Posted: 3/5/2005 7:08:32 AM EDT
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So I take it Chavez is not on GW's Christmas Card list? ANdy Chavez makes U.S. murder plot claim Sat Mar 5, 2005 2:57 PM GMT Printer Friendly | Email Article | RSS NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he has evidence the United States was planning to assassinate him, an allegation the U.S. government earlier dismissed as "wild". "We have enough evidence ... If anything happens to me, the person responsible will be the president of the United States," Chavez told reporters in New Delhi on Sunday. He did not elaborate. The exchange of accusations between the left-wing Chavez and U.S. officials has reached fever pitch in recent weeks, raising questions whether the multibillion-dollar energy relationship between Washington and one of its top oil suppliers is at risk. Chavez said on February 20 the United States was plotting to kill him, and his foreign minister said three days later that U.S. accusations against Chavez were a sign of an impending attack. Washington dismissed what it termed Chavez's "wild charges." U.S. officials portray the former paratrooper, a virulent critic of U.S. President George W. Bush, as an authoritarian menace. Secretary of state Condoleezza Rice has singled out self-proclaimed socialist Chavez as a "destabilizing influence" in Latin America. They have also renewed charges that Chavez, a firebrand nationalist, shelters Colombian Marxist rebels and recently criticized Venezuelan purchases of Russian automatic rifles. Chavez said in New Delhi he had no quarrel with the people of United States, only with its government. He cited U.S. action in Iraq and said the U.S. government was a threat to the entire world. Venezuela's relations with the United States have been strained since leftist Chavez was elected in 1998. He has bolstered ties with anti-U.S. countries such as Cuba and alleged Washington was involved in a failed coup against him in 2002. Many analysts see the rhetoric aimed at domestic political audiences and do not believe it heralds any imminent diplomatic or commercial rift. Although Chavez is exploring new oil markets like China, U.S. oil companies continue to negotiate major investments in Venezuela. On Friday, Chavez said his country would not stop supplying oil to the United States unless "the U.S. government gets a little bit crazy and tries to hurt us". http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-03-05T145642Z_01_SIN553709_RTRUKOC_0_VENEZUELA-CHAVEZ.xml |
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Mr. Chavez, you dick , you!!! If we wanted your pathetic country and for you to dissapear from the face of the earth, it would happen much quicker than the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's little regime!!! Who know Mr. Chavez, you might even last a day or two longer than Manuel Norriega, Doubt it but it could happen!!! |
+1 Chavez will become the next Saddam. He's only going to get more brazen the longer he's allowed to remain in power. Biggest mistake GWB made in his first term was not making Chavez go the Allende route when he had the chance. Once Chavez succeeds in overthrowing the pro-American government in Colombia, look out. |
Thanks for the vote of Confidence, there are more SF guys on the ground here than it took to take over Afganistan, plus contractors, you really think that the Venezuelan Military can take this country over? 
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I don't think it would be a matter of Venezuela invading Colombia, but Chavez is acting as a huge conduit of arms to FARC and other revolutionary groups in Latin America. It's not outside the realm of possibility that Urribe could end up assassinated. Venezuela also provides electrical power to many countries in the region, courtesy of their oil reserves. Chavez has been playing that card, too. He's bad news and should made an example to other bad actors. |
