The great thing about writing about Venezuela is that you can just make anything up, literally, and people will publish it. Mexican politician Jorge Castañeda has turned this 100% true fact into a lucrative business opportunity with Newsweek, and this week he's just cold spinning some crazy yarn about a Terrible Plot he heard about from a "source." It turns out that Hugo Chavez tried to overthrow Raul Castro and become President of Cuba last month, only nobody bothered to report it, until now, to him, anonymously.
God bless the Newsweek editors, who were like, "yeah, whatever" on the story but at least made Castaneda insert the mother of all qualifiers in the last paragraph:
"Needless to say, none of this can be fully substantiated."
Haha, no kidding. Anyway I've got no patience for this Castañeda shitstain, and this other blogger, Machetera, just published a funny little takedown of this whole deal, so you can read more there, yay.
Comments (6)
I always find it amazing how many petulant ex-LatAm douchenozzles land up in Spain. Even more amazing, how many of them hang out with the repackaged Franco-fascists of the PP.
Posted by QueenBina
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March 18, 2009 9:12 PM
Posted on March 18, 2009 21:12
Montaner is a nutcase Cuban exile who lives in Madrid. He is associated with the nuttiest faction of Spain's Partido Popular (whose "center" is nutty enough). He had a similar nutty piece on Gaza which WaPo reprinted.
Posted by Utpal
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March 18, 2009 1:50 PM
Posted on March 18, 2009 13:50
It was Carlos Lage who introduced the market reforms of the 90's.
According to Castañeda, Lage now wants to stop Raul from introducing the same reforms in the year 2009?
Yeah...that makes absolute sense!
Anyone else see this CNN article about the NewsWeek article?
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/03/17/cuba.overthrow.plot/
Seems Castañeda is reading Fidel's "bye! bye! Roque & Lage" editorial like Da Vinci Code fans read the Bible.
For example, Fidel praised the Dominican baseball team but chided the Venezuelan team.
Obviously, Fidel's really referring to the battle between the Priory of Sion and Opus Dei over the possibility of Jesus Christ of Nazareth having been married to and fathering a child with Mary Magdalene.
Obviously.
Posted by Paul Escobar
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March 18, 2009 9:22 AM
Posted on March 18, 2009 09:22
I don't know who you are Queen ... but when I find out, you are paying for the cleanup of my monitor.
:D
Posted by Bosque
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March 18, 2009 6:38 AM
Posted on March 18, 2009 06:38
I'm still scratching my head over that Montaner piece. How does a "fine parrot" feed Cuba? Polly regurgitate a cracker?
Posted by QueenBina
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March 17, 2009 9:26 PM
Posted on March 17, 2009 21:26
holy wow that Machetera link is sort of brilliant
Posted by TK
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March 17, 2009 9:01 PM
Posted on March 17, 2009 21:01