[support venezuela]

Just to keep you posted on the situation. A boat with toxic waste from oil exploration and production sunk because it was manned by people not accredited, sent by Chavez's government (since the Merchant Marines are in the general strike). The environmental consequences unimaginableable.

This is a small accident compared with what can happen at refineries due to the same reasons (non-qualified personnel managing the installations). The environmental and ecological consequences can be many times more catastrophic than the ones from the sunken ship.

Also, this morning a commando from the Venezuelan Navy boarded a ship filled with natural gas. This is an incrediflammableable fuel, and a the Navy entered with long assault weapons. An explosion of this tankerwould raze Venezuela's 4th largest city, with more than 500,000 people.

I think is time the world says "Enough of You" to Chavez. The above mentioned events should be enough for even the most left wing liberals to think again about their support for the so-called Bolivarian Revolution.

Please pass it along.

Thanks,

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Are you riding it out ?

[Fish out of Water]

bump

[backhoe]

I will send a link to this story in the next mass email, which goes to an assortment of letters to editors, talk show hosts, and individuals. It will get seen.

[snippy_about_it]

FYI-Background info on Chavez for educational purposes.

Thursday, 5 December, 2002, 21:30 GMT
Profile: Hugo Chavez


Chavez has kept his military image while in office

Hugo Chavez has seen his fortunes swing dramatically from success to failure and back again since his landslide victory in Venezuela's 1998 presidential election.
Only last July, the leftist leader's supporters were out celebrating his re-election in the streets of Caracas, but by April 2002 the whole country was embroiled in a general strike.

This admirer of Fidel Castro's Cuba and avowed anti-globalist was pushed from office on 12 April - as a result of his attempts to take control of the world's fifth-biggest oil industry.

But just two days later, after his supporters - mainly Venezuela's poor - took the streets, he was back in the presidential palace.

Eight months on, Mr Chavez is facing his fourth national strike this year - one that is threatening to severely disrupt the country's economy.



The rest of the story here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1925236.stm

[js1138]

Wassa matter? They don't have any Sopranos to take care of this stuff?

[desertcry]

Where is al gore, and his greenies?

[calenel]

"...should be enough for even the most left wing liberals to think again about their support for the so-called Bolivarian Revolution."


Nope. They don't really care about the environment, they just want to implement a worldwide socialist "utopia" and a few environmental catastrophes aren't an obstacle. Just look at how carefully they manage the environment in places where socialism has taken over and you will see that environmentalists are merely useful idiots for the radical left.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Thank you for the post. It’s a wonder somebody didn’t board the ship carrying liquid gas and then light a cigarette. That would have been interesting.

[shanec]

Also, from...
http://www.militaresdemocraticos.com/articulos/sp/20021211-03.html
...if you can read spanish, it would seem the first diesel available since the strike pinched supplies/production has been rushed off to Cuba to bail out his buddy Fidel.
-Shane