I hope heart attack in this case means a silver bullet ripping through his rotten heart.

You know? I just did NOT think that El PUTUMAYO was going to get away with a CastroLike 46 year tenure.
He is most likely totally fine, but I am betting that he has recived VERY stern warnings from washigton to stop the bullshit , grab 100 mill go hide someplace and CUT THE BULLSHIT! You just dont go on Venezuelan TV and predict "Latin America WILL burn" if you do not deport Posadas" and expect that will not have SOME consequences.

Not with a Republican in the White House.!

My dictionary does not have El Putumayo in it - what does it mean? All I know is it's a village in Colombia and a record label. What does it mean?

WOW... this is strange. I've been checking some sources, and nothing certain seems to come up. Also, keep an eye on granma.cu. If something did happen, that'll be the place where the US will start getting blaimed.

Good idea, Songquacassal - I linked Granma under 'bad as it is.'

Chávez to speak from his balcony "en breve", the Nacional reports

He darn well better. Maybe the hangover wore off?

Bigger dosis next time, please... I guess Fidel must bbe shitting his pants.

Not his pants anymore, Eleggua, his Depend diapers...

Mora,
Putumayo: one Indian from the Putumayo tribe of Venezuela and Colombia, in those countries, it's a disparaging term to refer to someone that is not white or black, one of mixed ancestry that includes Indian. Also, zambo or sambo.
In Colombia the most disparaging term that they use for someone like el Mico Chavez is manteco, or ball of pork lard. That sounds good to me!
I hope he has kicked the bucket. If not, that the situation is so bad that he has to leave, forcefully to Cuba. Or that the undercover agents of the States had made him an offer he cannot refuse!

If el Mico Putumayo chickened out, that's good news, because it sweeps cagastro's morale under the carpet. If he is dead, can be used as another iconic hero, but since he looks like more as Noriega than che huevara, the sell is a little bit tougher...

Thanks, CB! Do they call Chavez 'manteco' because he's fat? Or because he's of indeterminate race? I am sure it's because he's fat - the Venezolanos have a good time making fun of his growing size - but tell me!

Just received a phone call from Caracas... rumors about a coup are indeed flying

No, because they eat greasy foods whose lards drips disgustingly from their lips when their are totally drunk and wasted. And of course, because with his newly "acquired riches" he becomes fatter, just like a pig in the corral!

Eeeew! Thanks CB!

Thanks Eleqqua!

The guy I talked to will try to get to Miraflores... antichavista of course

Excellent - thanks, Eleggua!

The Venezuelan bloggers are all silent - I think they are at Miraflores.

Not a military coup, more of an assassination attempt... I get another call very soon

Lina Ron, leader of the chavista crowd, "was allowed to enter Miraflores and speak to Chavez by phone".

Hmmmm

Assassination attempt is what fidel's "press" is reporting.

No military in the streets

Let us hope that he'll have another one.. I am waiting for the day when Castro has one that leads it directly to the tomb.

That would explain the Cuban press reports. But if assassination attempt, who would do it?

It may be a faked attempt to check who's on your side. Doesn't look like a coup.

OK, he did appear in public again the Nacional reports:

El jefe de Estado presidió el resumen de la sesión del Consejo de Ministros número 428 desde el Palacio de Miraflores.

"De verdad les hago falta, incluso a la oposición", señaló el primer mandatario al referirse a la ola de especulaciones que circularon en torno a su paradero.

Maybe he did the filmed appearance with two generals pointing pistols at him from the camera end if he didn't speak just right. This isn't the end of story.

Who knows, it's not the promised balcony speech yet

The Universal finally chimes in:

.- El presidente de la República, Hugo Chávez, explicó hoy en Consejo de Ministros, transmitido en vivo por el canal del estado, el motivo de su ausencia de 24 horas, que provocó toda clase de hipótesis.

