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Oliver North writes about the recent Latin American summit in Brazil which seemed to feature Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Raul Castro of Cuba.
Evidently several Latin American Heads of State showed up and the USA was not invited and Columbia chose not to participate. North points out that Columbia is dealing with natural disasters but I suspect there is a higher purpose for Columbia’s lack of participation.
President Alvaro Uribe’s Columbia is part of a squeeze move by Communist leadership from Venezuela, Ecuador and FARC. President Uribe has been working in full tandem with the USA to battle drug lords pretending to be Communist revolutionaries in Columbia. Chavez of Venezuela, Correa of Ecuador and now Morales of Bolivia (all Marxist Heads of State) are giving the appearance of cooperating with the Communist/Drug Lords of FARC.
This so-called Latin American Summit was labeled the Latin American and Caribbean Summit on Integration and Development. Hugo Chavez has publicly said the purpose of the Summit was to signify that the United States of America is no longer the big dog of influence in Latin America. Chavez can back up his statement with the huge financial and military investment from nations adversarial to America – Russia, China and Iran.
Ollie ends his article with a tribute to Paul Weyrich who died on December 18, 2008.
The point of Ollie’s article is that the Mainstream Media (MSM) and worse the State Department appear to be ignoring the international cabal that is forming in Latin America. Read Ollie’s article at Real Clear Politics.
JRH 12/19/08
Russia may not be the Communist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics any more; however it is clear the Russian government wishes to challenge world’s example of the longest constitutional democracy in existence, i.e. the United States of America.
Russia is aiding Iran toward nuclear Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Russia is contacting old Communist buddies Cuba and Nicaragua about financial and weapon aid. There is a hint of a Russian military base being established in Cuba. Apparently the placing of a (spy) satellite launch base is even closer to a certainty in Cuba.
Venezuela and Russia are or have engaged in recent naval joint war games in the Caribbean in which Russian vessels and aircraft probably carried nuclear weapons.
Now Chavez and Putin are talking about building nuclear plants in Venezuela. And just like Iran, the claim is for peaceful nuclear energy. Only doofus would believe that any more than Iran’s hot nuclear program is for peaceful nuclear energy.
I am certainly not an expert on ideological state of affairs in Russia, but I am guessing the old ex-KGB Putin is closer to the Communist ideology than any other political thinking.
JRH 10/2/08
Remember the incident in South America in which Columbian forces entered Venezuelan territory fought with a FARC drug lord and killed him? As part of the spoils of this minor victory over the global drug market eight laptops were seized and taken back to Columbia in their hasty exit from Venezuela.
Of course Marxist Hugo Chavez went postal and began some saber rattling against Columbia and old Hugo got his buddy Marxist Rafael Correa to also move troops to the Columbia/Ecuador border all in an effort of typical communist intimidation.
Now let’s talk about those eight laptops. Columbia had Interpol forensic experts examine them. Now Interpol is a police force NOT known for corruption. Interpol discovered potential evidence on the laptops linking FARC with Hugo Chavez’s Venezuelan Government. It should be of no surprise because FARC’s original purpose for existing is as a Communist movement (of the old Marxist/Leninist brand) to overthrow the Columbian government. It just happens that ideology is overshadowed by thuggery and international drug dealing (with a little kidnapping thrown in for good measure) as an illegal capitalist enterprise. How is that for the effectiveness of Marxist ideology?
Anyway if the loose ends can be attached to Uncle Hugo with Interpol’s forensic discoveries, then America has an outstanding case to force the rusty wheels of the U.N. Security Council to throw a monkey wrench in the agenda of Hugo Chavez.
JRH
Evo Morales – the President of Bolivia – is described as the mini-me of Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Morales is utilizing the Chavez playbook to convert Bolivia into a Communist regime as Chavez has done in Venezuela.
There is on big difference though. Morales’ efforts though roughshod are not going smoothly in duping the Bolivian opposition as Chavez has done in Venezuela.
Ergo Morales faces a potential of removal at the hands of an increasingly angrier Bolivian people and political opposition. There are implications that Morales might survive the opposition if he is a bit more deceptive. Hopefully Bolivian are smarter than Venezuelans and put a stop to Morales before his power base becomes autocratically dictatorial.
JRH 4/10/08
Well Chavez’s bellicose move to the Venezuela/Columbia border was not merely because Columbia crossed the Ecuador/Columbia border to bring justice to FARC’s second in command Raul Reyes. It turns out the Columbian military acquired more than the justice of bringing down a Marxist committed to bringing down democracy of Columbia. Columbia discovered a laptop that contained damning evidence of Chavez doing business with FARC in drugs and weapons grade Uranium.
