More interesting shake-out from Guatemalan prez Alvaro Colom’s visit to Cuba:
President Alvaro Colom of Guatemala has apologised to Cuba for his country’s role in the failed US-backed invasion at the Bay of Pigs in 1961.The CIA used Guatemalan territory to train Cuban exiles before their disastrous invasion which was quickly defeated by Cuban forces.“It was not us, but it was our land,” President Colom said in Cuba.His visit is the fifth by a regional leader in 2009 and supports calls for the end of the US trade embargo.President Colom’s apology was greeted with sustained applause at the University of Havana.He said he was apologising now as a gesture of solidarity and a sign that times had changed.“Cuba deserves its own destiny, a destiny that you all built with this revolution of 50 years. Defend it like you have always done.”
This is something no one expected to hear (and which, I’m sure, has certain old Miami mafiosi shitting solid gold bricks), but it’s great to hear it all the same. Colom is definitely a good egg in my books for saying that.Interesting, too, the timing of all this: Now that Dubya and Auntie Condi are no longer in office, it seems that LatAm presidents of all kinds are no longer distancing themselves from the socialists and commies, and openly declaring their interest in, and affection for, Cuba.It really does make you wonder, does it not?
This happened yesterday morning. Where’s the IAPA? Where are Reporters Without Borders? Why are none of the Free Speechers denouncing this?
Oh wait…the assaulted journos are from a community station that’s not out to unseat a legitimate government. And the government goons? Well, they don’t work for the feds. They work for a certain ratty little mayor in Maracaibo. Hmmm, maybe that’s got something to do with it?So, here’s the story: Avila TV reporter Jorge Amorín and cameraman Pedro Quesada show up at a restaurant in Caracas at lunchtime to do their due journalistic diligence and interview Manuel Rosales, a leading anti-Chávez type who also happens to be mayor of Maracaibo (and a former governor of Zulia, and a failed former federal candidate). The interview concerns the wrongful dismissal suit launched by a group of city employees. The mayor is dining clandestinely with some nasty-wasty cronies; one of them is Víctor Ferreres, former president of oppo channel Venevisión, and a leading figure in the failed coup of ’02. So this is shaping up to be a rather interesting moment for the journos, and a rather embarrassing one for Rosales. But Rosales’s bodyguards, who have been drinking, push and shove the two young journos. The assault is caught on camera (at one point, Amorín is heard telling them to not touch the camera). After the assault is aired on the news, a further complication arises: Hooded goons (the same guys who attacked the journos the first time, or compinches of theirs?) attempt to kidnap Amorín. The attempt fails, and Amorín and cameraman Quesada lodge a complaint with the Inspector General’s office. They accuse Rosales of ordering an assault on them, as well as the attempted kidnapping of Amorín.Also among the charges: the restaurant, Casa Cortez, was serving alcohol at a prohibited time (eating establishments are not allowed to serve booze during the closing days of election campaigns, when tensions are running high; it’s a measure aimed primarily at curbing drunken violence.) The mayor’s bruiseboys had been drinking at that time, which no doubt contributed to their aggression. Nice boss they got, too, letting them booze it up while on duty, and during a “dry” time at that. Clearly, membership in the corruptocratic Venezuelan opposition has its privileges. So who, besides the public community media in Venezuela, is reporting this? Where are the IAPA, who yelp like scalded dogs everytime one of their private media-owner members finds himself in hot legal water down there? Where are Reporters Without Borders, who might just as well be called Reporters Without Shame for the way they “report” on all things Venezuela? Shouldn’t they be raising hell when a bunch of goons attached to a government figure make an attempt on the person of a young reporter just doing his duty?Or is it just not an incident of government-sponsored violence against the media when the media figure in question happens to work for a public channel, and the government is that of an opposition mayor?
Jeebus, what is it with all these LatAm leaders visiting Cuba lately? First it’s the president of Chile, now Guatemala? What are you all, commies or sumpin’?
