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En español: Como en Venezuela no hay panes, Maduro va a tener que multiplicar penes ACTUALIZADO

“Así como Cristo multiplicó los penes”:

Inmediatamente Máburro visitó a Oscar Haza:

Y a las 10:00PM EDT, Bayly habló de la multiplicación de los penes según el discípulo Nicolás:

“Necesitamos que Maduro multiplique el papel higiénico.”

Mientras tanto, el país se va a pique.

ACTUALIZANDO:
Continuando la avalancha de “millones y millonas” de metidas de pata,
Maduro dice que a opositores les dio ‘friíto’ cuando confundió ‘penes’ por ‘peces’

“Ayer salió una cosa por ahí y les dio dentera a los jefes del fascismo (como llama Maduro a la oposición), les dio un friíto por el espinazo cuando escucharon eso, se me salió lamentablemente, pedí disculpas por la expresión”, manifestó el mandatario en un acto difundido por la televisión oficial.

O, como decía Álvarez Guedes, ¡Ñó! Dentera no, burla.

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Venezuela: Ban baby bottles next?

In the land of no toilet paper and cloth menstrual pads, the lunacy runneth over:

Venezuela considers banning baby bottle feeding
The Venezuela congress is to discuss legislation next week that would prohibit bottle feeding of infants in an attempt to encourage breast feeding and reduce the use of baby formula.

Odalis Monzon, from Venezuela’s ruling Socialist party, said the proposal would “prohibit all types of baby bottles” as a way to improve children’s health.

“We want to increase the love (between mother and child) because this has been lost as a result of these transnational companies selling formula,” Ms Monzon said.

I first heard about it in Bayly’s show (via YouTube, in Spanish),

Insanity in the form of Communism, pure and simple. The fact is that the country cannot produce and has no money to import basic foods, such as baby formula.

In Communism, children belong to the state, so it’s not up to the parents how to raise them and feed them.

Anyone who has any experience in child rearing knows that you need baby bottles.

As far as love between mother and child, Ms Monzon does not appear to have much experience on that, either.


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Venezuela: Capriles travels to Colombia

Henrique Capriles to set off the alarms before international bodies
Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles Wednesday condemned the “non-compliance” with the election audit requested by the opposition alliance and endorsed by the Union of South American Nations (Unasur). He lambasted the steps taken by Venezuelan electoral authorities

“An agreement was reached with Unasur to conduct a (comprehensive) election audit. The audit did not take place. What they (Venezuelan electoral authorities are doing is a farce.”

The Maduro regime is furious that Colombia’s president Santos met with Capriles,

The Maduro government has vilified Capriles as a “fascist” trying to stir a coup in Venezuela, and powerful Congress head Diosdado Cabello, who is also the No. 2 in the ruling Socialist Party, was the first to complain about the meeting in Bogota.

“Colombia must clarify if the government is with Capriles’ coup intentions, or with the people of Venezuela and with the legitimate, sovereign and constitutional government of comrade Nicolas Maduro,” Cabello told state media.

“President Santos is putting a bomb in the good relations that President Chavez urged so much … He is receiving a murderer, a fascist right there in his palace.”

Considering Venezuela’s ever-increasing reliance on Colombia for food, Cabello would do well to measure his words.

As a side news, Santos apparently has been comparing Alvaro Uribe to Caligula. An unwise slip of the tongue, considering how Uribe retired from the presidency with a 75%+ approval rating, but I digress.

Jaime Bayly traveled to Colombia on Tuesday to interview Capriles (videos in Spanish), which aired on MeagaTV and Capriles.tv last night.

Here’s the first hour.

Part 1,

Part 2,

Part 3,

Part 4,

Bayly will broadcast the second hour tonight on MegaTV, which posts the Bayly programs on YouTube the following morning. I’ll post the YouTubes tomorrow.


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Cuba: Dissidents meet exiles in Miami

Article sent by three friends on how the dissidents that the Communist regime has allowed to travel have been met by their Miami compatriots:
Dissidents Find ‘Cuba Outside Cuba’ in Miami

When Cuban hunger striker Guillermo Farinas arrived in Miami, he said he was prepared to face rejection from radical members of the Cuban-American community who do not believe in pacific opposition.

The reaction has been far different. When he went to the Versailles restaurant, a traditional gathering spot for older exiles in the city’s Little Havana neighborhood, he was embraced. During an event at Miami’s iconic Freedom Tower, he was applauded.

“The love the exiles in Miami have shown us makes us discard what the government, over 54 years, has planted in our minds,” he said.

Read the whole thing.

While you’re at it, if you understand spoken Spanish, listen to Jaime Bayly’s interview with Berta Soler,

Part 1,

Parts 2, 3 with Laura Maria Labrada and Belkis Cantillo (also in the photo above), and 4.


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