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Among the news agencies, Reuters is not bad. They are quite reasonable on Bolivia, their Vzla coverage has also improved.

Oh, FINALLY somebody in the lamestream media reports the actual cause behind that 3-minute shower thing. Most of them just hold it up as one more piece of evidence that the 'Cito is crazy. FINALLY someone mentions El Niño! And the drought! Before, they were just repeating all the oppo crapaganda about him being a tyrant who somehow can't provide enough water for their fucking Jacuzzis or electricity to run the jets.

Why are they always so far behind the curve in Anglocrapagandalandia?

Sometimes, Hugo Chavez reminds me of Zach Galifianakis.
They're both lovable, Chomsky-loving, chubs with great senses of humour:

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=9089129

Cubans had arrived in Venezuela and were preparing to fly specially equipped aircraft above the Orinoco river.

"I'm going in a plane; any cloud that crosses me, I'll zap it so that it rains," Chavez said at a ceremony late on Saturday.

:)

Here is ABN's report on this, citing Daniel Ortega:

Managua 15 Nov. ABN.- Como un 'pirata holandés y sinvergüenza' calificó el presidente de Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, al eurodiputado Johannes van Baalen, presidente de la Internacional Liberal, quien señaló que durante su visita a esa nación centroamericana sostuvo reuniones con altos mandos del ejército local.

Ortega rechazó el injerencismo del diputado holandés, al tiempo que catalogó como vende patria y cómplice a Eduardo Montealegre, integrante de la Alianza Liberal Nicaragüense (ALN).

Ortega reveló que el objetivo de esta reunión era 'persuadir a nuestras fuerzas armadas de cometer un golpe militar, igual a como lo hicieron los militares hondureños', reseñó una nota del sitio nicaragüense en internet El pueblo presidente.

Con el pretexto de felicitar al Ejército nicaragüense, el eurodiputado van Baalen solicitó una reunión con el sector castrense, indicó el presidente Ortega, pero la realidad era conocer hasta dónde sus altos jefes militares podían ser convencidos de emular a sus colegas hondureños.

“Quería conocer hasta dónde el Ejército nuestro tenía la misma actitud del ejército de Honduras, pero se encontró con una actitud patriótica, una actitud dentro de las leyes y de rechazo de parte de nuestro Ejército, que es la misma política del Estado nicaragüense que, a su vez, es compartida con la comunidad internacional”.

“Estaba hablando para ver si encontraba un Ejército como el de Honduras, y luego se trasladó a Honduras, donde nombró al golpista que se dice presidente como vicepresidente de la Internacional Liberal', señaló el comandante.

'Hay que ponerle atención porque ahí vienen los golpes, se ve que la Internacional Liberal estaba empeñada en propiciar y fortalecer y premiar a los golpistas, y aquí vino a hablarnos de democracia el pirata holandés, el sinvergüenza que vino a profanar nuestro suelo”.

If what Ortega says is true, then this is rather more serious than simply criticizing the Supreme Court. Although, the Liberal deputy (I think he is a Eurodeputy) is probably a joker with little power, a "diputaducho" as it were :)

The Nicaraguan apology is more interesting. Via Radio Netherlands:

On Wednesday, Mr van Baalen held a press conference and told reporters he had been invited to leave the country by the Ortega government.

Later, Nicaragua's Deputy Foreign Minister Manuel Coronel Kautz referred to Mr van Baalen as German and when informed that he was Dutch, the deputy minister said "that's even worse because the Netherlands is a paisucho (a shitty little country)".

President Ortega's government has apologised for Deputy Minister Coronel's comments but not for expelling Mr van Baalen as he "came as an envoy of interventionist foreign powers, forgetting that the new forms of interference and oppression are rejected by the people, especially in Africa, Asia and Latin America".

The Nicaraguan government apologized for calling Holland a shitty little country, not for throwing MEP doofus out.

By the way, I don't want to hear one single solitary god-damned word, not one syllable, from people complaining about Ortega throwing this guy out of the country for insulting a Supreme Court ruling if they're the same people cheering on the coup d'etat in Honduras.

