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2006-07-17 Caribbean-Latin America

Rival Chávez factions resort to deadly force

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Posted by mojo 2006-07-17 12:15|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Not another head butt?

Posted by Perfesser 2006-07-17 12:57|| 2006-07-17 12:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Wow, good thing he gave them all those guns...

Posted by Laurence of the Rats">Laurence of the Rats 2006-07-17 14:08|| 2006-07-17 14:08|| Front Page Top

#3 Red on red!

Posted by Mike 2006-07-17 14:23|| 2006-07-17 14:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Some Tupamaros maintain their vigilante role and run government literacy and after-school programs, while others engage in criminal activities. But all are armed and seem to have benefited financially and socially from Chávez's rise to power. Some have government jobs, while others are living off the leftovers from the government's increased social spending.

Sounds like Massachusetts...except everybody's got automatic weapons.

Posted by tu3031 2006-07-17 14:30|| 2006-07-17 14:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Sounds like Massachusetts...except everybody's got automatic weapons.

So it's more like Detroit, then?

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2006-07-17 14:46|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-07-17 14:46|| Front Page Top

#6 In some ways, Chavez reminds me of Alexander Kerensky, best known as being the president of the short-lived democratic Soviet Union, and having the personality of John Kerry mixed with Pee Wee Herman, alternatively boring and bureaucratic, and paranoid and panic-stricken.

He issued guns to the peasants, too. Guns that were used to overthrow his government a short time later.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-07-17 14:46|| 2006-07-17 14:46|| Front Page Top

#7 Hugo is such a fan of Marxism that he has now created his own version of the Red Guards wars in China. Also, arming the most likely candidates for gang activity is not the smartest move in the world. I am sure the local branches of the cocaine cartels are ever so grateful for the new hardware.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2006-07-17 15:25|| 2006-07-17 15:25|| Front Page Top

#8 VZ is just slipping back to the bannana zone, couldn't stand good times.

Posted by 6 2006-07-17 18:13|| 2006-07-17 18:13|| Front Page Top

#9 Don't kill each other. That would break my heart!

Posted by Iblis">Iblis 2006-07-17 21:20|| 2006-07-17 21:20|| Front Page Top

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