tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563811638411839784.post8708423737868291385..comments2023-05-15T07:11:30.874+02:00Comments on Leherensuge: Haití kidnapped (again)Majuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563811638411839784.post-33922955647668345842010-02-11T11:26:03.689+01:002010-02-11T11:26:03.689+01:00Ok, here there is an article on the issue of Great...Ok, here there is <a href="http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=100222" rel="nofollow">an article</a> on the issue of Great Colombia and Haití.<br /><br />It seems it was Santander and other conservative caciques (Gual) who, along with the USA, opposed the recognition of Haití and, in fact, the abolition of slavery.Majuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563811638411839784.post-33813016244515296112010-02-06T16:36:09.452+01:002010-02-06T16:36:09.452+01:00I can't tell for sure, Kepler. But it was at l...I can't tell for sure, Kepler. But it was at least a quite unbelievable coincidence that the US armed forces were precisely preparing an invasion of Haití on humanitarian grounds when the earthquake happened. <br /><br />Nobody says that it could not be natural. But there has been not one of any magnitude in all that area since the tsunami of 1666 that destroyed Port Royal.<br /><br />And maybe you're right about Bolívar. In truth I have always thought of him as a honest trustworthy person... but you never know. He sent his sword (a merely symbolic gesture) but apparently did not recognize the republic. Not sure why.Majuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563811638411839784.post-23983062682174637292010-02-06T13:41:04.778+01:002010-02-06T13:41:04.778+01:00Por favor!
Provoked earthquake? I have read the V...Por favor!<br /><br />Provoked earthquake? I have read the VIVE crap, I then read the Russian news: Russian authorities denied it, the origin was an obscure and very ridiculous Russian conspiracy site that is taking its data from another obscure US site.<br /><br />Yes, the Soviets and US Americans made experiments on this(there is this EU resolution of 1999 about those things, I forgot the number), but the Haiti earthquake was not such a thing. There were two very concrete studies by sysmologists (not communist propaganda workers) years earlier saying a major earthquake was to be expected very soon (as they have said about San Andreas and Japan). <br /><br />The latest report was from 2008, I think. <br /><br />Venezuela is also a country with quite some tectonic activity. I have experienced several big and lots of minor earthquakes at home. They cannot be predicted accurately but there are clear patterns and we have seen that over and over again. We have been having earthquakes in all the major plaques in the world in January, most people were just not paying attention. Venezuela has had minor earthquakes recently, some over6 (by the way, the minister of Desinformation denied we could have another >6r earthquake in 500 years, the chuzpah...soon after that one just below that stroke)<br /><br />Alexander von Humboldt described very well the earthquakes he experienced in cumana and then the one that happened after he left Venezuela in the capital and some other regions: massive destruction, half the population in the affected cities died or were wounded.<br /><br />One of the differences has been that since <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terremoto_de_Caracas_de_1967" rel="nofollow">1967</a> there have been very stringent construction policies (one of the few things that are stringent in Venezuela). My sister is a civil engineer and she has explained me the details. <br /><br />I have been in Venezuelan buildings during earthquakes. Once I was in one on the 13rd floor when the earthquake stroke and I had the impressio the whole building was gelatine, it moved a lot back and forth but it stood (that was the purpose). Still, as my sister said, the problem is that more and more slums have appeared and buildings are insecure there and more illegal buildings. So if a major earthquake hits an urban centre now in Venezuela we may have quite some dead. Still, the buildings are in general way better than in Haiti (normal, more money).<br /><br />May the US be interested in Haiti? Probably. But this about provoking an earthquake there is over the top. <br /><br />As for Bolivar: I don't adore the guy (unlike most of Venezuelans), but I do have the impression (not sure) he did recognise Haiti. The problem was that all those around him undermined his orders.<br />Bolivar asked the government of Haiti to go to the congress of Panama, but his workers simply did not send his letters, there was still a widespread resistence.<br /><br />The abolition of slavery was not complete during Bolivar's lifetime, even though he did his best, as can be read from his letters and other records and his 1816 degree. Very few among his generals paid attention. It was only in 1854 when slavery got abolished, rather because it was not profitable for terratenientes to guarantee all the food, etc. Little changed. People could go away, but few did: they had no land.Keplerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11125538872924743270noreply@blogger.com