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Oh I remember now -- the name's José Lopez (Pepe) Blanco.

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FISTROOOOOOOOO

This Ian Kelly person looks very much like a dude who used to be a spokesperson for Spain's PSOE, whose name I forget.

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The coup government announces a general public disarmament campaign.

"El propósito, naturalmente, es que no haya circulación de armas y personas armadas por todas partes del país, y no importa si tienen o no permiso de portación (...), el arma será retenida, naturalmente que registrada y oportunamente regresada a su dueño", puntualizó.

Or

"The purpose, naturally, is that there is no circulation of firearms nor of people carrying firearms throughout the entirety of the nation, and it does not matter whether or not they have license to carry firearms... The weapon will be confiscated, as it is registered, and will be returned to its owner at the first opportunity."

Now that the regime is confiscating its citizens' guns, does this mean the NRA will get all active and back Zelaya for gun rights?

Or is it only bad when you fear that some leftist might do such a thing but it's okay when a right wing coup government (perched atop a famously death squad riddled military) actually does it?

Honduran pro-legitimate-government TV station Canal 36 says that somebody is blocking its signal.

The Micheletti / not-Micheletti awesome Government of Unity and National Reconciliation and Togetherness and Ponies says it's not them, but the U.S. State Department will surely rush someone out to express their regret for such disharmonious allegations, and it's probably Zelaya's fault anyway, but, hey, no matter what, them's still's gonna be some fiiiiiine democratic elections, for democracy, and unity, and the rest of it.

By the way, due to their leftist, autocratic, inefficient bureaucratized socialist policies, Venezuela has had the greatest increase in poverty and inequality in all of Latin America in 2009.

México se convirtió en el país latinoamericano con el mayor crecimiento de la pobreza, indigencia y desigualdad en la distribución del ingreso en 2009, año en que la crisis financiera interrumpió un sexenio de avances sociales en la región, aseguró este jueves la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (Cepal).

Or from the communists at the UN's ECLAC (PDF):

The most recent figures for 2008 reflect the gains in poverty reduction with respect to 2007. In Brazil, Peru and Uruguay (data for urban areas), the poverty rate fell by at least 3 percentage points; in Costa Rica and Paraguay it declined by more than 2 points; and in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and Panama it dropped by about 1 point. Notably, Colombia’s poverty rate came down by 4 percentage points, but in this case, in the period 2005-2008.2 In the Dominican Republic and Ecuador, the rate did not vary significantly. Only in Mexico did the situation worsen, as the poverty rate rose by 3.1 percentage points between 2006 and 2008, reflecting the first effects of the economic crisis that began in late 2008 (see table 1).

Oops. I meant Mexico. Mexico's leftist socialist government.

Well, yeah, technically it's a right wing government governing by crony and by the militarized capture and pre-privatization of public utilities whose bills the government itself hasn't paid.

But still, the clear lesson from this is that Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales and Fernando Lugo and Rafael Correa are all evil leftists who ruined all of Latin America with their evil leftist powers.

For Honduras to have a government that really reflects the will of the people, we need to have this process of reconciliation between the Zelaya camp and the de facto camp. So that’s one thing that Craig Kelly was really focused on when he was down there yesterday and the day before, was to get some movement on this.

This is so awesome.

You've really got to give these guys credit.

Okay, you can have your coup, and you can keep the actually elected President out of power, and you can go ahead and run your elections under the coup government and kill people and impose media censorship and have General Romeo Vasquez Velasquez promising to be flying military helicopters over polling places and all, and of course we'll recognize your elections.

But just make sure and invite some people from 'the Zelaya camp' -- you know, it doesn't actually have to be that President guy -- into your coup government where they will be so welcomed and so empowered, and then we'll call your coup government with the extra cabinet dudes a 'Government of National Unity and Reconciliation'.

Oh, Paul--didn't you know? When Chávez says it, it's crazy. Even when it's founded in rock-solid facts, 100%, it's crazy just because HE says it!

I toldya, yer a genius, Paul :P

Sometimes, you want to return to certain stories...

After exactly 1 month as passed...

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October 30, 2009
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/aae3eea0-c57d-11de-9b3b-00144feab49a.html

Many remain unconvinced by Mr Chávez’s attempts to brush off responsibility for the shortages by attributing problems to the climatic phenomenon known as El Nino .

“It’s not the root of the problem,” says Norberto Bausson, director of the Municipal Institute for Water and Aqueducts of Sucre, an opposition-controlled municipality in eastern Caracas.

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November 30, 2009
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hqizmmbJyyZeh30urxp5lWMS8FyQ

Typically lasting around 12 months, El Nino reappeared once again in June.

Guatemalan authorities blamed it for the nation's worst drought in 30 years, which has left almost 500 people dead from hunger since the start of the year.

Further south, Ecuador saw its worst drought in 40 years, officials said.

To the east, Venezuela's water supplies dropped 25 percent below the population's needs, forcing restrictions -- including cuts of 48 hours per week -- until May, when the rainy season is forecast to return.

In Bolivia, at least 11,000 head of cattle died in recent weeks after some 20,000 hectares of crops, including maize and potatoes, were destroyed in the south, authorities said.

In neighboring Argentina, fires lasting several weeks burned through some 70,000 hectares of land during the worst drought in 50 years, according to officials in the central and northern Cordoba and Catamarca regions.