Posts with the tag 'Venezuela'
And, naturally, a fascist:
President Hugo Chávez has used his decree powers to carry out a major overhaul of this country’s intelligence agencies, provoking a fierce backlash here from human rights groups and legal scholars who say the measures will force citizens to inform on one another to avoid prison terms.
Under the new intelligence law, which took effect last week, Venezuela’s two main intelligence services, the DISIP secret police and the DIM military intelligence agency, will be replaced with new agencies, the General Intelligence Office and General Counterintelligence Office, under the control of Chávez.
The new law requires people in the country to comply with requests to assist the agencies, secret police or community activist groups loyal to Chávez. Refusal can result in prison terms of two to four years for most people and four to six years for government employees.
No different from Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Ho, Pol Pot…each, in turn, enjoyed their period of gushing support from the American left, and each of whom became a brutal, fascist dictator. Now Chavez. Any leftists out there want to rethink their earlier statements about how he was just fighting off Yankee Imperialism?
Tags: Hugo Chavez, liberal lies, Venezuela
June 3rd, 2008
That terrorist the Colombian’s killed the other day? Very much wanted by the United States:
March 22, 2006
ATTORNEY GENERAL GONZALES…The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia or FARC, is one of the Justice Department’s highest priority targets in our fight against illegal drug trafficking. For years, this group has controlled the production and distribution of massive amounts of cocaine that ends up in America’s communities. And today I’m pleased to announce important steps in bringing the leaders of this narco terrorist group to justice.
A federal indictment was unsealed today in Washington, D.C. charging 50 members of FARC’s policymaking and operational leadership with importing more than $25 billion worth of cocaine into the United States and other countries.
This is the largest narcotics trafficking indictment ever filed in U.S. history, and fuels our hope to reduce narco violence in Colombia and stem the tide of illegal drugs entering our country…
…MS. PATTERSON: I am very pleased to announce today that the Department of State, through its Narcotics Rewards program, is offering rewards of up $5 million each for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of seven secretariat leaders of the FARC. And these are Pedro Antonio Marin, also known as Tirofijo. Luis Agar Davia Sylvan, also known as Raoul Reyes. Luciano Marin Arango, also known as Ivan Marquez. Guillermo Leon Sanchez, also known as Alphonso Cano. Manuel Munoz Ortiz, also known as Ivan Rios. Victor Julio Suarez Rojas, also known as Mono Jojoy. And Rodrigo Londono Echeverry, also known as Timoleon Jimenez.
The Department of State is also offering rewards of up to $2.5 million for the arrest and/or conviction of another 17 members of the FARC whose names will be made available to you. (emphasis on the guy the Colombians killed)
So, the Colombians nailed a guy who has put quite a lot of drugs on America’s streets (and thus into quite a few American children, among many others) and who we were willing to pay $5 million for…bringing him to trial would have been better, but its not like an innocent person was killed, from what I can see. And now that we find out that Chavez was backing this cretin, we have to work on the assumption that Chavez is actively or passively involved in sending drugs to the United States as well as being a State-sponsor of terrorism.
Anyone really want to wonder which side we should be on in this conflict?
And, also, this is one of those calls at 3am…as per the Hillary ad, whom do you wish to answer such calls after January 20th, 2009?
Tags: Colombia, Hugo Chavez, Narco-terrorism, Pedro Antonio Marin, Venezuela
March 6th, 2008
From World Check:
Reliable Washington sources report that the Treasury Department of the United States, and other government agencies, whilst searching for assets held in financial institutions in connection with the ongoing Global War on Terrorism, have identified billions of dollars of laundered funds worldwide, all secreted by key senior Venezuelan government officials, a few military officers, and a large number of Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs), for their own corrupt use and benefit, and for that of designated global terrorist organisations, on the express orders of President Hugo Chavez. The US now reportedly intends to officially name Venezuela as a State Sponsor of Terrorism, and seize all the hidden overseas accounts it has located. Miami banks alone hold several billion dollars of illicit money, and accounts have also been identified in places like China, Andorra, and Panama, and most of the major offshore financial centres. The funds rightfully belong to the people of Venezuela, as they were looted from government accounts, taken as bribes and kickbacks, and earned from narcotics trafficking activities aided and abetted through illegal governmental involvement. The other individuals targeted in this investigation are members of the Bolivarian Elite, a group of businessmen close to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias, and his family, and whose aim is to keep his corrupt regime in power. These Bolivarians have earned obscene amounts of money through corrupt government contracts, outright theft of government assets, and favoured transactions that have resulted in their acquisition of major assets that rightfully belonged to the Republic of Venezuela.
The date on this story if February 26th - ie, before the Chavez-inspired crisis erupted over Colombia’s attack on a terrorist camp in Ecuador. Could it be that Chavez was aware of all this, and decided to pre-empt attention by stiring up a war scare? Only time will tell…
Tags: Colombia, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela
March 5th, 2008
You lefties love him - now explain this:
…evidence found in the raid suggests that Chavez recently gave the FARC $300 million, Colombia’s national police chief said Monday.
