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Category: Hugo Chavez

  • Hondurans figure it all out for themselves

    All of the deal making and wet kisses to Chavez from the Obama Administration, the handjobs Hillary gave to the OAS – all for naught according to the BBC.

    Deposed Honduran leader Manuel Zelaya has left the Brazilian embassy there and is heading into exile in the Dominican Republic, reports say.

    His departure marks the end of efforts to return to office after soldiers first forced him into exile on 28 June.

    Earlier, the newly-elected Honduran President, Porfirio Lobo, promised him safe passage to the airport as part of a reconciliation process.

    Mr Lobo was sworn in at a ceremony in the capital, Tegucigalpa.

    Under a deal struck by the two men, Mr Zelaya agreed to fly to exile in the Dominican Republic as a way to avoid prosecution in Honduras on charges he violated the constitution while in office.

    Imagine that – all of those little, backwards brown people worked it all out for themselves without Daniel Ortiz sending in his Nicaraguan troops, without Hugo Chavez launching an attack, without Hillary having the interim president thrown in jail. Their constitution ruled the day despite the Obama Administration’s best efforts to subvert their constitution.

    As I’ve said countless times over the last few months, Zelaya should feel lucky – a lot of other presidents in that area were deposed feet first. Now he gets to live in relative luxury in Dom Rep. And Chavez was denied another member of ALBA.

    While Obama votes “present” on constitutional rule in Central America.

  • Busy week for Chavez

    Today Hugo Chavez inaugurated his national police force ostensibly to control crime in certain areas of Caracas, but he plans to expand the program to supercede the authority of local police and seize more control of the debate against him in Venezuela.

    Like every other time he’s seized a bit more freedom from Venezuelans he started telling tales about the threat of an American invasion. This time, he says that Americans were flying spy planes over his military bases.

    Speaking during his weekly television and radio program, Chavez said the aircraft overflew a Venezuelan military base in the western state of Zulia after taking off from neighboring Colombia. He did not elaborate, but suggested the plane was being used for espionage.

    “These are the Yankees. They are entering Venezuela,” he said.

    “I’ve ordered them to be shot down,” Chavez said of the aircraft. “We cannot permit this.”

    Colombia began building forces up along the frontier with Venezuela. I guess that Chavez has never heard of satellites. We don’t need “spy planes” to fly over his stupid military bases.

    Also today, the Venezuelan government released it’s latest list of Venezuelans who are ineligible to run for public office – including two former governors who opposed Chavez during their tenures. Meanwhile, oil production and manufacturing continue to fall.

    A national police force will probably fix all of that – well, it’ll at least fix dissent.

  • Honduran stand-off

    The constitutional government of Honduras finds itself more isolated from the rest of the world every day. With ousted president Zelaya sequestered in the Brazillian embassy and the the US State Department screaming in their ear, the de facto government has offered several options to settle the differences between the opposition and their own Constitution. In fact yesterday, the Micheletti government offered up another option;

    Mr. Micheletti offered to hold direct talks with Mr. Zelaya if the ousted president recognized the validity of elections scheduled for Nov. 29. Mr. Zelaya declined the offer, calling it “manipulation.”

    A simple offer, a simple solution to the stand off – but Zelaya knowing he has the backing of the US State Department and the OAS in direct contradiction to the principles of the Honduran Constitution, he sees no need to concede even on iota in any direction. Even the UN has turned against Honduras;

    Adding to pressure on Mr. Micheletti’s government, the U.N. temporarily suspended cooperation with Honduras’s election commission ahead of the November poll, saying conditions weren’t in place for a credible vote.

    Yeah, I remember the concerns that the UN had for elections in Iran and Argentina, too. They almost broke their own necks trying to look the other way during post-election violence in Tehran and when a suitcase load of cash was discovered on it’s way from Chavez’ government to Christine Kirschner’s campaign chest.

    One 65-year-old has been reported killed in Honduras and that death can be laid at the feet of the Zelaya, our own State Department, the Brazilian government, Hugo Chavez, the OAS and the UN – all complicit in violating Honduras own Constitution to force them to accept an illegitmate president.

  • Chavez wants to help Obama

    Just a few months ago, Hugo Chavez called Barrack Obama a “black ignoramus”. Today Venezuelan newpaper El Universal reports that Chavez is now eager to help Obama;

    Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez said on Monday he would like to help his US counterpart Barack Obama, for thinking that “his intentions are good.”

    Chávez’s remarks were made on arriving in the Des Bains Hotel at Venice, where he dropped on Monday to attend the premiere of “South of the Border.” The documentary film featuring him by US director Oliver Stone was to be exhibited as part of the Venice Film Festival.

    “I think that Obama is well-intentioned and would like to help him,” said Chávez, and added that the new US President “is good to talk to,” unlike his predecessor, George W. Bush, Efe reported.

    Chavez also commented that he doesn’t think Obama is The Devil like Bush. You have to ask yourself what about Obama would appeal to admitted socialist Hugo Chavez. Chavez is also shipping gasoline to Iran, and, in his expert opinion, there’s no proof of a nuclear weapon program in Iran.

    Chavez was in Venice for the opening of the documentary “South of the Border”, the Oliver Stone tongue bath of Chavez.

  • No, we don’t think Obama is Hitler

    I don’t think anyone at This Ain’t Hell thinks Obama is Hitler. I don’t think any of us has ever made the absurd comparison that any Democrat is a Nazi – however we have suffered the “Bush is Hitler” chant from the intellectually-impaired over the years.

