I wrote:

> It is a 180 degree reversal of the original plans.

Yesterday, Ernesto Villegas, Venezuelan ministry of information,
answered somebody from the press, pressing him on the apparent
weirdness of the funeral decisions, with something like this:

"Do you think we had the funeral details planned in advanced?  No!  We
had all our energies focused on keeping president Chávez alive!"

This may sound improbable to people conditioned in a culture that
views improvisation as failure or, worse, that cannot see beyond
individualistic cynicism, but this -- at face value -- makes much
sense to me.
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