A downpour of votes has turned over the reigns of power in Spain to the Center-Right Partido Popular. After more than 7 years of Obama-like progressive programs the leftist Socialist Workers Party has been given the boot! Mariano Rajoy, on his third try obtained the absolute majority with 186 seats in the parliament to go with an ample majority on the senate.The socialists dropped to 110 seats, but all was not good news. The radical communist party(IU) went from 2 to 11 seats which is a new high for them.With 20.5% unemployment up from 8% in 2007 and the debt almost tripled in 4 years, Señor Rajoy has his work cut out for him.One thing for sure,for the United States it will be a pleasure to have the pro-US Rajoy replace the anti-american José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. Let us all wish  the good Dr. Rajoy Godspeed in his endeavor to save Spain from the socialist thrombosis his country suffers from.

Maybe this should have the title : “RUN RUDY RUN”.

In November 2010 the election for the last two years of Hillary Clinton´s senate term was won by the appointee,Kristen Gillibrand, a typical liberal political hack. She bested the underfunded Joe Dioguardi by more than 27 points. At first glance the Republican party should not waste their money to go after the seat in 2012, but after further review, as they say in the NFL, this judgment could be overturned. Gillibrand won while there was a totally flawed Republican candidate for governor running against the popular Andrew Cuomo. Also Chucky Schumer was running for reelection to the other senate seat against an unknown. In 2012 if Rudy goes for the seat, he will be running while Obumbler´s favorability rating may well be in the 30´s: even in New York. In order to reach the magic number of 60 GOP senators , the Republican party has to pick off Gillibrand,Stabenow and Casey or they have no chance. The answer in New York obviously is Rudy Giuliani. He would flip the seat.  If it becomes number 60  , Harry Reid´s wrecking crew  would be non existant.

At this moment with 92% of the votes counted, there is a margin of 2.5% for Hugo Chávez clone Ollanta Humala over center-right candidate Keiko Fujimori for the Peruvian presidency.

Three factors contributed heavily to this result: 1.The intervention of nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa into the picture by endorsing and working  for Humala. Everything that Humala stands for is against the stated political principles of Vargas Llosa who has always opposed the policies of Hugo Chávez. In this case,for his hatred of the Fujimori family and to avenge his loss to Keiko´s father in the 1990 elections, this stiff-necked popinjay has resulted more like a nobel prize winner in political illiteracy than one in literature.Even a personal phone call from Obama would probably have not convinced Vargas Llosa to stay out of the fray.Factor 2: After declaring a pox on both their houses, defeated presidencial candidate and former president Alejandro Toledo jumped into the race in favor of Humala at a very strategic moment. In this instance an Obama or Clinton phone call would have convinced him to stay out of it. The damage by Vargas Llosa´s white washing of Humala was great, but Toledo´s ,which could have been avoided by pressure coming from his friend,Hilary was definitive. Toledo had a political party intact(Perú Posible) from the first round of voting with an organization which delivered him more than 15% of the vote and the third largest congressional delegation.All of this went to work for Humala.3rd: The tremendous flow of money ,introduced into the coffers of Humala by Hugo Chávez enabled him to outspend Keiko by at least 4 to 1. This was known to the CIA and  neither was denounced ,nor competing funds distributed to the pro-USA Keiko Fujimori.Three days before the election it took Roger Noriega,ex assistant secretary of state in the Bush administration , and long out of govertnment to publish the news that at least 12 million dollars were channeled through the Venezuelan Naval attache´s office in Bolivia to the naval attache´s office in Perú in the closing weeks of the campaign. A considerable amount of this money was used in vote buying in rural areas of southern Perú. During the  years between elections, Chávez built up a treasure chest of petro-dollars in Perú to enable Humala to structure a formidable political party organization. He paid for key Brazilian operatives from Lula´s Brazilian labor party to organize Humala´s campaign.This was known in the state department and the CIA. No action was taken to help our friends.

So now the keystone, Perú is gone leaving Chile and Columbia without a key ally in their democratic front against Hugo Chávez. When Humala takes office on the 28th of July to the applause of  Chávez,Evo Morales, Rafael Correa and the Castro brothers , he should issue a special thank you to the firm of Obama & Clinton Inc. for standing idly bye while Perú was lost.

