Reply #92: Actually, I read it the other way 'round. [View All]

Chavez stoking antagonism against the US and Britain.

After all, that's one of the two reasons for his speech: The first, as spokesman for all of South America, saying they need to unite under their leader. The second, saying what a consequence of the uniting would be, and the external threat.

In this case, he sounds very much like Castro, Mugabe, Lukashenka, and Neejad: "Ése es el viejo imperialismo y solo unidos podremos decirle ¡hasta aquí llegaste!: basta de imperio, de dominación, de explotación."

But it's really not a big problem, since the enemy are, well, foul: "Pero nos quedamos de brazos cruzados, mientras Estados Unidos y Gran Bretaña atropellaban a Argentina y masacraban a un grupo de soldados heroicos que fueron allá a rescatar esas islas y hundían un barco que ni siquiera era de guerra, el Belgrano, y hubo cientos de muertos y tenían planes de bombardear Buenos Aires."

http://ar.news.yahoo.com/s/26082007/24/politica-ch-exige-reino-unido-devuelva-malvinas-argentina.html

And I quote the Spanish because there's a contingent who apparently believe that all translations for those they admire must be positive. Since my translation wouldn't be all that positive and glowing, it would, of course, necessarily be false.