Memo to the opposition: thanks
(No, I am not being facetious)
The opposition umbrella group Mesa de Unidad announced today that it would not meet its January 31st deadline to announce its unity candidates. Instead, it pushed the deadline to February 10th.
In a carefully-worded press release, the group said the gerrymandering being done by the chavista-controlled National Electoral Council has made it impossible to meet the deadline.
We've grown accostumed to using the opposition politicians as our personal piñatas (guilty as charged). But credit where credit is due.
They couldn't meet their deadline, so they told us, providing a perfectly valid excuse. Best of all, they did so in a professional and timely manner. And they made sure we know they continue to work on this most pressing issue.
So kudos to them. Let's hope this accountability is the beginning of a trend.
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After the gerrymander, where oh where will the primaries be?
One clear thing about Gerrymandering is that it leaves a good number of AN seats which chavismo is more or less conceding to us, as they concentrate our vote in oppo super-majority districts so they can get more of the other seats. So even now it's fairly simple to look at a map and figure out which are the districts with the oppo candidates "salientes".
The big question for me is if they're going to hold primaries for those districts, or if they're going to reserve primaries for, districts that have been engineered so we can't win there. Because if it's the latter, it's pretty hard to see what the point is.
Salas Party (aka Proyecto Venezuela) spoke
And daddy Salas was proposed.
You can read about the sophisticated way in which they came to their conclusion:
http://www.el-carabobeno.com/p_pag_not.aspx?art=a250110b01&id=t250110-b01
To be fair, Salas the First was not bad compared to the previous governors, but still, this thing is smelling more and more like would-like-to-be Monagas to me.
Carabobo may end up with 1 nominal deputy for the opposition instead of 4 as numbers (at least according to 2008) would suggest.
Salas is still Salas in Carabobo
You can't fault them for throwing that out there. This is a weather balloon for them.
Good link Kepler, thanks.
They should hold primaries in "engineered" districts
Maybe not in all of them, but competition in those engineered districts must needs be fierce, so why not hold your primary in some of those? Get your people and organization fine tuned for the big contest just down the road, learn your opponents specific weaknesses in those areas while you're at it.
Chicago ain't gonna have nothing on what we're going to see.
Hey, a question for Quico and
Hey, a question for Quico and JC:
Would you consider people who support Uribe to be "normal"?
http://www.publico.es/internacional/288773/aparece/colombia/fosa/comun/c...
Some of them, sure
But that article is not about Uribe's followers.
No, its not about Uribe's
No, its not about Uribe's followers. It is about the military that Uribe commands, and how they've put over 2000 people in mass graves since 2005.
You know, no big deal. I wonder what your reaction would be if Chavez's military were doing the same thing?
Ano, it is bad, aweful,
Now: this blog is about Venezuela. The fact we are not talking here about colombia, Iran, china, Burma, chechnya, Sweden, Island, Gambia and Madagascar does not mean we do not have an opinion on issues there or mind the suffering of people there.
By the way: your kiln never has the cojones to denounce what is happening in Iran. If you go and see my Spanish or English blogs you will see I touch those issues. But they are also primarily Venezuelan-related blogs, like many others that are related to one country alone. You are a fucking hypocrite.
Yes I would.
Uribe is not
Yes I would.
Uribe is not perfect, in fact it would be a huge mistake for him to pursue another term. However, Colombia has turned a page under his government.
The Colombian people are more united than they have ever been, the country has grown year after year and the "warzone" has been pushed further and further away from the Urban areas.
Uribe has screwed up a lot... but overall he will be remembered as a good president, hence the 80%+ approval rating.
I dont see the Colombian government blaming foreign powers for their internal problems, I don't see Colombians suffering from water and blackouts. I don't see their industries collapsing and their currency becoming the new Zimbawean dollar.
On the other hand... we have Hugo Chavez and Venezuelans.
A government that divides and never takes responsability for its actions. The water, the electricity, the crime rate, inflation, currency, etc.. they are never the government's fault.. its all about the gringos and the cuarta republica.