The last polls are in and show a lead within the margin of error for Keiko Sofía Fujimori over the Hugo Chávez clone, Ollanta Humala , who has benefited by the clandestine flow of millions of petrodollars from his mentor, the Venezuelan tyrant.                                                   

Yesterday the last debate was held which featured Humala trying to pin the corruption and excesses of the disgraced ex president, Alberto Fujimori on his daughter who defended herself very well. She parried every blow and landed many of her own, catching Humala in out and out lies more than once.

In Perú voting is obligatory and although absentee ballots do not exist ,Peruvians who live in other countries register and vote in polling places around the globe. In the United States there will be voting in Miami,Fort Lauderdale,New York, Paterson NJ,Washington, Chicago, Houston,Los Angeles and San Francisco. Other cities with large Peruvian populations outside of the USA are Santiago,Chile,Buenos Aires,Argentina, Caracas,Venezuela, Madrid and Barcelona,Spain,Tokyo,Japan and Sydney Australia. As the polls do not take in account the overseas vote which is expected to go to Keiko Fujimori by a very large margin, it could well be the difference in the election.

The danger posed by a victory of the Chavista candidate,Humala is that the fragile unity for development of the Pacific Alliance of Perú ,Chile and Columbia will be broken. It is only a few days since the stock markets of these three pro US countries were merged. Mexico is also interested in becoming an associate of this group , but Perú is the keystone with it´s burgeoning mining industry. The Pacific Alliance is what Hugo Chávez fears the most. As president, Keiko Fujimori would have 5 years to cement economic progress with her democratic neighbors , but also would do whatever it takes to integrate Peru´s foreign policy with her pro-US neighbors against the axis of Caracas-La Paz- Quito headed by the Venezuelan dictator.

In this entire electoral process featuring an illegal intervention in the internal affairs of Perú by Venezuela , we have not heard a peep by the anointed one or his secretary of state. On the Republican side at least ,Rudy Giuliani, to his eternal credit came to Perú as an advisor to Keiko Fujimori against crime. He accompanied her to the northern city of Trujillo, one of the trouble spots in Perú under siege by criminal gangs and narcos. Congresswoman Ileana Ros Lehtinin has called attention to the danger of losing this important ally.It seems to have fallen upon deaf ears of  Obama, who appears more interested in undercutting another ally, Israel and giving away billions of dollars to Egypt which may fall into the coffers of the Muslim  Brotherhood.

If Keiko loses the election, there will be plenty of blame to pass around outside of our useless state department. A former Peruvian president, Alejandro Toledo and Nobel Prize winner, Mario Vargas Llosa both are relishing their role as useful idiots by endorsing the candidate Ollanta Humala.They have placed upon the head of the daughter,Keiko Fujimori ,the sins of her father, even though the ideology and past history of Humala is the antithesis of what they have always stood for.

I will be here in Lima on the 5th of June to escort my wife to vote and later hope for the best.

Lima, April 11 : Yesterday Perú went to the polls. As expected ,Ollanta Humala, supported by suitcases of petro-dollars ,courtesy of the Venezuelan tyrant,Hugo Chávez, received the most votes. At this moment it appears that after all of the votes are counted that he will have about 31.2 % which is .3% more than he obtained 5 years ago when he was defeated by Alan García in the runoff by 5.25%. This time his opponent will be Keiko Fujimori who will be somewhere in the area of 23.3 %. In third place and eliminated was conservative favorite Pedro Pablo Kuczynski. The final decision will come in the second round on June 5th. Keiko  will most assuredly receive the backing of Kuczynski (19% approx.) and fifth place Lucho Castañeda (10% APPROX.).  The question mark is that of the followers of the embittered ex president Alejandro Toledo(15.4 % apr.) who may split between the two candidates. The APRA(Social Democrats) in power who had no presidential candidate and obtained only 4 congressional seats will probably back the center-right Fujimori. By virtue of his lagresse , Hugo Chávez has placed for the second time the entire nation of Perú in play. It´s up to the Peruvian people to reject the candidacy of the Chávez puppet, Ollanta Humala and send the message that Perú is not for sale!