El primer mandatario nacional dijo que luego de ver el juego de voleibol Venezuela-Brasil, ayer domingo 29, decidió viajar a Barquisimeto para visitar a su hija menor de siete años, Rosainés Chávez.

"No ha pasado nada, absolutamente nada" expresó el presidente Chávez. Aproveché que no hubo !Aló presidente! y me fue a ver a la niña", dijo.

Explicó que la razón de la suspensión del programa dominical !Aló presidente! fue el juego Venezuela-Brasil de la liga mundial de voleibol, que se realizó en el Poliedro de Caracas.

Well, Chávez dessapeared so he have not to explain why Venezuela haven't yet break diplomatic relationships with USA. Did you remember when Chávez said: "If Posada Carriles is not send to Venezuela we'll break with the Empire, bla, bla ,bla."?

USA didn't send Posada to Venezuela and Chávez had to ate his words and be quiet.

Actually PUTUMAYO was an insulting epithet to anyone who barely had native Indian (Central/ South American or Caribbean Indian) features.
Castro does call (in private) Chavez "El Indio Putumayo, he used to call Batista the same. Since the original tribe PUTUMAYO was not indigenous of the Caribbean I do not know how it came to be a disparaging sobriquet in Cuba, but I have heard it all my life. In fact I had a step ant we kids called her “La India putumaya” although her heritage was 100 % Taino.

As is "disappearance”, sounds DAMN peculiar he just "took the day off, visit the kid" more likely he was having some lessons in backpedaling 101 from EL SUMO HIJO DE PUTA himself or he has gotten some official “DONT FUCK WITH US”, USA message , and has been preparing some tactical plan to explain why he is NOT breaking relations with the USA. As far as “I went to see my kid” yeah sure and donkey shit and camel’s milk make a very nutritious mid day snack.

This article:

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-venezuela-chavez,0,6825517.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

says he appeared on national TV recently. They expressed no skepticism of the reality of it. But you have to wonder. Does he have doubles, for instance? I don't know.

But i am leaning toward him really being alive.

Wanna see GREAT doubles ?
check this
http://www.killcastro.com/CastroyDoble.htm
Now, I did the analyzes sent it to CNN ( they actually capture the double on camera and never heard from them.

hmmm... So Hugo skips all his normal public activities and he doesn't notify the public. Rumors of death and military coup circulate, while their press speak of death threats from former opposition groups.

Here's my theory:
Chavez, paranoid by his position of power, purposely holds back from daily activity and public appearance, in order to see who reacts to the possible death rumor. The counter revolutionary suspects are spotted and counted. The media is then given information about an assassination attempt, refering to these suspect groups.

Now, if I'm right, the next move will be to announce names with evidence of the assassains plans. Then arrests will be made, and el indio putumayo (or maybe instead: mayor puto) gets to remain in power that little bit longer.

This is all I could find.

Speaking on radio station Radio Nacional de Venezuela, Venezuelan Communication and Information Minister Andrés Izarra said that everything is fine and that Chavez was "spending time with his family, as every human being has a right to do."

”There is nothing abnormal going on here,” said Izarra. Chávez turned over his airtime to allow the broadcast of a volleyball game between Venezuela and Brazil, citing international commitments.

"I would not be surprised if these rumors came from factors interested in destabilizing and generating unrest in the country,” explained Izarra.

What crap.

In plain Spanish, hacerse el muerto a ver que entierro le hacen, or in English, play 'possum to see what's everybody up to. That's what el Mico Putumayo did, he gave it a try... dissapearing to create some incertitude and movements in the opposition and therefore to be able to ID everyone of his opponents to be able to punish them at anytime. That's one of the first pages of the cagastrist "Manual of the Communist Dictator".

I hear you CB! And I have a feeking he'll probably make the arrest soon and connect them to the US Posada melodrama.

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chavez has won three democratic elections...
the poor people want him.
no more coups people.. please..
let the government get on with its buisness. reform venezuela. the poor people deserve a voice. your corrupt oligarchs drove the country into the ground.