Miss Universe.
Ladies always goes first right? It happens that Venezuela is the country with more "beauty titles" in the Miss Universe competition. The first step is to be at the Miss Venezuela competition and the winner representates my country in Miss Universe. This year this activity will be held in Russia and the lady that goes for Venezuela is called Maria Gabriela Isler. It's told that she is one of the favorites.
(Picture taken from the webpage http://www.lapatilla.com/site/2012/08/30/miss-guarico-maria-gabriela-isler-es-miss-venezuela-2012/)
Politics.
Since president Hugo Chavez died in march there's been a very messy political enviroment in my country. Chavez left Nicolas Maduro, a former bus driver, as the presidential candidete for the elections helded in april. Maduro won for a tiny difference (many said it was an electoral fraud and there were actually a few deaths). He basically have the same escennce as Chaves did as a president, the same speech and same actions.
Many people are getting tired because of the insecurity and high inflation rate. The university teachers did a strike earlier this year that lasted several months (this forced me to loose a lot of classes by the way). There is an economical crisis and on november 8th the goverment announced deep economical changes that will be explained with more details in the next days. The next elections for municipality majors will be on december 8th and the enviroment is really warming up. I hope nothing happens but tention is in the air.
This are the twitter accounts of the president of the republic Maduro in four different lenguages:
English: @maduro_en
French: @maduro_fr
Portugeese: @maduro_pt
Arabic: @maduro_ar
Sports.
The national football (soccer) team didn't made it to the world cup. I actually consider that Venezuela has been improving since the last years but it is difficult to qualify in a group that has so many great selections such as Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay, Ecuador... and only a few spots to make it to the world cup. Also, the team's captain and most important figure in the last decade Juan Arango announced retairment from the national team (he plays in Germany for the Borussia Mönchengladbach).
The Venezuelan Winter Baseball League is almost in the midseason and my team is not going very well. It's been a nice opportunity to see some big leaguers and some young prospect that haven't played yet with their teams in the MLB.
Also the NBA just started and I am excited, specially because I play Fantasy in Yahoo.
Weather.
The rain season it is supposed to be over but it's been raining like hell in the las weeks. It's getting colder since october but because Venezuela is located near the ecuator line there's not a big change in the weather during the year, it just become warmer in summer and colder in winter. As I said in my post about Caracas, the weather in this city is like perfect, and I like it being colder. So let's see when the rain it's going to stop.
Entertainment.
Beyoncee had a show in Caracas this september in my university's football (soccer) stadium. Aerosmith played as well this year in Venezuela.
The highest-budget movie ever made in Venezuela (A Venezuelan and Spain's production) was presented in the las Toronto's film festival and next year it will be presented in national theatres. The name of the movie is The Libertator and it's about the life of Simon Bolivar. Starring Venezuelan actor Edgar Ramirez it's supposed to be a great movie and I am looking forward to watch it. I love film. Watching a movie is one of my favorites activities so I will write a little bit more about movies later on.
(Edgar Ramirez as Simon Bolivar, he actually doesn't looks like him but I am sure he did a great job in the movie).
So... long time no see. What's going on in your contries? Did I miss a topic in this post?
