While Chavez entertains FARC terrorists former minister blasts reform

Vcrisis ^ | 05.11.07 | alek boyd

[alekboyd]

05.11.07 | While the autocrat entertains narcoterrorist leader from the FARC Rodrigo Granda, who was captured in Venezuela in late 2004, and 'mediates' in the liberation of Ingrid Betancourt, former Minister of Defence Gral. Raul Baduel called a press conference and announced that Chavez's proposed constitutional reform amounts to a coup d'etat.

[Old Retired Army Guy]

I think Chavez is on borrowed time. Dictator’s in these South American countries usually have short tenures.

[Cacique]

Yeah like Fidel Castro.

Unfortunately Venezuela does not have a history of frequent coups historically. Coups in Venezuela tend to be bloody affairs because the military is out of practice. I was in Caracas after the coup I think in 62. In any case there were bullet holes all over government buildings and if I remember quite a few people got killed. Same for the Chileans, their coup in getting rid of Allende turned into a bloody affair.

Argentina was another matter. With practice they became bloodless affairs that worked like clockwork with little violence. Mostly due to the frequency. The violence took place as a result of the attempt by communists to take over the country by force.

[Clemenza]

The Chilean army was nice enough to ask Fidelito Allende several times to "step down" on around 9/11 (ironically, the day of the coup), but he was too proud to do so. He was also too much of a pansy to face the military or the Chilean people for his incompetance, so he did his best Ernest Hemingway impersonation in his office.

Now, all we have is his annoying niece, to say nothing of the Chilean Hillary, Michelle Bachelet.

[cll]

Are you the real Aleksander Boyd? if so, good to see you here. I used to read your blog frequently.

Gracias por tu lucha.