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Hugo Chavez: Pirate Of The Caribbean
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Posted on 05/23/2005 11:25:47 AM PDT by HellsGateBass
Latin America: Odd, that as "popular" as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is said to be, he's so detested by Venezuelans that he can no longer go to baseball games without being booed by the whole stadium.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: alba; alca; bully; caribbean; castro; chavez; cuba; hugochavez; ibd; intimidate; latinamerica; military; minime; pirate; scare; threat; thug; trade; unpopular; venezuala; venezuela
To: HellsGateBass
Castro is really popular in Cuba, also..........
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posted on
05/23/2005 11:27:36 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(I woke up this morning and discovered my Memory Foam mattress had Alzheimer's......)
To: HellsGateBass
Chavez's people don't go to baseball games.
To: HellsGateBass
He's so afraid of potential rebellions that some observers believe his real game is to set up a safe place in Havana for Venezuela's biggest money centers — oil and banking. That in turn would keep cash within his access. No people-power revolution can reach this money in Havana. Or possibly he's being groomed as Castro's successor. Afterall, don't you think he could rule Venezuela from Havana, or Cuba from Carracas?
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posted on
05/23/2005 11:31:55 AM PDT
by
Brilliant
To: Eric in the Ozarks
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posted on
05/23/2005 11:34:15 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Controlled substance laws created the federal health care monopoly and fund terrorism.)
To: HellsGateBass
He is one of Jimmy Carter's favorite.
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posted on
05/23/2005 11:35:23 AM PDT
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
("In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit." AYN RAND)
To: HellsGateBass
Castro gives nothing of value in return for Venezuela's 90,000 barrels of oil a day, worth $1 billion, shipped each year to Cuba. So now it looks like the Venezuelan people are supporting Cuba in addition to their own families. Ya gotta hand it to Castro. He really has perfected the art of being a beggar.
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posted on
05/23/2005 11:35:37 AM PDT
by
Brilliant
To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
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posted on
05/23/2005 11:36:14 AM PDT
by
Brilliant
To: E. Pluribus Unum
There's no question baseball is popular in Venezuela. The people who follow after Chavez have other priorities.
To: HellsGateBass
Two words: sniper's bullet.
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posted on
05/23/2005 11:44:22 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
To: HellsGateBass
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posted on
05/23/2005 11:51:03 AM PDT
by
RippleFire
("It's a joke, son!")
To: HellsGateBass
Chavez is being deliberately and noisily provocative in the way Kim Jong Il has been - it's almost like a little kid demanding his parents' attention. Pity this little kid is bullying his neighbors so.
No one is really worried about Venezualan planes strafing Miami. Bogota, now, that's another matter.
To: HellsGateBass; Dog Gone; Grampa Dave; Southack; BOBTHENAILER
This guy is just trying to parlay the Castro torment of the US into a legacy for himself. A real tird whirled tortellenni like Mousillini!!! (actually, he's a weenie)
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posted on
05/23/2005 1:12:25 PM PDT
by
SierraWasp
(The "Heritage Oaks" in the Sierra-Nevada Conservancy are full of parasitic GovernMental mistletoe!!!)
To: SierraWasp
Chavez has to go. Venezuela is too strategically important to us to let it be run by a Castro clone.
We should finally do what he accuses us of doing from the start. Organize a coup.
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posted on
05/23/2005 1:16:38 PM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: Dog Gone; SierraWasp; Grampa Dave
We should finally do what he accuses us of doing from the start. Organize a coupCouldn't agree more.
Concurrently with supporting one in Iran. Two fer one shopping special.
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posted on
05/23/2005 2:04:56 PM PDT
by
BOBTHENAILER
(One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do, but we're gonna getcha)
To: BOBTHENAILER
Time to hold a Blue Light Special in both countries.
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posted on
05/23/2005 2:11:19 PM PDT
by
Dog Gone
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