The laptop is the smoking gun that the USA-Columbia joint efforts to battle drug cartels (of which hypocrite Communist FARC is a member) was cutting into Chavez’s bottom line in the illegal drug business.
There is more: Chavez is a staunch ally with President Ahmadinejad of rogue nation Iran who has been recently exposed as working on weapons grade uranium (regardless of the NIE Report).
So we have the international exchange of money between NARC and Hugo Chavez. We also have Chavez being the middle man in providing weapons grade Uranium to NARC.
Gosh, I wonder where the uranium came from.
JRH 3/5/o8
The Columbia military entered Ecuador and killed a high echelon leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (Hispanic anagram: FARC).
FARC is a Communist terrorist group whose political goal is to bring repressive Communism to Columbia; however its operations are drug trafficking, kidnapping for ransom, extortion and the general use of terrorist tactics to control the local people FARC has infiltrated and to strike fear in the people of Columbian controlled areas.
Ecuador has cajones in allowing FARC to hide within their national borders. If Columbia has the power to back up threats to their National Security, they have every right to chase terrorists across foreign borders. Ecuador should be condemned for harboring FARC. Indeed harboring FARC could be almost considered an act of war against Columbia.
Venezuela’s reaction was hostile to Columbia. Chavez the President of Venezuela has slowly eroded Democratic institutions since coming to power as an overt Communist striking up an anti-American friendship with Cuba.
Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa describes himself as Socialist and a Roman Catholic and a personal friend of Communist Hugo Chavez.
Thus when Columbia decided to take action against FARC on Ecuadorean soil, it is not surprising that both Venezuela and Ecuador mobilized there military to their borders with Columbia.
This mobilization of military elements in essence validates the Venezuelan and Ecuadorean governments’ support of drug dealing terrorists that operate under the umbrella of Communism.
If Venezuela and Ecuador actually do more than rattle their sabers at Columbia, America should support the Columbian government with a military strike that reminds Chavez and Correa that they can still be spanked even without an American invasion.
JRH
Here is a piece I found at the Hudson Institute. Some of you may have already read it for the article is a week old; however it explores an issue that brings the War on Terror closer to home.
Everybody knows that Hugo Chavez has been globally schmoozing with Communist Castro of Cuba and Islamofascist Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran. But what you do not know is that Chavez is cavorting with global terrorists that are the enemies of America.
I know it is the 21st century and the Monroe Doctrine you may have learned about in school may be difficult to live up to; however it was difficult to live up to when it was formulated by President Monroe. Does anyone think early 19th century America was capable of keeping European Powers out of Latin America with out help?
The premise of the Monroe Doctrine needs reapplication in the 21st century, particularly as Chavez’s Anti-America doctrine is to overtly challenge America on the North and South American continents.
Am I being xenophobic? No! I am being an American that wishes to perpetuate the philosophy behind the Declaration of Independence and the Constitutional Bill of Rights. Chavez, Ahmadinejad and Islamofascist (or Islamist or whatever) terrorists represent an authoritarianism that is diametrically opposed to the Freedom and Liberty which represent American culture.
Europe has begged for American deliverance twice and America accepted the challenge. That negated the portion of the Monroe Doctrine to not meddle in European affairs. America’s National Interests are now intertwined with European decisions. The very existence of NATO is an example of that.
Nonetheless America needs to reassert the Monroe Doctrine as it applies to foreign military interventionism that affects American National Interests. In the 21st this reexamination must extend beyond European interventionism and include the potential of global conflict. This is especially the case of Islamofascist designs and agendas whether it a rogue nation or Stateless terrorists.
Hugo Chavez has alienated a significant number of his voting citizens by shutting down a popular Venezuelan TV Network. The reason for not renewing Radio Caracas Television (RCTV) broadcast license was the network allowed opposition leaders a voice. Chavez claimed this was an incitement of a coup that failed a few years ago.
There has been days of rioting as Chavez’s police as been brutalizing protestors supporting RCTV.
Now Chavez is spinning the riots. He is claiming various nations including America are executing a right wing conspiracy to de-stabilize the Chavez government in Venezuela. The reality is global election watchers should be concerned that Chavez won a legitimate election. If Chavez can shut down the voice of his opposition, then democratic selection of leaders has ended.
