“In a document dated Feb. 9, Marquez passes along Chavez’s thanks for a $150,000 gift when he was imprisoned from 1992-94 for leading a failed coup—and indicates Chavez’s desire to smear Uribe.”
Take this in context from someone living in a country with some FARC activity. I am not an apologist by any means.
Either a smear or a serious translation issue. Does anyone think chavez waited until 3 weeks ago to offer thanks for a favor 16 years past? One view would be that this is a well-composed smear, if I am supposed to believe that chavez is just now sending thanks, along with the obama item. Would Obama’s shadow machine have feelers with farc this early? Heck, I have no idea. Maybe?
But the chavez thanks could have simply been reiteration of something long since noted and forwarded in some other context, and simply repeated by a megalomaniac. This article doesn’t provide any clues.
Chavez often refers to that first coup attempt and people who were his faithful friends when nobody else could give him the time of day, etc., etc. Like all good dictators, he’s a self-obsessed fool. So I saw the comments about the $150,000 as simply his usual somewhat unctuous recalling of a former gesture of support as a prelude to asking for something new.
That’s funny.
Jimmy Carter said Chavez election was fair and balanced and not corrupt and that he was an outstanding supporter of democracy. And all of the other democrats, liberals, and Hollywood elite (but I repeat myself) said that too.
Not a typical Communist thug intent on spreading his socialism and warfare to neighboring countries.......