"All is well! ALLLLL ISSSS WELLLLLLLLLL!!!!!"
Posted on 05/30/2005 4:26:56 PM PDT by baystaterebel
Caracas, May 30 (Prensa Latina) Venezuela´s Communication and Information Minister Andres Izarra assured Monday normality is reigning in the country and President Hugo is perfectly well and working on his agenda.
In telephone statements for Globovision, Izarra denied rumors questioning Chavez´ health after not attending a march in Caracas Saturday, and suspending his habitual Sunday program Alo Presidente.
Izarra said that once informed of the situation, the president asked him to contact those in Miraflores and say he was fine.
Chavez is "simply spending time with his family, as is the right of any human being. Nothing out of the ordinary is happening," the minister stated, noting those rumors probably came from sectors interested in destabilizing the population.
How very curious.
Let me come right out and say it: I hope he is in heaven now. Or where ever!
Ah.. Baghdad Bob... how I miss him.
“Chavez sick or dead?”
I’ll hope for the latter.
Shades of Arafart from last November.
I wonder whatever happened to him?
Believe it or not, yesterday they said he was attending a volleyball tournament!
Now he's "spending time with his family." Hopefully, with the ones in the family crypt.
Chavez sleeps with the fishes? Too bad he didn't take Mugabe [spit] with him.
Actually, I have it from a very good source that he died from stupidity.
Too good to be true?
Definitely an assignment for the D.C. Park Police.
LOL like what's in the parenthesis!
Everything is fine. El Presidente is in the palace right now working on his agenda. There is no hearse behind me.
"All is well! ALLLLL ISSSS WELLLLLLLLLL!!!!!"
This may just be something out of Basic Dictatorship 101. They often stage mysterious disappearances for a few days or a week to encourage the discontented to foolishly act out. Once they show their hand, it is easy for the dictator to pop back in and eliminate them. It is popular way to manage dissenting opinion when you are a murderous scoundrel.
Free Venezuela bump.
Good point. He's done this before, IIRC - there is some suspicion that the 2002 attempt to overturn him had basically been orchestrated by him to root out his enemies.
He's probably off visiting some fellow dictator somewhere - Cuba, NK, Iran, take your pick.
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