{"id":645,"date":"2007-09-12T15:32:05","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T19:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/12\/chavez-plans-a-simon-bolivar-satellite\/"},"modified":"2007-09-12T18:00:29","modified_gmt":"2007-09-12T22:00:29","slug":"chavez-plans-a-simon-bolivar-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=645","title":{"rendered":"Chavez plans a “Simon Bolivar Satellite”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the past few weeks, I written about Hugo Chavez squandering his petro dollars on 5000 sniper rifles<\/a> from Russia, subsidizing bus fares for Londoners<\/a> and\u00c2\u00a0paying for elections in Argentina<\/a>. Today he announced that China is building a “Simon Bolivar satellite” (Washington Times’ Martin Arostegui<\/a>);<\/p>\n

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says his nation plans to launch “the Simon Bolivar satellite” now being built in China as part of plans to develop an integrated ground- and space-based air defense \u00e2\u20ac\u201d presumably against the United States.<\/p>\n

“We have 100 satellite technicians training in China who be back in the next few months. The radars, tracking stations and air defenses are being installed right now,” Mr. Chavez said this week on his television talk show, “Hello President.”<\/p>\n

With the Chinese ambassador present for the performance, Mr. Chavez made extensive comments on Venezuela’s growing ties with China in areas such as oil exports and national defense.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But that’s not all;<\/p>\n

Mr. Chavez, who claims the U.S. has attempted to assassinate him and often warns of an Iraq-style U.S. invasion of Venezuela, already has the most powerful air force in South America with his recent acquisition of 24 Sukhoi Su-30 fighters from Russia.<\/p>\n

He also is negotiating the purchase of nine Russian submarines.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So with children starving, staples absent from supermarket shelves<\/a>, and Venezuela’s trading paper struggling<\/a>, Chavez is investing his new ill-gotten wealth in strengthening his military position in a relatively calm region – and attempting to strengthen ties with China in South America – all so he can stick his finger in the eye of the United States (which by the way is no threat to him) and wave the Uncle Sam boogeyman in the faces of his chavistas<\/em>.<\/p>\n

China has invested heavily in Venezuela’s oil industry as part of efforts to gain ever greater access to energy sources.<\/p>\n

They are jointly planning a pipeline through Panama to pump 800,000 barrels of oil a day to Pacific ports. This would allow a vast increase in Venezuelan exports to China at the possible expense of the U.S.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

China is also assisting Cuba in oil exploration off the coast of Florida – another reason for them to build a pipeline through Panama. In Panama, they already control about 40% of the ports through their COSCO company (according my source there) and they’re assisting Panama in their endeavor to widen the Canal over the next 5 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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