XML FeedsCheck this blog...
By Ana Julia Jatar on 13 May, 2008 | 1 feedback »
Friends,
The blogger (who shall hopefully remain anonymous) behind www.caracasgringo.blogspot.com/ is a well-known reporter who’s spent much of the last five years getting to the bottom of the events of April 11-13, 2002, and he’s using this medium to disclose his findings.
http://caracasgringo.blogspot.com/2008/05/operation-knockout-secret-history-of_12.html and
http://caracasgringo.blogspot.com/2008/05/operation-knockout-secret-history-of.html
Interspersed with this reportage you’ll find commentary and analysis regarding Venezuelan political news. It’s been up for less than a month. Bookmark it. If you have a blog, consider linking to it. And pass it on.
1 comment
Comment from: anonymous [Visitor]
An intriguing rendition of those fateful days. The author must have some very good sources to be able to say some of the things he says. Little by little details will inexorably continue to seep out so as to help piece together the big picture, chavista smoke and mirrors notwithstanding.
Throughout this tale, at times, I feel the author gives Chávez and his henchmen a tad too much credit for clever and/or secret planning for events that look so much like they were borne of the chaos Chávez himself provoked. Surely, if a man can carry out an incredibly meticulous plan such as this, run of the mill government would be effortless, which is, to say it mildly, quite definitely not the case.
It is pathetic to see him today, campaigning as if it was 10 years ago, more like a loquacious 19th century snake-oil salesman than as the leader Venezuela so desperately needs.
There is hardly an area of government into which he hasn't blundered personally, like a bull in a china shop, wrecking everything and leaving behind hopeless desolation. His "administration", --dare we call it that?-- has demonstrated a palpable lack of competence in the most elementary statesmanship and worst of all, in the elementary qualities of a decent human being.
Hope the rest comes soon.
Throughout this tale, at times, I feel the author gives Chávez and his henchmen a tad too much credit for clever and/or secret planning for events that look so much like they were borne of the chaos Chávez himself provoked. Surely, if a man can carry out an incredibly meticulous plan such as this, run of the mill government would be effortless, which is, to say it mildly, quite definitely not the case.
It is pathetic to see him today, campaigning as if it was 10 years ago, more like a loquacious 19th century snake-oil salesman than as the leader Venezuela so desperately needs.
There is hardly an area of government into which he hasn't blundered personally, like a bull in a china shop, wrecking everything and leaving behind hopeless desolation. His "administration", --dare we call it that?-- has demonstrated a palpable lack of competence in the most elementary statesmanship and worst of all, in the elementary qualities of a decent human being.
Hope the rest comes soon.
07/09/08 @ 17:13
Leave a comment
| « My CV | Obama survives, but... » |
Las elecciones primarias fueron sin duda un gran éxito para la oposición. Felicitaciones a todos los candidatos y a todos los votantes que expresaron su opinión con su voto en las urnas. A través de un complejo proceso de negociación polÃtica estamos en capacidad de presentar una lista única de
Luego de haber escuchado las declaraciones por las cuales fueron arrestados Oswaldo Alvarez Paz, ex gobernador del Zulia y Guillermo Zuloaga, Presidente de Globovisión, esta clarÃsimo que bien podrÃamos ser usted o yo los próximos tras las rejas. En sus declaraciones en la SIP, Zuloaga criticó el ventajismo estatal y