Guatemala’s President Alvaro Colom is to start Monday his official visit to Cuba by paying tribute to National Hero Jose Marti.The statesman will lay a wreath at the monument erected to Marti at the Havana’s Revolution Square, and attend later the opening of a park in the capital’s municipality of Playa.The first stone of a sculptural project in memory of Cuban Jose Joaquin Palma and Guatemalan Rafael Alvarez, respective authors of the lyrics and music of the national anthem of that Central American country, will be placed there.After the re-establishment of bilateral relations on January 27, 1998, both nations have developed friendship and cooperation links in sectors like health, education, sports and agriculture.The first Cuban medical brigade traveled to Guatemala on November 5, 1998, right after the path of Hurricane Mitch, meanwhile the integral health program between those countries officially began on April 29, 1999.
Emphasis added.My goodness me. That was actually very shortly after Chavecito got elected in Venezuela, was it not? And it was BEFORE he started importing Cuban doctors to look after all the po’ folks down there who didn’t have any clinics in their neighborhoods–the medical missions of Barrio Adentro didn’t get underway until 2004.You know what THAT means, don’t you kiddies?It means that the “Castro-communism” of Chavecito’s Venezuela…got to Guatemala first.Yeah, all you oppos down there in Venezuela, you really convinced me that you’ve been invaded by the commies. Can you please explain Guatemala to me now, and why you’re not raising Cain over that?
Gimme riots! I want RIOTS! After all, I’m a blood-crazed commie (so says Regina from Cameroon, who would know), and I demand VIOLENCE, DAMMIT!!!eleven!!!
Alas, I shall have to make do with this:…in which the streets of Venezuela are teeming with peaceful, happy, bouncy Bolivarians (at least one of them from Colombia!) celebrating the victory of their president and their democratic constitutional amendment…peacefully.You hippies. You embarrass me. Srsly.
Venezuelan oppos are all pathetic, but the young ones especially so. How many Primeros Golpistas (in the yellow shirts) do you see? However many there are, they’re all getting their butts pwned by one socialist reporter from Avila TV:
They’ve invented a whole new nonword, too: “centrohumanism”. It means absolutely nothing, and it convinces no one (intelligent, at any rate), but it sure sounds pretty! And it has none of those dangerous connotations that “socialism” has. In fact, it has no connotations whatsoever, because it has no meaning whatsoever.
Sorry, but it’s just got to be said…and this week, it’s just got to be said to:1. Stewart Fucking Parnell. If you wouldn’t eat it yourself, why would you sell it–and let nine people die of salmonella from eating it? Thanks a lot for making me look askance at peanut butter, you slimy fucking motherfucker!2. Lech Fucking Walesa, again. If you can’t tell the difference between a popular Venezuelan president who has been elected and re-elected by and for his people, and a communist dictator, you’re a washout. There’s a reason the opposition is so weak and fragmented–its leaders are all crooks with nary a viable, democratic or original idea to peg their campaigns on. They can’t even hold a decent primary to elect their own party heads! Yet you think they deserve support? It’s no wonder you’re not welcome in Venezuela. Go back to your potato vodka already, you sorry old walrus.3. Steve Fucking Austria. For sleeping through history class and blaming the Great Depression on FDR–the man who actually pulled the US out of it. Also for calling him a “socialist”, which should come as some surprise to those whose capitalist asses he saved by using Keynesian economics. Hey Steve:4. Jackson Fucking Diehl. For being too damn lazy or too fucking stupid to look behind any dumbshit (and long-debunked) fairy tale that confirms every bad thing he ever “knew” about Venezuela and its Jews. Crappy journalism skillz: Diehl haz them.5. and 6. Mark Fucking Ciavarella and Michael Fucking Conahan. Sending kids to prison unnecessarily (and without legal representation) is reprehensible enough, but doing it for kickbacks from a private prison? I’m sorry, but the word simply doesn’t exist that’s ugly enough to accurately describe the maggoty souls of these two crooks who did just that. Of course, they’re Repugs. There’s not a privatization that they don’t love, and now we can see why. Fuck ’em both, preferably with a splintery broom handle up the ass.7. While we’re at it, fuck their entire party:The words of this song just keep getting truer and truer over time, do they not?8. Ted Fucking Haggard. The man’s not “het ‘with issues'”, nor do is he bi. He’s a Cleopatra–Queen in Denial. He’s also a raving dope fiend. And one day, I fully expect to read news that he’s been found stone dead, with his cock still clutched in his cold, dead hand. A fate which generally doesn’t stalk those who are here, queer, out and proud.9. Whoever would drop seriously dumbass shit like this in my comments:
