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Category: Hugo Chavez

  • And in Latin American News Today . . .

    . . . . it looks like Generalissimo Francisco Franco Hugo Chavez is still – breathing.  Maybe.

    Reports are scanty, but it seems that recovery from Chavez’s last cancer surgery hasn’t gone all that well.  Chavez is allegedly now in an “induced coma” with “very weak” vital signs, being kept alive only by life support that doctors could decide to terminate “at any moment”.

    It appears the decision Chavez made to use steroids for strength during campaigning for Venezuela’s last presidential election might not have been  best one he ever made.  I’m no doctor,but using high levels of drugs known to promote unusual levels of cell growth as a cancer survivor – who probably was in the midst of an active recurrence of his cancer at the time – doesn’t strike me as a good idea.

    There are rumors Chavez has already died.  There are also calls by Venezuelan opposition figures for “the whole truth” regarding Chavez’s condition.

    Stay tuned.

  • Hugo Chavez on “Short Final”?

    According to Dan Rather (yeah, that Dan Rather – he’s still around, even if CBS ashcanned him), Hugo Chavez’s cancer has “entered the end stage”. Per Rather, Chavez has ” metastatic rhabdomyosarcoma” and is thought to have only a short time (a couple of months) to live.

    I’m no fan of Rather, but it does seem as if he’s reporting professionally here. His article clearly identifies that the main facts of his report are based on information from a single source, and that all sources contributing have requested anonymity. But I’m afraid the Bush Air National Guard “memos” fiasco doesn’t exactly inspire much confidence for me in anything reported by Rather. That’s particularly true when he essentially says, “Trust me on this” – as he has here.

    That said, as cold as it sounds I hope Rather’s got this one right. The freedom-loving people of Venezuela deserve better than to have a leftist idiot running their country.

  • Chavez term-limited by God?

    A few years back, hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela, successfully altered the Constitution so he could remain as president beyond constitutional limits. Fox News reports that he is in critical condition after surgery in Cuba;

    Chavez is “in critical condition, not grave, but critical, complicated,” the source told the newspaper; the Spanish-language, sister publication of the Miami Herald.

    Officials say Chavez underwent surgery June 10 for a pelvic abscess, which is an accumulation of pus that can have various causes, including infection or surgical complications. Neither Chavez nor doctors treating him have disclosed what caused the abscess.

    Ace of Spades has heard rumors that he’s already dead;

    Supposedly, the rumor goes, he went to Cuba for surgery, and died there.

    I hear this from a source too, but he only hears it from his sources, and they’re not always right (he tells me).

    Can I just put out a general warning? Not about this necessarily. But generally.

    I know for a fact there is an effort to punk the media. Maybe the blogosphere too.

    Be on the lookout for tantalizing tips. Do not take the first level of verification as authoritative, because they’re putting enough thought into this at least pass the first level.

    I think if there was ever someone who I wished was dead, it’d be Chavez…it’d be even more delightful if it was that wonderful, world-famous Cuban health care system that Castro won’t use which killed him.

  • Obama joins Chavez against Britain

    Since it’s easier to order around your friends than it is to influence your enemies, the Obama Administration has joined the bloc of communists in South America to criticize our British allies over the Falkland Islands;

    The declaration calls for Argentina and Great Britain to enter into negotiations over the sovereignty of the Falklands, a position which London has long viewed as completely unacceptable. It also comes in the wake of increasing aggression by the Kirchner regime in the past 18 months, including threats to blockade British shipping in the South Atlantic.

    I think there was a war over the sovereignty of the Falklands and there are no more questions over control of the islands. Now, the Chavez-bought president of Argentina wants to reverse the fortunes of the war they lost decades ago.

    Obama just doesn’t know when he should vote present.

    Thanks to a link from Old Trooper.

  • Argentina seizes US military cargo

    So we go down to Argentina to train President Christina Fernandez’ police for hostage rescue. Sounds like a nice thing to do, right? Well, the Argentinians turn around and seize the cargo of the C-17 bringing the mission assets back to the US. (Wall Street Journal link)

    Relations between Argentina and the U.S. have deteriorated rapidly since U.S. President Barack Obama said in January that he would visit El Salvador, Brazil and Chile next month, skipping Argentina.

    Argentine officials reportedly considered Mr. Obama’s decision an affront, especially after Argentine President Cristina Fernandez in December blocked a bid by some South American nations to formally condemn U.S. policy amid the WikiLeaks diplomatic cables scandal.

    The leaked cables contained unflattering comments about several Latin American leaders, including Ms. Fernandez.

    More of that smart diplomacy we’ve been hearing about, I suppose. They all hated us under Bush, but at least they didn’t do some stupid shit like this.