    Those who thought that Bush is Hitler should be calling Obama Hitler, too, though, since Obama hasn’t changed one thing Bush was doing – oh, except that Obama said he won’t let anyone be waterboarded. Bush didn’t say it, but no one has been waterboarded in the last five years or so – except protesters who demonstrated the process and surprisingly survived their ordeal.

    That PATRIOT Act which was the main reason the Left screamed about our civil rights being rolled back is still in force and hasn’t been altered one iota. Bush wasn’t Hitler for signing it (after nearly all of Congress approved it) nor is Obama Hitler for continuing it.

    A more apt comparison to Obama would be Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez. Obama has taken a page from Chavez’ book by using his Organizing For America, SEIU and ACORN zombies to go around the democratic process to deliver money directly to communities without input from elected officials. Chavez has entrenched himself in office by using the same method to buy patronage.

    The assault on Kenneth Gladney at a Missouri townhall meeting is also reminiscent of Chavez’ tactics. While opponents of Chavez peacefully protest in Venezuela, red shirted Chavez supporters, assault them. Some have been known to fire on crowds with weapons.

    Now, I’ll grant that assaults from the Obama thugs have been few and far between so far, but I suspect that it could escalate – especially since some from the Right are foolishly (albeit legally) bringing weapons to peaceful protests. The intellectually vacant left will see that as an excuse to escalate violence.

    I don’t see internment camps or reeducation camps in our future. I don’t think we’re going to be marched to the ovens or gas chambers. I do, however, see a large number of people being disenfranchised, I see endless taxes, I see an increasingly intrusive government and an incompetent management of the economy. Like Hugo Chavez’s government.

    ADDED: If you want to see who is REALLY calling Obama Hitler, you need to go to El Marko’s blog Looking at the Left. Of course, they’re also calling for Obama to be hung, and they’re taking up a collection for the colonization of Mars. Oh, and they’re not Republicans.

  • Chavez’ Euro weapons purchases turn up in FARC

    The Colombian government has recovered weapons from their encounters with the terrorist organization FARC that it turns out were purchased by Hugo Chavez’ Venezuelan government from European countries (El Universal);

    “In several operations in which we have recovered weapons from the FARC, we have found powerful ammunition (and) powerful equipment, including anti-tank weapons which a European country sold to Venezuela and which turned up in the hands of the FARC,” Santos told Colombia’s Caracol radio, without giving the name of the European nation.

    The Swedish government asked Venezuela for an explanation about the seizure from the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) of Swedish weapons sold to Caracas, a Swedish government officer told AFP on Monday.

    “We have it confirmed that a smaller amount of (defense) material made in Sweden has been found in a FARC camp. We have asked the officials of the government of Venezuela to give us information on how they believe this material was found in Colombia,” said Jens Eriksson, a political advisor to the Swedish ministry of commerce.

    But, since Chavez called Obama an ignoramus for suggesting that Chavez exports terrorism and obstructs progress, we can expect that Obama wil do nothing in regards to this latest evidence that Chavez is exporting terrorism. I suppose it will only influence Obama to reinstall Zelaya in Honduras.

  • Two Reps return from Honduras

    Two Republican Congressmen have returned from their trip to investigate the supposed coup in Honduras and their estimation of the situation differs, unsurprisingly, from the Administration according to The Hill;

    “The majority of folks think Zelaya should come back to the country, but to stand trial,” Rep. Connie Mack (R-Fla.) said.

    Mack told The Hill that he found Hondurans to be in “disbelief” at the Obama administration’s reaction to the ouster of Zelaya.

    “Whether or not [Hondurans] agree on how he was removed all of them agree that he broke the constitution, broke the law,” Mack said. “A large majority believe he should not return to Honduras and to power.”

    Bilbray said the U.S. can’t put itself in a position of supporting a president over a country’s constitution and the rule of law. “That’s a scary place for us to find ourselves, especially considering our history,” he said.

    Well, it’s not that hard to figure out, actually. The Obama places a higher value on the friendship of Chavez, Ortega, Morales, Correa and Zelaya than he does on the friendship of the Honduran people. I’d like to know the name of the Obama advisor who read the Honduran Constitution and then gave Obama the advice to support the unconditional return of Zelaya to his office.

    While the Honduran Army has vowed that it won’t fire on Honduran people, Zelaya is urging Obama to place sanctions on his country. Interim president Micheletti has promised to step down to keep the peace, while Zelaya has threatened “blood in the streets”. So who is thinking of the Honduran people and who is thinking of their own political survival?

    Thanks to TSO for The Hill link.

  • What is Iran doing in Bolivia?

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    Bolivians are starting to get jumpy about the presence of Iranians in their country according to the Washington Times’ Martin Arostegui;

    “We need to ask what Iran’s real interest is in Bolivia,” said Roman Loayza, a [Movement Toward Socialism (MAS)] dissident who is running against Mr. Morales in presidential elections scheduled for December. “Evo has no business entering into agreements with foreign interests at the back of the Bolivian people which could harm our environment,” Mr. Loayza told The Washington Times. Bolivian officials insist that Iran’s activities in Bolivia are benign. Iran’s ambassador has toured Indian communities and promised to finance development projects. Mr. Morales has said that Iran wants to build a radio and TV station in his home district of Chapare to “support the peasant struggle in South America.”

    Of course, the easiest answer is that Iran wants to mine uranium from Bolivia’s rich deposits to fuel it’s nuclear program. The Israelis have accused Morales of entering into mineral agreements with Iran with just that purpose in mind. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman was touring South America to avoid that prospect just last week. Last year, the Bush Administration was concerned about Hezbollah operating in the region, more specifically in Venezuela at the behest of Hugo Chavez. In fact, a few years ago, Chavez threw Christian missionaries out of Venezuela and replaced them with Islamic missionaries.