Your a retard!The guy should have shot the dumba$$ cat out of the tree,and the lamecat loving freak of a neighbor.Are you a weird cat lady Becker?LOL your a sad sad fat cunt, god loves fat chicks like yourself. Commenter name: ???????????? Commenter email address: nospam@canadian.suckwads.caCommenter URL: http://www.retards-of-CA.caCommenter IP address: 32.160.238.44
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Becker(media cunt!) if you love SA so much please move their. And lovethe commie life style, you love so much.Bye Cunt. Commenter name: Red blooded AMERICAN! Commenter email address: USA@USA.netCommenter URL: http://www.cunt-spoter.netCommenter IP address: 32.160.1.225
Two crappy comments on two old posts in one day–classy. What do you suppose this one looks like? I have a fair idea:Ahem. Not nice of me, but then again, was he?As you can see, Mr. Two-Face (who posted via AT & T on mycingular.net) is one and the same sad, sorry little excuse for a pimply-faced pre-adolescent git. Same IP pool, same linguistic shortcomings, same shit, same asshole. Congratulations, you’ve earned yourself a quick and painful ban, and your IP on display for the world to see (and some cybersleuth to trace a little more deeply than I have here, heh heh). Feel proud, mosquito-dick, because this is as much attention as you’ll ever get on here.And that’s it for this week. Y’all come back here, except that last one, of course. Whom I doubt I’ll see again, as these cowards love their little shit-‘n’-runs.
…when Venezuela was “democratic”. Here’s a snippet of a speech by Rómulo Betancourt, the “father” of Venezuela’s Fourth Republic and its so-called democracy:
If he sounds like Hitler with a Spanish accent, that’s because he pretty much was. He’s talking about taking leftist political prisoners, quite openly. Betancourt’s Venezuela was a shitty place to be a union leader, much like Colombia today. And, like Uribe’s Colombia, if you disagreed with the president, you were The Enemy. The going policy? “Shoot first, ask questions later.”Oh, and Betancourt was apparently bound and determined to stay in office for as long as he wanted to…not, like Chavecito, as long as the people wanted him…as long as HE wanted to. The people could suck a banana as far as he was concerned.Just think, people…this is what the Venezuelan opposition would like to drag the country back to. Seven stars and all.Some democracy, eh?
Michelle, Fidel…Fidel, Michelle. Doesn’t Fidel look awfully well? He’s supposed to be dead, but he’s obviously swell.Corny rhymes aside, this is real. Check the Chilean government website if you don’t believe me. And if you don’t believe that, you can go to hell!
Why? Because Chavecito’s Venezuela includes revolutionary LGBTs. And I don’t see any oppos stepping up to that plate, do you? They only use “gay” as an insult.
The president of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, expressed to her Cuban counterpart, Raúl Castro, an interest on the part of her country in learning Cuba’s experience with regard to health.The development of Cuban medicine was one of many topics discussed by the two leaders.[…]“The excellent levels of health Cuba has are well known by all. Their vaccines, their technological research, are topics which interest us much in learning from the Cuban experience,” said the Chilean president, herself a medical doctor by profession. According to the agency Prensa Latina, Bachelet is especially enthusiastic about a major bilateral collaboration in biotechnology and neurosurgery.The memorandum of health signed by Cuba and Chile opens possibilities of bilateral technology exchanges and joint investigations.
Translation mine.W00T! Can I call ’em, or what?PS: I bet this vaccine in particular is of interest to her; it would be to me!
Fear doesn't travel well; just as it can warp judgment, its absence can diminish memory's truth. What terrifies one generation is likely to bring only a puzzled smile to the next.
--Arthur Miller, "Why I Wrote 'The Crucible'", The New Yorker, October 21, 1996
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