Guanaguanare: the laughing gull: November 2010

CABLEGATE: South of the Border

CABLEGATE RELEASES
[This listing will be updated but not always promptly. See WikiLeaks for all releases]

CARIBBEAN - SOUTH AMERICA - CENTRAL AMERICA

Many of the documents relating to the Caribbean and Latin America have not yet been made available but the graphs show that documents emanating from or relevant to the following countries are included and over the next few months they are going to become available for download.

Click on embassy locations under each country for cables emanating from that country:

Anguilla

Antigua and Barbuda

Argentina --From the US Embassy, Buenos Aires - 22 Secret, 664 Confidential, 1547 Unclassified

Aruba--

Bahamas--From the US Embassy, Nassau - 15 Secret, 171 Confidential, 208 Unclassified

Barbados--From the US Embassy, Bridgetown - 279 Confidential, 921 Unclassified

Belize--From the US Embassy, Belmopan - 37 Confidential, 189 Unclassified

Bermuda--

Bolivia--From the US Embassy, La Paz - 36 Secret, 768 Confidential, 495 Unclassified

Brazil--
--From the US Embassy, Brasilia - 54 Secret, 408 Confidential, 1,485 Unclassified
--From the US Embassy, Recife -
--From the US Embassy, Rio de Janeiro -
--From the US Embassy, Sao Paolo - 33 Confidential, 752 Unclassified

British Virgin Islands--

Cayman Islands--

Chile--From the US Embassy, Santiago - 281 Confidential, 1,171 Unclassified

Colombia--From the US Embassy, Bogota - 134 Secret, 1,106 Confidential, 1,176 Unclassified

Costa Rica--From the US Embassy, San Jose - 133 Confidential, 623 Unclassified

Cuba--From the US Interests Section, Havana - 26 Secret, 400 Confidential, 81 Unclassified

Dominica--

Dominican Republic--From the US Embassy, Santo Domingo - 17 Secret, 322 Confidential, 1,336 Unclassified

Ecuador--From the US Embassy, Quito - 35 Secret, 685 Confidential, 730 Unclassified

El Salvador--From the US Embassy, San Salvador - 36 Secret, 337 Confidential, 746 Unclassified

Grenada--

Guatemala--From the US Embassy, Guatemala - 22 Secret, 336 Confidential, 903 Unclassified

Guyana--From the US Embassy, Georgetown - 17 Secret, 97 Confidential, 281 Unclassified

Haiti--From the US Embassy, Port au Prince - 17 Secret, 475 Confidential, 722 Unclassified

Honduras --From the US Embassy, Tegucigalpa - 121 Secret, 736 Confidential, 1, 101 Unclassified

Jamaica--From the US Embassy, Kingston - Some Secret, 240 Confidential, 878 Unclassified
Other cables that mention Jamaica

Martinique--

Mexico--From the US Embassy, Mexico - 26 Secret, 318 Confidential, 1,941 Unclassified

Montserrat--

Netherlands Antilles--

Nicaragua----From the US Embassy, Managua - Secret, Confidential, Unclassified

Panama--From the US Embassy, Panama - 61 Secret, 394 Confidential, 457 Unclassified

Paraguay --From the US Embassy, Asuncion - Secret, Confidential, Unclassified

Peru--From the US Embassy, Lima - 29 Secret, 396 Confidential, 983 Unclassified

Puerto Rico--

St. Kitts and Nevis--

St. Lucia--

St. Vincent and the Grenadines--

Suriname--From the US Embassy, Paramaribo - 71 Confidential, 476 Unclassified
Other cables that mention Suriname

Trinidad and Tobago--From the US Embassy, Port of Spain - 2 Secret, 82 Confidential, 307 Unclassified
Other cables that mention Trinidad and Tobago

Turks and Caicos Islands--

Uruguay--From the US Embassy, Montevideo - 22 Secret, 160 Confidential, 263 Unclassified

Venezuela--From the US Embassy, Caracas - 46 Secret, 1,950 Confidential, 344 Unclassified

SEARCH ACROSS ALL CABLES USING CABLE SEARCH BETA

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"Patria est communis omnium parens" - Our native land is the common parent of us all. Keep it beautiful, make it even more so.

Blessed is all of creation
Blessed be my beautiful people
Blessed be the day of our awakening
Blessed is my country
Blessed are her patient hills.

