{"id":11094,"date":"2009-05-31T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=11094"},"modified":"2009-05-31T08:28:42","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T13:28:42","slug":"chavez-weekend-antic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=11094","title":{"rendered":"Chavez weekend antics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently, Hugo Chavez backed away from a weekend debate with Peruvian Vargas Llosa and broke his promise of a four-day-log marathon installment of “Alo, Presidente”, according to AFP\/Breitbart<\/a>;<\/p>\n

For Saturday, a debate had been scheduled between Chavez and conservative Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, a novelist who ran for president in 1990.<\/p>\n

But by late Friday Chavez was backtracking.<\/p>\n

“I can help by moderating, but the debate is between intellectuals and I am simply a president, a soldier,” he said. The dialogue should be with “revolutionary and socialist” thinkers, he said.<\/p>\n

Vargas Llosa and other Latin American intellectuals in Caracas for a separate event on democracy said they were not interested in debating other thinkers. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Our buddy Kate sends this cartoon which might explain why the debate was cancelled – Chavez was ill-equipped for intellectual give-and-take apparently;<\/p>\n

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(In the cartoon, Llosa is saying “I said debate, imbecile” – “debate” and “bat” sound similar in Spanish)<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the New York Times reports<\/a> that Chavez is rounding up dissident military officers – among them, his old friend Raul Baduel;<\/p>\n

They say prison life can be lonely, but not for Ra\u00fal Isa\u00edas Baduel, Venezuela\u2019s former army chief and once one of President Hugo Ch\u00e1vez\u2019s confidants, who was detained last month.<\/p>\n

Mr. Baduel is held with other former officers in Los Teques.<\/p>\n

Among his cellmates in the Ramo Verde military prison here are a former admiral, Carlos Mill\u00e1n, and Wilfredo Barroso, a onetime general arrested along with Mr. Mill\u00e1n on charges of conspiring to oust Mr. Ch\u00e1vez.<\/p>\n

Since February, Mr. Ch\u00e1vez has moved against a wide range of domestic critics, and his efforts in recent weeks to strengthen his grip on the armed forces have led to high-profile arrests and a wave of reassignments. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So who is surprised that Chavez promised yet another thing he couldn’t deliver – a simple four day broadcast cut short. Criticism against Chavez increases as the oil prices fall. The only thing Chavez intends to deliver to Venezuelans is “Chavismo”.<\/p>\n

Oh and the word is that Chavez wants to give Obama another book<\/a> – this time by Lenin. He can save his money, I’m sure Obama already has a dog-eared copy in his library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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