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Caribbean-Latin America
Venezuela's Chavez says US was 'big loser' at Latin American summit
2008-03-09
Well the US has never won a summit. We ALSO have NEVER lost a war. Think about that carefully, herr Chavez...
President Hugo Chavez called the United States the "big loser" at a meeting of Latin American leaders in the Dominican Republic, saying Venezuela's allies undermined alleged U.S. efforts to divide the region.

Chavez praised Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa and Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega on Saturday for joining him a day earlier in "standing up" to Washington at the Rio Group summit. "Yesterday, there was a big loser: the North American empire," Chavez said during a televised speech. Correa and Ortega "showed the North American empire and its pawns that Venezuela is not alone."

U.S. officials were not involved in or invited to Friday's summit in Santo Domingo, where Latin American leaders agreed to work for a peaceful end to a crisis sparked by Colombia's March 1 military raid inside Ecuador.
Posted by:Free Radical

#11  We have never lost a war, but that unpleasantnes in the early 50s was kinda of a draw and the SouthEast Asian War Games second place award still grinds on a number of us.... The latter certainly was given away by a feckless political elite and the news media, just like this current fights would have been if not for the alternative media linke REB and bloggers, who just wouldn't let the truth be suppressed by CNNABCNBCCBS....
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2008-03-09 19:23  

#10  "they never actually produced those 'ten battalions with tanks for me'"
Frank G,
Not only didn't he produce them, from what I hear he can't produce them. His army is disolving and the officer corp is moving to Miami.

Soon, he'll have no one left to defend him but the criminals.

Al
Posted by: Frozen Al   2008-03-09 13:32  

#9  Somebody else disagrees with him also...

The biggest threat in the region is not Colombia but Venezuela. Mr Chávez has recently veered towards outright support for the FARC. Colombia alleges that the captured laptops show that he gave the guerrillas $300m (and also that the FARC is seeking uranium for a “dirty” bomb). Mr Chávez's mismanagement of Venezuela's oil boom has made him increasingly unpopular at home. His regime runs a risk of imploding. A cornered Mr Chávez might think of a border skirmish as the perfect distraction—and as justification for more repression at home. Even as they scold Mr Uribe, Brazil and other South American countries should warn Venezuela that it is destabilising the continent—and it is high time it stopped.

http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10808543
Posted by: tu3031   2008-03-09 11:50  

#8  I agree, notice they never actually produced those "ten battalions with tanks for me"....just a buncha mooks in buses and a few tanks for newspix. Wonder if the professionals in the Army say FOAD to Hooogo?
Posted by: Frank G   2008-03-09 11:40  

#7  Correa and Ortega "showed the North American empire and its pawns that Venezuela is not alone."

Memo to Hugo - it's 'capitalist lackeys', not 'pawns'...
Posted by: KCNA   2008-03-09 11:40  

#6  Looks to me like Hugo backed down when the shit was ready to hit the fan. And quickly.
I don't think I'm the only one that saw it that way.
Posted by: tu3031   2008-03-09 11:31  

#5  bigjim,
Current demographic trends put us in Latin America by 2050. Hugo's just anticipating.
Posted by: Glenmore   2008-03-09 11:07  

#4  Has anyone told Hugo that we aren't in Latin America?

I don't think he knows.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2008-03-09 10:54  

#3  President Hugo Chavez called the United States the "big loser" ...

Posted by: lotp   2008-03-09 10:50  

#2  Hugo is defining 21st century warfare: whoever delivers the most over-the-top sound bite wins.
Posted by: regular joe   2008-03-09 10:30  

#1  I sure hope everyone is avoiding filling up at the local Citgo. The one where I live is about to go under as the Chevron up the street has to expand.
Posted by: Jack is Back!   2008-03-09 09:40  

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