Posted on 12/11/2008 3:55:56 AM PST by Cindy
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has defied the United States unlike any other leader in the Western Hemisphere since Cuba's Fidel Castro. Chavez has strong ties with state sponsors of terror, suppresses democracy at home, and has worked to destabilize his neighbors.
Recently, Chavez has also helped the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah establish a base in the Western hemisphere.
For years, the U.S. State Department has stated its concern that Hezbollah raises funds “among the sizable Muslim communities” the South America, and that weak rule of law could “tempt terrorist groups to seek to establish safe havens” in the tri-border area between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay. Indeed, with the aid of Iranian embassies, the area was believed to be a staging ground for Hezbollah’s 1992 and 1994 bombings of Jewish and Israeli targets in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
It was the U.S. Treasury Department, however, that provided recent evidence that Hezbollah had found a safe haven in Venezuela.
(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...
Great, terror camps in South America. Glad I lived to see that one.
OPINION:
It’s been going on for awhile.
LLS
I understand.
I follow the wot/gwot online.
ping
The “Triple Border” area has been a hotbed of Islamic terrorists for some time and it has long been known that Hezbollah was active and raised money in Latin America (along with other groups such as the Marxist Irish terrorists, the IRA, who provided explosives training to Islamists). The difference is that you now have some of the newly Marxist LatAm states, such as Venezuela, actively supporting them.
Mark
I’ver never watched that show Mark.
OPINION:
In my opinion, Hugo is a useful idiot for Iran, Cuba, Russia and possibly North Korea.
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Hugo needs to have his wings clipped.
I’ver never watched that show Mark.
GACK!!!!!!!
And you call yourself a FReeper?!?!?! Or are you a WITCH?!?!?! (you'd get that if you saw MP&tHG!)
Well, you really should rent it sometime... There's a lot of Monty Python based humor on FR!
But, in regards to "The Black Knight," here you go...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eMkth8FWno
Mark
Do not use CITGO gasoline and heating oil. CITGO is owned by the Chavez government!
AND
Drill, baby, drill - in ANWAR and offshore!
Yes, and no, McCain didn't. And The One won't be doing it. He'll be promoting $40m+, 100 mile, electric cars, irrespective of whether we have the non-fossil fueled plants to produce it. Which we don't.
Yes.
BIG DITTO.
As we have been saying for several years now.
Hugo, llke Saddam before him and like the Ayatollahs, has trashed all the rest of his economy and put everything on oil, where his incompetent decisions were masked so long as prices were high.
Further, he has brought in the Chinese oil people, whose tendency is to kill any field in order to boost short-term production with excessive water flooding.
Drive the oil price down further as we have suggested and keep it there and he will be overthrown.
Drilling is a big part of it but there is more.
Zarodinu, here is some "light" reading on the subject if you are so inclined:
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/09/05/hezbollah-in-venezuela-part-i/
Thank you for posting that link, Oorang.
Thanks for the info, although sometimes I would rather not know. Helps me sleep at night.
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