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2008-03-06 Caribbean-Latin America

Chavez: Conflict with the US is inevitable

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Posted by Fred 2008-03-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11143 views ] Top

#1 conflict with the United States is inevitable

Fortunately for Chavez, regime change in the US is less than a year away. Of course, he already knew that when he uttered these brave words.

Personally I hope W hands the flyswatter to McCain when the day comes.

Posted by gorb 2008-03-06 01:55|| 2008-03-06 01:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Fidel flogged that horse for over 40 years, then retired. You got a ways to go Hugo.

Posted by Spot">Spot 2008-03-06 07:08|| 2008-03-06 07:08|| Front Page Top

#3 UN or OAS,
They have their place, I guess.
But when in doubt,
Send the Marines!
Tom Lehrer

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2008-03-06 07:42|| 2008-03-06 07:42|| Front Page Top

#4 I love that Colombia strikes a terrorist camp inside Ecuador, Venezuela jumps in, and no one bothers to say "WTF".

Um, folks, it's perfectly acceptable for a nation to strike against terrorist camps in another nation if the other nation doesn't try to control them. Venezuela jumping in argues that the Venezuelan government has more interest in the terrorists than in sovereignty.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2008-03-06 08:45|| 2008-03-06 08:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Castro had the advantage of wiping out or expelling both the upper classes and the educated from Cuba. But both these groups are still in Venezuela, and both are still have some influence that Chavez cannot control.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-03-06 08:53|| 2008-03-06 08:53|| Front Page Top

#6 Chavez really wants a butt kicking, doesn't he?

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-03-06 09:29|| 2008-03-06 09:29|| Front Page Top

#7 But both these groups are still in Venezuela, and both are still have some influence that Chavez cannot control.

Yet.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-03-06 09:34|| 2008-03-06 09:34|| Front Page Top

#8 There were more violent deaths last year in Venezuela than in Iraq. If 20% of them were politically motivated killings made to look like random violence Chavez has beaten the body counts of Castro and that perrenial bogeyman-of-the-left Pinochet combined.

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2008-03-06 09:41|| 2008-03-06 09:41|| Front Page Top

#9 waiting for the Hate America Kids and Commies swing right into action denouncing America for attacking poor brave Hugo.

Posted by RD">RD 2008-03-06 11:18|| 2008-03-06 11:18|| Front Page Top

#10 Ecuador rejected a Colombian apology for the cross-border strike

I must have missed Ecuador's apology for providing safe haven to FARC's nuclear weapons program.

Posted by Excalibur 2008-03-06 11:36|| 2008-03-06 11:36|| Front Page Top

#11 He really, really hates being ignored doesn't he.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-03-06 12:40|| 2008-03-06 12:40|| Front Page Top

#12 Far Left: Amy Goodman's Democracy Now! - With US Assistance, Colombian Troops Attack and Kill 20 FARC Rebels Inside Ecuador

Interview with a publisher friend of FARC perp killed.
list:
Mario Murillo, longtime journalist and author of Colombia and the United States: War, Terrorism and Destablization. He is co-host of Wake-Up Call on the Pacifica Radio station WBAI in New York. He joins me from the Hofstra University studio in Long Island, where he teaches media and communications.

Helga Serrano, Ecuadorian activist with the international network for the abolition of foreign military bases, No Bases, speaking from Quito, Ecuador.

Arlene Tickner, Professor of International Affairs at the University of Los Andes in Bogota, where she joins us on the phone.

Posted by 3dc 2008-03-06 14:13|| 2008-03-06 14:13|| Front Page Top

#13 AMY GOODMAN: That is, well, the now slain FARC commander, Raul Reyes. I wanted to ask you, Mario, a high-placed official in the Colombian Defense Ministry said, on condition of anonymity, it was the US intelligence agency that first told Bogota several weeks ago that Reyes was sporadically using a satellite phone whose signal could be pinpointed.

Posted by 3dc 2008-03-06 14:17|| 2008-03-06 14:17|| Front Page Top

#14 "we want peace,"

A little piece of Columbia, a little piece of Brazil, a little piece of Guyana . . .

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2008-03-06 17:38|| 2008-03-06 17:38|| Front Page Top

#15 "We are the path to peace," said Chavez, who ordered 10 battalions of troops to reinforce the border

Guess his irony meter's in the shop...

Posted by Raj 2008-03-06 20:20|| 2008-03-06 20:20|| Front Page Top

#16 See also REDDIT > NICARAGUA CUTS TIES WITH COLOMBIA.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-03-06 23:45|| 2008-03-06 23:45|| Front Page Top

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