Venezuela Defies U.S., Seeks U.N. Council Seat, Kalashnikovs

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I'm just waiting for all the Chavez haters to jump in here.

And he is sitting on our oil.

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big difference.

Venezuela should be more pliant, like the Red States...

you say that he has mostly spoken up, been verbal, and offered/provided free or reduced cost fuel to the poor in our country.

(Supposedly, he involved himself in helping with the elections of the candidate he supported in Salvador? and Peru? - something I haven't investigated yet for my take on the truth of his harming anyone).

But, as far as this country - I ask you to take note. At any moment the war rhetoric is going to get kicked up and he will be portrayed as our enemy more than they are portraying it today. He is going to be held up as a physical enemy of this country.

So far, I can' only think of words that have come out of his mouth when standing up to us, to our imperialism.

He has stood up to the oil companies, the usury banks, and the people involved with arranging the coup against him, not us.

He is finding partners in other countries, suppliers in other countries, he has helped Bolivia and Argentina pay off some of their usury debts. His own people are reducing their poverty count. Their literacy is rising.

He has not waged war on us, but that is what we have to look forward to.

We are up to $70.00 a barrel partly because of our disregard for a duly elected President of a company - one that won't play ball with userers and dominators.

of Chalabi. Here's what the Venezuela Info Office put out in response to those claims:

Garcia Wins Peruvian Presidency
Alan Garcia won Peru’s presidential election last Sunday, after campaigning to be a counterbalance to President Chavez’s influence in the region. In the weeks leading up to the vote, Chavez and Venezuela’s supposed “meddling” became a major theme in the election.

Particularly harmful were accusations that Venezuela had been secretly funneling money to the campaign of Garcia opponent Ollanta Humala. It turns out, however, that these stories, which inflamed the Peruvian press, were based largely on the testimony of one man, Moisés Boyer, who has been discredited in the past for fabricating his background to make similar false testimony in other countries.



Fraudulent Allegations
In 2003, Boyer claimed to have evidence that Venezuela was sending money to leftist guerilla groups in Colombia. In an interview with the Bogotá-based newspaper El Espectador, Boyer claimed to be the pilot of a plane that flew an Armed Forced of Colombia (FARC) commander into Venezuela on orders from Venezuela's Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel. But the story wasn’t true. Boyer had lied about his background and the events of the story. In a remarkable retraction published on August 12, 2003, El Espectador said it had been “deceived by Moises Roberto Boyer Riobueno,” maintaining that the newspaper now felt “the conviction that the interviewee lied to us.?? The newspaper apologized to its readers for giving credibility to Boyer’s story. Boyer was eventually deported from Colombia and has lived in Trijillo, Peru ever since.

This time around, Boyer identified himself as a member of the Venezuelan military, an impossible feat for a man who had left Venezuela years earlier. Unfortunately, his story had a strong influence over Peru’s elections.

fool-operatives. How they ingratiate themselves to the WH and CIA, how they get in trouble with the WH-CIA (Chalabi-bin Laden-Trujillo), how they get publicity, how entire countries can fall for the propaganda.

I'm grateful for your post.

I now have another name to add to the fool list -

Moises Roberto Boyer Riobueno.

I'm sure he will pop up again.

of their mendacity, they do it again. It's like a magic trick.

Chavez reported sinking millions into revamping and putting into place steel industry infrastructure in his country. I figured this was for weapons production purposes.

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... they need their own steel mills if they want to build and modernize the country, plus it is good economic sense to produce your own if possible, in respect to Venezuela's situation.

His brand of populism requires a strong enemy, both at home and abroad; if he doesn't have one, he'll make one. Even if we'd have sucked up to him, he'd be America-bashing at every opportunity. He had only vitriol for the US before the US really had an opportunity to say anything bad about him.

"brand of populism requires a strong enemy, both at home and abroad; if he doesn't have one, he'll make one"

The current Republican administration does little else, although Democratic U.S. regimes have played this game too.

by the way.

Death to the Empire.
Long live the Republic of the United States

oh, and add, 'delete' the CIA, the NSA, and Negroponte's thugs and death squads.

http://www.soaw.org/new/

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First the US tries to oust Chavez a duly elected president of Venezuela...when that didn't work one of our "God fearing" religious nuts that frequently communicate with Bush says we ought to assassinate Chavez. Well Mr. Bush and the religious nut case, I'm an American and I say LEAVE president Chavez ALONE, DAMN IT. I don't want my sons being killed and killing so the wealthy in this country can confiscate the wealth of other countries. Maybe the problem for the US is the wealthy that do not handle their wealth wisely for the good of all concerned. Frankly, I'm getting sick of the mess the wealthy make out of the lives of the common man. I wish more of you would wake up and smell the coffee and stop believing the crap your present administration is feeding you.

Chavez doesn't plan to invade the US. He is wisely setting up defense for his country...after all look what the US did to Iraq. Who the hell wouldn't be afraid of the US? North Korea is scared so they are preparing for their countries defense. Only an idiot would expect other countries to just sit there and take orders and not defend themselves.

Chavez, King Jong II, and Ahmadinejad.

by G W Bush and the neocon gang.

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if somebody asked him. Then you could add Bush to your list of evils.

dude... give it up already. It's getting old.

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That's defying the U.S.?

and i've gotta say i find this knee-jerk attacks against chavez pretty strange. its something i've come to expect more from free republic than here.

WTF kind of stupid shit line is that?

How about "* Defies World, Invades Iraq Illegally"

* defied the US and appointed his piece of shit to the UN seat.