OK, Nico, you’re freaking me out now…
Watch it with the sound off…ufff.
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“How do we solve a problem like Maduro?”… just a quote from “The Sounds of Music”, with a twist…
“….a flibbertigibbet, a willow~the~wist, a clown.”
The faces give it away from the beginning. But then comes the point, at about 1’12″, where Maduro says, ‘ … para mantener al pueblo informado y preparado…’ — and then loses it, because he obviously can’t complete the sentence in the obvious way by telling us what we’re supposed to be ‘prepared’ for.
One other thing – did Maduro always have a slight hint of Cuban to his accent or is that the lingüistic equivalent of a contact buzz?
splitting hairs now?
Good job!
I dunno, but Maduro is just one hot stinkin- pile of mush at the moment. Get that guy a Lexotanil a la vena, the guy is losing it. Completely unprepared to deal with the Presidency if he can’t deal with the death of his boss.
Taking into consideration what he knows, I would likely be to if I were in his position. He has a better idea than anyone else outside the inner circle of just how bad this transition is going to be when it happens.
We are simply spectators along for the ride with some a little closer than others. He’s going to be at the center of the maelstrom and has a pretty good notion of probable outcomes, none of which likely favor him (or Venezuela) in the short or long term.
I agree things are bad, but can’t he stop being such a cry-baby about it? ¡Sea varón!
I was starting to think I was the only one who noticed the accent…
It’s a very subtle twang…but it’s definitely there, isn’t it?
With or without audio I’d say it’s the same.
¡Brujería, brujería!
Now you are “reading” facial expressions!
I ask. Imagine that Chavez does not die, but he somehow makes it to the AN the 10th. Next day he declares Maduro VP and takes a leave for undetermined time to get better… Maduro takes the presidency but because Chavez is not dead but in a ” temporal” leave he rules the country for 6 more years. Unconstitutional? probably. Will they care? Not
If worst case scenario is the point, then I’ll give you what you want:
CIVIL WAR
maybe someone will read your rant then.
Pastuso, that’s not my point. Of course worse things can happen that what I said. I just wanted to point out a semi-constitutional option that could be used by Chavez.
Again?
“Semi-”- constitutional options? Do we have those?
Don’t think so….
By semi-constitutional I mean close enough to it that foreign governments won’t complain and the Judicial power in Venezuela would just play blind. So basically what Chavez has done many times already
And BTW, not even close to a rant what I wrote
Either you don’t want to say it or you don’t know anything about it. In 1915 Juan Vicente Gómez did what you’re saying: after being reelected he chose not to govern full time and entrusted the presidency to Victorino Márquez Bustillos for 7 years. In case you’re wondering: yes, we legally had two presidents during that time: an acting president in Caracas and the constitutional president in Maracay. Because of this prior experience is the reason a temporal absence must not last long.
Uh!
All Venezuelans have “other” worries, don’t you know?
Compleja, difícil, delicada, jodida, pelua, dura. He is already doing the 5 adjectives per sentence that Chávez loves.
Diosdado speaking to the armed forces says that anyone who’s doubting the instructions Chávez gave to re-watch his message, and requested the video to be shown to the troops in case anyone is still not sure what those instructions were. Hmm.
So whats all the need of this jibber jabber when our armed forces are all Anti-mperialistas, Chavistas, Fisicoculturistas, Ebaristas, Nihilistas, istas, istas, istas revolucionarias?
just to make sure there are no factions surging to take over the jobs of Maduro and Cabello in this power vacuum. Cabello profits by seeding polarization, or a lot of “us vs. them”, logically, to foment cohesion in the ranks. It’s all classic manipulation.
There you are!
The next “president”…
Poleo’s choice….
Bring back your capital…
Uh!
“SEMI.CONSTIONAL?”
Ja.
Just what we need!
Maduro on intoning the date, had Diosdado double checking his watch calendar (53 secs).
When you can’t even trust a colleague to recite the day of the month .. :-)
Hah I thought the same.
mechanical clocks…
Have you got one?
SEVERAL, you guys… no doy puntada sin hilo…
The NEW “catafalco” for Bolívar was “straight”. Chávez decided it had to have a bend. Doesn’t matter… as long as his corpse is there…
Damm… they are going to pronounce him dead on the 17th. The will bury him next to Bolivar in the mausoleum. What a slap on the face to our forefathers.
That was MORE than predictable,, Dude…
Best part; “Bolívarian Cult” will be a thing of the past… I hope!
Money (Ramirez), Pueblo (Maduro) and Military (Cabello)………..hmmmmm.
you got it….
Hadn’t noticed Diosdado was so short. Our own new Cabito?
Verdad.
I thought that the others were standing up in a podium.
After looking at him again, he reminds me of Danny De Vito. LOL.
Better with audio–Maduro voice cracking throughout–Cagado–Much, much sooner–Sunday’s elections may have to be cancelled…..
Funny thing, but I’m actually feeling sorry for him (as one human to another–not that he really deserves it). Quco was right in a previous post–in one way we will miss him–the histrionics, the buffoonery….
True thing is that Diosdado expression on the beggining of the video express grief. The constant look at the sky. The hands… I’m not trying to be Mr.”lie-to-me” but seriously, watch.
And what’s that thing about “to have the ppl correctly informed and prepared…” prepared? Prepared for what?
Yeah, funny about that. Now, finally, 19 months after this show began, the people are being “correctly informed” every couple of hours, unlike before, when people were being, erm, incorrectly informed?
Preparations can be anything at this point. Too much uncertainty, which leads to instability, just the way the chavernment – or is that madurnment – would prefer.
for chavismo, apparently “people being correctly informed” = we still don’t know where the cancer is located, how risky the surgery is, or anything else that might help us have an idea exactly what the situation is… fuckin’ Cubans.
As part of their effort to keep the people informed, maybe they could tell us what cancer Chavez suffers from?
The cancer itself isn’t what could likely kill him very soon…the probabilities are very poor, but real miracles do occasionally happen….
Apparently, to speculate is to hate. (Unless it is speculation that he will improve.)
Exactly
Who knows, with people whose first instinct is to lie, and who have no controls, checks or balances whatsoever on them to prevent it or to punish them after the fact? But this is mainly the fault of a people that LIKES to be deceived.
Witness the relationship of the Fourth and the Fifth Republics, which really is a re-edition of the Fourth with only the nice lies, please.
Speaking about the people and messages directed at them. I did a quick tour of Noticias 24 and I doubt the Peronista PR team did reach those levels of maudlin-ness and treacly-ness over Evita.