For what it’s worth, you may want to know that Mexican street Spanish the word crudo means “hungover”

Estoy muy crudo esta manana.

I am very hungover this morning.

Of course it also means crude as in oil as a noun and raw or harsh as an adjective when you use a Spanish dictionary.

Ain’t languages fun!

Fidel had to postpone his trip by a day. Originally the plan was that he’d parade through Caracas in the popemobile (which Hugo purchased from the Vatican), and that he’d sponsor the graduating class of the Venezuelan armed forces. Because of the uproar (link in Spanish), which included protest demonstrations at the Cuban embassy and graduating cadets resigning their commissions, there was a brief postponement, but Fidel turned up in Venezuela after all.

Trinidad and Tobago weren’t signing. T&T are self-sufficient in oil.

Curiously, apparently there haven’t been any photos released of Hugo & Fidel, both narcissitic egotists who love the media.

I don’t think invading Venezuela would be advisable or even necessary. Hugo’s doing a good enough job of irritating enough people, some of which are up to no good on their own.

What the USA should do is foster free trade with Latin America.

Color me unruffled, save for the common citizen who suffers under a mania such as Hugo’s. Bush is playing it exactly right. Remember, we can squash him virtually at will. So no need to rush. Go ahead, give the jerk all the rope he needs to hang himself. And demonstrate, under controlled conditions, that Marxism isn’t merely a Russian perversion, but rather the most disgusting scourge to ever spring from depths of human darkness.

The silence is deafening.