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Saturday, November 17, 2007

HUGO'S "GOOD NEIGHBOR" POLICY: ATTACK FIRST, ASK QUESTIONS LATER


BBC: Venezuela 'attacked Guyana boats'
Venezuela has denied destroying two gold-mining dredges on Guyanese territory following a strong protest from Guyana's government.

Guyana says 36 Venezuelan soldiers used helicopters and Compostion-4 (C-4), a type of plastic explosive, to blow up the two dredges on Thursday.

It has summoned Venezuela's ambassador to explain the incident.

Venezuela denies using force and said the army was removing illegal miners inside its own territory.

Territorial dispute

The dredges were in a disputed border region that has seen a number of recent incidents.
GEE, I WONDER WHAT SEAN PENN THINKS OF THIS?

THEN AGAIN, MA
YBE WE SHOULD USE THE SAME FORCE ON OUR BORDER WITH MEXICO!

UPDATE: THE NYTIMES - WHICH DID A PAEAN TO A SOVIET SPY EARLIER THIS WEEK - IS PAYING TRIBUTE TO CHAVEZ TODAY (THEY LOVE HIM MORE THAN SEAN PENN, IT SEEMS!):
Chávez’s Vision Shares Wealth and Centers Power
By SIMON ROMERO

CARACAS, Venezuela, Nov. 16 — In two weeks, Venezuela seems likely to start an extraordinary experiment in centralized, oil-fueled socialism.

By law, the workday would be cut to six hours. Street vendors, homemakers and maids would have state-mandated pensions. And President Hugo Chávez would have significantly enhanced powers and be eligible for re-election for the rest of his life.


A sweeping revision of the Constitution, expected to be approved by referendum on Dec. 2, is both bolstering Mr. Chávez’s popularity here among people who would benefit and stirring contempt from economists who declare it demagogy. Signaling new instability here, dissent is also emerging among his former lieutenants, one of whom says the president is carrying out a populist coup.

“There is a perverse subversion of our existing Constitution under way,” said Gen. Raúl Isaías Baduel, a retired defense minister and former confidant of Mr. Chávez who broke with him in a stunning defection this month to the political opposition. “This is not a reform,” General Baduel said in an interview here this week. “I categorize it as a coup d’état.”

Chávez loyalists already control the National Assembly, the Supreme Court, almost every state government, the entire federal bureaucracy and newly nationalized companies in the telephone, electricity and oil industries. Soon they could control even more.

But this is an upheaval that would be carried out with the approval of the voters. While opinion polls in Venezuela are often tainted by partisanship, they suggest that the referendum could be Mr. Chávez’s closest electoral test since his presidency began in 1999, but one he may well win.

“We are witnessing a seizure and redirection of power through legitimate means,” said Alberto Barrera Tyszka, co-author of a best-selling biography of Mr. Chávez. “This is not a dictatorship but something more complex: the tyranny of popularity.”

One of the 69 amendments allows Mr. Chávez to create new administrative regions, governed by vice presidents chosen by him. Critics say the reforms would also shift funds from states and cities, where a handful of elected officials still oppose him, to communal councils, new local governing entities that are predominantly pro-Chávez.

Interviews this week on the streets here and in Maracaibo, Venezuela’s second largest city, offer a window into the strength of Mr. Chávez’s followers and the challenges of his critics. His supporters, many of whom are public servants in a bureaucracy that has recently ballooned, have flooded poor districts to campaign for the overhaul.

“The comandante should have more power because he is the force behind our revolution,” said Egda Vilchez, 51, a pro-Chávez activist, as she campaigned in favor of the new charter this week at a busy intersection in Cacique Mara, an area of slums in eastern Maracaibo.

Such statements may sound dogmatic, but they are voiced with a fervor in organized campaigning that is unmatched in richer areas of Venezuela’s largest cities, from which much of the opposition to Mr. Chávez is drawn.
THIS IS A PHONY WAY TO LOOK AT CHAVEZ. WHY? BECAUSE THE POLICIES CHAVEZ PROMOTES HAVE NEVER WORKED ANYWHERE AT ANYTIME.

