Reading about a countries military power before posting on a forum can do miracles for a posts contents.
I recall a time many months ago when tensions were up between Columbia and Venezuela, and some of the experts*** here concluded they were evenly matched ...
Venezuela received "much much much" military hardware from us (America) before Hugo came to power ...
I've had all I can have with Chavez's stupidity ... why we allow a loose cannon to remain in charge of a oil producing country in our hemisphere is beyond me ...
*** experts - word used very loosely. ;-)
VZ has also received tons of military hardware from Iran - recently. I think they’re much better armed than one imagines.
Bambi waited on saying anything about Iran until he had heard from Chavez (who strongly supported Amandinejad) and then he came out with that mild non-statement. We’ll see what Bambi does now in the case of Honduras, now that he’s heard from his idol Chavez. I wouldn’t be surprised if he ordered US troops in.
BTW, the former (leftwing) president of Honduras was trying to stage an “auto-golpe,” meaning a self-coup where an elected leader takes over all powers and gets himself permanently in power. He had been told by the Courts and parliament that he couldn’t do it, but he was going to go ahead with the faux “referendum” anyway, so the authorities had every right to get rid of him. He’s just lucky they didn’t execute him.
” why we allow a loose cannon to remain in charge of a oil producing country in our hemisphere is beyond me ... “
I thought it was the people of Venezuela who were allowing Chavez to remain in charge, not us, but anyway, what should we do?