Mweh ka allay!
Guanaguanare

Suhani Raat [Song]

Uploaded by syedbasheer

SUHANI RAAT DHAL CHUKI Performed by Mohd Rafi From the movie: Dulari (1949) Suhani raat dhal chuki, na jaane tum kab aaoge The beautiful night has slipped away, don't know when you will come. Suhani raat dhal chuki, na jaane tum kab aaoge The beautiful night has slipped away, don't know when you will come. Jahan ki rut badal chuki, na jaane tum kab aaoge Throughout the world the seasons have changed, don't know when you will come. Nazaarein apni mastiyaan dikha dikhaake so gaye The sights have shown their beautiful effects and are gone now Sitaarein apni roshni luta lutaake so gaye The stars shone and now are no more Har ek shamma jal chuki, na jaane tum kab aaoge Every light got lit, don't know when you will come. Suhani raat dhal chuki, na jaane tum kab aaoge The beautiful night has slipped away, don't know when you will come. Tadap rahe hai hum yahan I am in dreadful pain here Tadap rahe hai hum yahan tumhaare intezaar mein I am waiting desperately for you here Tumhaare intezaar mein In wait of you. Khiza ka rang aa chala hai mausam-e-bahaar mein The colour of spring is almost here in the beautiful season Khiza ka rang aa chala hai mausam-e-bahaar mein, mausam-e-bahaar mein The colour of spring is almost here in the beautiful season Hawa bhi rukh badal chuki, na jaane tum kab aaoge The winds have also changed directions, don't know when you will come. Suhani raat dhal chuki, na jaane tum kab aaoge The beautiful night has slipped by, don't know when you will come. ..............................................................................................................................

A Note From The Gull

Thank you, Mohammad Rafi, for your beautiful rendition of the song, "Suhani Raat"! I went looking for it after the author of this article mentioned it being sung. I had never heard it before and I can never turn my back on an opportunity to be introduced to a new song.

"Patria est communis omnium parens" - Our native land is the common parent of us all. Keep it beautiful, make it even more so.

Blessed is all of creation
Blessed be my beautiful people
Blessed be the day of our awakening
Blessed is my country
Blessed are her patient hills.

Mweh ka allay!
Guanaguanare

Sonnilal Mahabir Speaks In Patois About His Life. [Guiria, Venezuela]

Trinidadian emigrant, Sonnilal Mahabir speaks in patois about his life in Venezuela.
Recorded 12th July, 2010, Guiria, Venezuela

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"Patria est communis omnium parens" - Our native land is the common parent of us all. Keep it beautiful, make it even more so.

Blessed is all of creation
Blessed be my beautiful people
Blessed be the day of our awakening
Blessed is my country
Blessed are her patient hills.

Mweh ka allay!
Guanaguanare

Trinidad Patois speakers speak of Bongo in Blanchisseuse

Trinidadians Elton Gould, Felix Savary and Walwin Lequay speak about Bongo in Blanchisseuse.
Recorded 6th March, 2010, Blanchisseuse, Trinidad

Haiti, Don't Drink The Water!

Don't Drink The Water
By Dave Matthews Band

Come out, come out! No use in hiding.
Come now, come now, can you not see?
There's no place here. What were you expecting?
No, not room for both, just room for me
So you will lay your arms down
Yes, I will call this home.

Away, away! You have been banished
Now your land is gone and given to me
And here I will spread my wings
Yes, I will call this home

What's this you say? You feel the right to remain?
Then stay, I will bury you!
What's this you say? Your father's spirit still lives in this place?
Well, I will silence you!

Here's the hitch, your horse is leaving
Don't miss your boat, it's leaving now
And as you go, I will spread my wings
Yes, I will call this home.

Well, I have no time to justify to you
Fool, you're blind, move aside for me!
And all I can say to you, my new neighbour
Is you must move on or I will bury you!

Now, as I rest my feet by this fire
Those hands once warmed here
Well, I have retired them
I can breathe my own air and
I can sleep more soundly
Upon these poor souls
I'll build heaven and call it home.

'Cause you're all dead now.

And I live with my justice
And I live with my greedy need
And I live with no mercy
And I live with my frenzied feeding
And I live with my hatred
And I live with my jealousy
And I live with the notion
I don't need anyone but me...

Don't drink the water! Don't drink the water!
There's blood in the water!
Don't drink the water! Don't drink the water! Don't drink the water!
There's blood in the water!
Don't drink the water! Don't drink the water! Don't drink the water!
Don't drink the water!
There's blood in the water!....

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"Patria est communis omnium parens" - Our native land is the common parent of us all. Keep it beautiful, make it even more so.

Blessed is all of creation
Blessed be my beautiful people
Blessed be the day of our awakening
Blessed is my country
Blessed are her patient hills.

