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http://www.sabinabecker.com/2013/03/compare-and-contrast-nicolas-maduro-vs-el-narco.html

Compare and Contrast: Nicolás Maduro vs. El
Narco<http://www.sabinabecker.com/2013/03/compare-and-contrast-nicolas-maduro-vs-el-narco.html>March
31, 2013 — Sabina Becker

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Who’s the crass ass, and who’s got sass and class? Aporrea has the
story:<http://www.aporrea.org/tiburon/n225913.html>

*The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro,
responded on Saturday night to the ex-president of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe
Vélez, who called him a “cynic” on Twitter.*
*

“Maduro’s cynicism knows no limits. He raised the tone and called the
opposition ‘Hitler’s heirs’,” wrote @AlvaroUribeVel. To which the president
and candidate in the April 14 elections replied: “Your heirs — better?”
*

*The Colombian ex-president has made various meddlesome declarations about
Venezuelan politics. There have also been denunciations of the opposition
candidate, Henrique Capriles Radonski, for having visited Colombia to meet
with Uribe and receive his advice.*

Translation mine.

This is all true, by the way. El Narco is not only a supporter of the
fascist Venezuelan right in words, but in deeds. He is closely tied to the
vicious right-wing paramilitaries of Colombia, who have murdered Colombian
campesinos and dressed their bodies in fake FARC guerrilla uniforms. And he
is well known to have sent the same paramilitaries into Venezuela, via the
western border region, to kill campesinos there and to try to smear
Chavecito (unsuccessfully) as a FARC supporter. Not to mention to help stir
up chaos on repeated occasions by way of a
putsch.<http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/498>

And when a FARC guerrilla named Rodrigo
Granda<http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=10216> turned
up in Caracas a few years ago, El Narco didn’t bother to ask for
extradition like a proper president, he just sent agents in to kidnap
Granda and drag him back to Colombia…which, as a gross violation of
sovereignty, was a source of great outrage in Venezuela and led to a break
in diplomatic relations between the two countries.

Now that he’s out of power AND no longer has Chavecito to kick around, the
spiteful little turd has to lash out at *somebody,* and guess who *that*is.
But Maduro (who is not only big enough to fold El Narco up and stick him in
his pocket, but is also as mature as his surname would suggest) turns it
back on him very succinctly and with great humor.

And in 140 characters or less, too.

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Music for a Sunday: Como candela que
va…
<http://www.sabinabecker.com/2013/03/music-for-a-sunday-como-candela-que-va.html>
March 31, 2013 — Sabina Becker

Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DLiZ0eGbWNo

Inti Illimani (Chile) and Milva (Italy) pay tribute to a Venezuelan whom we
should all know pretty well by now. Here are the lyrics:

*Simón Bolívar, Simón,
Caracan American,
the soil of Venezuela
gave the force to your voice.
Simón Bolívar, Simón,
born of your Venezuela
And for all times, your voice
flies like a flame.
Like a flame that goes
lighting a sure path
on this soil, covered
with the dignified dead.*
**

*Simón Bolívar, Simón,
revived in the memories
which open other times of history –
the times await you, Simón.
Simón Bolívar, reason,
deep reason of the people,
before everything is buried,
let’s go again, Simón.
Simón Bolívar, Simón,
in the south, the friendly voice
is the voice of José Artigas*,
who was also in the right!*

Translation mine.

*José Artigas <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Gervasio_Artigas> is
the Uruguayan equivalent to Bolívar; he is one of the Liberators of the
Southern Cone (hence the “friendly voice in the South”). He is also a
national hero of Argentina.


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