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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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 Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 4:52 pm Post subject: Chavez Masses Troops, Cites Possible Cause for War... |
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This guy just cannot sit still and simply govern his country, can he? He must find some major dramatic issue and throw a tantrum every six weeks or so to remain in the headlines...
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(CNN) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Sunday ordered his military to move 10 battalions to the country's border with Colombia, and ordered the closure of the Venezuelan embassy in Colombia's capital.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says Colombia violated Ecuador's sovereignty.
He made the comments on his weekly Sunday talk show "Alo Presidente," or "Hello, President."
The move was in apparent reaction to Colombia's joint operation Saturday in Ecuador that resulted in the death of the second-in-command of the FARC Colombian rebels group.
Chavez condemned the operation Saturday, saying the Colombian government violated Ecuador's sovereignty. He said if the operation had been conducted in Venezuela, he would have declared war against Colombia... |
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Zutronius
Joined: 16 Apr 2007
Location: Suncheon
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| Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 4:59 pm Post subject: |
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| I just heard this on CBC Radio 1. I hope it doesn't escalate into anything more. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 5:14 pm Post subject: |
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Ha, ha, Chavez has his own Sunday morning talk show?
What a tool. |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 6:05 pm Post subject: |
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You never heard that before? Anti-Chavez Venezuelans despise this program, which is a weekly-broadcast, world-according-to-Hugo "news program."
Here is a ref to his seven-hour diatribe last August against British Imperialism where he reclaimed the Falklands for all of Latin America and denounced the Guardian as a tool...
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The question landed on Hugo Ch�vez's desk with a thud and he paused to inspect it. His nose wrinkled, as if the Caribbean which lapped metres away had thrown up something unpleasant.
It was a rare moment of silence in a seven-hour talkathon and did not last long. Venezeula's president hurled the question back out to sea, far over the horizon, and turned it into a harangue against Europe, the British navy, the Queen, racism, imperialism and that embodiment of old world vice, the Guardian. By the end of it, Mr Ch�vez had urged the Caribbean to reconsider membership of the Commonwealth, Latin America to recover the Falklands, and this newspaper, which he named about a dozen times, to stir republican sentiment in Britain... |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 8:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Hugo C is as bad as some of the posters here in their attention-mongering. It's getting tiresome. Aren't there some left-over exploding cigars we can send him? (Modified to actually work as planned, of course.) |
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stevemcgarrett
Joined: 24 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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Chavez is just another budding fascist but remains the darling of the intellectual Left in the West (Peter McLaren of UCLA and Henry Giroux of Macalaster in Canada have both actively supported his presidency) who have long ago duped themselves into believing that neo-Marxists cannot possibly have such a mentality.
Repeat after me: Hugo is a man of the people. x3
No doubt jkelly80, stilltheking, agentX, cerulean, and the other usual suspects are gleefully standing by hoping for a people's war against the running dog imperialist Columbian president.
Meanwhile, never mind that FARC uses terrorist tactics and is little more than a drug cartel masquerading as a guerrilla liberation army. |
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Pluto
Joined: 19 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Chavez is just another tin-pot clueless lefty dictator with a few toys. Just ignore him and pay him no mind. |
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The Hammer
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Ullungdo 37.5 N, 130.9 E, altitude : 223 m
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| Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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Happy Birthday Hugo!
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cerulean808
Joined: 14 Mar 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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Of course if anyone put a similar pic with Happy Birthday George, there would be the shrieks of hypocritical outrage from the usual American Crazies on this board - the terrorism! the terrrorism! the terrorism!
Hugo's 'crime' is he won't take orders from Washington. |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Hugo's 'crime' is he won't take orders from Washington. |
Unbelievable. Looks like you called it, McGarrett.
Cruelan: I do not advocate attacking Chavez in any way; I agree we ought to ignore him. Pay attention to this nonsense, and keep informed, but, at the end of the day, we ought to ignore him and let him rant.
On the other hand, you seem to leap to his defense with this clich� yanquifobismo. Que raro. |
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djsmnc
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Dave's ESL Cafe
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| Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Everything I learned about political rapport I learned from Steve McGarrett! |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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Here we go...
Let us hope that OAS can assemble an emergency meeting before this goes much further.
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(CNN) -- Ecuador's President Rafael Correa withdrew his government's ambassador in Bogota, Colombia, and ordered troops to the country's border following a Colombian raid against leftist rebels inside Ecuador.
Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa recalls his country's ambassador to Bogota on Sunday.
In a televised address, Correa called a raid by Colombian national police and air force one day earlier a "massacre" that killed civilians.
The strike at dawn Saturday killed two leading figures in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a Marxist movement that has fought a guerrilla war against the country's government for some 40 years. One of the dead was FARC's second-in-command, Luis Edgar Devia Silva, known as "Raul Reyes."
The incident has triggered a crisis among the three countries, as Venezuela President Hugo Chavez also ordered 10 battalions of troops to the Colombian border and the closure of Venezuela's embassy in Bogota.
Chavez pledged "to support Ecuador in any circumstance..." |
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Pluto
Joined: 19 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 10:31 pm Post subject: |
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| We already know that neither Venezuela nor Ecuador will attack. So what is the point of this false bravado? |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 10:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
Here we go...
Let us hope that OAS can assemble an emergency meeting before this goes much further.
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(CNN) -- Ecuador's President Rafael Correa withdrew his government's ambassador in Bogota, Colombia, and ordered troops to the country's border following a Colombian raid against leftist rebels inside Ecuador.
Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa recalls his country's ambassador to Bogota on Sunday.
In a televised address, Correa called a raid by Colombian national police and air force one day earlier a "massacre" that killed civilians.
The strike at dawn Saturday killed two leading figures in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a Marxist movement that has fought a guerrilla war against the country's government for some 40 years. One of the dead was FARC's second-in-command, Luis Edgar Devia Silva, known as "Raul Reyes."
The incident has triggered a crisis among the three countries, as Venezuela President Hugo Chavez also ordered 10 battalions of troops to the Colombian border and the closure of Venezuela's embassy in Bogota.
Chavez pledged "to support Ecuador in any circumstance..." |
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Ha, ha, ha. So this is why Gran Columbia never happened. |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 11:01 pm Post subject: |
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| So this is why Gran Columbia never happened. |
Precisely. This is why Central America split into five republics and this is why Bolivarian idealism will never be more than a dream. Even Bolivar understood this in the end. They tyrannize themselves. Ask yourself how and why Bolivia became and remains landlocked, for example... |
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