Something creepy in Caracas...

Actually, it's two creepy things.

First, to complement their skeleton protest that we noted here, Venezuelan young people have now launched a pumpkin protest, leaving dozens of pumpkins all around Caracas, to protest Hugo Chavez.

Just in case you don't associate the Venezuelan thug, brainwise, with grocery produce, the Veneuzelan students have left with photos of the ultimate pumpkin-head, Hugo Chavez, taped onto them. Global Voices has found a new blog, by Bugs, which has a picture of the weird pumpkins posted here.

The chavistas are livid - and given how badly they punished the kids they say did the skeleton protest, it's pretty dangerous for them to do it. The story is here.

Now, for the second item, let's get into the reaaaaaalllly creepy, castro-creepy, that's where it truly gets creepy, story.

Over on our friend Miguel Octavio's site, they've done some digging into the identity of Hugo Chavez's new spokesman, a guy named Yuri Pimentel. Nobody knows who he is or where he blew in from.

But they've found that his cedula number, (that's what they use for a Social Security number in Venezuela) should be that of some guy who's 15 years old. What it probably means is that he's not been a Venezuelan citizen for all that long.

So who is he? A marvellous Norwegian blogger named Stig Hess did a little additional digging and found an old ad in an English newspaper. It was from the Pimentel family of London, seeking a long-lost family member named Yuri Pimentel (it had the whole long Spanish-constructed name, so I am sure it was him.) Stig also found that Yuri had attended a certain school in Venezuela in the early 1990s but never graduated.

Almost everyone on Miguel's board believes that ol' Yuri (lots of castroite Cubans named their kids after Soviets in the old days) is probably a Cuban national. He's not normal in any way and he discloses nothing about his past.

If this is true, Hugo Chavez is literally turning his home country over to castro's thugs to run for him. And own. The federation of Venezuela and Cuba, at the highest levels of government, is astonishingly deep. castro's Houseboy, Hugo Chavez, is giving the Monster at our Gate a whole new country to run. I don't think this has ever happened in history. It's really pretty creepy.

See that interesting reader thread here.

UPDATE: Miguel has EVEN MORE new stories about this growing federation between castro's Cuba and Chavez's Venezuela here.

Posted by Mora at October 25, 2005 04:16 PM

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