced that an authentic socialist should be also an authentic feminist.”–Hugo Chávez, in his weekly column
Hmmm, I wonder what Alan García says to this?
Translation mine. Linkage added.Smooth move, Ex-Lax–you’ve basically stopped your own citizens from receiving eye care your government sure as hell isn’t providing. And isn’t going to in the foreseeable future, either. The more I learn about Alan García, especially compared to Chavecito, the worse I feel for Peru.The Venezuelan ambassador, Armando Laguna, in declarations to the foreign press in Lima, dismissed accusations made by a Peruvian parliamentary commission that the so-called “ALBA Houses” represented “an arm of political infiltration” by the Venezuelan government in Peru.Laguna declared that the “Casas del ALBA” initiative is entirely the doing of Peruvian citizens and has nothing to do with the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas treaty, which was initiated by Venezuela to counteract the Free Trade Area of the Americas, and to which Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Honduras and the Dominican Republic belong. “We have not involved ourselves in the internal politics of Peru…I do not advise anyone, nor do I aid anyone, much less financially, in the wrongly-named ‘ALBA houses’,” said the ambassador. He added that he had never set foot inside one. The ambassador attributed the initiative to a known leftist activist in the Puno region, Marcial Maydana, who has never hidden his sympathies for the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, and who also presides over a non-governmental organization which transports Peruvian citizens to Bolivia to receive eye care in clinics set up by the Venezuelan government. The ambassador himself has overseen no fewer than 18 flights of Peruvian citizens “of few resources” to Venezuela to be treated for eye conditions in “Mission Miracle”, but this initiative was paralyzed when the parliamentary commission initiated its investigations of the “ALBA Houses”.
Well, I brought the Big PowerBook to the repair shop in Peterborough today, and a few hours later got a call back from the nice tech-geeks there. Seems the hard drive is going bad, ergo the inability to boot. It will need replacing, and will get it–with a 160-gig one, the biggest they can get for me. (I need all the uncorrupted space I can get in this corrupt old world.)
They’ll also have to do a data retrieval, since I have about 140,000 words’ worth of unfinished novel on that drive, as well as an aborted false start on a novella (which, frankly, can stay lost for all I care, as long as my big one’s saved), plus dozens of short stories, poems, essays, and what-have-you. Gonna cost, kiddies, but it will come to a lot less than I thought; I was sure I wouldn’t get away with under $7-800 in repairs. Turns out it will probably come to less than $300, counting the labor and the two layers of sales taxes.No word yet on when it will be ready; they’ll call me when it’s done. I guesstimate a week to 15 days.Big sigh. Big breath. Now, if it had been the motherboard, I’d have been motherfucked.I dodged a bullet this time, but all the same, I’m gonna be putting all my works-in-progress onto USB flash drives from now on.Hey, y’all.
Just to let you know I haven’t dropped off the face of the Earth–no, worse. I’m experiencing Technical Difficulties again. My handy-dandy ol’ 15-inch PowerBook decided to go on the fritz a few days ago. I’ve just now gotten around to configuring my “new” 12-inch one for the Internets, and the “old” one is going to the shop tomorrow morning, for what I hope will be repairs. Wish me luck, this one’s a pain so far.This time it’s Leonel Fernández, the president of the Dominican Republic.
And you don’t have to guess who he met with while he was there…
Leonel, Fidel…Fidel, Leonel. Fidel’s still lookin’ mighty swell. Some say he’s frail, but he’s clearly quite well. Well enough to meet Leonel!PS: If you really wanna see wingnut heads explode, guess who else is planning a visit to Cuba.
Strange, macabre and tantalizing clues have been found in a secret chamber below a government ministry building in La Paz. Evo himself went down to see what’s been found there so far:
According to the experts with him, this room was probably used as a torture chamber as well as a place to conceal human remains from some of the many who disappeared during Bolivia’s dictatorship era of the late 1960s through the early 1980s. Evo in particular called for help from the military in finding and identifying the remains of the great socialist writer and politician Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz, who is believed to have died on either July 17 or 18, 1980, and is still missing to this day. Could he be among the human remains found in this subterranean torture chamber, along with fragments of ceramic and scattered papers?
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- Open a new file in your computer.
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- Firmly Click ‘Yes’
- Feel better?
