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Showing posts with label Venezuela. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Venezuela. Show all posts

Monday, November 2, 2009

Gub'mint Run Water Service

Water Rationing For Venezuela's Capital City
Residents of the Venezuelan capital face cuts in water service for as much as 48 hours per week, after the government imposed rationing to stem a 25 percent shortfall in the city's supply, officials said Monday.

Officials said cuts in water service were to be staggered throughout Caracas through the duration of the current dry season, which is not expected to end until May 2010.

Weather forecasters blame the "El Nino" weather phenomenon, saying the periodic weather system has markedly reduced rainfall and created drought conditions.

Others blame the shortage on poor government management of the country's water resources, while President Hugo Chavez faulted the excesses of capitalism.
I bet Hugo has plenty of water. You know, some pigs are more equal than others after all.

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Sunday, March 2, 2008

Is Chavez About To Start Settling Old Scores?

Chavez Sends Tanks To Colombia Border In Dispute
Venezuela President Hugo Chavez ordered tank battalions to the Colombian border on Sunday after Colombian troops struck inside another of its neighbors, Ecuador, in an attack on rebels.

He also ordered the shutting of Venezuela's embassy in Colombia and the withdrawal of all diplomatic staff in the dispute, warning Colombia's actions could spark a war in South America.
Could Thuggo Chavez be planning to start settling Venezuela's old boundary disputes by using incidents like this as an excuse? Watch out Guyana...

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Monday, December 3, 2007

It's A Draw For Freedom

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Sunday, November 11, 2007

¡Viva Juan Carlos!

Spanish King Tells Chavez to "Shut Up"
Chavez, who called President Bush the "devil" on the floor of the United Nations last year, triggered the exchange by repeatedly referring to former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar as a "fascist."

Aznar, a conservative who was an ally of Bush as prime minister, "is a fascist," Chavez said in a speech at the Ibero-American summit in Santiago, Chile. "Fascists are not human. A snake is more human."

Spain's current socialist prime minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, responded during his own allotted time by urging Chavez to be more diplomatic in his words and respect other leaders despite political differences.

"Former President Aznar was democratically elected by the Spanish people and was a legitimate representative of the Spanish people," he said, eliciting applause from the gathered heads of state.

Chavez repeatedly tried to interrupt, but his microphone was off.

Spanish King Juan Carlos, seated next to Zapatero, angrily turned to Chavez and said, "Why don't you shut up?"
Spain just moved up a notch again in my book...

UPDATE: More on Chavez's smack down...

Venezuela News & Views


and Video courtesy of the BBC...


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Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Spacey Spaces Out

Have you met the newest member of Actors for Autocrats? Joining founding members Danny Glover and Sean Penn is Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey.
Actor Kevin Spacey met privately Monday with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, one of Washington's most outspoken critics in Latin America.

Neither Spacey — who has won Academy Awards for roles in "The Usual Suspects" and "American Beauty" — nor Chavez spoke to the press after the nearly three-hour encounter in the presidential palace in Caracas. They shook hands warmly on the red carpet as Spacey left after a dinner with Chavez.
Seriously, what goes through these people's celebrity addled minds when they meet with thugs like this?

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Thursday, August 2, 2007

Speaking Of Bullies, Thuggo Chavez Is Still Stomping On Free Expression

Anti-Chavez Channel In Venezuela Faces Deadline
CARACAS, Venezuela — An opposition-aligned television channel, already booted from the airwaves, faced a deadline Wednesday to agree to carry speeches by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez or be yanked from the cable lineup.

The country's telecommunications commission gave Radio Caracas Television, or RCTV, until midnight Wednesday to register as a national producer, a category that would require it to interrupt its programming at the government's request to transmit Chavez's speeches.
Is it time to set up "Free Venezuela Broadcasting" offshore?

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