The Monterrey mayor did not authorize a large scale demonstration against Chavez today. Nevertheless a small group of Venezuelans and Hondurans braved the rain to meet in front of the Colombian consulate to show their rejection of Hugo Chavez.

Sadly our group leader never answered our emails and failed to show up today. Nevertheless we took pictures, signed collected emails and chatted a while. I’ll be editing a video later today.

I’m marching today at the international anti-Chávez demonstrations. Look up your city at nomaschavez.org, and join us. If it were not for Chávez, Zelaya would still be president, curiously. It was his rhetoric the provoked the opposition to do what they did. When it was happening I though Chávez was doing it on purpose with Zelaya to provoke a self-coup.

If it were not for Chávez, Obama would have been more successful in forging friendship with Latin America. If it were not for Chávez, Fidel and Ahmadinejad would be friendless. If it were not for Chávez, there would be freedom of speech in Venezuela. El Salvador and Nicaragua would not have former guerilla organizations, the FMLN and the Sandinistas ruling them.

So I’m marching against him.

I doubt there will be many people in Monterrey’s march, especially since there has been a lot of rain lately. But I’m marching anyway.

The way forward is clear. Hondurans need to tighten their belts and vote en masse. Once the election is over, I doubt the US will make another Taiwan out of us. But if it does, so be it.

The alternative, would be a socialist Honduras. If this occurs, I’d probably renounce my Honduran citizenship and become a Mexican. I wouldn’t seek, I think, to immigrate to the US, I’d probably never get over the anger enough to recite the pledge of allegiance with a clear conscience.