Lima, April 4,

Everywhere you go you are greeted by the smiling faces of the 5 viable presidential candidates looking down upon you from a forest of billboards along with a plethora of congressional aspirants. Ollanta Humala, bouyed by a huge injection of petrodollars sent to his campaign by his mentor, the tyrant of Venezuela,Hugo Chávez is in first place in the polls. This will assure him a spot in the final election which will take place 2 months after the first round on the 10th of April.

Four centrists vie to be his opponent: Former president Alejandro Toledo,Congresswoman Keiko Sofía Fujimori, Princeton economist Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and former Lima mayor Luis Casteñeda. The debate yesterday on national television all but eliminated Casteñeda. The other 3 all have a chance,but no one appears to have grabbed an advantage in the debate. Keiko Fujimori did score some points by being very well prepared and was willing to stand up for her father, the disgraced ex-president Alberto Fujimori who is in jail. This seems to go over well with the Peruvian electorate. Kuczynski, better known as PPK showed that he is very able to handle the numbers and prepare solutions for the economy. Toledo declared that what he did well before ,he would do better now. Of course, the Chavista,Ollanta Humalla played the moderate, denying that he would control the press and nationalize businesses and swore that he was against reelection of the president. Those of us in the know laughed at the obvious: This man is a wolf in sheep´s clothing if there ever was one.At the moment the advantage for the other runoff spot goes to Keiko,the only woman in the race.(Perú has never elected a woman, but Chile,Argentina,Brazil and Costa Rica have.)

In Perú the vote is obligatory and the actual president,Alan García, who defeated Humala by 5.24% 5 years ago is not permitted to intervene in the election of his succesor. His party(APRA) does not have a presidential candidate, as their candidate quit when it was too late to name a substitute.

If Humala wins in Perú it would be a huge victory for Hugo Chávez as his puppet,Humala would become a sort of viceroy for him on the style of Bolivia´s Evo Morales.The anti-americanism of Humala´s so-called Nationalist party along with Patría Roja, Sutep and other extremist marxist groups will color his government´s every act and the narcos will  take heart. While Obama fiddles with Libya ,Perú can burn.If the supporters of the other 3 candiates will rally round whichever of them opposes Humala, then the leftist will lose, if not, Chávez wins and Perú and the USA lose big .

The last refuge of the Democrat party in the south was the state legislatures. The good ol’ boys and the so-called conservative democrats hung in there, keeping up close contacts with the local gentry and continually declaring their independence from the “liberals” of the national party. But one by one the southern states turned red.On November the 2nd Alabama gave the GOP a 66 to 39 margin in the state house and a 22 to 12 margin in the senate. North Carolina, when the dust would clear from the stampeding elephants,would have a republican majority of 67 to 52 in the house and 31 to 19 in the senate.Although the GOP gains were considerable in Arkansas, we will have to wait for 2012 and hope for a pickup of 3 senate seats and 6 house seats from the donkey party. There will be no major statewide race in 2012 in Bill Clinton’s old stamping ground. 

Now let’s turn to 2011. Now that Alabama and North Carolina have joined Florida,Georgia,South Carolina,Tennessee and Texas with republican majorities, Virginia,Mississippi and Louisiana are on tap November of 2011. In Louisiana the defection of one of the 13 dem legislators nationwide who switched parties has given the GOP a 51 to 50 majority, although 4 independents who caucused with republicans gave them de facto control.A pickup of 4 senate seats in 2011 will close the deal.In Virginia the republican party has an ample margin of 59 to 39 in the assembly, but needs to pick up 3 senate seats from the dems.In Mississippi the task is harder in the state house,as the current dem margin is 72 to 50. However the donkey has only 2 more seats in the senate to bray about. Outside of the south there is New Jersey where Chris Christie will try to paint that blue state red.  As far as the gubernatorial races in Mississippi and Kentucky are concerned ,it’s far too early as the nominees are not known yet,but in Louisiana the reelection of Bobby Jindal looks like a lead pipe cinch.

