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The Columbia military entered Ecuador and killed a high echelon leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (Hispanic anagram: FARC).
FARC is a Communist terrorist group whose political goal is to bring repressive Communism to Columbia; however its operations are drug trafficking, kidnapping for ransom, extortion and the general use of terrorist tactics to control the local people FARC has infiltrated and to strike fear in the people of Columbian controlled areas.
Ecuador has cajones in allowing FARC to hide within their national borders. If Columbia has the power to back up threats to their National Security, they have every right to chase terrorists across foreign borders. Ecuador should be condemned for harboring FARC. Indeed harboring FARC could be almost considered an act of war against Columbia.
Venezuela’s reaction was hostile to Columbia. Chavez the President of Venezuela has slowly eroded Democratic institutions since coming to power as an overt Communist striking up an anti-American friendship with Cuba.
Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa describes himself as Socialist and a Roman Catholic and a personal friend of Communist Hugo Chavez.
Thus when Columbia decided to take action against FARC on Ecuadorean soil, it is not surprising that both Venezuela and Ecuador mobilized there military to their borders with Columbia.
This mobilization of military elements in essence validates the Venezuelan and Ecuadorean governments’ support of drug dealing terrorists that operate under the umbrella of Communism.
If Venezuela and Ecuador actually do more than rattle their sabers at Columbia, America should support the Columbian government with a military strike that reminds Chavez and Correa that they can still be spanked even without an American invasion.
BUSH TAKES A BEATING
ONE HE DESERVES
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in Argentina on Friday, speaking before a mass rally of tens of thousands of people -- an excerpt of that address...
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Ok, I am going to break one of my own rules and regurgitate yesterdays news here. This, I believe is worth repeating for those who missed it.
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On the other side of the river, that is where that little gentleman of the North must be. Let's give him a big boo! Gringo, go home!
I am convinced that our friends in Brasilia and in Montevideo are not going to feel offended, because we would not want to hurt any of our brethren from Uruguay or Brazil. We recognize their sovereignty. We recognize that those governments have the sovereign right to invite the little gentleman of the North, if they so choose.
But Kirchner and I don't need to plan anything to sabotage this visit, because we are witnessing the true political cadaver. The President of the United States is a political cadaver. He doesn't even smell of sulfur anymore. He doesn't even smell of sulfur or brimstone, if you will. No longer. What you smell from him now is the stench of political death. And not long from now, he will turn to dust and disappear. So we don't need to put forth any effort to sabotage the visit of the President of the United States to some countries, sisters countries of Central and South America, of course. We don't need to do that. It's a simple coincidence, the visit of Nestor to Venezuela and our visit here to Buenos Aires.
Well, we nevertheless need to thank that little gentleman that's visiting us, because if he were not here in South America, perhaps this event would not be so well-attended. We have organized this event to say no to the presence of the chief of the empire here in the heroic lands of South America.
The imperial little gentleman that's visiting Latin America today said about seventy-two or forty-eight hours ago in one of his speeches, when he was announcing that he was leaving for Latin America, he compared Simon Bolivar to George Washington. In fact, he even said the ridiculous thing -- and I can't say it's hypocrisy, because it is simply ridiculous, the most ridiculous thing he could say. He said, today we are all children of Washington and Bolivar. That is, he thinks that he is a son of Bolivar. What he is is a son of a -- but I can't say that word here.
So he has said -- he has said -- and you should listen to what he said here -- he said that now is the time to finish the revolution that Washington and Bolivar commenced . How's that for heresy? That is heresy and ignorance, because we have to remember -- and I say this with all due respect to George Washington, who is historically one of the founding fathers of that country -- but we must also remember the differences and how different George Washington and Simon Bolivar were, are and will always be.
George Washington won a war to gain the independence of the North American economic elite from the English empire, and when Washington died, or, rather, after his independence and after having been the president of the United States, after ordering the massacre of the indigenous peoples of North America, after defending slavery, he ended up being a very rich owner of slaves and of a plantation. He was a great landowner. That was George Washington.
Simon Bolivar, however, was born with a silver spoon, and at eight years old his parents died and he inherited a large fortune, together with his brothers, and he inherited haciendas and slaves. Simon Bolivar, when history led him -- and as Karl Marx said, men can make history, but only as far as history allows us to do so -- when history took Bolivar and made him the leader of the independence process in Venezuela, he made that process revolutionary. Simon Bolivar turned over all of his land. He freed all of his slaves, and he turned them into soldiers, and he brought them here. He brought them to Peru and Carabobo, and he worked together with the troops of San Martin to liberate this continent. That is Simon Bolivar.
And Simon Bolivar, having been born with that silver spoon in his mouth, when he died on the Caribbean coast of Colombia, when he died on December 17 in 1830, he was dressed with a shirt of someone else, because he had no clothes. Simon Bolivar is the leader of the revolution of this land. He is the leader of the social revolution, the people's revolution, the historical revolu
tion. George Washington has nothing -- nothing -- to do with this history.
