why i think guillermo vargas habucuc is innocent.

ok so far my sources are:

1) costa rican newspaper la nacion, article published on october 4, source quoted as nicaraguan newspaper la prenza

http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-home&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nacion.com%2Fln_ee%2F2007%2Foctubre%2F04%2Faldea1263590.html&lp=es_en&btnTrUrl=Translate

2) nicaraguan newspaper la prenza, article published on october 5, source quoted as costa rican newspaper la nacion (do you see something weird AND stupid here)

http://www.laprensa.com.ni/archivo/2007/octubre/05/noticias/revista/219438.shtml

3) http://guillermohabacucvargas.blogspot.com/, anonymous, supposed offical blog of the artist, it keeps getting quoted all over the place, but it can't even get basic facts right, like his age. there's other scattered blogs purporting to be the "real" blog of the artist but they don't seem credible at all.

4) the guardian and the observer both ran the pfficial statement of juanita bermudez, director of the codice gallery. both the guardian and the observer published the statement on march 30th 2008.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/mar/30/art.spain

5) there's a ton more, like PETA's and various other organisations' replies and statements regarding the issue, tethering laws and animal rights laws in USA, which isn't consistant with european animal rights laws. californian tethering laws etc.

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/law/subject.html

nicaraguan animal rights laws are seemingly non-existant, and i honestly don't blame them.

6) vargas's 4 statements which i can't seem to find anymore. can anyone help me over here?

7) vargas' exhibit was in august 2007, first animal shelter in nicaragua, casa lupita, in granada was started sometime after, closest date so far is 29th october 2007.

http://www.nicaliving.com/node/8343

8) previously, the nearest animal shelter in the area was in costa rica or honduras, (yes in the next country. there were no shelters in nicaragua when vargas did his exhibit)

http://www.friendly-directory.co.uk/dir/216/73.php (this link makes it even bleaker. "No results found in Animal Rescue - Central America ")

9)for my point on stray dogs being vermin in nicaragua:

http://www.transitionsabroad.com/listings/living/livingabroadin/living_abroad_moving_to_nicaragua_with_pets.shtml

http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2007/11/16/news/community/3loc03_vetstudents.txt

http://www.bootsnall.com/articles/07-05/domesticated-wildlife-corn-islands-nicaragua-central-america.html

edit: not to forget my sources against vegans!
http://web.archive.org/web/20041107084521/http://eesc.orst.edu/agcomwebfile/news/food/vegan.html

http://www.wildlifedamagecontrol.com/animalrights/leastharm.htm
(doesn't seem to be there anymore though)

fuck. if i actually spent the same amount of effort researching and reading up for my school work i'll probably be on the dean's list by now.