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Posted on 10/11/2006 8:49:42 PM PDT by SmithL
Venezuela President Hugo Chavez warned Wednesday that his country is ready to take action against any government that takes power in Bolivia if his close ally, Evo Morales, is toppled.
Chavez repeated allegations that a U.S.-backed plan was under way to prevent Morales' administration from governing effectively so that his removal could be justified later.
"Venezuela will not keep its arms crossed if the Bolivian government and people are attacked from outside or within," he said in a televised speech.
Venezuela will "do whatever it can so that the (next) government lasts as long as Carmonazo's did," he said, in reference to Pedro Carmona, who headed an interim government for less than 48 hours during a 2002 against Chavez.
The short-lived coup ended abruptly amid a popular uprising that helped restore Chavez to power.
Chavez did not elaborate on what actions his government might be willing to take if something similar in Bolivia happens.
The Venezuelan leader has repeatedly accused government opponents in Bolivia, the media, and the U.S. Embassy in La Paz, of trying to stir dissidence among military officers and fomenting recent strikes and other unrest in the country.
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This is a different and more dangerous world. The rule against popping rogue a$$wipe bozos like Chavez is outdated. He needs 150 grains of lead lodged in the center of his skull. Calling any Rangers, SEALS, Mossad agents or anybody who can handle the job.
Chavez' real colors are emerging: He's blue in the face from having a perpetual tantrum.
Maybe he will just stroke out.
That level of intense paranoia, sustained for such a long time, can't be good!
... or do good. Nukes, guns, socialism, paranoia -- a very bad combination. brrr.
Is there anything that we are not responsible for?
Chavez doesn't have the domestic support to send troops away from his borders.
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