It appears that on the 31st of October Brazil is poised to elect Dilma Rousseff, an ex-marxist guerilla and handpicked candidate of President Lula Da Silva. It will be hard for Rousseff to lose as she garnered 46.8% of the votes in the first round of voting.José Serra,the pro US moderate who came in second obtained 32.6% of the vote. Green party candidate Marina Silva, an ex-communist as well as an ex cabinet minister of the ruling labor party came in third with more than 19,000,000 votes and will decide who wins the presidency. So far she has endorsed no one.A footnote to this is that Tiririca ,Brazil´s most famous clown was elected to congress with more than a million votes although he must pass a literacy test as his opponent claims that Tiririca can is functionally illiterate. Someone like that would not be a stranger to the US house of representatives as there are many clowns among the democrats who act as if they can´t read nor write or in the best case scenario will only know what´s in a bill after they pass it!

Approximately 66% of Venezuelans voted in the legislative elections of September 26th.

The Result can best be desribed as a Pyrhhic victory for Hugo Chavez. Despite the fraud and massive gerrymandering which permitted the recintly united opposition to win only 67 of the 160 seats in the national assembly with 52% of the popular vote, The United Socialist party of the Chavistas could not win the 2/3 majority they promised their followers.Chavez exhorted his followers to demolish the (MUD)Mesa Unida Democratica coalition. The coalition was barred from advancing their message on television and state funds were used to mobilize the leftists backing the government.The question isn’t so  much about who “won” the election, but at what point the hegemony of Chavez is starting to come apart.Nevertheless Chavez has changed the system with an” insurance policy” so that 50% of federal funds will go to so-called communal councils which in fact mirror the local United Socialist Party organizations and not the states or municipalities. This project will create a paralell unit of government outside the scope of elections. It also ties in to the current project to confiscate arms from private citizens, security companies and even some municipal police forces and to turn them over to the  Bolivarian militias controlled directly by Hugo Chavez. We will have to see what effect this will have on the selection of an opposition candidate to Chavez in 2012. Hopefully both Chavez and Obama will go down in the same year.

According to a poll taken by Magellan Strategies the Ex Republican governor who was defeated by the present Dem gov  by 52 -46 in 2006 now leads by 3 points !

The Canadian Senate has just approved it´s Free Trade Treaty with Columbia which is now in the hands of Columbia´s constitutional court for final approval. This treaty means that 98% of Canadian goods will enter into Columbia duty free,but how does this affect our farm exports? Canadian wheat,barley,rye and corn will be exported to Columbia with 0 % customs duty while our exports will pay 15%. The Free Trade Treaty between the USA & Columbia,our nearest and dearest ally in Latin America, languishes in the halls of congress blocked by the democrat leadership with the approval of Obama.Once Canada´s treaty takes affect our farmers can kiss their exports to Columbia goodbye, not to mention every other American product.This is just another example of the brainlessness of Obama,Pelosi,Reid & company.Compare this to how the Canadian Conservative government works to get exports for their country. Oops, I guess there is no comparison !

Dr. Juán Manuel Santos won the second round of the Columbian presidential elections with the highest total in the history of his country: more than 9,000,000 votes! His margin of victory over the Green Party´s Antanas Mockus was more than 41%, also a record.Backed by the Conservatrive party,the Radical Change Party and a majority even of Liberal Party members ,5 weeks since the pollsters called the race “A Toss-Up”,Santos proved  the pundits wrong. In his victory speech Santos heaped praise upon the armed forces and sent a message to the narco-terrorists of the FARC that their time was up.He complemented his opponent,who to his credit had refused a political alliance with the leftist Polo Democrático party and invited all of the other political groups to join in a government of national unity.What is sure is that the Columbian people have sent a message loud and clear to Hugo Chávez that the scrappy ex-defense minister who will be sworn in on August 7 is his worse nightmare and a loyal succesor to President Álvaro Uribe. We can be sure that Santos will continue to pursue a free trade treaty with the United States which has been blocked by the democrats in congress for years as part of their policy of hurting our best friends and kissing up to our enemies.

