La novia del pueblo is not getting married...

Do you know what is a novia de pueblo? A novia de pueblo is usually a XIX century small town girl character, who wants to get married. She finally gets engaged, everybody knows about it and she brags about her boyfriend to the point her girlfriends, another novias de pueblo wannabes, can't stand the girlfriend attitude... Sometimes, the novia de pueblo gets engaged with a señorito from another city, maybe a bigger city... and sometimes these novias find out at the altar on her wedding day that the "señorito" never had intentions to marry her, that he is not coming and that he got "engaged" only to sleep with her. So there she stays all alone, with her white dress and her face full of makeup at the altar under the scrutiny and the criticism of the people of her small town. After a few weeks, she finds out that el novio got married with another girl from the pueblo, one of those wannabes novias, this one, not as flamboyant but equally pretty, with more modesty and better attitude... So, the life of the novia the pueblo who got stood at the altar after the "incident" becomes very sour, people talk about her and she becomes very bitter and resented of everybody and everything. Then, she gets old, with no life and a big repertoire of hatred for man, specially that man. A lot of stories and fantasies about "that" man and "that" girl who got married with him... and the people of the town listen to her everyday bitter parroting about el señorito at first with some compassion, but after a short time with resigned boredom.

Well... I think we are having a XXI century socialism "novia the pueblo" moment in here. The attitude of Hugo Chavez towards his homologue Pres. Bush of USA can perfectly come from any Latin America "realismo mágico" novel from mid XX century, usually there always was a character in those novels who resemble the novia de pueblo's sad attitude.

Let's recap the episodes of the Latin American political version of this soap opera. The object of desire is Georgie, he is the type of character that honks the girlfriend outside her home, instead of parking the car and get inside to the house of the girl to meet the parents for an informal chit-chat before going out. He also doesn't open the door to any girl of the block. But the guy is charming, and all the girls like him, he knows he has game going on. One of the girls of the block had fantasies to go out with him, he invited her once but she ruined her chance, this is Hugo Chavez. Then, when Georgie finally decides to go to the prom, he pick another girl, only to infuriate the girl who wanted to go out with him but never got invited.



Just look at the news, while Georgie and Lula have their prom picture taken and having a great time, the loca suelta is rallying the girlfriends from the 'hood to her bashing-Georgie-girls-night-out fest, only to find that nobody is going and she has to bash all alone, with the little brother and friends (Hebe De Bonafini and the other madres) when she has to take them to the movies all by herself. How boring, Hugo.

And, not only that, every time she cans, she takes on the guy Georgie, like here , here or here.

Better stay sober and shut up and take the no invitation with dignity, Hugo. I am telling you, I know that crazy people eats s***, but this is painful to watch. The president of my country doing this. I think he really missed his real career path because he clearly is a showman, like Andres Oppenheimer pointed out in his latest article. I don't agree with Oppenheimer though, if I were Bush, I would totally ignore lunatic Hugo.

Un poco mas de compostura, caballero! Que caballero ni que ocho cuartos? Que papelón brother!!

Connecting the recent dots...

1) "Elsewhere, Venezuela has revealed how it deals with countries with governments that speak critically of Mr. Chávez. Venezuela shut an aluminum plant in Costa Rica with 400 employees last week after Óscar Arias, Costa Rica’s president, criticized Mr. Chávez’s recently acquired power to govern by decree."

2) "Venezuela’s arms spending has climbed to more than $4 billion in the past two years, transforming the nation into Latin America’s largest weapons buyer and placing it ahead of other major purchasers in international arms markets like Pakistan and Iran."

Chavez is starting to resemble too much to a mentally sick person who hear voices everywhere armed with a weapon ready to shot whatever that moves, because inside his sick little brain it's ALL about him. You see, If Bush wants to meet with Lula, Chavez thinks this meeting it's all about him. If Bush wants to decrease America's oil consumption, then Chavez thinks is a plot to kill him, if somebody farts in Caracas, he thinks that was dedicated to him too.

See, if you are following the news recently, his eternal one sided fight with Pres. Bush, the way he attacked this poor Brazilian journalist, the way he is enforcing his personal vendetta with Marcel Granier and Laureano Marquez... now Oscar Arias and the people of Costa Rica are his newest recent victims... and then let's talk about the weapons buy... he is loading himself with guns like crazy... you can understand where this is going. He will come into the donut shop at noon time loaded with a shotgun and start killing everybody in the name of his social justice or whatever he says at the moment.

I mean, I am starting to feel really sorry for the people who really believe in him or the people that for x, y or z, have to deal with this guy on a daily basis. I mean, it's their fault, but still...

On top of this paranoia, Chavez can't separate the country with himself. Neither he can't separate the treasury and oil that belongs to the country as it is his personal property. Hello??

Now, read this cherry on the top:

"Chavez said he respected the decision by other Latin American nations to "receive this little gentleman," but in Venezuela, "we will never receive him. Never. Because we know what he is. This is nothing personal."

WTF? Nothing personal? He sounds much more like a resentful bride who has been left out all alone at the altar. Wasn't he invited to the prom but he "respects" the girlfriend who was invited by the object of his affection? Sorry but this is too much! I think it was the Bush administration that did close the door of meeting with Chavismo and trow the key many years ago. I praise them for having been very clear into separating the country Venezuela, with the madness of this idiot. What's the point of such painful declaration? I starting to feel sorry for Hugo Chavez now. Geez! C'mon man! Have some dignity at least!