Festive Left Friday Blogging: It was ten years ago today…
…that Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play: Actually, the Venezuelan people didn’t need no stinkin’ band. They rescued their president from a US-backed coup attempt with no outside help…
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Festive Left Friday Blogging: Evil Dictator Makes Venezuela Happy!
Film at 11. Meanwhile, the story: Last Friday, the Washington Post highlighted a global happiness survey released last year by the polling firm Gallup, which found that Venezuela is the…
Festive Left Friday Blogging: René González comes home, and so does Chavecito
René González, a Cuban anti-terror agent (and one of the famous Cuban Five, imprisoned in the US on espionage charges) gets a supervised leave of absence to visit his sick…
Festive Left Friday Blogging: Ode to Life
Venezuelan rap sensation Rodbexa got together with Truko, and they’ve got a new song out. It’s a tribute to Chavecito, of course. Sure to be another big hit!
Festive Left Friday Blogging: Gorgeous, George!
OMG, look who got arrested earlier today: Yes, that’s George Clooney. The movie star. He’s now free, along with his dad and a group of other prominent activists who were…
Festive Left Friday Blogging: I’m a whut, I’m a whut, I’m a WHUT?
Two nicely naughty young ladies play a lovely ditty for the Pigman. Say, maybe he can use THIS as bumper music, now that everyone he WAS using is telling him…
Festive Left Friday Blogging: Chavecito gets a visitor
Via Cubadebate’s Facebook page, some fresh photos that came in just now: Now, who might that healthy, hearty-looking guy be? Surely not the same walking corpse that the lamestream media,…
Festive Left Friday Blogging: Playing catch-up with El Ecuadorable
Sigh. What’s a girl to do when she’s looking for Latin American lefty-porn to give her readers their Friday fix of progressive pulchritude? All the news is full of Chavecito…
Festive Left Friday Blogging: Chavecito throws down
And gives the right-wing candidate and sham primary victor, Henrique Capriles Radonsky, notice that he’s got to stand and deliver, or leave with his tail between his legs: Here’s the…
Festive Left Friday Blogging: Another satellite for Venezuela
Looks like Simón Bolívar will have even more company in orbit. In addition to his Bolivian and Ecuadorian counterparts, he’s going to be joined by another Venezuelan satellite, named after…
Festive Left Friday Blogging: Lucky 13
It’s 13 years now since Chavecito was sworn in as president of Venezuela. And, contrary to all the right-wing lamestream media naysayers up here, he’s not dead yet, and neither…
Festive Left Friday Blogging: Two million and counting!
Ahem. Make that two and a HALF million… And now, the story from Aporrea: At 10:06 this morning, and three months shy of his second anniversary on Twitter, President Hugo…
Festive Left Friday Blogging: Flamengo comes to Bolivia
…and Evo had a great time meeting one of the great Brazilian soccer team’s heroes (and his own too, no doubt), Ronaldinho: Evo also presented Ronaldinho with a special medal…
Festive Left Friday Blogging: Chavecito’s back, Cristina’s on the mend
Good news from Venezuela… The Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, will return on Sunday with his well-known TV program, Aló Presidente, which has been on hiatus for seven months. This will…
Festive Left Friday Blogging: The kids are all right…or should I say LEFT?
Who says so? No less an authority than The Pew: Young people — the collegiate and post-college crowd, who have served as the most visible face of the Occupy Wall…
Festive Left Friday Blogging: Caption Time in Bolivia
It may be the holiday season for most of us, but Latin American heads of state aren’t getting any rest. While Evo is off signing bilateral agreements in Peru with…
Festive Left Friday Blogging: Fidel’s Guinness record
Courtesy of Cubadebate, we have the following amusing little item to celebrate today: The historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, is the person subject to the greatest number…
Festive Left Friday Blogging: ¡Feliz Chavidad!
Just in time for the holidays, the latest decorations from Venezuela: Figurines of Chavecito, Simón Bolívar and other Venezuelan historic heroes decorate a nativity scene. Of course, Reuters chose to…
Festive Left Friday Blogging: Tweet of the Day
Courtesy of a Venezuelan tweep: “Sometimes Rafael Correa makes me think I’m gay.” Ladies ‘n’ gents, he’s talking about THIS fine-ass dude here: The president of Ecuador, arriving in Caracas,…