It was in 1823 that James Monroe said, "America for the Americans." And when I say this tonight, I say it because I want to remind you, my brothers of Argentina, of Venezuela and of America, that the presence of the President of the United States in South America represents all of that. He represents that Monroe Doctrine of America for the Americans. Well, we will have to tell him: North America for the North Americans and South America for the South Americans. This is our America.
The President of the United States, that political cadaver -- and when I say political cadaver, he would like to see me as a real cadaver -- I want him to be a political cadaver, and he already is a political cadaver. The President of the United States has the lowest level of credibility and acceptance from his own people. He is the current president of the United States.
It would appear that he doesn't even dare mention my name, because he was asked in Brasilia today in a press conference -- I saw it, I watched it at the hotel -- and the journalist asked him, “It is said that you are here to stop Chavez's movement in South America.” And it looked like he almost had a heart attack when he heard "Chavez," because he actually stuttered a couple of times, and he actually changed the subject. He didn't answer the question. He didn't answer the question at all. So he doesn't even dare.
And I definitely dare to say his name. The President of the United States of North America, George W. Bush, the little gentleman of the North, the political cadaver that is visiting South America, that little gentleman is the president of all the history of the United States, and in the history of the United States, he has the lowest level of approval in his own country. And if we add that to the level of approval that he has in the world, I would think he's in the red now -- negative numbers.
Pablo
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Also, if you peeps want to watch something that has the potential to blow up in one of the biggest specs in history of our generation... keep an eye on Venezuela and their newly elected President, Hugo Chavez. Their congress and the people have, in essence, given him full power of the country for the next 18 months, allowing him to create, reform, and/or eliminate any and all laws governing over the judicial, economic, militaristic, etc systems.
He has openly said that he is taking the country into Socialist style of governing. If you read about it, I hate to compare anyone to the Nazi's, but it sounds like the rise of Hitler. Not that Chavez is bad (nor does he have anything against any race, religion, etc except the U.S., mostly Pres. Bush), but a struggling country elects a shining new Official who promises to take the nation to new heights, changes nearly the entire government instills a sense of national pride, focuses alot of the peoples anger onto one source (aka U.S.A.), and so on. People are lined up at the embassies to get passports and readying themselves to leave the country should the worse come to pass. He's already refused to renew an agreement for, I believe, is our only Air Force Base down in South America in 2009, which would be a huge blow to America's anti-drug enforcement.
And what, do you I hear you ask, does this really matter in the big scheme of things? How will it affect me? Well, Venezuela does provide a nice lil chunk of our oil, I believe about 2 billion (not for sure though, but close) barrels worth. If you can remember when there was an oil strike from them not so long ago, how high the gas prices surged. Think if they cut us off completely? We would survive no doubt, but an uprecedented blow like that would hurt.
Even though we supply them with a large amount of their income, their sudden boost in their money supply (70% higher than last year, insane) I would think offers the possiblity that in not too long, they could become self sufficient, especially the way Hugo is spending it. People are able to afford their own cars, businesses now have better access to utilities, so much money is being invested to bring up their education, health services, transportation networks, etc. That plus the Nationalism Mr. Chavez has instilled in the country, may not be long before the U.S. is seeing a slim cut of some of their exports and Venezuela find new import partners. While we provide about 30% of imports, they are making new allies all over. From Castro (long time friend of Chavez I believe), to their neighboring countries, to other socialist nations.
It might be nothing more than a lot of hot air, but it might also be an ominous sign of things to come.
Anyway... Happy Friday!
Hugo Chavez has achieved his goal in Venezuela. He has gotten the Venezuelan Congress to enact a law that allows Chavez to make laws by decree. Now the Venezuelans will experience the reality of the Marxist State: The State (i.e. the One at the top) is everything and the people are nothing but the collective subordinated to the whims of the Dictator.
Common Folk using Common Sense quotes Canada.com:
CARACAS, Venezuela - A congress loyal to President Hugo Chavez approved a law Wednesday granting him authority to enact sweeping measures by decree.
Meeting at a downtown plaza in a session that resembled a political rally, legislators unanimously approved all four articles of the law by a show of hands.
“Viva President Hugo Chavez, long live socialism!” National Assembly President Cilia Flores said as she proclaimed the law approved. “Fatherland, socialism or death. We will prevail!”
Chavez, who is beginning a new six-year term after winning recent elections, said the legislation will be the start of a new era of “maximum revolution” during which he will consolidate Venezuela’s transformation into a socialist society.
His critics call it a radical lurch toward authoritarianism by a leader with unchecked power.
Poor Cubans. Now that a rich oil state has become a Marxist dictatorship, Chavez will probably use the Venezuelan’s money to aid Castro’s successors remain in power. This will doom the Cubans to another generation of state control, 1950’s and 1960’s technology and poverty.
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