Well, finally, Quico, you get it (regarding Honduras, that is). Honduras did the right thing from the get-go with Z, and they stuck to their guns through all the sturm un drang, the breast beating from all sides on this. The Catrachos were right, and fortunately, their courage wasn't an inch deep, to use HalfEmpty's phrase.
Everyone seemed to think (and some bloggers continue to think, even as I write) that Honduras is just a dirtbag little country that can be pushed around by anyone, gringo, Brazilian, whatever. Pues, not so, now, as we've seen. I appreciate Quico's comments on the tough state of affairs in Venezuela at the moment, but I want to express my hope that someday, somehow, Venezuelans will say, basta, and take action as the Hondurans did, to set things straight...
Huh. I stopped writing about Ecuador over a year in my blog because I was tired of expressing frustration and anger over the cheating and lies of Correa and his crew. In my case, I was just tired of the negative attitudes the whole thing generated over time. I admire the sheer, bloody obstinancy of you guys' writing; the worse it gets, it seems, the more you guys write (well, and the Daniels, too). You guys are the EverReady bunnies (blog-wise). Suerte, T
I dunno, from afuera, it looks like this guy is getting stranger and stranger, and as he does, so do his accusations/threats. What are we going to hear next? Stories of American submarines sneaking in to steal oil platforms, or better, just the oil itself? It's clear that he's looking for more ways to distract Venezuelans' attention from what's going on at home...
I agree with Mike E.'s comments and others like it: Micheletti and his crew didn't lose; they got exactly what they wanted, which is no more Zelaya, ever, after January, 2010, and perhaps never, if the Honduran Congress votes against Zelaya, as they did earlier this year.
JC is whistling in the dark if he thinks someone's going to bring charges against Micheletti. If anything, he should have a statue done of him, as someone suggested earlier in the comments. Micheletti and his allies stood up for their Constitution, enforced it, and in process, ensured that Honduras won't be cursed with a Chavez wannabe.
Venezuela never had the luck to have someone like Micheletti in country, someone who faced down a bully and made the system of government work; Venezuela, JC, and Quico should be green with envy...
I agree with jgd's comments; very sensible with respect to Chave, Venezuela, Morgenthau and this blog as well. Juan Cristobal's comments at the end (assuming Intense Debate hasn't wiped out other comments or changed the thread entirely, right, Quico??!!) make sense too.
Chavez is the biggest threat to his own people, unfortunately for them.
The Morgenthau piece looks like another floater for the idea of Israel bombing Iran (while the U.S. would apparently do the same to Venezuela, Morgenthau seems to suggest). Not logical, not credible, thinking insofar as options for Venezuela are concerned...
Thanks, Syd. I think you're overly optimistic (regarding my abilities) but I'll give it a try.
Ok, ok, I finally took a photo through my study window that meets your specs EXCEPT for the file size. I've got a 12mp camera and the photos are about 3MB in size. Mayby you know: how do I get the photo to be 400KB?
This is just comment on the "Intense Debate" comments tool: It's awful. It handles sign-ins only on occasion, comments are lost, and sometimes it seems to have trouble with log-in names, why, I don't know. I managed to get in a comment on the Richard Blanco posting, at which time, Intense Debate showed 22 comments (which I think was correct). Now, Intense Debate says there are two comments on the same posting, when only one shows (from wlad). What happened to all of the other comments? Quico/JC have you considered a better comment tool?
Patriziaf's got it right: Venezuela as a country seems to be in a passive stupor wherein Chavez is free (and he knows he's free) to do anything he wants - and he's doing it. Every time I read this blog, I think of the German cleric, Pastor Martin Niemoller, who observed the same passive, incremental elimination of all opposition during 1930's Germany; never take action or resist when it's someone else that's taken away. Cesar Perez Vivas, Richard Blanco... Who cares? Who's next?
Keep the opera buffa running until the elections in November when the lame duck becomes a dead duck (politically speaking).
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