    Recently widowed Fernandez’ (formerly Kirchner) was financed during her political campaign by Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez in the famous “maleta-gate” scandal.

    Thanks to Old Trooper for the link.

  • FARC’s #2 eats hot lead

    The Star (Reuters) is reporting that the Colombian communist guerrilla group FARC is reeling from the aerial attack which killed their #2 commander, Mono Jojoy, pictured above in an Eric Shinseki black beret with FARC founder Manuel Marulanda.

    El Universal says that the defense minister of Colombia is calling this “the most significant blow to FARC in history”.

    Using his real name, Jorge Briceno, ABC writes;

    Briceno belonged to the FARC’s seven-member ruling Secretariat. The group’s main leader, Alfonso Cano, remains at large and is believed to be in the mountains of central Colombia.

    Colombian officials say they believe other Secretariat members are hiding out in neighboring Venezuela.

    Good. That ought stir Hugo Chavez into making stupid mistakes and saying stupid shit.

    Once branded as a failing state, Colombia has seen bombings and kidnappings from its long war ebb and foreign investment has grown fivefold since 2002, when former President Alvaro Uribe began a hard-line campaign against the rebels.

    The news comes as former captive of FARC, Ingrid Betancourt releases a book about her experiences as a hostage for six and a half years. I haven’t read her book, but I did read the book “Out of Captivity” by the three American contractors who were held hostage by FARC for five years. In that book, Marc Gonsalves was not kind to Betancourt. Betancourt and the three American hostages, Marc Gonsalves, Thomas Howes and Keith Stansell, were rescued by Colombian special forces without firing a shot.

    I wonder how this administration will react to death of Mono Joyjoy (mono means “monkey” in Spanish) along with an estimate of 27 others in the attack.

  • Sean Penn At His Finest

    Sean Penn takes himself WAY too seriously. In what has unfortunately become quite typical in Hollywood, Sean Penn believes that his time as an actor gave him extensive experience and knowledge in world affairs. He also believes that it makes him above criticism. When Trey Parker and Matt Stone parodied him in Team America, he wrote them an angry letter that ended with “Fuck You“. In regards to his involvement in Haitian relief efforts, Penn believes that if you question his motives that you should die of rectal cancer. But the one thing that pisses Sean off the most is when you criticize his best friend in the whole wide world, Hugo Chavez. In fact Sean thinks so highly of Hugo, that he believes that you should go to jail if you call him a dictator.

    Sean Penn made that statement on Bill Maher’s show (anybody really surprised about that?). I’ve found the video on Youtube, but it is cut up. The first part is here and he starts talking about his BFF at about 7:20:

    Here is the second part where Penn picks up where he left off:

    Penn makes a big deal about how Chavez was “democratically elected”. Hitler also came to power through a democratic system in Germany. Nobody could get away justifying Hitler’s policies by saying “Well he was democratically elected, so you all need to shut up.” But Penn thinks this justifies all the crap that Chavez has pulled in Venezuela. Chavez has shut down opposition media outlets, aligned himself with Iran, supported the terrorist group FARC in Colombia, and even has gone after Golf in Venezuela. Not to mention he openly admires Fidel Castro and Che Guevara and we all know they established the worst dictatorship in the Western Hemisphere. After considering all of these things, how can anybody call Chavez anything BUT a dictator?

    If Penn thinks you should be in jail for stating the obvious, then he would be right at home in Venezuela or Cuba. But of course, just like the rest of his fellow Marxists in Hollywood, he will never abandon the comfort and security of America. Its a lot easier to talk the talk than walk the walk.

  • Hugo (hearts) Cindy

    After celebrating his 11th anniversary in office, Hugo Chavez is turning to the Cubans to help solve his energy consumption woes;

    President Hugo Chavez has turned to his friends in Cuba for help in tackling Venezuela’s energy crisis, drawing criticism Wednesday from opponents who say that the communist-led island is notorious for its own electricity woes.

    The socialist leader announced that Cuban Vice President Ramiro Valdes had arrived on Tuesday to head a Cuban team advising Venezuela on its efforts to reduce energy consumption.

    He gave few details of what Valdes would do, but the announcement bewildered some.

    Yeah, the Cubans have the solution for that – shoot a few hundred people in the head until half the population leaves, Viola, energy problems solved. Of course, as many TV stations as he’s shut down recently, energy won’t be his main problem for long.

    But there’s another dark cloud on his horizon. Someone screen captured this from their Facebook page;

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    Yep, Hugo is going to get some Cindy Sheehan strange and we can all look forward to an accurate description of conditions in the Bolibanana Republic from the crusty old commie hag.

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