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Musing on, but not limited to, Swedish and Venezuelan politics by a absent and open minded Swedish UNIX-geek with diversified hobbies such as mathematics, philosophy, motorbikes and kiteboarding.
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Comforting food shortage
The culinary reasons to visit Venezuela is in all honestly mild, at least as far as I know. They’ve got the catchapa, the arrepa and fried hairy pork skin. All of the above aren’t hideous,...
The expropriate word is on the table (again)
Hugo Chávez made the following statement at a PDVAL, a new food-chain owned by PDVSA, “Any person selling a kilogram of milk at 40,000 bolivars (19 dollars) deserves to be put in jail”. I...
Megalomania Chavez-style
It’s not just Hugo Chávez’ rhetoric that gives him the diagnose megalomania. It’s many things and most recently it seems like his wallet, PDVSA, that is showing symptoms. Hugo seems...
YES! Yes! yes! It turned out to be a ‘No’!
No señor! *shake the finger* This is really great news! And as negatively puzzled as I were when I saw the figures given by TT late yesterday. As happily puzzled I woke up today reading that he actua...
Venezuela seems to be losing it’s pluralistic democracy
Hugo’s project to create the 21st century socialism in Venezuela seems to be going as planned. I must say that I was getting hopes that this referendum would be a thorn in his side and an obstac...
Can Bush help Chávez win the referendum?
Chávez said that this is the real confrontation Venezuela is currently going through. “Our real opponent, our real enemy is the US Empire.” “On Sunday (when a referendum on the prop...
Venezuela’s Constitutional Referrendum - Chavez is looking weak.
I just got this note from a Venezuelan friend: Please tell Alex it seems Chavez is really weak for this sunday’s elections. You can just watch photos of (against-Chavez students) yesterday demon...
The most Fascist Fascism - A word loosing it’s meaning.
I’ve once been told in the commentary of this blog that what I wrote isn’t serious. The reason was that I used the combination of words social-fascist (when I actually meant totalitarian-s...
Uribe vs. Chavez
International Herald Tribune writes about the increasing tensions between the leaders of the neighboring countries, Colombia and Venezuela. The spat was ignited when Uribe wanted to discontinue Chavez...
Iris Varela made it into Svenska Dagbladet
Daniel wrote about the video clip now available on the net that is just a dump of what was broadcasted some days ago Now even SvD here in Sweden have picked up the fight (with Swedish comments and ...
Is Chavez stupid? Or just the chavistas?
Chavez is visiting Teheran today for the fourth time in two years. The bond between the countries are tight or as Chavez puts it, “Here are two brother countries, united like a single fist̶...
We are many that just want Chavez to shut up!
… enough to make a trade off! Ringtones, cups, T-shirts! I’d love to have a t-shirt to play football in. Until then I’ll be wearing my RCTV/Globovisión baseball cap at fine venues. ...
Why is their no milk or sugar in Venezuela?
Has Chavez bought the rhetorics that overweight is a political issue? Most likely he has, but that is not the problem in this case even though it certainly is a problem in Venezuela. The problem is th...
Nuclear Hugo!
“We are with Iran, and I do not think Iran is manufacturing atomic bombs. Iran is developing nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, I am sure about that. Venezuela is also beginning to develop ...
I note that Zaida has reached the “real” media
This is the X:ed timed I act surprised about the debate section of Expressen. Once again it is an interesting topic and writer. Zaida doesn’t add anything to her previous blogpost, but I’m...
NY Times video on the land reform
Venezuela is a country where everything is arbitrary. Justice, owning and life. Check out the 13min video on the land reform. Who will invest in the soil? Who will dare to take the risks when there is...
Latin temper… (with video)
Chavez has a hot potatoe at home with the Venezuelan population’s reaction to the upcoming constitution, no wonder he has problems to behave. The Spanish kings reasons to speak up in such an und...
Stirred up feelings regarding the Venezuelan constitution
I am glad that Zaida’s short post was written and that so many seem to have taken notice. I just read a PDVSA friendly reply at Biology and Politics that tries to dismiss Zaida’s comment a...
A great source for information
…on the new Venezuelan constitution comes from this joint-effort project: Constitutional Reform Venezuela. ...
Regarding Venezuelas upcoming constitution
I haven’t had the time I’d like to comment on all the tragic details in the constitution, but it is very well covered and debated in Daniel’s blog. I’m pleased to note via PL&#...
Chavez fucks with the Pueblo - Big time!
Even though Chavez is a man of many surprises and outrageous behavior he has tried more or less successfully to avoid the hard battles for the masses blessing like challenging the church, fighting tax...
The 30 minutes offset club - Disses the atomic clock
“This is a petrochemical revolution, rather than atomic bombs. In three days, (Iranian President Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad, is visiting Venezuela, and some people will say we are moving to build ato...
Ådalen all over again
This is cut from El Universal’s english paper and for us Swedes we see Ådalen all over again (but in a slightly less stable context(!)). President Hugo Chávez suggests giving the National Arme...
30 minutes into the past - all for the sake of the poor children!
(I know this is kind of old news to most…) Hugo has changed the flag, the name of the country, the coat of arms, the constitution, the media environment, the oil politics, the relation to U.S., ...
The Guardian finds out what Red Ken haven’t
The Guardian has a short article that tells the story of a question asked by them during a Alo Presidente session and a to say the least peculiar answer. Daniel also mention them and a burst he had at...
Venezuelan Economics for Dummies
I’ve previously written about my fairly eminent problem that I’ve got 6 million bolivares (slightly less then 2790 USD) and want to change them to dollars ASAP - as you can see, it’s...
Inter-dictator empathy
El Universal writes that Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said Venezuela is helping his country repay a debt to Russia on gas deliveries. Russian state monopoly Gazprom threatened to cut most g...
Hugo Chavez has a Swedish hide-out! Nynäs Petroleum.
I did some research yesterday night on what kind of presence the Venezuelan government has in Sweden. I’d recalled that Venezuela doesn’t even have an embassy in Sweden, but they do. I wa...