Gus In The Real Life

The second President in contemporary history and the second one this year to be infected with the A1H1 flu is not other than Alvaro Uribe Velez, the first one being Oscar Arias from Costa who was away from the power from 7 days before being put in remission after the doctors were convinced he was ok. Now the Colombian President is using videoconference technologies as well his blackberry to control the most important issues as well conversations in the Palacio De Nariño (It’s the equivalent to the White House).

According to the reports the President got infected during his visit to Argentina during the last week and in a press conference of El Palacio De Nariño, the Press Secretary Cesar Mauricio Velasquez gave the news to the country that the President was the newest victim of the highly contagious flu but that he was in good health and was following the doctor orders like any other patient. Get better Alvaro. 

According to statistic, this year fires in L.A. had only been contained only in a 5%, so far 1000 households had been evacuated from the danger zones and according to reports from the L.A. department 3 houses were destroyed last night when the flames tripled their size because of the intense heath. My best wishes to the families and never give up because a house don’t make a family the persons do.

Taken from El Universal:

El documento que el presidente venezolano Hugo Chávez mostró en la cumbre de Unasur y que supuestamente explica que Estados Unidos quiere abarcar el continente desde las bases colombianas es un trabajo académico, declaró este viernes a la AFP una portavoz del Pentágono.

El Libro Blanco del Comando Aéreo de Estados Unidos (Global En Route Strategy), de la Universidad de la Fuerza Aérea estadounidense, es “tan sólo un documento académico” como tantos otros a disposición del ministerio de Defensa, explicó la portavoz, Maureen Schumann, vía telefónica.
Chávez blandió una copia del texto en la cumbre de Unasur convocada para hablar del reciente acuerdo militar entre Estados Unidos y Colombia, por el que Washington podrá utilizar siete bases en territorio del país sudamericano.
“Palanquero es una localidad de seguridad de cooperación. A partir de allí, casi la mitad del continente puede ser abarcado por un (avión de transporte militar pesado) C-17″, citó Chávez, en referencia a una de las bases.
El presidente colombiano Alvaro Uribe defendió por su lado el acuerdo, aún pendiente de ser firmado, al señalar que su país “no cede ni un milímetro de soberanía”, puesto que las bases permanecen bajo autoridad nacional.
El Libro Blanco, del que la AFP obtuvo una copia, señala también que hay otras bases donde la Fuerza Aérea estadounidense puede repostar.
Los aeropuertos San Juan de Puerto Rico y las Islas Vírgenes (bajo juridiscción estadounidense) “disponen de infraestructuras de la Guardia Nacional Aérea”, explica el texto.
El Comando Sur “ha considerado igualmente acceder al aeropuerto de Recife, en Brasil” para que los aviones de carga militares C-17, de gran capacidad, puedan repostar, señala el informe.
“Sin embargo, la relación política con Brasil no es propicia para los acuerdos necesarios”, reconoce el texto. Por ello, los autores del texto recomiendan al Comando Sur que continúe con sus esfuerzos para lograr acceso a un campo de aterrizaje en Cayena, en la Guayana Francesa.

Como una forma de protestar por las continuas agresiones verbales del presidente venezolano, Hugo Chávez, hacia Colombia, un grupo de organi-zaciones civiles está convocando a una marcha mundial en su contra para el próximo 4 de septiembre.

La movilización es promovida a través de diversas redes sociales, tal como Facebook y Twitter. Hasta el momento sus organizadores calculan que en Colombia cuentan con el apoyo de cerca de 100 mil personas. “La respuesta a la convocatoria ha sido inesperada.

Hasta el momento en Facebook tenemos más o menos 70 mil personas; en la página oficial calculamos otras 30 mil y en Twitter hemos tenido una respuesta desbordante”, explicó Marcela Garzón, una de las organizadoras del evento.

Thank you for being My Friend

Thank you for being my friend
for being in those moments
I needed someone to speak with,
there were times were everyone needed a friend
I can say thank you for being my friend,
traveling with me by those hard roads,
you know how to make people smile
and you know how to cheer up your friends,
thank you for being my friend,
even if sometimes I get mad at you,
thank you for be in every party,
thank you for being in those moments,
thank you for being my friend.

Being born outside of the United States and living in a third world country like Colombia has given me a different perspective of the world because I can see how different and varied is the world compared to the bubble I lived in for almost 2 decades called Cartagena de Indias. Cartagena for short is one of the emblematic cities of Colombia and as well one that shows two different sides much like A Tale of Two Cities from Charles Dickens and Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables because in the city there are two different panorama’s from the neighborhoods that are on the seaside peninsula where the old city it’s located and the commoners that live away from the ocean side.

Maybe it was an odd example to cite down Charles Dickens work but probably it was more appropriate because there are sprouts of revolution coming from the oppressed masses to search for a more equality living but also there are some in-conformity toward the dominant class because they have to pay more for basic service than the middle class and they say that is not fair that they have to pay more because they living in a more privileged location; so what to do to solve the problem? If at the end neither of the parties are happy with the way they live and specially if everyone is searching for equality how equality can be found? If living in the city in general its expensive because people earn in Pesos and they spent like if they were spending Dollars or Euros and acquiring a decent job that can give you a decent living is really difficult because you have to earn at least US$50.000 a year to live modestly and without worries and even so it’s not enough because jobs are scarce and there is inequality.

Check the photos below, they are part of a phenomenon called “rebusque” (Eng:  To search for) where a person search for a different kind of job to survive in the jungle and most of the time the jobs they find are illegal and don’t follow any sanitation rule but what can they do? They need to survive and bring food to the table.

A.F.P.
Caracas, Venezuela,

According to the grand delusional, loon and President for Life of Venezuela Hugo Chavez; United States President Barack Obama “It’s lost in a labyrinth” who said that an imminent attack against Venezuela is being commanded by the United States of America and even went further to say “that a armed answer will be held by several countries against the United States”.

“An aggression against Venezuela will receive not only from Venezuela but rather several countries will go on war (really Chavez? your so called friends?) I have it clear that a huge anti imperialistic movement will rise from these lands and God help us” Stated firmly the commandant in his really long television show (really it’s long about 8 hours and more a day it practically takes all Sunday) Alo Presidente. “But we have to prepare for the worse and one of the best ways to prevent it that it will a fatal mistake to bully Venezuela (common Chavez with what army? You have the entire arsenal that the Russians don’t want anymore)” and even so he said that an “escalate aggression is coming”.

This man is going more insane with every year, is amazing to think that a loon like Hugo Chavez has followers, well followers that follow him because he have money and as soon the money ran out he better beware but maybe these words are only a diversion to prevent a coup d’etat between his inner circle because money is running out. Crazy isn’t?

Friend V.02
By: Gus Lequerica
A friend is a brother in arms,
he’s always there for battle
and always there for the moments of tears,
in battle in the field
or doing nothing on any day of summer,
a friend is always there
no matter what it happens,
as you are going to be there for him or her as well.

This is only a small tour to the city that I was born. These photos were taken in the year 2006 by me and well enjoy .

Summertime
there are memories who live forever,
no moment to waste
cause life’s too short to regret about it,
enjoy the days of summer
until the very end
with you and you baby,
say no more
about what is going to be tomorrow,
live
like there’s no morning,
and don’t care about what your dad or mom
are going to say about it,
and just fly to the sky
before noon comes aboard,
summertime
there are memories who live forever…