Venezuela - give me a break

[Number Six]

I think it was a pretty blantant political move by Chavez. There is no chance the US is going to invade Venezuela and he knows it. Chavez is trying to unite people by picking out a common enemy and since the US is the biggest kid on the block and has been throwing its weight around recently it was an easy mark.

From what I've been reading Venezuela has a very high threshhold to have a recall election and despite that the opposition got more than enough signatures but the commission, presumably sympathetic to Chavez, simply disqualified a huge chunk of signatures. He's in trouble and he's trying whatever he thinks will work.

I don't know what can be done to make Venezuela run more smoothly in the long run. I wish I did but in reality it's a mess. If this ploy helps then good, if not then bad. But I don't know which is true.

 

[SRW]

Haven't liked Chavez since he started that damn lettice boycott years ago. Troublemaker.

Lettice? It was grapes wasn't it? Don't tell me I have not been boycotting the wrong thing.

 

[Luciana]

Venezuela has plenty of oil and beautiful women. Are you sure the US shouldn't invade it?

Chavez sounds a lot like the old Argentina junta that attacked the Falklands to distract the public from their economic failures.

Just two or three years ago, in the midst of the economic crisis which threw 50% of Argentinans under the poverty level, their President (which? oh my, they had so many, at one point 3 in the same week...) said that the time had come to regain power over the Malvinas...

Don't think that the US is the only scapegoat. In South America, it's default to first blame Brazil. Whatever happens, Brazilians did it. If it's too far-fetched, it's a conspiracy, then it must be American.

 

[kittynh]

Maybe Venezuala WANTS to be invaded! sort of the "mouse who roared" type thing. Hey, we can send them our surplus cheese and lots of Marines will show up. In fact, I think enlistments will go up if the guys know they will be going to a South American nation full of hot babes.

 

[a_unique_person]

Screw you and the horse you rode in on.

Of course I thought about whether it was justified, and I concluded that it wasn't. There's no chance whatsoever, based on current information, that the U.S. will invade Venezuela. However it is obvious that Chavez is besieged domestically, and is striking out at imagined external enemies to try to gather for himself a scrap of credibility.

Given what happened in Haiti, his paraonia may have a little backing by reality. Aristide, apparently, was on Noriega's hit list from the moment he took power.

 

[peptoabysmal]

Talk about being out in left field.

Besides, all we have to do is wait a year or two and another banana republic will be in power. Why bother?

Then again Luciana has a point about beautiful Venezuela women... Maybe we could include Portugal in our mad quest for world domination?

 

[peptoabysmal]

Given what happened in Haiti, his paraonia may have a little backing by reality. Aristide, apparently, was on Noriega's hit list from the moment he took power.

According to Aristide, he's still in power. You're right, these allegations have very little backing in reality.

Aristide insists he's still Haiti's leader

 

[Brian]

I agree with you wholeheartedly. Unfortunately, reason, common sense, and a willingness to see both sides of an issue are often drowned out by cries of "we'll kick you ass because America's awesome". So much testosterone, so few brain cells.

Nope. We're smart, so we're on top. We get to tell the rest of the world what to do. Tough luck. Do better.

 

[peptoabysmal]

Castro used to do it with the homosexuals.

I always had my suspicions about Fidel...



edited: stupid smiley tag

 

[aerocontrols]

Texas, Venezuala, Norway, The Entire Persian Gulf Region... what is it about people who have oil underneath them that makes them freakin' nuts?

 

[peptoabysmal]

Texas, Venezuala, Norway, The Entire Persian Gulf Region... what is it about people who have oil underneath them that makes them freakin' nuts?

Must be all the fumes and greenhouse gases.

 

[The Don]

Tried to post an obvious joke only to find I was too far behind the cirve

 

[Graham]

Nope. We're smart, so we're on top. We get to tell the rest of the world what to do. Tough luck. Do better.

F*** off a-hole.

 

[Frank Newgent]

Venezuela has plenty of oil and beautiful women. Are you sure the US shouldn't invade it?

Next to Columbia, too. Once the US gets its fill of cheap Afghani heroin, we might be ready for the next generation of smokable cocaine.