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2006-03-24 Caribbean-Latin America

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Posted by Steve 2006-03-24 09:02|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 just another garden variety despot.

Posted by 2b 2006-03-24 09:30|| 2006-03-24 09:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Given the worlds dependence on Venezuelan oil, such a possibility would have serious international repercussions.
Another bit player. Now if he'd fork over 2 or 3 billion in ready American we might, just might stage a small fleet exercise to fire up his supporters.

Posted by 6 2006-03-24 09:50|| 2006-03-24 09:50|| Front Page Top

#3 But absolutely no to 17 dollar raids.

/F-Troop

Posted by 6 2006-03-24 09:52|| 2006-03-24 09:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Article: The FAN is believed to have at least 80,000 professional soldiers, who could be forced to face two-million urban guerrillas.

Easier said than done. Every family in Iraq had firearms prior to the invasion. Did that make them able to resist Saddam's secret police, let alone his army divisions? No.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-03-24 12:47|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2006-03-24 12:47|| Front Page Top

#5 Sounds like a tailor-made program for country-wide chaos the moment that Chavez loses control of his minions. Just what a Latin American country needs - the society-wide dissemination of subversive & guerilla training & equipment. He's going to make that country more ungovernable than Colombia if he goes through with it.

On the plus side, oil wealth is much less localized than cocaine wealth. Venezuela doesn't have that grass-roots drug-money ready & waiting to finance each town's own set of mutually antagonistic gangs & thugs. Well, less so than the Andean states.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2006-03-24 14:27|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2006-03-24 14:27|| Front Page Top

#6 I wonder if or when Venezuela will get into the cocaine business? Given that Hugo has put them on the highway to hell, it would complete the picture.

Posted by Grunter 2006-03-24 18:33|| 2006-03-24 18:33|| Front Page Top

#7 sounds like a couple stealth bomber - full throttle passes over the capital and Hugo will wet himself into exile

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-03-24 20:20|| 2006-03-24 20:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Chavez is going to find out that the classic counter to cult of personality is the removal of the Dear Leader. It only takes one very unhappy soldier with an AR-50 to put an end to President Huff n Puff.

Posted by RWV 2006-03-24 22:57|| 2006-03-24 22:57|| Front Page Top

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