Posted on 08/25/2009 7:20:41 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
Just the headline
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Story is up at the link now
What is diplomacy between Venezuela and Columbia like anyway? Don’t they just hang out at a strip club and eat ribs?
No love lost there. They have been arming FARC guerrillas in Colombia forever
Columbia should be so lucky.
Great plan Hugo... and this is going to hurt Columbia how?
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela is preparing to break off diplomatic relations with Colombia over its plan to give U.S. troops greater access to its military bases.
President Hugo Chavez says “there is no possibility” of repairing ties with Colombia’s government.
Colombia and the United States are negotiating an agreement that would let the U.S. military increase its presence at seven Colombian bases through a 10-year lease agreement.
Colombian and U.S. officials say it is necessary to more effectively fight drug trafficking and terrorism.
Chavez says the agreement poses a threat to Venezuela.
The socialist leader told his foreign minister on Tuesday to “begin preparing for the rupture with Colombia.”
Putin and Jintao continue to interfere in our backyard, and all Obama can do is condone their actions.
Good...Colombia is our best ally despite the way the Dems have treated them.
Is Chavez attempting to be a comedienne here?
i find this all a little remarkable. how is it that obama is letting this happen to another fascist?
What's the matter, Chavez, you little fat greasy pig, afraid your commie jungle monkeys you are arming for a "glorious revolution" are going to face hard times?
Boo hoo.
Columbia isn't going to suffer anything because a backstabber like you "severs ties". In fact they'll be relieved.
No worries Hugo. YOur buddy in the White House will NEVER let American forces ACTUALLY be based in Columbia. Trust him — he’s on YOUR side.
Yay Colombia. HOYA and ONU have leftist blocs, why not we form democrat bloc with Panama, Peru, Chile, Colombia. We want USA like with Bush pro-democracy, but we hold breath until Obama is over. Good thing we grow own food here.
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If there is one man on earth that Hugo Chavez hates and fears more than any other, it is Alvaro Uribe. Singlehandedly, Uribe has thwarted Chavez's attempt to seize Colombia via aid to FARC, and has what was once the most powerful and richest guerrilla army in the world on the ropes.
In the process, under Uribe the Colombian Army has become a battle-hardened lethally competent military force. Which is why he, in response to the ever-rising bombast of Chavez threats - such as he's "ready for combat" with Colombia, would love to jump into Chavez's briar patch.
One reason is the answer to this trick question: When was the last time the Venezuelan military fought a war with a foreign army? It's a trick question because the answer is never. Since Venezuela's independence in 1830 - when Gran Colombia, the country created by Simon Bolivar broke apart with Bolivar's death - the Venezuelan military has never fought a war with a neighbor or any foreign country, not ever, not once.
If there ever were an all-out war between Colombia and Venezuela, Uribe's forces would eat Chavez's alive. Uribe is fully aware of this, but he's a very cautious guy. So he's hoping to goad Chavez with infuriating pinpricks of annoyance until Chavez's bullying bluster finally snaps - so that instead of loudmouth threats to invade Colombia, he actually does. Then Uribe gets to take Caracas.
That's the end game. Right now, Uribe is goading Chavez into shutting off trade with Colombia. It would hurt Colombian exporters short-term, but cause vast damage on the other side. Venezuelans buy 300 million cubic feet of natural gas a day from Colombia. Chavez has screwed up food production so much that most of the fresh food Venezuelans eat now is from Colombia. No gas and no fresh food can make people unhappy really fast.
About time we built a real presence in Central America. They’ve been taken over by commies for the last 50 years and we did nothing.
All of these things are very true, but you forgot to mention another arch-enemy of Colombia: the Democratic Party. They have been trying for decades to withdraw any US support from Colombia and throw our support to the left-wing regimes, the more extreme, the better.
For awhile, there were other budding capitalist democracies there, but we have simply watched them be taken over one after another (Bolivia was a particularly egregious case) and now Colombia is virtually the only one left. Honduras was one that had hung on, and we can see what Obama’s attitude toward that oversight was! He would like to crush it and make it become the leftwing dictatorship that he feels so comfortable with.
I think it’s remarkable the there is still any US military support at all in place for Colombia; recently, the Dems have managed to block the free trade agreement and they also fulminate gratuitously against Colombia from time to time in the Senate, just for the heck of it. Chavez can’t do a thing without Obama, Obama hates Colombia at least as much as does Chavez, and we can only hope he’s too busy trying to destroy his own country to turn much attention to supporting Chavez and destroying another Latin American country.
I don’t blame Chavez in this situation. Here is a case where Columbia, a neighbor of his, is lurching to his left, yes - even more leftist of Chavez, by aligning with the United States and -12bama.
Really? Chavez will stop sending his drug thugs into Columbia? And Columbia will stop sending troops after Chavez’ drug thugs? Gosh, how terrible /sarcasm
Once we get the liberals out of office it will be a good base to use to liberate Venezuela.
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