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Chavez' feelings hurt that anyone would celebrate Mono Jojoy's death
Venezuela President Hugo Chavez, commenting for the first time on this week's killing of a commander in Colombia's main Marxist rebel group, criticized those who are "joyful" over his death."One shouldn't be joyful of the death of anyone," Chavez said Friday night at an event broadcast on state television. You can just feel the hurt in his words. Make no mistake, Chavez shed tears on hearing that a major terrorist had been killed by the legitimate government, I guarantee it. It put a serious dent in his ambitions to rule beyond his borders. I'm sure that's what he means by this, almost-crying tone. He's sad for himself most of all. Chavez said he hopes that Colombia continues to work toward a peace deal with the rebels and hopes "they don't continue killing here and there." So, in other words, you just hope that what's happening stops happening. Typical wishful thinking...it's so stereotypically leftist that it hurts to type this. The comments by Chavez on the killing of Mono Jojoy were rather subdued compared to his response in 2008 to the slaying of another FARC leader, Raul Reyes, in a cross-border raid into Ecuador by Colombian troops. This is the one that they identified by your satellite phone calls to him, Senor President-for-Life. Chavez called Reyes' killing a "coldly calculated murder" and criticized Colombia for wanting to "show off the trophy." During a speech shortly after Reyes' death, he held a moment of silence for the outlaw, a move roundly criticized by the Bogota government. But roundly praised by the usual suspects, who of course are not mentioned. Posted by: gromky 2010-09-27 |
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