Posted on 12/19/2002 10:26:02 AM PST by shanec
I had personally interviewed Major Castillo extensively, amongst other Venezuela officers, about this and numerous other topics when down there at the Altamira Plaza in Caracas earlier this month. These military men, IMO, are acting out of the highest integrity and concern for the fate of their country and need to be heard. These 30 Generals and other high-ranking officers know what's really going on there in Chavez's regime with most of them having left him in only the last 60 days. They also have over 18,000 other troops still within Chavez's military who are daily feeding them additional intel while awaiting their orders. See all these brave officers, risking their lives, who are together publicly and daily condemning the Chavez regime here. Click the link "Resisters" in the upper left corner for their photos and comments.
-Shane
Chavez definitely has to go.
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Richard W.
Come focus on this content, Einstein.
Actually, hard to say now, it's likely Chavez who is financing and/or facilitating today some of what we are going after Iraq and other terrorists for doing. And the US govt, I'm afraid, is shy about upsetting their oil imports from Ven on the eve of Iraq invasion and possible ME oil interruptions to make that connection public and say so, loud & clear!
Chavez, and his unbridled praise for, active alliances and support for/with, and openly proclaimed desire to have Venezuela become like; Cuba, Iraq, Libya, and China does not equate to a sustainable future supporter of U.S. interests or oil, not by a long-shot. But, very dangerously, just the opposite!
This is not empty rhetoric from Chavez to be ignored, but even as others have reported that he: "...has Cuban and Colombian paramilitary forces at his disposal." Where do you think they came from? And, should we be surprised to also discover that China is sufficiently comfortable with Chavez to have made more 'investments' in Venezuela than in all of the rest of South America, including Mexico, combined!
Chavez, according to the top military that have recently left him, is an active supporter of the FARC/ELN Columbian revolutionists, that US is currently fighting, and they are supported materially in exchange for lucrative drug trade that's transported via official health dept vehicles here across Venezuela with Puerto Rico as the foreign destination.
And, Chavez donated 1 million $'s to Al Queda in Afganistan shortly after 9/11. He also publicly excused his Chavista supporters burning USA flags then by saying USA brought 9/11 upon itself.
If U.S. supports Chavez by their silence, for illusion of stable oil in the short term, this administration will eventually be seen to have facilitated and allowed another, much more dangerous, Cuba in this hemisphere!
The millions of brave Venezuelans, along with his top military that have deserted him, and are now in the streets protesting Chavez's cubanization of their beloved country know it all too clearly, they've been having to live through it...
Variations of that same "NO CUBA HERE!" sentiment is on a lot of those banners being carried down there right now...
We all here in the U.S.A. better get up-to-speed on this historic fight for freedom in Venezuela that'll surely impact us here, and quick, too!
Attitude-wise, we could hope here in the USA for no better allies than the Venezuelan people. According to the just published 2002 Global Attitudes Survey by the Pew Research Center in Washington; 82% have a favorable opinion of the USA, and that is amongst the highest ratings of all the 44 countries surveyed. And, in regard to supporting the US led war on terrorism, 79% favor it while only 20% oppose it!
Clearly, no country in South America holds more promise for being a strong and effective ally and supporter of the USA, perhaps none better in this entire Hemisphere, *when* Chavez is gone and remnants of his regime are fully rooted out. Also, though, there is no current government in this hemisphere that is a more "Clear & Present Danger" to the USA with the continuation and expansion of Hugo Chavez type initiatives. Unchecked, Chavez will be able to do throughout this hemisphere what Fidel and Saddam have only dreamed/wished they could do!
-Shane
Depends on how much of his oil we can grab.
Richard W.
Sounds like some of the best allies we have in the world and this hemisphere are the Venezuelians.
This alone should be the end of Chavez: Chavez donated 1 million $'s to Al Queda in Afganistan shortly after 9/11. He also publicly excused his Chavista supporters burning USA flags then by saying USA brought 9/11 upon itself.
Chavez donated 1 million $'s to Al Queda in Afganistan shortly after 9/11. He also publicly excused his Chavista supporters burning USA flags then by saying USA brought 9/11 upon itself.
Then if he and his commy friends, including Tio Fidel are involved in bio terror stuff, they should be taken out.
Another thing, though, the Communists seem linked to Alqaida. So Chavez support to Alqaida seems possible. It is an attempted power grab by the have-nots. Same old story. The link between Alqaida and WMD seems speculative, and there is a lot of speculation.
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