Conversations… and misinterpretations

Over the last couple of weeks, reports have been circulating that US President Donald Trump had made a telephone call to Mad Maduro. This, of course, had been after months during which the Donald had been building a vast armada in the Caribbean Sea, blowing narco-boats out of the water, declaring the madman as head of a narco-smuggling cartel, doubling the bounty on his head to FIFTY MILLION US DOLLARS, revealing that CIA operatives were conducting covert operations in Venezuela and finally that he was about to launch military operations on Venezuelan soil to remove him.
Well, we finally heard from Mad Maduro himself on the call!! Rather amazingly, he says the telephone conversation was conducted in a “respectful and cordial manner”!! Your Eyewitness has just picked himself off the floor – where he’d fallen after reading that claim!! – and has had his jaw wired since it had also dropped open and refused to close!! Your Eyewitness is trying to wrap his head around the notion of President Trump conducting a conversation with Mad Maduro in a “respectful and cordial manner!! His mind is still boggling!!
Was Mad Maduro referring to the same US President who’s not only insulted and dismissed heads of what he calls “shithole countries” of the third world but also some of his erstwhile allies in Europe?! Remember the treatment of Zelensky – President of Ukraine – when the latter came calling at the White House?? Wasn’t different from the five African leaders sitting in front of him in the Oval Office whom he asked to state their names and which countries they were from!! But he WAS complimentary to Liberia’s president for speaking English – that country’s official language!!
Your Eyewitness thinks it’s most likely Mad Maduro didn’t really understand what President Trump was saying since the latter only speaks English (beautifully!!) and the former is stuck with Spanish!! From what we know to be Trump’s style, he most likely started out with, “What the hell, Maduro??” Which Mad Maduro took to mean, “Hello Maduro”!! And then followed up with, “I’m giving you a week to pack your bags and leave the country.” Which Mad Maduro must’ve taken as an invitation for him to take a vacation – since he asked whether he could take his wife and those of his closest insiders with him!!
President Trump’s assurance that he’d be housed at Miami’s Federal Correctional Institution – like Panamanian dictator Noriega after his conviction for drug trafficking – clearly was misinterpreted by Mad Maduro, who couldn’t get past the word “housed”!!
Anyhow, we hope Mad Maduro ain’t too shocked when those Navy Seals show us Miraflores Palace with bangles (handcuffs) and (orange) jumpsuits already fitted for him.
They won’t be so “respectful and cordial”!!

…on Doggies
Back in the day, there was a popular song by Patti Page with the refrain, “How much is that doggie in the window?/ The one with the waggly tail/ How much is that doggie in the window?/ I do hope that doggie’s for sale!” Well, in Guyana we have our very own Doggie – who wasn’t just in no window but was seen and caught on video in the middle of the biggest Square of the Revolution – not just wagging his tail but brandishing a gun and pistol-whipping a young lady who’d demanded her payment for showing up at a Sanction Man’s WIN Rally!!
We’re told that since the assaulted young lady hadn’t shown up in court – and the police could find no expert to verify a gun was brandished from the video – all that’s left is “disorderly behaviour”!! If we needed any further proof of the screwed-up police prosecutorial system – look no further!!
How much did it cost for that doggie walking free?? Ask Sanction Man!!

…on Disabilities
Guyana hasn’t been a place that’s kind to folks with disabilities. Look at how we mock people who just stammer?? Thankfully, we’re slowly understanding it’s our society that suffers an impairment for displaying such lowdown behaviour.