Whoever wrote this isn't kidding.
Posted on 11/18/2005 10:34:32 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
SHE'S the Venezuelan government's most detested adversary, a young woman with a quick wit and machine-gun-fast delivery who often appears in Washington or Madrid to denounce what she calls the erosion of democracy under President Hugo Chávez.
In a highly polarized country, María Corina Machado has emerged as perhaps the most divisive figure after Mr. Chávez, a woman who is either beloved or reviled.
Ms. Machado, 38, attractive and a fluent English speaker, is lionized by her allies in the opposition as a worldly sophisticate fighting for democracy. But she is demonized by the government, which characterizes her as a member of a corrupt elite that is doing the bidding of the much reviled Bush administration.
Ms. Machado does not hide her close relations with Washington, which has provided financial aid to Súmate, the anti-Chávez, election-monitoring organization she helps run. In May, she infuriated the government when she met with President Bush at the White House, and she further antagonized officials in September by announcing that Súmate had received a fresh infusion of $107,000 from Washington.
Ms. Machado casts her role as that of a watchdog uncovering the electoral shenanigans she says Mr. Chávez uses to consolidate his hold, a precarious job in Venezuela these days.
"You can push and push, but at some point they are going to get tired and say, 'It is time to get her off our backs,' " Ms. Machado said.
That time arrived for Ms. Machado in September 2004. In a case that Human Rights Watch says is riddled with violations of due process, the attorney general's office charged her and three other Súmate officials with treason and other crimes for having accepted American financing to mount a referendum last year asking voters whether they wished to remove Mr. Chávez from the presidency.
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Whoever wrote this isn't kidding.
hawt/10
Chavez will either put her in jail or have her cacked!
invade to save the lady...ok i get swept away at times..but mi muchachos, our honor is at stake!
My thoughts exactly.
Venezuela may be run by a backward commie, but even they haven't abandoned the notion of treason, as we apparently have.
We have got to take out Chavez and save this woman.
this pic seals it, chavez goes, the babe stays.
Claro que si! Debemos salvarla a ella ahorita!
(Let's save her and Venezuela at the same time!)
I will, however, fund the trip for a squad of younger men to get the job done. We need her as a voice in our camp.
If this woman had been the purpose of a rescue mission in Cuba....Kennedy would have made the Bay of Pigs a success.
Great legs!
Man! Another hot, conservative, woman. The left has got a godawful deficit in this area, no?
Clinton would have been drooling all over this woman...
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