The less enlightening face of chavismo writes in...
“Think of it as an e-mail” is a common advice from editors to writers for a post that really sounds like Caracas Chronicles. This is the spirit of this whole thing: a conversation between friends that goes public.
From: Richard Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 2:39 PM
Subject: Back on line
> Francisco,
>
> I note that Caracas Chronicles is back on line and still peddling the same
> unconvincing “information” and opinions.
>
> It really is a pity that you are trying to redeem it after all the flawed
> predictions published since you launched the site.
[I wonder if he’s referring to my Nov 27th, 2002 prediction that the general strike would fail, or to my April 10th, 2002 prediction that unless a post-Chavez government was scrupulously inclusive it would quickly lose support and collapse? -ft]
> As I wrote to you in one
> of our first e-mail exchanges when are you going to go to the west of
> Caracas, if not just to collect your passport or I.D. card?
>
> As G. Wilpert says in Venezuela Analysis, Caracas Chronicles is one of the
> best examples of “ant-chavista triumphalism” on the web, which is a certain
> sort of backhanded compliment.
>
> There is no right and wrong in this situation, just winners and losers and
> it would be good for your morale to exorcize your demons by focussing on
> the political reality of Venezuela, instead of going on another dreamboat
> cruise and ending up in cloud cuckoo land – AGAIN!!.
>
> Best of luck
> Richard
From: [email protected] Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 2:49 PM
To: Richard
Subject: It’s simple, really.
Hey! It’s Richard!
The man who loves to disagree with the strawmen he creates and then calls my position!
The thing, Richard, is that all the bullshit either of us could write would not begin to make a difference. What you think, and what I think, and what Alan thinks and what Greg Wilpert thinks for that matter, all of that is of precisely no transcendence.
The only thing that matters anymore is what the electorate thinks. You’re convinced you have the majority. I’m convinced we have the majority…so the solution is simple, really: let’s vote! Find out who had it right!
ft
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