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Cuba knows. I wonder if Chávez see this things. A “cuaima” would scream and cry “you only want me for my oil”, but no Chávez all giving and open-handed. Thanks for the post I’d never thought on reading the granma before. Didn’t know that the motto was “”where the duty calls, the friendship ends”; its a harsh motto.
What is the scope of the granma? I mean how many people read it, number of printings.I ask this because I doubt that the mean of Venezuelans knows or care this much about oil market. And maybe cubans knows more about oil than we do.
Considering the quality of the content and the lack of access to toilet paper in Cuba we could guess what one of the uses that Cubans give to Gramma.
scope of granma (no figures for circulation, natch):
•Granma Organo oficial del Partido Comunista de Cuba
•Granma Internacional Ediciones en Español, English, Francais, Portugues, Deutsch, Italiano
(from http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/news/)
Thanks a lot syd.
http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2012/02/26/interna/artic01.html
We have to be more respecful with the president. He is a reincarnation after all. Of Maisanta.
Wouldn’t it be great if Granma had just photoshopped a pivture of Raúl embracing an oil barrel fielled witj dollars?
Maisanta and Chavez the same person in a diferent body and time? Maisanta and oil prices? Chavez and cheap oil for Cuba? There should be many more hidden messages there!!!
See you can go around and around for ages. Maybe Maisanta got reincarnated as an expensive barrel of oil?!
Chavez will only reincarnate if we keep giving free oil to Cuba? Chavez will reincarnate as a barrel of oil?
Is that an obituary for Maisanta? Are they rehearsing for Chavez’s obituary?
Here’s the full article http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2012/02/25/interna/artic01.html
Hilarious the quoting of Chavez as their source for Venezuelan History:
“En aquellas campañas de fines del siglo XIX guerreó por toda la sabana —ha contado Chávez—, se alistó primero con el General José Manuel Hernández, el “Mocho”, y después a las órdenes de Cipriano Castro, líder de la revolución restauradora con la que Venezuela estrenó el siglo XX.”
The message apaprently is is Chávez is the reincarnation of a obscure, irrelevant historical figure, so he wont die.
There’s no “apparently” ’bout it!
Al morir, Pedro Pérez Delgado llevaba en su pecho el escapulario de la Virgen del Socorro, con la Cruz de Espadas y los laureles de la victoria, que su madre le cosiera tiempo atrás y que por suerte quedó a buen resguardo. Al cabo de los años por decisión familiar la prenda fue heredada por Gilberto Lombano Domínguez, nieto de Maisanta y primo de Chávez.
Tras los sucesos del 4 de febrero de 1992, hace exactamente dos décadas, y previa consulta con su madre, Gilberto no lo pensó dos veces y se apareció resuelto al cuartel San Carlos, en Caracas, donde guardaba prisión Hugo Chávez, principal promotor del reciente alzamiento militar.
Era el 29 de febrero y en medio de la primera visita familiar que se le concedía al prisionero, con la presencia de sus padres, hermanos y compañeros de cárcel, se improvisó una ceremonia inusual, pero llena de simbolismo:
- Primo, le impongo este escapulario —le dijo Gilberto— para que pegue el grito de guerra de Maisanta. Él acaba de reencarnar en usted.
Quico, I wrote that the apparent message is Chavez’s immortality because of the certain fact he is the reincarnation of Maisanta, by the way have you seen this video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHSi5AvWGto&feature=player_embedded
Some people in VTV want to put the Chiguire Bipolar out of business
Priceless.
The Cuban nomenklatura are just shameless leeches! They don’t even pretend.
Quico great point! Have you the possibility of getting hold of the “rencarnación de Maisanta” article? I am really curious to know what they presented…
Call your local communist cell. They’d only be too happy to oblige.
Seek and ye shall find: La reencarnación de Maisanta
A regular Francis Marion, with oil.
Dontcha just love the black drop against a white medallion on the center front of the barrel?
Without it, I would have never guessed the content below the dollar halo.
That Granma page hits the trifecta. Classic!
except that they forgot the (red) gift bow on top of the dollars.
Interesting that Adán is in Havana with Chávez. Perhaps he is the only one of the possible successors who is with him.
Not surprising at all. Adán knows better Habana than you Santiago or I Brussels, he has “worked” there for a long time. He is ideologically one of the most rancid fundamentalists.
As Miguel has correctly pointed out, Adán is the closest to the “Dirigencia cu’ana”.
And last but not least: he is the big brother. He probably knows more about Hugo than Hugo himself.
What’s the Minister of Health doing with him? Taking notes?
coordinating the 20 surgeons that will be operating, or video conferencing from the four corners of the globe.
And last but not least: he is the big brother.
An interesting insight, We should keep that in mind.
You can’t get much clearer than that without saying it explicitly. However I am sure it has been said explicitly. That Cuba is dependent on Venezuela.
Cubans made no bones about their Revolution being a Soviet satellite, did never really hide that 1991 meant the beginning of hard times and that 1999 marked a return to the time when the Castros could steam ahead without regard for human rights thanks to an unconditional “ally” that paid all the bills.
How the hell are Cubans going to know who Maisanta was? I, like most Venezuelans, got to know this rogue and “caudillo de montoneras” after Hugo Chavez retconned Venezuelan history to make himself the descendant of a rebel.
How the hell are Cubans going to know who Maisanta was?
They will, but only through one filtered source.
By design, they sure won’t get access to multiple sources of information, so that they can build and use their critical thinking skills. Similarly,and by naïveté or choice, university students and older lefties in arrrested development, the world over, will rely on the revisionism from this comunist party organ.
When I see reference to the Chávez-led coup as “el alzamiento militar del 4 de febrero de 1992,” I realize the perpetuation of that revisionism. I had a chance to see the manipulation being played out, c. 2004, when Martha Harnecker, low-level Cuban apparatchik, made the rounds of Canadian universities.
In a Q&A, following her marketing of her noodle-thin booklet on revolutionary bios, Martha appealed to the little parrots in the audience, when she referred to the Venezuelan oppo-led *coup* against Chávez in 2002. Following that pearl, she asked the audience for the English translation of “golpista”. A member of the audience supplied it: “coupster”.
“Aha, ” Marha said, before I popped up and asked: “You mean, like Chávez in 1992?”
“No, No, no,” Martha said. “That was not a coup.”
“Aahaa,” I replied with deep irony, glancing fist at Martha, then at a rabble rouser in the small audience who had daggers coming out of his eyeballs.
Needless to say, I didn’t stay for milk and cookies, nor for the chitchat from an altered universe. I also wanted to steer clear from one young woman (a graduate student of poetry, perhaps?), who milled about, seeking attention in her long black cape. Just too weird.
fistfirst. Though perhaps the error was a Freudian slip.I just meant that except in the mythology of chavismo, Maisanta matters very little in Venezuelan history, and is probably unknown to Cubans. If they get alternative viewpoints, they will not come from Granma. However there’s hope for Cubans, exposed to one source and enslaved against their will to it, search for alternative sources of information, unlike the people you describe, who have settled on just one “alternative” source and are happier slaves.
Read the red box in the upper right: “Donde comienza el deber termina la amistad”. The “guinda” of the cake.
Quico,
From the article with the picture Raúl and Chávez canoodling:
‘Me voy pero volveré, y volveré con más vida’, aseguró minutos antes de partir del aeropuerto de Maiquetía…
Then on the bottom right corner:
‘La reencarnación de Maisanta’
Is this what you were talking about?