IN FACT, THE SHORTAGES HAVE ALREADY BEGUN.

THIS IS A BLACK AND WHITE ISSUE: SOVIETIZING VENEZUELA IS A HORRIFYING THING, AND EVERYBODY SHOULD OPPOSE IT. EVEN THE NYTIMES.

10 comments:

J. said...

Yeah, it's ok for the US to invade any country for any ridiculous reason the president can pull out of his ass(that goes for Clinton too), but Chavez is an aggressor.

Reliapundit said...

your commie comments are soo so so soooooo predictable.

and laughable.

grow up.

socialism killed more people and committed more genocide in the 20th century than religion did in the preceding 20 centuries.

excluding islam, of course.

saddam was in violation of unscr#1441, kay and blix testified to this.

therefore saddam had violated what amounted to the armistice which ended the Gulf War in 1991.

therefore, bush did not start a war, he ended one.

the invasion was right and just and legal.

may i remind you that the UN was in iraq IMMEDIATELY after the war, and only left after their mission got bombed (because they refused US military defenses).

the USA remnains there at the invitation of the democratic republic oif iraq AND a UN mandate which has been renewed every year.

the iraqis are better off.

fewer iraqis have died each year since this war than died each year under saddam.

PLEASE KEEP COMMENTING HERE.

YOUR COMMENTS EXPOSE THE LEFT FOR WHAT IT IS.

ESPECIALLY THE COMMENTS I WHICH YOU APPLAUDED THE DEATH AND MAIMING OF OUR SOLDIERS.

LOVE YOUR BLOG FOR THE SAME REASON TOO!BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

J. said...

The strange way in which your primintive mind works is very intriguing. Let me get this straight:

Socialism killed more people in the 20th century than religion killed in the preceding 20 centuries- except Islam? So Islam killed more than "socialism"? Or was Islam supposedly responsible for the bulk of religious killings according to you?

Interesting reasoning, if you can call it that. Incidentily, socialism didn't kill anything near that amount of people, and any time you want to try to back up your claims about ANYTHING here, feel free to join some forum like The Lyceum and we'll examine your wacky claims about Iraq as well.

Please at least have the common courtesy not to lump me in with the liberals or the mainstream American left; I have plenty of flak for those guys as well, but this isn't a liberal site.

How many of "your troops" got butchered or maimed today?

Reliapundit said...

islam killed more people than christianity.

Reliapundit said...

u r a piece of shit.

dog shit is a higher form of life than you.

Reliapundit said...

i wouldn't debate youy for a million euros.

Reliapundit said...

please go back to sucking commiec*ck in your lovely little lyceum and leave me alone.

Reliapundit said...

btw:

stalin mao and hitler were all socialist.

add up their genocide and pol pots and you have a millions more than were killed by the West for the previous 20 centuries.

and yet you still support their ideology.

idiot.

Reliapundit said...

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Reliapundit said...

http://rationalred.blogspot.com/

rational!?!?!

bwahahahahahaha!

your motto:

'No force, no torture, no intrigue, no deception can eradicate Marxism-Leninism from the minds and hearts of men.' -Enver Hoxha

bwahahahahaha!

marx!?!?!?!?!?!?

bwahahahahaha!

read hayek.

hayek was right.

marx was wrong.

and an evil racist scumbag.

MARCISM WAS THE BIGGEST HOAX IN THE OWRLD.

SECOND BIGGEST???

AGW. ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING. AND THE WHOLE CO2 BULLSHIT.

look you idiotic punk:

i was a leftie raised by american card-carrying commies.

i opposed the vietnam war and nixon and reagan and thatcher.

but history has proven that they were right.

open your eyes.

or keep them closed if you prefer.

i can see how keeping them closed might be better for you - as you have your head up your ass.

now fuckoff you ruskie commie turd.