Is right here.

Behold the bewilderment, bemusement and sheer baffledness of Professor Mike Gonzalez at positions taken by sundry Latin American leaders on the general subject of Col Gadaffi’s career prospects:

Yet the response to the Libyan events from Latin America’s radicals has been perplexing and disturbing.

Chávez himself has praised Gaddafi and echoed directly the views on the Libyan revolution offered by Fidel Castro.

Castro has counselled caution and patience, warning that since the US media are consistently reporting the insurrection and denouncing Gaddafi’s brutal repression it must clearly be suspect.

Daniel Ortega, the president of Nicaragua, rushed to present himself to the press as a fervent supporter of the Libyan leader in his sterling defence of his nation.

Perplexing! Disturbing!

Just like his grammar:

… how on Earth can Castro, seen by many as a voice of national liberation and social revolution, refuse his support to the overwhelming majority of Libyans in their battle for freedom.

Unlike Venezuela and Nicaragua, Castro (sic) did not come to power as a result of a mass insurrection, though the defeat of the Batista dictatorship was hugely popular. Since then, what challenges he has faced have been quickly defined as counter-revolutionary, and public dissent rigorously controlled.

Good last point there. The professor ends on a true revolutionary note:

… when those states act against their own people, they have no right to continue their claim to be acting on their behalf. The mask falls, and the revolutionary process comes face to face with the state that has claimed to be its embodiment.

As Gaddafi bombs and burns his own people, there is only one choice before anyone who claims to be leading a people’s revolution – and that is to unequivocally support the movement from below, irrespective of its confusions and contradictions.

Yup.

And we all can hope that in due course Chavez, Castro and Ortega will be bombing and burning their people in their own frantic struggle to stay afloat, revealed at last in their true colours to the Guardian’s disturbed and perplexed readers.