As the Bolsheviks evolved into Soviet Communists in Russia; Chavez is evolving Venezuela into a one Party State with him as Dictator of State and Government.
Let us place Hugo Chavez’s election victory in Venezuela in a Christian/Capitalist perspective, especially since Chavez calls Jesus Christ the greatest socialist that ever lived.
Did Jesus care about the communal care of all humanity? Yes.
Did Jesus believe in a State that managed the collective care of humanity? Yes and no.
The purpose for the first coming of Jesus Christ was to deliver humanity from the grip of the dark slavery of the world system of Satan’s twisted kingdom and transfer humanity into the Light of the Kingdom of God – a Saving Deliverance.
The question then becomes: What is the Kingdom of God?
Is the Kingdom of God a human market society in which the rules of Capitalism determine value and opportunity to better oneself? No.
Is the Kingdom of God a human managed system in which personal human profit is taxed heavily by the government in order for the government to manage every social and communal service for the betterment of humanity? No.
Is the Kingdom of God a Communist government in which all property is owned by the Kingdom and all human duty is owed to the Kingdom in order for the Kingdom to manage every aspect of rights and privileges of humanity? No.
The Kingdom of God is a union with God and humanity by the Redemptive act of Jesus Christ. The Redemption of Christ restores the strait path of right standing between God and humanity undoing the twisting of human nature caused by Satan. Greed, avarice, illicit pleasures, dark domination within humanity individually and collectively is all ended in the Kingdom of God. The attributes of the Goodness of God is more than just normal, the Goodness is an ingrained part of human nature that comprehends what God knows: viz. that evil is wrong and Godly virtue is good.
Kingdom of God living is intuitively (without even thinking about a right or wrong) is living the will of God. Living the will of God in the Kingdom of God is not because the State enforces God’s Law (or else), but Living the will of God is an Oneness of thought between God and humanity. This is the Divine Collective as opposed to a human enforced collective by violence and compulsion.
Chavez’s claim that Jesus Christ is the greatest socialist is merely a Communist ideological ploy to get a deluded populace on board with Chavez program before the people understand that Liberty, Rights and Privilege have been surrendered to a despotic State government.
On various blogs that I participate on, I often receive negative commentary due to my Christian Right Neoconservative bent.
Incredibly one of those comments from a Slanted Left thinker implied that Hugo Chavez is doing a good thing for his Venezuelan citizens. If Venezuelans voted to reelect Chavez, why should America involve itself in Venezuelan politics or Chavez’s anti-American antics? That was pondering of a Leftie.
Apparently the Left in the West is so virulent against Bush that they do not comprehend the harm to National Security Chavez can ensue. Indeed, Chavez’s new pal President Ahmadinejad of Iran will hamper International Security. Iran is a rogue nation that has been proven to support financially and with the supply of military weapons to known terrorist organizations.
So is Chavez good for Venezuelans?
I am some what of a neocon myself. I am thus even though it is out of harmony with Conservatives (Paleocons) and gleefully despised by Liberals.
One of my favorite neocon think tanks is the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI).
Mark Falcoff of AEI gives a brilliant analysis of Hugo Chavez’s reelection as President of Venezuela. Falcoff points out that reelection should have been expected. Chavez has been tossing bones to the poor in Venezuela as a result of oil revenues from inflated oil prices. The poor love the bones.
Falcoff points out further that those oil prices will not bring in capital (ironic expectation from a socialist/Marxist) eternally for Chavez to schmooze the Venezuelans. When that day comes then the realization will occur that the gap between poor and wealthy in Venezuela has increased without any viable improvement to raise working standards for the poor. Indeed Caracas has the highest murder rate in the North and South American Hemisphere.
Falcoff postulates when oil prices fall and the realities of life hit Venezuela, Chavez will be tossed out.
You can read Mark Falcoff’s essay HERE.
The Venezuelan electorate has chosen Hugo Chavez as their President for another six years. It was not even close. Mexican election was so close a few months ago that the Leftists are still rioting and exchanging fists in the Mexican Congress. That is not the case in Venezuela. With 71% of the vote reporting, Chavez has beaten Rosales 61% to 38%.
That kind of support is huge for Chavez. This is a mandate to continue with the Socialist/Marxist and anti-American agenda. Chavez is in a position to take the mantle from Castro who will more than likely pass away soon.
The difference between Cuba and Venezuela is resources. Cuba has maintained Marxism in poverty and military dictatorship. Venezuela has the full support of its people to bend toward Marxism and yet it is a rich oil Capitalist nation simultaneously.
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