Juán Manuel Santos of the center right Union Party obtained a rousing 46.6 % of the vote in sunday´s Columbian presidentrial election. Atanas Mockus of the green party received 21.5% which was goos enough for second place and a ticket to the June 20th final round.The winners: President Alvaro Uribe who backed Santos and the Columbian people; the losers: Venezuelan tyrant Hugo Chávez and the pollsters who had placed Mockus within 2 to 5 points of Santos with a good chance of winning round two.The polls were so far off that they had placed Vargas Lleras´s Radical Change Party in sixth place and they came in a respectable third with 10.1%. They were followed by the left wing Polo Democratico with 9.2%,Noemí Sanín of the conservative party with 6.1% and the Liberal party with 4.4%. It is evident that voters from both the conservative and liberal parties voted for Santos in round one. The pollsters mader the mistake of factoring in a higher porcentage of voters in the big cities and less in rural areas and small towns where the turnout was higher. In the country as a whole only a little over 49% of the voters showed up at the polls.Chávez must be beside himself as a Venezuelan anti-Chávez political advisor J.J Rendon, was the person who turned around the cvampaign of Santos. On June 20th it will be easy for Santos to pick up the additional votes he needs for 50% plus one, while Mockus has an insurmountable mountain to climb.

On May 30 the péople of Columbia will go to the polls for round one of a two round battle which will culminate the 20th of June. If no one receives 50% plus 1 on May 30 (and no one will) we are due for a photo finish June 20 between Juan Manuel Santos of the Union Party(Uribista) and Antanas Mockus of the Green party. The vote in Columbia is not obligatory.

Antanas Mockus, son of Lithuanian immigrants is a college professor and two time mayor of Bogotá. His green party stands more for anti-corruption than  pro-environment. After being a minor blip in the polls ,he has enjoyed a meteoric rise which peaked about three to four weeks ago. Since then some people began to have second thoughts about the carismatic mathematician who onced mooned his students . Mockus was leading in the polls over Santos, the former defense minister of President Alvaro Uribe, well known for his victories over the FARC communist narco-guerillas supported by Hugo Chávez.

It has since been revealed that Mockus has the beginnings of Parkinson´s disease .This would be fatal to his chances in the USA , but it appears not in Columbia.

The last poll from Datexco shows Santos with 35% and Mockus with 34% on May 30 and Mockus with 45% and Santos with 44% on June 20.CNC ,another respected polling organization shows Santos with 39% and Mockus with 34 on  the 30th of May ,while Santos has 45% against 44% for Mockus in June.The tendency in the last week has been favorable to Santos.Hugo Chávez is sitting back hoping to deal with the neophyte Mockus ,who had previously been un up by 5-6%,  but the election is now too close to call and there´s still many days between round one and round two.

The resignation of the governor of Lara state from the Chavista United Socialist Party of Venezuela is making waves across the country. Henri Falcón, elected with 74% of the vote left the ruling party but joined a smaller allied party ,the PPT.State legislators and other local officials joined the exodus. Although Falcón was very diplomatic in his resignation letter, Chávez has been furiously attacking Falcón for the past three weeks.

With the electric power shortage and water rationing in Caracas reaching unacceptable levels, could it be that other Chavistas are looking to Falcón as a replacement for Chavez if the tyrant´s position becomes untenable?

The Guri dam is down to 3 turbines out of 10 with one vibrating menacingly.The other Central dam is down to 2 of 7 with parts cannibalized from the other 5. As the water levels recede every day, the dictator´s popularity recedes among the people. If it doesn´t rain soon Chávez is in deep trouble.

The latest results available for the Senate in Columbia shows the 2 most conservative parties receiving the lions share of the votes. With 93.77% of the votes tabulated the ܨparty of President Álvaro Uribe had 25.17% of the vote and 27 or 28 senate seats. In second place his allies of the Conservative Party received 20.67% of the vote with 22 or 23 senate seats. The center-left Liberal part had 15.85%  and 18 seats while 3 parties: National Integration(Center),Radical Change(center-left) and Alternative Democratic Pole(left-left) 8 seats each. The greens who chose ex-Bogotá mayor, Antanas Mockus as their presidential standard bearer won 5 seats.In Columbia all senators are elected at-large.

This result which is approximately repeated in house races will give the Pro American and Anti-Chávez right a majority in congress.

