Venezuelans choose this Sunday

We cannot predict the weather. Metereologists can only make very educated guesses to do so. That’s my take, anyway. I think there can’t be anything more chaotic than the weather. Point in case: what happened yesterday down here in Venezuela wasn’t told in any weather forecast I had read recently. Heavy rains fell for over six hours causing major landslides in many parts of Caracas, the capital city. The suburb where I live was blocked for more than 24 hours since all its access routes were covered in mud; I didn’t even try to come home, staying at my girlfriend’s family’s house. Some people I know took more than six hours to get here. In a shantytown nearby, three people were buried alive, but two were rescued.

All this 48 hours before we have state and city elections on Sunday.

 

He DID it!

Barack Obama is the Democratic candidate for the Presidency of teh United States of America.

What a way to resurect a blog, with those words.

A black guy, with an Arab name, with only one year in Senate, has a real, real chance, of leading a nation where only forty years ago, another black man was shot just for speaking for peace.

And what does that mean for Latin America?

More importantly, what does it mean for Venezuela?

 

They’re free

All Venezuela, Colombia and a big part of the world followed closely the process of freeing two prominent hostages –former congresswomen Clara Rojas and Consuelo González– from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC, after their initials in Spanish), today at an of course indisclosed location in the Colombian jungle. It was like watching people come back to life, which in a way is true: the two women had been kidnapped for more than six years. As I write this post, the two are flying to Caracas to meet with their family.

 

One year that comes…

And so it comes again. The end of a year. Ol’ Mother Earth is completing yet another trip around the Sun. It’s something that’s been happening literally since the dawn of time for our planet, and yet we throw a party like it might never happen again. Call me cynical, but why?

 

BOO-yah!!!

Nine years. Nine years the opposition waited to give the presidential foreces in Venezuela even a minor setback. Hell, I think they would have settled for giving him a little scratch.

And yesterday, after nine years of overwhelming tit, opposition finally gave a bit of tat.