Mweh ka allay!
Guanaguanare

More from Walden - Henry David Thoreau

page 15 -- A man who has at length found something to do will not need to get a new suit to do it in; for him the old will do, that has lain dusty in the garret for an indeterminate period. Old shoes will serve a hero longer than they have served his valet — if a hero ever has a valet — bare feet are older than shoes, and he can make them do. Only they who go to soires and legislative balls must have new coats, coats to change as often as the man changes in them. But if my jacket and trousers, my hat and shoes, are fit to worship God in, they will do; will they not? Who ever saw his old clothes — his old coat, actually worn out, resolved into its primitive elements, so that it was not a deed of charity to bestow it on some poor boy, by him perchance to be bestowed on some poorer still, or shall we say richer, who could do with less? I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. If there is not a new man, how can the new clothes be made to fit? If you have any enterprise before you, try it in your old clothes. All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be. Perhaps we should never procure a new suit, however ragged or dirty the old, until we have so conducted, so enterprised or sailed in some way, that we feel like new men in the old, and that to retain it would be like keeping new wine in old bottles. Our moulting season, like that of the fowls, must be a crisis in our lives. The loon retires to solitary ponds to spend it. Thus also the snake casts its slough, and the caterpillar its wormy coat, by an internal industry and expansion; for clothes are but our outmost cuticle and mortal coil. Otherwise we shall be found sailing under false colors, and be inevitably cashiered at last by our own opinion, as well as that of mankind.....

page 17 -- When I ask for a garment of a particular form, my tailoress tells me gravely, "They do not make them so now," not emphasizing the "They" at all, as if she quoted an authority as impersonal as the Fates, and I find it difficult to get made what I want, simply because she cannot believe that I mean what I say, that I am so rash. When I hear this oracular sentence, I am for a moment absorbed in thought, emphasizing to myself each word separately that I may come at the meaning of it, that I may find out by what degree of consanguinity They are related to me, and what authority they may have in an affair which affects me so nearly; and, finally, I am inclined to answer her with equal mystery, and without any more emphasis of the "they" — "It is true, they did not make them so recently, but they do now." Of what use this measuring of me if she does not measure my character, but only the breadth of my shoulders, as it were a peg to bang the coat on? We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcæ, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveller's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same. I sometimes despair of getting anything quite simple and honest done in this world by the help of men. They would have to be passed through a powerful press first, to squeeze their old notions out of them, so that they would not soon get upon their legs again... " -- Excerpt from "Walden" [Economy, Part B] by Henry David Thoreau, 1854.

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"Patria est communis omnium parens" - Our native land is the common parent of us all. Keep it beautiful, make it even more so.

Blessed is all of creation
Blessed be my beautiful people
Blessed be the day of our awakening
Blessed is my country
Blessed are her patient hills.

Mweh ka allay!
Guanaguanare

Walden - Henry David Thoreau

"page 9 -- The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

page 10 -- When we consider what, to use the words of the catechism, is the chief end of man, and what are the true necessaries and means of life, it appears as if men had deliberately chosen the common mode of living because they preferred it to any other. Yet they honestly think there is no choice left. But alert and healthy natures remember that the sun rose clear. It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow, mere smoke of opinion, which some had trusted for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields. What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. Old people did not know enough once, perchance, to fetch fresh fuel to keep the fire a-going; new people put a little dry wood under a pot, and are whirled round the globe with the speed of birds, in a way to kill old people, as the phrase is. Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost. One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living. Practically, the old have no very important advice to give the young, their own experience has been so partial, and their lives have been such miserable failures, for private reasons, as they must believe; and it may be that they have some faith left which belies that experience, and they are only less young than they were. I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors. They have told me nothing, and probably cannot tell me anything to the purpose. Here is life, an experiment to a great extent untried by me; but it does not avail me that they have tried it. If I have any experience which I think valuable, I am sure to reflect that this my Mentors said nothing about.

page 14 -- The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well? You may say the wisest thing you can, old man — you who have lived seventy years, not without honor of a kind — I hear an irresistible voice which invites me away from all that. One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.

page 15 -- I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere. Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength. The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what work we do; and yet how much is not done by us! or, what if we had been taken sick? How vigilant we are! determined not to live by faith if we can avoid it; all the day long on the alert, at night we unwillingly say our prayers and commit ourselves to uncertainties. So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant. Confucius said, "To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge." When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men at length establish their lives on that basis."
--Excerpt from Walden, [Economy, Part A] by Henry David Thoreau, 1854.

....AJOUPA CALLING....

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