Lee on Sep 11 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
In solidarity with fellow Marxist anachronism Evo Morales in Bolivia, Hugo Chavez has ordered the US Ambassador out of Venezuela for being an agent of the “imperial aggressor, the genocidal U.S. empire.” He has also recalled the Venezuelan ambassador to Washington, in a complete break of formal diplomatic relations.
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Lee on Sep 06 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
A depressingly confused analogy from Medvedev on US aid to Georgia:
“I wonder how they would like it if we sent humanitarian assistance using our navy to countries of the Caribbean that have suffered from the recent hurricanes.”
(AFP)
We’d welcome that. It’s distressing that the Russian government hears only our resistance, without our reasons [...]
Lance on May 01 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
I say it eventually ends in mass murder, but McQ has the latest intermediate step.
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ChrisB on Mar 03 2008 | Filed under: Chris' Page, Hugo Chavez
McQ alerts us to this developing story in South America.
Colombia, apparently, struck at a narco-terrorist camp inside Ecuador after tracking FARC spokesman Paul Reyes and other leaders there. Reyes and 16 other terrorists were killed.
Chavez reacted by sending troops to the Venezuela/Colombia border:
Now you might ask why Chavez would involve himself in this conflict that [...]
MichaelW on Feb 11 2008 | Filed under: Economics, Foreign affairs, Hugo Chavez, MichaelW's Page, energy
Joseph Kennedy II supports blood for oil.
In recent months, my TV has been bombarded with ads from Joe Kennedy promoting his Citizens Energy program, such as the following:
The heating oil distributed by Citizens Energy comes from Venezuela on a subsidized basis (which its been doing since 1979). Since Hugo Chavez took the reins of [...]
Lee on Feb 10 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Michael Kraft takes a look back at candidate Hugo Chavez in 1998, being interviewed by Jorge Ramos for Univision. Jorge asks a series of what turned out to be extraordinarily prescient questions. In sequence Chavez denies he will shut down media companies, nationalize private industries, or criticize foreign leaders. He even pledges to facilitate and [...]
Lee on Feb 10 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
photo: Citizen Feathers
Feathers has an amusing photograph of Freddy Bernal, the MVR mayor of the Libertador Municipality in Caracas, doing his best George W. Bush impersonation in full cowboy getup. Bernal is one of Hugo Chavez’s most loyal henchmen in the city. He gained some infamy in his own right in 2002, when he was [...]
MichaelW on Feb 04 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Hugo Chavez, MichaelW's Page
John Lilyea has the goods:
So I decided to add my voice to the millions worldwide from here in DC.
I was really surprised that an ad hoc organization put together such a large demonstration in such a short period of time.
More at Gateway Pundit.
UPDATE: Commenter logtar supplies a link to pictures of anti-FARC rallies from [...]
Lance on Jan 27 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Hugo Chavez, Lance's Page
If Hugo inspires such love from the masses of South America, how do you explain this?
Colombia’s Uribe Approval Rating at Record 80%, Tiempo Reports
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Lance on Jan 24 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Hugo Chavez, Lance's Page
Following through on what was reported yesterday, Hugo Chavez continues to step up the pressure on food producers:
Venezuela’s top food company has accused troops of illegally seizing more than 500 tonnes of food from its trucks as part of President Hugo Chavez’s campaign to stem shortages.
The leftist Chavez this week created a state food distributor [...]
Lee on Jan 22 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Venezuelans not fond of Hugo Chavez’s new found affinity for narcoterrorism, are planning street marches in Caracas and Maracaibo to explicitly reject FARC and their murderous barbarism. This is an enormously heartening sign of genuinely worthwhile international solidarity, unlike the vile and dictatorial version Hugo likes to promote. Details in English from Kate at A [...]
Lee on Jan 16 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
The Navy is contemplating reviving the 4th Fleet, which was dissolved 60 years ago. The public rationale is rather vague, referring to the need to demonstrate interest in Latin America. Michael Goldfarb argues that Venezuelan plans to acquire Russian submarines are the real motive.
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Lee on Jan 14 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
For only six bucks the Revolutionary Lemonade Stand sells necklaces with glass bottle pendants containing soil samples from only the holiest totalitarian shrines. Select your choice of Palestine, Venezuela, Cuba, or East Los Angeles (in occupied Aztlán).
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Lee on Jan 13 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
JammieWearingFool hilariously points out that Hugo Chavez’s recent appeal to the world to refer to the FARC as “insurgents,” rather than terrorists, is off to a smashing start. It only took Reuters four paragraphs into the story before they began to comply.
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Lee on Jan 13 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Hugo Chavez breaks his vow to not seek president-for-life powers again. According to Chavez the new referendum will ask: “two questions: ‘Do you agree that Hugo Chavez should continue as president?’ and concurrently ‘Do you agree to a small constitutional amendment to allow indefinite reelection?’”
On the more bizarre Chavismo front, El Universal is apparently claiming [...]
Lance on Jan 12 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Hugo Chavez, Lance's Page
McQ points us to a new, if all too familiar, turn the ugly situation in Venezuela is taking:
Venezuelan Jews, long uneasy with the Chávez government’s alliances with Iran and other Middle Eastern countries that espouse anti-Israel views, are concerned that the government is sponsoring anti-Semitism in this hemisphere, a prominent journalist said Tuesday.
”The situation we [...]
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