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March 2013
Hugo Chavez is dead
Hugo Chavez is dead. As per my thoughts: I feel as Chileans must have felt, when Pinochet was voted out; as Egyptians felt, when Mubarak was ousted; as Libyans, when Gaddafi was killed; as Paraguayans, when Lugo was kicked out; as Americans, when Obama won and Brits when Tony Blair returned Labour back to power.
The Miami Herald v Derwick Associates
London - Well, well. At last, a major publication in the U.S. of A has echoed the catalogue of reports I have posted in this blog denouncing rampant corruption, and money laundering by a handful of Venezuelan thugs, and their American partners. Today, The Miami Herald published a piece by Otto Reich, former Assistant Secretary of Western Hemisphere Affairs, and Ezequiel Vazquez-Ger, about, guess who?
Chavez's legacy? Fortunately utter failure.
London - A propos of a recent event in London's Frontline Club, in which Jon Lee Anderson, Richard Lapper and Rory Carroll took turns at explaining what has gone on in our country since Hugo Chavez arrived in power in 1999, and what will his legacy be, I thought I could venture my own views about it.