Posted on 08/07/2006 4:14:17 PM PDT by Kitten Festival
Todays Cronica newspaper of Mexico City has a disturbing front page photo: Elementary school-age children dressed in full war regalia, grinning before a camera and saying how ready they are to defend Hugo Chavezs Marxist revolution.
If theres ever a corruption of childish exuberance, this is it. Our source in Caracas is a little bit skeptical of it, because he hasnt seen any of this stuff duplicated around Venezuela, and right now he wonders if it could be contrived. In Mexico, anti-Chavez sentiment is high, even in the press. Still, Cronica is a reliable news source.
If its not a hoax or some other kind of anomaly, it represents a new stage in the Cubanization of the country, the indoctrination of the very young into Chavezs brand of communist ideology. If you can read the accompanying article in Spanish, it describes how the youngsters are taught to admire Che Guevara and Carlos The Jackal, and how the proprietors of the education system are making no bones about politicizing the childrens education. Its a step downward because education in Venezuela has always been free and nonpartisan. Now its being made ideological.
This photo also would represent the trademark of all communist regimes: a state of permanant warfare, not just against external enemies but even more important to tyrants, internal ones. The sight of young children in military uniforms without the judgment of adults is ominous, given the impact of child soldiers in anarchic places like Liberia, Rwanda and Burma. Venezuela, too, is an anarchic place.
No good will come of this.
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Chavez is megalomaniacal, in the extreme.
Do they carry little red books?
Then the tattling on the parents for "anti-revolutionary" activity.
We've seen this movie before.
We've seen this movie before.
We are seeing the libs trying that C^@p right here!
I was just wondering when the Democrats would get around to this, putting kids in military uniform and have them chanting "Socialismo"
Chavez isn't a dictator - he's just a "President" for life with military backing. :)
The same things we saw from the Beard and Ortega, then Tirofijo....
and then this...Money back guarantee if not completely satisfied... or if he lives.
A.M. does the best stuff on Venezuela.
HITLER did the same thing...
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