Posted on 03/31/2007 11:36:22 PM PDT by Kitten Festival
RCTV is under fire. The big television station, which has been broadcasting under license in Venezuela for 54 years, sort of the equivalent of FoxNews or CBS, officially loses its right to broadcast at the end of today. But that wasn't all that happened.
Like furies, red tshirted Chavista mobs gathered and bayed liked wolves in the days leading up to this end of an era, graffiting and spray-painting the TV station with words like 'expropriacion' along with filthy slogans that if you know Spanish, you can see the equivalent of 'f word' among, racism charges, campesino movement slogans, anti-Vatican slogans (the Vatican actually defended this TV station, which is run by a devout Catholic) and 'RCTV out' slogans. They also left plenty of garbage and mess, including what looks like a dead dog - a mob symbol if there ever was one - behind.
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The Cubans have taught Chavez well..
Probably the Russians, too..
Canada (with an oil services sector employment shorfall) could help things out by granting visas to Venezuela's oil sector workforce. That's the funding source for Chavisism. Some very beautiful women there, too.
Chavez is following the Cuban model well. With Chinese help and Cuban cadres through Venezuela, He could be in power for many years. I think it is wishful thinking that there will be a popular uprising or coup against him anytime soon. A regime change will require much more overt external action than is likely.
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