Speaking at a news conference, Gen. Oscar Naranjo said evidence in three seized computers also suggests FARC had given Chavez 100 million pesos when he was a jailed rebel leader.
Naranjo said other evidence in the computers suggests FARC purchased 50 kilograms of uranium this month.
“The revelations about agreements between the terrorist group FARC and the governments of Ecuador and Venezuela will be submitted to the Organization of American States and the United Nations,” Uribe’s communique said Monday.
Naranjo said the evidence also shows that Ecuador’s minister of security met recently with Reyes, and that Ecuador had “an interest in formalizing relations with the FARC,” according to an account published on a Colombian government Web site.
Seems to me that Colombia has a justification for war with Venezuela - and given this, Colombia’s very restrained response to Chavez’ provocations is all the more remarkable. In Chavez, we’re dealing with an unstable, out-of-control thug - there doesn’t have to be war, but there does have to be a campaign to isolate this political cancer until the people of Venezuela get rid of it. Always keep in mind that the people catching the brunt of Chavez’ insanity are the long-suffering people of Venezuela - our job is to assist them in any way possible in enduring and eventually ending the Chavez dictatorship. Meanwhile, we have to ensure that Chavez is contained in Venezuela.
Tags: Colombia, Ecuador, FARC, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela
March 4th, 2008
Chavez is getting more insane and dangerous all the time:
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela President Hugo Chavez ordered tank battalions to the Colombian border and mobilized warplanes on Sunday after Colombian troops struck inside Ecuador in an attack on rebels.
He also ordered the shutting of Venezuela’s embassy in Colombia and the withdrawal of all diplomatic staff in the dispute, warning Colombia’s actions could spark a war in South America.
“Mr. Defense Minister, move me 10 battalions to the frontier with Colombia immediately, tank battalions,” Chavez said on his weekly TV show. “The air force should mobilize. We do not want war.”
Colombia’s military said on Saturday troops had killed Raul Reyes, a leader of Marxist FARC rebels, during an attack on a jungle camp in Ecuador in a severe blow to Latin America’s oldest guerrilla insurgency. The operation included air strikes and fighting with rebels across the frontier.
On Saturday, the anti-U.S. Chavez warned Colombia against doing the same in Venezuela because he would interpret it as a “cause for war.” On Sunday, he said he would send Russian-made fighter jets into U.S. ally Colombia if its troops struck in Venezuela.
The US is committed by treaty to assist Colombia in defending itself and I think it vital that we inform Chavez that any attempt to make war will bring him into conflict with the United States. We cannot allow Chavez to bully himself into domination of South America - and the only way to deal with someone acting like a thug is to stand firm against him.
Tags: Columbia, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela
March 2nd, 2008
Go ahead, make our day:
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez on Sunday threatened to cut off oil sales to the United States if Exxon Mobil Corp. wins court judgments to seize his government’s assets.
“If you end up freezing (Venezuelan assets) and it harms us, we’re going to harm you,” Chavez said. “Do you know how? We aren’t going to send oil to the United States. Take note, Mr. Bush, Mr. Danger.”
Exxon Mobil has gone after the assets of state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA in U.S., British and Dutch courts as it challenges the nationalization of a multibillion dollar oil project by Chavez’s government.
A British court has issued an injunction “freezing” as much as $12 billion in assets.
“The outlaws of Exxon Mobil will never again rob us,” Chavez said, saying the Irving, Texas-based oil major acts in concert with “the imperialist government of the United States” and is part of corporate “worldwide mafias.”
Empty threats - he can’t pay his goon squads or make a splash in the world news without petrodollars; he’d be cutting off his nose to spite his face. I say, let him do it. Just works out to our advantage in the long run.
Tags: Hugo Chavez, oil, Venezuela
February 11th, 2008
Though it remains to be seen whether or not Chavez will accept the verdict of his own people:
Voters in Venezuela defeated a contentious referendum that would have given President Hugo Chávez sweeping new powers, the Election Commission announced early Monday.
The results were a stunning defeat for a leader who was trying to extend already broad powers and lead his country in a radical new direction.
The commission said 50.7 percent voted against the referendum and 49.3 percent voted in favor. The results were all the more surprising given that Chávez and his supporters control nearly all of the levers of power.
“The result is quarrelsome,” Vice President Jorge Rodríguez said in comments broadcast on national television.
Opposition leaders were more upbeat. “Tonight, Venezuela has won,” said Manuel Rosales, governor of Zulia State and the opposition’s candidate in presidential elections last year.
Chavez is a rather thuggish man who is a legend in his own mind - hopefully, his supporters will tell him to just accept this and go on to the next thing; he could, on the other hand, conduct a coup against his own government and just start dictating and hoping that a civil war doesn’t break out.
At any rate, congratulations to the people of Venezuela for seeing through the Chavez scam, and prayers for peace in Venezuela.
Tags: Democracy, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela
December 3rd, 2007
