Caracas Daily Journal (Jeremy Morgan): The trouble with ex-wives is that they have a tendency not to go away -- even if it's only in the mind -- and, yup, they have a habit of talking, saying too much about guess who. No doubt they say much the same about their former Significant Others, but what would he who writes know about that, being a bloke.
Take, if you wish (maybe he does), President Hugo Chavez' once upon a time Significant Other, Marisabel Rodriguez, for instance.
On Saturday, she set the tone for Father's Day (they have a daughter between them) by bad-mouthing the "inefficiency and intolerance" of his government.
Rodriguez, a broadcaster by profession, let it out loud and clear. The country, she said, was "still" living under the "threat" of authoritarianism because the ex-hubby was intent on pursuing his project to rid the Constitution of a ban on successive presidential re-elections. That idea was undone by the voters in a referendum last December, but the conventional wisdom is that Chavez hasn't given up on it.
That was just the latest salvo. Before, she's claimed she's depicted herself as a victim of violence, persecution and threatening behavior at the alleged behest of the government -- which, understandably, denies any such thing. Hell hath … and so on, but all this might actually be deemed fair game. Rodriguez is in the throes of an election campaign as an aspirant opposition candidate for town mayor in Lara state.
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