Yeah, well I'm aiming to make mine different. Oil Wars and BoRev and others are good blogs but I'm not here to reprint what they say or to imitate them. They should be read by people who want to know about Venezuela.
I want to say something though about the Posada matter.
Posada is a self proclaimed bomb plotter who is wanted in the murder of seventy people who died when a Cuban airliner was blown up in flight. He entered the US illegally, held a press conference, got arrested for being illegal and let out on bail, with no charges against him for murder.
This country locks people up indefinitely without trial for much less than what Posada already has said he did.
If he murdered seventy Venezuelans, Cubans and people of other nationalities he must be punished. Meanwhile he is wanted by a duly constituted State, Venezuela, who is now asking the United Nations to prevail upon the United States to adhere to law and extradite him.
It's not as though this news is hidden from my compatriots, it is not. True it isn't on the front page, and true it is not repeated and repeated, like for example the clip of some R and B singer's breast sticking out on television, but the news media here in part "give the people what they want" and they do not want to be repsonsible for the doings of their government, and want to know as little as necessary about it.
Posada no doubt has the goods on the CIA, and can provide a lot of very damaging information about the first Bush, especially about his reign over the CIA and the South Florida ("anti") Drug Task Force.
So once again my country forfeits any legitimate claim to tell anyone anything about terrorism. What a shame.
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