30258: Morse (comment) Chavez/Haiti analysis (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

oloffsonram@aol.com

I saw a description of the Chavez arrival in Haiti and the writer mentioned 
former president A. however many times, but when I looked at President Chavez' 
remarks he didn't make any mention of the former president. I've also never 
heard Former President Fidel Castro (am I the first to say it????) mention 
former president A. Sooo, if the right isn't supporting him and the left isn't 
supporting him and the center isn't supporting him, I guess that leaves us with 
the Political Action Committee and their spin team.

Its a bit strange that Chavez and Bush seem to have it out for each other and 
yet they both are part of the same OIL INDUSTRY.  When I see Chavez trying to 
sell oil real cheap with the balance to be paid later it makes me think of a 
dealer trying to get some one hooked on drugs. You know, the first couple of 
hits are for free. I'm not saying Haiti doesn't need and appreciate the price 
reduction but ....Isn't Oil a 19th Century technology? We can't do better than 
that? My kids can walk around with a thousand songs on their credit card sized 
ipod. When I was younger I would have needed several trunks to carry a thousand 
songs around. The small computer I'm looking at and typing on right now would 
have been the size of a warehouse fifty years ago.

Lent in Haiti means rara season. The raras in Port-au-Prince don't seem to be 
as big as they were a few years ago....I did run into Jean Raymond's Foula rara 
on Ave Christophe at about 2am a couple of nights ago.

Petionville isn't officially listed as RED ZONE but that, along with upper 
Delmas, is probably where most kidnappings occur...Politics.

Certain parts of Petionville are actually looking like Belair used to look. Has 
anyone seen the state of the Petionville Marche recently??

I believe RAM will be attending a birthday celebration for La Citadelle on 
Thursday April 5. The festival will probably be held at the Sans Souci Palace 
in the town of Milo with a bunch of other bands including Boukman Experience. I 
haven't seen the official schedule yet.
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