Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Fireworks Possible
Later this month, a conference called the International Meeting on Democracy and Freedom will convene in Caracas. Among the participants will be former Bolivian President Jorge Quiroga (an adversary of Evo Morales), former Mexican Foreign Secretary Jorge Castañeda, and Chávez critic Mario Vargas Llosa.
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Grab the popcorn! Though one of these is not like the others. Castaneda and MVL, agree with their politics or not, have bona fide intellectual chops. Quiroga is a total mediocrity who did little in his (inherited) time in office in Bolivia and has handled his leadership of the PODEMOS party so poorly that the center of the opposition shifted completely from the PODEMOS congressional delegation to the regional prefects and their CONALDE grouping. Quiroga and Jose Maria Aznar are the two most irritating "democratic thinkers" that always get invited to these sorts of solidarity-against-the-populists soirees. Que los dos se callen.
Fair point. A presidency on the resumé often takes the place of having something valuable to say. And yeah shouldn't Aznar be there?
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