Of dropeth shoes and rats out of ships: et tu Hugo Carvajal?

Well, looks like the "apontiada^2", famous epic poem on corruption and abuse of power is just starting.  Through a tweeeet, representative Ismael Garcia tells us that not only a second high court Judge has left the country (should we start using words such as defected?), but a famous drug trafficker suspect has just left.  Seeking the witness protection program?  Since it is a mere tweet we shall wait more until commenting on Marco Tulio Dugarte defection and even more, Carvajal escape..... Yet Globovision feels confident enough to put it on its website page. See you later.

Update 1: good thing I have a limited trust in tweets: Dugarte is reported to be in Venezuela by El Universal. Ooooh...   This is going to be so much fun to watch! Garcia lied? Was he hacked? Dugarte missed his flight?

Update 2: Is it egg face time for Ismael?  I have added the links corresponding, one with the announcement of the "defection" which now includes the tweet of Ismael (Globo ain't going down alone on that one) and the rebuttal.  Other papers fell for the story.  A lot of people are going to be really piss off at Ismael if he does not come out clear with his reasons.....

Just a comment: I read the CV of Dugarte and to tell you the truth there is no way he has the credentials to be sitting in the high court of a country.  Then again he was at CASA when that one started doing "deals" in the early years of Chavez.  Surely that counts for something......  And he and his wife did try to make good, the wife even ending in in jail for a while, unusual for chavistas.

An interesting detail: this rather small town lackluster judge (he seems to have specialized in dead beats) has a brother currently seating in the National Assembly PSUV bench.  A family that knew where to place its bets.  Well, a few yeas ago anyway.  I feel so much better......  and note that the representative Dugarte has been as discrete as his judge brother these years: nothing much to notice him or commend them for.  At least his wife did not go to jail that I know of at this writing.

The S.O. was drafted to the chavista May 1 march

The old US of A embassy, now the tourism ministry 

 As a public employee he had no choice but to show up for at least an hour.  Before he found a was to sneak out he managed to take a few pictures and there you have some for your enjoyment.  By the way, the regime did pull all the stops and plugs and it was one of the best rallies it made in months.  Then again chavismo only marched in Caracas while the opposition workers did dare to do a few rallies outside of Caracas.

General comments: you will notice how red is the whole thing and how often they try to compensate for the absence of Chavez.

Thanking Chavez for a bonus, and a lousy translation at the bottom

These are the acronyms for a series of bolibana trade unions........

Of course, the "indigenous army workers" were drafted and they support the LOT, "new" labor law, even if unpublished and thus unread at the time of this picture......

There is even a socialist middle class representation (I suppose those like my S.O. that had no choice but to attend)

This one grates me because "cultores" is a new word for those that make culture like you make sausage....  Besides the Uh! Ah! I have yet to see anything of enduring cultural value created by bolibananarism....

Apparently some think that the LOT is a punch against Capriles.  Red fisted, of course.

Inflatable dolls of Chavez.  For the same objective?  they are getting screwed and yet they do not know it.

Of course, some Polar workers had to be highlighted.  Mercenaries everywhere.  I wonder what would happen to PDVSA worker joining the other march held elsewhere in Caracas......

And a good party at the end, with yet more smiling Chavez.