It's no wonder that Chavez is cracking down now.
-PJ
Posted on 11/12/2006 11:54:43 AM PST by Kitten Festival
How do you fail to see one elephant walking downtown? When there are dozens of elephants walking with him. When do you fail to see a coup? When many are openly conducting it.
A coup d'état is in progress in Venezuela at this very moment. Hugo Chávez leads it in his double role as president and presidential candidate in the upcoming elections. This open rebellion against the constitution and the laws of the republic started several days ago, when Rafael Ramírez, the Oil Minister cum president of the State oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), addressed employees of the company to tell them that whoever was not with Chávez had to leave the company immediately. Ramírez threatened to fire anyone who dissented, in the same way that Chávez sacked 19,500 PDVSA employees in 2002 for being "enemies of the revolution." Ramírez said that PDVSA was "red" from top to bottom, red being the color chosen by the so-called "Bolivarian Revolution" of Hugo Chávez. This speech was recorded in its entirety and its authenticity is not in dispute. On the contrary, next day the Venezuelan strongman publicly congratulated Ramírez and asked him to "repeat the speech one hundred times a day." In the same opportunity he said that the Venezuelan armed forces were equally "red" and at the service of the revolution. This also constituted an open violation of the Venezuelan constitution in its article 328 and to the laws of the republic. How would the international opinion react if Bush or Fox, just to mention two presidents of democratic countries publicly stated that the armies of their countries were at the service of their political parties or groups? Why would this create a global commotion but there is no reaction when it takes place in Venezuela?
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Let's check with Carter. If something were amiss, he would be the first to notice.
I asked Slick and he said "heh heh,.... no problem.....better put some ice on that".
Hugo ping.
Hugo Chavez,is just doing what tin horn dictators do.
So you think the people here in the US give a rats rear end about democracy think again, we are going socialist/populist
with a cadre of gay/lefties liberals in charge.
The only aid youll recieve from us in the future might be
condoms and a few abortionists.
It's no wonder that Chavez is cracking down now.
-PJ
Maybe there is hope! Keep Jimmah on the farm.
Hey, I hear McGovern is back. Right timing to
give a boost to the newst communist state.
Dos this mean Civil war?
Jimmah says he's ok, 'cause Hugo hates Bush.
Gustavo Coronel is one of my favorite voices of sanity. Knows a scoundrel when he sees one, and has the guts to say so.
jimmy is very possibly caught up in a childhood cycle of trying to please his father. it explains his otherwise inexplicable attraction to charismatic dictators (torrijos, chavez, castro), and given what I have read about his childhood (his own comments) it actually does fit.
Dear Lord, God--Almighty,
PLEASE REMOVE THAT rebellious scum from the policital scene entirely. Please strengthen the forces for righteousness in key areas all around the country, in Jesus' Name.
He will be president for life. I hope the Vennies enjoy him!
Attention CIA: Venezuela, a government in serious need of an "adjustment." Time to earn your keep, boys.
bump and ping
Jimmuh's resting up after celebrating the election victory this week of Daniel Ortega, that old Sandinista, in Nicaragua. Jimmuh "monitored" Ortega's election, just like he did Chavez's.
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