Venezuelan Ambassador in Libya: "Its the third day without a single drop of blood"

The slime coming out of the Venezuelan government and state media keeps oozing over Libya's ongoing genocide.
As posted on the Venezuelan State TV website and Consistent with Muammar Gadaffi's ramblings, the Venezuelan ambassador in Libya reported to Venezuelan state media that the situation in Tripoli is:

"calm, media outlets are broadcasting images from four days ago and say this is going on right now; in reality nothing is going on."

"This is the third day in Libya where there hasn't been a single bloodshed."

"We can go out to the streets in tranquility, commerce in Tripoli is open to a certain point; nothing is going on in the city or its surroundings, everything is calm, unlike what's being reported in some media outlets."

Telesur, a Chavista sympathizer news outlet, has journalists on the ground keeping up with the murderous massacre ordered by the Ghadaffi family. Even with gangster Mahmoud Ahmadinejad acknowledging Ghadaffi's massive campaign of annihilation, Telesur journalists reported:

"We went around the green square, commercial zones, and there is not a single trace of any bombings, there are no images that register any of this which was informed by the international media."

"not a single piece, not a single trace that there was a bombing , as far Tripoli goes"

Venezuelan foreign ministry's cynical response to Libya's genocide

A communique released today by Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro reveals that the ample collaboration between the Venezuelan and Libyan government will probably go until the last bullet.

The communique, released simultaneously as Libyan airplanes were bombing civilian protesters outlines how Maduro is being kept informed about the current developments in direct communication with Libya's Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa. The main purpose of the communique was to perhaps clarify that Gadaffi was not on his way to Venezuela, as the British Foreign minister speculated, yet its language of deception was simply hilarious.

The press release, which makes no reference of the ongoing massacre, relates how Maduro was informed that "the leader Muammar Gadaffi is in Tripoli exercising the powers that the state confers onto him and its dealing with the ongoing situation in the country."

Besides other euphemisms, Maduro reassured its ongoing communication and collaboration with the murderous Libyan government:"Finally, the foreign ministers of Libya and Venezuela agreed to keep in touch to exchange information in first hand about the evolution of the developments in the brother land."

The revolting support of Chavez to Gadaffi's Libya

Among the many unconfirmed reports about Gadaffi fleeing to Venezuela, it is perhaps a good opportunity to make a small post as a homage to Hugo Chavez disgusting support of one of the oldest autocracies in the middle east, Libya.

In the picture above we can see Chavez hosting Gadaffi's on his latest visit to Venezuela in 2009 where he was awarded Simon Bolivar's sword as a tribute for his courage in fighting imperialism.
Chavez citation was as follows:

"This is the sword that liberated America 200 years ago. This sword is alive, and today travels about Latin America in the name of our people, of the Bolivarian Revolution, which I hand over to you(Gadaffi), revolutionary soldier, leader of the Libyan people, leader of the peoples of Africa."

With this rather convenient theme among these autocrats, Chavez has also awarded Simon Bolivar's sword to Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran and top dog gangster Vladimir Putin of Russia.

Ironically, Gadaffi named Benghazi's soccer stadium after Chavez, which at this point is effectively in control of Gadaffi's opposition. I wonder if this stadium's name is going to remain.... = )

Democracy Now! reporting ignores Venezuela's ties to FARC

As reported by Democracy Now! on Friday December 11, 2009:

Ecuador: US Aided Colombia in 2008 Attack

Ecuador is accusing the US of involvement in Colombia’s 2008 attack on FARC rebels in Ecuadorian territory. The cross-border bombing killed more than twenty people, including civilians. In a new report, the Ecuadorian government says US military officials helped plan the attack from the Manta Air Base in Ecuador. Ecuador ended US operations at the base earlier this year.

The report is not produced by the Ecuadorian government rather by an independent civilian commission called upon by President Rafael Correa to investigate the attack that succesfully assasinated Raul Reyes, FARC's rekowned murderous demagogue leader and drug trafficker. The report also exposes Gustavo Larrea, Correa's former security minister, as having met Reyes in Ecuadorian territory where he was requested to help in lowering the military surveillance in his vicinity by changing a general in charge of the area. Correa said a year ago that if any of his ministers were discovered to have met with FARC leaders in Ecuadorian territory, they would be tried for "treason".