The simultaneous primary of the Conservative party is yet to be decided.With more than 48% of the votes to be counted, former ambassador to Spain Noemí Sanín led former agricultural minister Luis Felipe Arias by 404 votes in a see-saw race whose result may not be known for days.

Election day was the calmest in the last thirty years. Although the FARC communist guerilla  threatened to interrupt the voting by acts of terror , they, along with Hugo Chévez  were the big losers. In some areas where previously intimidation kept the partcipants in the 20% range turnout doubled to 40%.

Kudos to the Columbian military and police !

The victory of Sebastian Piñera way down south in the summer heat of Chile surfaces as a harbinger for the victory of Scott Brown up north in the winter of Massachusett´s discontent. All we can say is ¨Sebastian, pass the baton on to Scott from south to north  and bring us luck on tuesday.¨

We see the people dancing and celebrating in the Plaza of Italia of Santiago de Chile. We see the loser, Eduardo Frei with his wife and daughters on the podium with Sebastian Piñera, the winner and his whole family with smiles and hugs  and congratulations all around. This  will not take place in Boston on tuesday.I guarantee you. Our battle lines are drawn. Our differences are more vast than those of the Chileans, because at least they play hard but clean without personal attacks, without backroom deals, without people like Rahm ,Reid And Pelosi. So let the Tea Party Tsunami begin!!!

Hugo Chávez, call your office! On the 11th of March your worse nightmare will take place. Well, maybe not your very worse nightmare but close to it. Sebastian Piñera will be sworn in as president of Chile.Chile ,with it´s strong military and democratic tradition dating back 20 years weill join with Columbia and Perú to forge a solid opposition to the Venezuelan tyrant. The results with 99.61% of the vote follow: Sebastian Piñera 3,563,050 votes 51.61%, Eduardo Frei 3,340,308 votes 48.38 %. The final polls showed betwen 1.89 and 2.5 % advantage for Piñera which means that the end result was slightly better.Piñera exceeded the final polls by a very small amount. The loser, Eduardo Frei congratulated Piñera and announced that we was proud of the clean and transparent process which has become a hallmark of Chilean elections.(They never met Acorn. That´s something they can be very thankful for.) President Michelle Bachelet(socialist) called president elect Sebastian Piñera(conservative) to offer her congratulations and arrange a visit to his home tomorrow. Piñera invited her promptly to breakfast and put his wife, Cecilia on the phone to talk to the president.(They are personally friendly despite their rather vast political differences).We are awaiting Piñera to give his victory speech . Rodrigo Hinzpeter, his campaign manager already announced that there will be room in his government for people of the opposition willing to work in the new government. All in all a civics lesson in for  us that Acorn And the SEIU will never learn.

During the last two weeks the center-left government of Chile has pulled out all of the stops to block the path to victory that the center-right Coaltion for Change had in it´s sights. Desperate to avoid a first defeat since elections were resumed 20 years ago after the end of the military government,It now appears that they have failed! Sebastian Piñera, who ran a campaign a la Bob McDonnell of Virginia,concentrating on jobs, economic growth and zero tolerance on crime appears to have won the election to be Chile´s next president. Election Central in Diego Portales, Santiago reports the following result:

With 60.32% of the vote in : Piñera 2,132,783 votes 51.87 % , Eduardo Frei 1,978,774 votes  48.12 %

The next update fromDiego Portales will be very interesting, indeed. It´s still a little early, but looking good. Better than good. Hugo Chávez is not very happy today.Naturally he´ll blame the results on us.

While we are all excited about Scott Brown and his ever increasing chances to doom the donkeyheads on tuesday , Chile votes on sunday. this has turned into a cliffhanger. Conservative candidate Sebastian Piñera leads by a very small porcententage(1.9 to 2.5%) in the polls which is well within the margin of error. The chances of center-left ex president Eduardo Frei were boosted by kowtowing to the communists, help from the current socialist president Michelle Bachelet and above all a half-hearted endorsement by independent leftist Miguel Enriquez-Ominami who was eliminated in the first round while Piñera received warm support from Peruvian literary giant Mario Vargas llosa who enjoys huge popularity in Chile.We will be on top of this when the polls close on sunday with the first results from election central Diego Portales.