PING – Hugo is at it again!
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Posted on 05/08/2006 7:04:21 PM PDT by abu afak
The Venezuelan President aligns himself with dictators, human rights abusers, notorious narcoterrorists-
WHICH INTERNATIONAL leader publicly threatens to blow up his country’s oilfields, supports Iran’s nuclear programme, says that the Falklands belong to Argentina and believes that Robert Mugabe is a “true freedom-fighter”?
The answer is none other than Hugo Chávez, the President of Venezuela, who readily antagonises and hurls insults at the leaders of other nations, including Tony Blair, whom he called an “ally of Hitler”. Next week London will have the dubious honour of a visit by Señor Chávez, hosted by none other than its mayor, Ken Livingstone.
Emboldened by a huge windfall of petrodollars due to climbing oil prices, Señor Chávez has no shortage of international cheerleaders. He has become the voice and leader of the resentful of our world. From Argentina to the offices of the Greater London Authority, almost every person bearing a grudge against capitalism, free markets, democracy and the rule of law support his “revolution”.
Once an island of stability in a region ravaged by coups d’état and dictatorships, Venezuela under President Chávez has become the source of instability in Latin America. The Chávez administation has, for instance, a cosy relationship with the FARC, the Colombian narcoterrorist group. When Rodrigo-Granda, its leader, was captured in 2004 by bounty hunters on the streets of Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, Señor Chávez’s irrational reaction was telling. He suspended relations with Colombia, Venezuela’s second-largest trading partner, claiming that the Colombians had violated national sovereignty. Granda not only had been living in Venezuela and been given citizenship, but his wife and stepdaughter were allowed into the country in 2002 thanks to orders from the Minister of Interior and Justice.
Senor Chávez, commanding billions from PDVSA, the state-owned oil company, interferes in the domestic politics of neighbouring countries...."
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
Chavez, Castro, Mugabe and all the other depraved commie dictators should be "persona non grata" everywhere in the world. If the nations of the world did not coddle and support these scumbags it would be harder for them to pretend to credibility and international respect.
Chavez ping, overall view.
I would laugh my butt off if the CIA kidnapped him or better yet poisoned him with led.
Running with the devil indeed.
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