I fucking know people who were arrested and thrown out of Latin American countries for even less political involvement. I'm not saying it's right, but, fucking really? You back a fucking coup d'etat for what somebody might do someday in the future after office in reforming the Constitution of Honduras, but you think you ought to be able to come in as a foreign politician and denounce the Supreme Court and government of Nicaragua as behaving criminally?

Really? Fucking, really?

I know, I know, the world is full of hypocritical jackasses, but sometimes the ridiculousness gets too much even by normal standards of jackassitude.

Dutch liberal euro-parliamentarian Hans van Baalen has solved the crisis in Honduras. Thus we are informed by the “leftwing” Volkrant
who covers the activities of this 'free trade', US and Israel friend – now acting for the “International Federation of Liberal Parties”. This rather obscure club of liberal crusaders are momentarily spreading The Word in the Central American region.

First there was news about van Baalen being expelled by Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega for criticizing the country's undemocratic policies. Next day the paper reported that the dutch minister for foreign affairs received an official apology from the Nicaraguan government. So Verhagen says. And we all know we can trust the christian democrats like his party's leader and prime-minister Balkenende (still under investigation for his unique knowledge about Saddam Hussein's WMD's)
And the latest of van Baalen's great achievements is the accord he has brokered between the two rivals Micheletti and Zelaya. Van Baalen proudly announces that Zelaya told him that he is now 'prepared to consider' the election's outcome.

With dutch media, the people in Holland will no doubt be one of the worlds first countries to recognize the forthcoming elections as free and fair. Makes me real proud to be a Dutchman.

President Zelaya writes a letter to President Obama, and says, "Thanks, but no thanks, I will not be returning to office after these elections for any excuse to legitimize the overthrow of a government by force, it's a joke to hold 'elections' under a coup, good job on your State Department officials for making us all look like jackasses, and, hey, what you said at the Summit of the Americas was pretty cool, about how we should judge the USA not for its past actions but for its present, and, um, okay, how about not supporting a coup d'etat here in the present?"

"Gürtel" means belt in German.

Looks like someone got his ass in a sling made from his own belt. LOL!

Here's another funny bit of news, that comes out of an investigation of the "Gürtel" scandal involving the rightwing party in Spain:

http://www.vtv.gob.ve/noticias-internacionales/26114

Apparently Aznar tried to prop up Irene Saez's candidacy in the 1998 presidential contest.

For Spanish speakers, this is an interesting interview that the Spanish paper "Publico" did with Emir Sader:

http://rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=95225

Fascism Without Swastikas--The World Will Never Know!

(snort)

Yeah, it is like the "Socialist International", the "Christian Democrat International" etc. etc. That Cuban ex-CIA dude Carlos(?) Montaner is part of it. They are a collection of far-right parties that aren't explicitly Nazi. (the "liberal" part is supposedly from their support of free trade)

A hugely important organization that I've never heard of called "Liberal International" (the "world federation of liberal parties") just chose Roberto Micheletti as its vice-president because of, um, his, uh, firm defense of 'democracy', by which we mean that awesome military-backed overthrow of the mere elected government of Honduras.

The LI leader pronounced Micheletti the "Liberator of the Americas", and talked about how stupid and ignorant 'the international community' was and how mistaken the OAS was, democracy, whiskey, sexy, the end.

"by Colombia, Israel and maybe a couple random island nations whose debt levels exceed GDP."

Btw, that list includes Panama too.

Funny how they always know where the USAID money is, eh?

Aw, how unfortunate: 36,000 pages of documents relating to the cases and trials of drug runners, paramilitaries, and their connections disappeared in Colombia.

Thankfully it was just one of those rogue criminal elements -- the guy who ran the government documents facility.

Hey, this seems like it might be news, even in the U.S., I mean, depending on what Carrie Prejean is doing today.

I'm shocked to find out that USAID funds going to Colombia ends up in the hands of front companies run by the right wing narco-paramilitary death squads.

Those darn rogue criminal elements!