From across the Gulf

And yet, the government seems to like this awkward situation where it finds itself with a country paralyzed with fear. No serious politics to face delinquency and the most incredible theories to justify the killings we see everyday.

This is a quote from The End of Venezuela as I know it.

Similarly this blog could be titled The End of Trinidad as I know it.

Twin destinies fourteen miles apart.

So now David St Clair, COP Candidate for Laventille West,

- Knows who attacked him but will not talk for fear of death threats
- Was beaten up over a non-paid gambling death

Or the official story has suffered brain damage due to the severity of the beaten.

Anyone who deludes themselves that this act of violence was not politically motivated is ... well deluded.

Like Julia 1984, people in Trinidad have been constructing some far fetched rumours about the reasons for the violence we are seeing.

Even tonight, I was asked "Do you really think that any government would really want the type of violence we have now?"

My answer is yes. Patrick Manning and Hugo Chavez are BOTH want their countries paralysed with fear.

Yet both have their supporters.

The truth is also that civil wars are rarely declared.

And there are never any winners.