Yet most damaging is the commission's revelation, that Ivan Marquez, another notorious FARC leader, kidnapper and drug trafficker, sits in an office in Caracas, Venezuela where he coordinates FARC's public relations as well the newly formed Continental Bolivarian Coodinator movement. The emergence of this movement was celebrated by Democracy Now! recently, as the founders of this movement include all sorts of FARC's crime apologists(Narciso Isa Conde, Amilcar Figueroa and many many others) as well as ETA Basque intellectual sympathizers (Inaki Vicente Gil).

NONE of this was included in Democracy Now!'s report on the ecuadorian commission findings a non surprising fact due to their sad support for Chavez military regime in Venezuela and their intentional insistence of looking the other way at Venezuela's sympathy and support for the FARC mafia drug gang.

Piedad Cordoba and the Nobel Peace Prize

To the surprise of a lot of people, including me, Colombian Senator Piedad Cordoba was not awarded the Nobel peace prize for her role in the many releases of hostages by the FARC guerrilla in Colombia. The prize was instead awarded to US President Barak Obama, possibly in an strategic move by the Nobel Prize committee, in the same manner that the prize was given to Desmond Tutu in 1984 as explained by Robert Nairman in the Huffington Post.

The Venezuelan Chavista press as well as its political figures are outraged by the announcement, as an international victory in the magnitude of a Nobel prize is impatiently awaited, one that would perhaps reverse the major international setback Hugo Chavez, Rafael Correa and Cordoba suffered by the Ingrid Betancourt rescue of June 2008. Shortly after the rescue, the three politicians were forced to silence their shameful plea to recognize "belligerence status" for the FARC after its viciousness was so widely exposed to the entire world, clear and uncensored.

Instead, Cordoba might have to wait another year, or perhaps longer, along characters such as Shlomo Ben-Ami from Israel who lives in that grayzone of almost-Nobel-peace-prize recipients but not quite. Among Cordoba's declarations on the prize announcement was a strange ramble about Obama's possible assasination and thus the urgency for him to keep working for peace: "Obama is being threatened and could be assasined and has to keep himself above the pressures of war, he must keep working for peace."

Nobel peace prize recipients beliefs and ideals are usually elevated for political gain; though, when Desmond Tutu and Henry Kissinger are both prize recipients, people must question the merits of this prize. I believe the hostage releases, even if plagued by the most disgusting Chavista propaghanda in them, are a good reason to nominate the PDVSA financed Cordoba for the prize, but they are certainly not significant enough to earn it. Not in the same manner that Oscar Arias won it in 1987 by getting the peace of accord of Guatemala. To a lesser extent is Barak Obama anywhere near worthy of receiving this prize, though, one must recognize that the potential of an US president armed with a friendly senate and congress is definitely worth awarding the "strategic" Nobel Peace prize.

Democracy Now! NOT reporting death sentence of Iranian dissident

The unfortunate event that Iranian's theocracy is sentecing to death a man involved in the street protests of june will go unreported on Democracy Now!. As reported on the New York times:

"The man sentenced, Muhammad-Reza Ali Zamani, is a member of a group called Kingdom Assembly of Iran, which is considered a terrorist organization in Iran for seeking to replace the Islamic theocracy by restoring the shah to the throne, according to Iranian Web sites.

He was sentenced to death in a verdict issued Monday, according the Website Mowjcamp.com, which said Thursday that he had been taken from Evin prison in Tehran to the revolutionary tribunal, where he was informed of the verdict"

Media outlets have been responsible of saving people's lives such as in the case of academic Hashem Aghajari in 2002, where the media uproar about his conviction resulted in the revocation of his death sentence by Iranian authorities and its further release.

I hope Ali Zamani's sentence is revoked too, but I guess if it happens, Democracy Now! is not going to be thanked for helping. Thank you Amy Goodman!

Tribute to Guillermo Endara

Guillermo Endara (1936-2009) has passed away, panamanian patriot, will always live in the memory of thousands of panamanians who saw him fight to the bitter end with the Drug smugling dictatorship of Manuel Noriega.