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The Chavista child military of Venezuela
The American Thinker ^ | 7 August 2006 | A.M. Mora y Leon

Posted on 08/07/2006 4:14:17 PM PDT by Kitten Festival

Today’s 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 Chavez’s Marxist “revolution.”

If there’s ever a corruption of childish exuberance, this is it. Our source in Caracas is a little bit skeptical of it, because he hasn’t 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 it’s 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 Chavez’s 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. It’s a step downward because education in Venezuela has always been free and nonpartisan. Now it’s 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chavista; child; childsoldiers; communism; hugochavez; hugoping; latinamerica; military; soldier; thugs; venezuela

1 posted on 08/07/2006 4:14:18 PM PDT by Kitten Festival
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To: Kitten Festival
Next comes the goose-stepping.

Chavez is megalomaniacal, in the extreme.

2 posted on 08/07/2006 4:16:37 PM PDT by sinkspur (Today, we settled all family business.)
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To: Kitten Festival

Do they carry little red books?


3 posted on 08/07/2006 4:18:03 PM PDT by pageonetoo (You'll spot their posts soon enough!)
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To: sinkspur
Next comes the goose-stepping.

Then the tattling on the parents for "anti-revolutionary" activity.

We've seen this movie before.

4 posted on 08/07/2006 4:18:21 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator
Then the tattling on the parents for "anti-revolutionary" activity.

We've seen this movie before.

We are seeing the libs trying that C^@p right here!

5 posted on 08/07/2006 4:22:20 PM PDT by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA, Minuteman Project AZ 2005, Texas Minutemen El Paso, Oct and April 2006)
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To: Kitten Festival

I was just wondering when the Democrats would get around to this, putting kids in military uniform and have them chanting "Socialismo"


6 posted on 08/07/2006 4:23:30 PM PDT by GeronL (http://www.mises.org/story/1975 <--no such thing as a fairtax)
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To: Kitten Festival


Chavez isn't a dictator - he's just a "President" for life with military backing. :)


7 posted on 08/07/2006 4:47:48 PM PDT by Tzimisce (How Would Mohammed Vote? Hillary for President! www.dndorks.com)
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To: Kitten Festival

The same things we saw from the Beard and Ortega, then Tirofijo....


8 posted on 08/07/2006 4:51:50 PM PDT by happinesswithoutpeace (Loose lips sink ships and the NYT is the Bermuda triangle.)
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To: sinkspur
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So use JIHADD brand Semtex Explosive to show you really care!!!

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9 posted on 08/07/2006 4:59:02 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: Kitten Festival

A.M. does the best stuff on Venezuela.


10 posted on 08/07/2006 5:13:39 PM PDT by the Real fifi
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To: Kitten Festival

HITLER did the same thing...


11 posted on 08/07/2006 5:58:41 PM PDT by observer5 (It's not a War on Terror - it's a WAR ON STUPIDITY)
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