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It is indeed rather horrendous to watch on Venezuelan state TV how these people are excoriated, without any right to reply, not even with the courtesy of having a journalist exposing distortedly their point of view. In fact it is going to the point that RT (Russia Today) and TeleSur make joint "documentaries" on the world aggression against Venezuela and Russia. Forget Glasnost, welcome back Der schwarze Kanal.
The source of all that anger is that ex premier Gonzalez of Spain, the one that did the most to bring Spain tot he XXI century standards has decided to join the defense team of Leopoldo Lopez and Antonio Ledezma (and by implication of all political prisoners). And he has been joined by other heavy weights already: former Brazil president Cardoso, former Peru president Garcia, former Mandela's lawyer and Canadian justice minister Colter. I suspect the list will grow.
What gives here? Clearly these people are in the retirement stage of their lives, have not exercised their bar skills in decades and do not have a Venezuelan law license. The answer is elsewhere though I doubt it has reached the dim brain of foreign minister Delcy Rodriguez who apparently takes seriously the idea of Felipe Gonzalez speaking in court. She even told him ot get another job.
What Maduro and our girl Delcy (probably the worst foreign minster of chavismo, and the competition is tough) fail to understand is that the thinking world is saying two things; 1) we are getting tired of this brutal bolivarian farce and 2) it is time that Latin America does something on this respect. After all, I can hardly imagine former heads of government Gonzalez, Cardoso, Piñera, Pastrana, Calderon, Garcia, Sanguinetti, Lagos acting without the knowledge of their government. Gonzalez has actually received the formal support of Spain's PP and PSOE. And Spain of all these countries is the one that has most to lose, investment wise, following explicit threats made to Spain business.
I personally think that Maduro should pay very close attention to these simple words from Gonzalez in an interview with a Colombian network:
"Sé los esfuerzos que se hacen desde la Unasur, ahora bien, son francamente insuficientes"
I know of the efforts made from UNASUR, however they are frankly insufficient.
Translation: Gonzalez is NOT telling the UNASUR to do more, he is telling Maduro that the UNASUR is going to do more. There are countries that can stomach only so much; Colombia, Peru, Chile, Paraguay and even the incoming Uruguay president. Brasil's Dilma has enough trouble on her own to defend Maduro and stop a planned visit by Cardoso and Brazilian Senators to Lopez's jail. Guyana, Ecuador and Bolivia are soon not going to be enough as Argentina support is probably doomed by the end of the year when Cristina does not want her heir to be burdened in the campaign defending Venezuela's excesses.
Now we just have to wait for the spectacle of the regime forcibly pushing back in the airplane Gonzalez or Cardoso. Will Maduro do what not even Pinochet dared to do?.... I am afraid that they are that crazy, which is good as it will speed up the end.
Por eso esperaba con la carita empapada
a que llegaras con rosas, con mil rosas para mí,
porque ya sabes que me encantan esas cosas
que no importa si es muy tonto, soy así.
y aún me parece mentira que se escape mi vida
imaginando que vuelves a pasarte por aquí,
donde los viernes cada tarde, como siempre,
la esperanza dice "quieta, hoy quizás sí..."
The source of all that anger is that ex premier Gonzalez of Spain, the one that did the most to bring Spain tot he XXI century standards has decided to join the defense team of Leopoldo Lopez and Antonio Ledezma (and by implication of all political prisoners). And he has been joined by other heavy weights already: former Brazil president Cardoso, former Peru president Garcia, former Mandela's lawyer and Canadian justice minister Colter. I suspect the list will grow.
What gives here? Clearly these people are in the retirement stage of their lives, have not exercised their bar skills in decades and do not have a Venezuelan law license. The answer is elsewhere though I doubt it has reached the dim brain of foreign minister Delcy Rodriguez who apparently takes seriously the idea of Felipe Gonzalez speaking in court. She even told him ot get another job.
What Maduro and our girl Delcy (probably the worst foreign minster of chavismo, and the competition is tough) fail to understand is that the thinking world is saying two things; 1) we are getting tired of this brutal bolivarian farce and 2) it is time that Latin America does something on this respect. After all, I can hardly imagine former heads of government Gonzalez, Cardoso, Piñera, Pastrana, Calderon, Garcia, Sanguinetti, Lagos acting without the knowledge of their government. Gonzalez has actually received the formal support of Spain's PP and PSOE. And Spain of all these countries is the one that has most to lose, investment wise, following explicit threats made to Spain business.
I personally think that Maduro should pay very close attention to these simple words from Gonzalez in an interview with a Colombian network:
"Sé los esfuerzos que se hacen desde la Unasur, ahora bien, son francamente insuficientes"
I know of the efforts made from UNASUR, however they are frankly insufficient.
Translation: Gonzalez is NOT telling the UNASUR to do more, he is telling Maduro that the UNASUR is going to do more. There are countries that can stomach only so much; Colombia, Peru, Chile, Paraguay and even the incoming Uruguay president. Brasil's Dilma has enough trouble on her own to defend Maduro and stop a planned visit by Cardoso and Brazilian Senators to Lopez's jail. Guyana, Ecuador and Bolivia are soon not going to be enough as Argentina support is probably doomed by the end of the year when Cristina does not want her heir to be burdened in the campaign defending Venezuela's excesses.
Now we just have to wait for the spectacle of the regime forcibly pushing back in the airplane Gonzalez or Cardoso. Will Maduro do what not even Pinochet dared to do?.... I am afraid that they are that crazy, which is good as it will speed up the end.
Por eso esperaba con la carita empapada
a que llegaras con rosas, con mil rosas para mí,
porque ya sabes que me encantan esas cosas
que no importa si es muy tonto, soy así.
y aún me parece mentira que se escape mi vida
imaginando que vuelves a pasarte por aquí,
donde los viernes cada tarde, como siempre,
la esperanza dice "quieta, hoy quizás sí..."
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