Recording of Hugo Chavez ordering the Avila Plan
London 26.02.05 | There is a saying in Venezuela that goes «el que tiene rabo de paja que no se acerque a la candela» which can be equated to «If you live in a glasshouse…
Another FARC leader arrested in Venezuela
London 25.02.05 | Mmmm… How many meandering rivers have we got? Probably the answer would be as accurate as that of; how many narcoterrorists are actually operating in Venezuela? So Jessy announces that another FARC…
Venezuela’s propaganda machine sending mixed signals
London 24.02.05 | The image of failed coupster Hugo Chavez is taking a proper battering these days. For the first time since his ascent to Venezuela’s presidency some of the world’s most powerful media outlets…
Venezuela’s Chavez on the USA’s assassination plot
London 24.02.05 | One can only mock the pathetic and unsubstantiated ravings of Venezuela’s president Chavez and his minions in regards to the assassination plot that the USA is crafting to «liquidate» him. The caption…
Terrorism means nothing to Spain’s Rodriguez Zapatero
Daily El Pais reports that the Hugo Chavez administration will purchase four corvettes (light military ships) to Spain. The €600-€800 million deal was broker during Spain’s Minister of Defence Jose Bono’s last visit to Caracas…
Politics and the Church
My first schooling took place in Caracas’ Colegio Francia. Up to third grade. My family then moved to the Basque country where by grandmother put me in a school of the Antonian’s order. Of course…
An image is worth a thousand words…
My previous post about Pinochet has caused outrage to some PSF. To those who spouse political ideals from the sinistra here’s this image that encapsulates perfectly my feelings vis-a-vis their most powerful icon: Chupense ese…
Socialism in Venezuela
London 15.02.05 | Recent news about floods in my country have preoccupied me, so this morning I picked up the phone and had a chat with a good friend who lives in Merida. He gave…
Venezuela’s government failed to distribute 55 tons of emergency supplies
London 11.02.05 | A reader kindly sent a report (as of September 15 2004), commissioned by the Chavez administration, which lays out the nationwide status of the health programme known as «Barrio Adentro». Shockingly in…
The real tragedy of Venezuela is the lack of common sense of its citizens
One day before the tragedy of Vargas shook Venezuela, as I was about to get indoors after having a haircut, my sister in law came rushing out the building’s entrance screaming that a child was…