The Real Cuba is keeping track of Chavez’s idiocies down in Venezuela. In response to the successful attack on the FARC in Ecudaor, Chavez has sent 10 battalions to the Colombian border and closed down the Venezuelan embassy in Bogotá. He has insulted Uribe once again by calling him a criminal.
UPDATE: The New York Times is also covering this. Apparently Ecuador is also sending troops to its border.
Chavez said he had just spoken to Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa and that Ecuador was also sending troops to its border with Colombia. Chavez said his Ecuadorean ally told him that Uribe had lied and that the rebels were killed while asleep ”in their pajamas.”
”This is something very serious. This could be the start of a war in South America,” Chavez said. He warned Colombian President Alvaro Uribe: ”If it occurs to you to do this in Venezuela, President Uribe, I’ll send some Sukhois” — Russian warplanes recently bought by Venezuela.
At last chavez has written a check with his mouth that his body can’t cash. Please hugito, please attack. You will then stop shipments of your cruddy crude when the US helps our ally Columbia, your economy will collapse, Cuba’s economy will totally collapse, raul will be overthrown…..
go ahead hugo…..make my day.
raul must be calling the Italian cardinal for a prayer to make chavez come to reason….
That dumb ape is going to Cause a world war, unless someone gives him a piece of lead in the head,IMO
I just can’t believe this idiot is going to cause a war between his country and Colombia. This would just be a epidemic on top of all South America is going through.
I have heard the threat by monkey boy, but from what I have seen in the latest news, all he has done is “order” the troops to the border.
Has anyone seen anything that actually reports that troops are physically moving there? This is chavez, after all. All he really does is talk, talk, talk.
Tomorrow or the next day, when people start wondering where the tanks are, he’ll come out and say that out of the goodness of his heart and his desire to not want to start a war, he called them back. But that he’s still really, really, really pissed at Uribe and he better watch himself because all he has to do is step in front of a microphone and he’ll make the same threat again, damn it!
It’s going to get to the point where Chavez’s neighbors will no longer be able to put up with this nonsense – for the sake of their own citizens’ safety. He’s walking a very fine tightrope right now. In the end, perhaps this is a good thing – perhaps this will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back and causes the ultimate end of the Chavez nightmare. Still, I certainly don’t expect – nor do I hope – war will occur.
Good point Alberto… I guess we’ll have to wait and see but I have a suspicion you might be right.
Don’t expect our “Democratic Congress” to do anything about it.
Here are the photos of Raul Reyes dead
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/colombia-rev.htm
and the news video of the attack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPnkWaL6fos
en español lo ultimo conflicto Ecuador-Colombia-Venezuela
http://www.noticias24.com/
Chavez is all by himself on this one. Look at his allies: Cuba, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Ecuador. What are they going to do; follow him into battle? I don’t think so.
It is nothing more than boisterous bravado by the chimpmeister himself.
And anyone who has ever been to Monkey Jungle down here in South Florida knows that when the apes get excited, all they do is scream and throw their own feces at the spectators.
In metaphorical sense, all chavez is doing is whooping like a chimp and throwing crap, hoping some of it will stick.
Should it come to war Colombia’s military would make short work of it even if Chavez and his cronies Nicaragua, Bolivia and Ecuador join in. It’s doubtful they will want to lose for Chavez.
Colombia’s military is well trained vs Chavez who has gutted his military of professionals and replaced them with political hacks.
If this gets started I think we would see the Chavez commanders fold and a likely coup to follow.
If you think that Colombia would beat Venezuela, I urge you to go to http://www.semana.com and look at the article on the Venezuelan war plan “Plan de Guerra Guiacaipuro”. Although Colombia vastly outnumbers Venezuela (and Ecuador) in troop levels, Chavez has been spending billions in acquiring advanced weapons from Russia, Spain, Germany, France, et.al. Note that Colombia has 0 tanks… The socialist states have an invasion plan and Chavez seems obsessed enough to go through with it. The USA needs to state publicly that any attack on Colombia is an attack on us. The information taken off Raul Reyes computer is terrifying. Celebrations in the jungle with Mexican, Chilean and other leftist terrorist volunteers, Ecuadorian military and police commanders that challenged FARC’s presence in their country relieved of their duties, protection of narcotrafficers, etc. I live in Costa Rica where FARC is behind the crack epidemic hitting the country. FARC members have been busted here with megakilo loads. This goes beyond raising money for their terrorist insurgency. It borders on an attempt by Chavez, et.al., to destablize countries such as Costa Rica, Guatemala and Mexico by flooding them with cheap drugs and the money and corruption that results.
The reason that Chavez is so incensed with the killing of Reyes is that this could be the year that the Colombians finally defeat the terrorists. The ELN is all but gone. (FARC murdered a number of ELN leaders and took their guerillas). With continued US arms and intelligence, we could finally see the end of this plague in the jungle.
The US congress needs to approve the free trade agreement with Colombia NOW! Please contact your congressmen to pressure them. We need to support President Uribe who has an 80% approval rating with the Colombian people and is our best friend in the region. I have a home in Medellin. It is almost impossible to convey the change in Colombia under his presidency. I feel much safer walking around Medellin then I do in San Jose, Costa Rica. The civic pride, the booming economy, the reversal of the Colombian diaspora, the incredible sense of optimism all stem from his dedicated leadership.
We also need to fund a covert plan to get rid of Chavez. The law limiting the assassination of foreign leaders, while well intended, has tied our hands against the greatest danger facing our country today.