Shakespeare's "Birthday"

Somebody decided, sometime in the 18th Century--for a whim, or for no reason, or for a wrong reason--that today, the first day of Floreal in the Revolutionary Calendar, should be Shakespeare's birthday.  There are, actually, now't I think of it, reasons not to be assigning the Bard an arbitrary birthday.  Nothing wrong with his being a Taurus, keeping Johannes Brahms, Marcus Aurelius and the present monarch of England company: great artists all.  But he just feels to me somehow more of a universal sort of genius, with a peculiar diamond-bright, petal-dewy Englishness that makes me think Aries like Leonardo, or Pisces like Michelangelo.  And I think that every time I hear that today is his birthday.  

In Paraguay now, Fernando Lugo--still a Bishop, because Ratzinger, ever the twisted and evil "ex"-Nazi, and of course hating Lugo's "Liberation Theology" (by which is meant, in South America, anything to the left of Augosto Pinochet), has steadfastly refused to laicize Lugo, hoping thereby to make his candidacy illegal under the Paraguayan Constitution--has won the Presidency of Paraguay, thereby wresting (we'll see about that, of course) power from the party of the most blackly villainous oligarchy in all of South or Central America--the Colorado Party, of Stroessner et al.  Known as "the Priest of the Poor," Lugo is proceeding very cautiously, scarcely daring to say more than "poor relief" in a country where 90% of everything is owned by less than 2% of the population.  No wonder Benedict XVI hates him so much.  God damn the Pope!

Meanwhile, to the north of Paraguay, in the Santa Clara lowlands of Bolivia, Evo Morales is facing a secessionist revolt (Who wants to bet me that the CIA is funding and fomenting the whole thing?) of the predominately White, non-Indian landlords of that region, who wish to split off from Bolivia, taking the oil and gas fields with them, thus plunging the largely Indian rest-of-Bolivia into chaos and poverty.  God damn the CIA! 

Guess who President Morales is having extended, much-downplayed, behind-the-scenes talks with?  I'll give you a clue:  It's the same one that President Lugo is consulting with, all the while saying he isn't.   Well,

If you guessed Cesar Chavez, President of Venezuela, you guessed right.