Hugo Chavez on the run
The neighboring Nation of Columbia starts to get friendly with the United States and all of a sudden, Hugo Chavez lashes out.
From
CNN:
Chavez: Ready to cut ties with Colombia
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he is preparing to break off diplomatic relations with Colombia over the neighboring country's plan to allow U.S. troops access to its military bases.
"It is going to happen," Chavez said on Tuesday in a state broadcast. "We are going to prepare for this, because the Colombian bourgeoisie hates us. And now, it just isn't possible to make up. No, it is impossible.
"The agreement of the seven bases is a declaration of war against the Bolivarian Revolution," Chavez added, referring to his socialist political movement, which he named after 19th-century Venezuelan leader Simon Bolivar.
Colombian bourgeoisie -- he actually said that? Shows you whose playbook he reads. Karl Marx -- the original trust-fund baby who never worked a day in his life but spent his time writing about how workers should be treated...
A bit more:
Colombia says the troops will tackle drug traffickers and leftist guerillas. And the United States says it needs the bases because Ecuador has ordered the closing of a U.S. installation there.
Chavez says the troops have an ulterior motive: They could be used to unseat him.
Tension between the two countries heightened in recent weeks, after Colombia said Venezuela supplied Colombian guerillas with shoulder-fired anti-tank weapons.
Three anti-tank weapons seized from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, had been traced to Venezuela, Colombia said earlier this month.
Chavez probably has this vision of a workers paradise funded by oil, weapons export, counterfeiting and narcotics and is royally pissed that the rest of his socialist comrades are not playing along.
Hugo -- go jump a shark somewhere, your days are numbered. Not that we would invade Venezuela and depose you, naaa. We will just let your citizens decide...
Posted by DaveH at August 26, 2009 11:43 AM