We ruined theirs:
"Venezuela honors Simón Bolívar" by Associated Press | July 25, 2010
CARACAS — President Hugo Chávez presided over a special ceremony yesterday honoring Simón Bolívar at the National Pantheon in which soldiers placed a new flag over the independence hero’s tomb.
The flag was driven across the country last week. Along the way, Venezuelans stitched on stars. Thousands of Chávez supporters marched the large red, yellow, and blue flag through downtown Caracas yesterday.
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Of course, Chavez knows where to kick us....
"Chávez says he would stop selling oil to US if Colombia attacks Venezuela" by Associated Press | July 26, 2010
CARACAS — President Hugo Chávez threatened yesterday to halt oil sales to the United States if Venezuela is attacked by its neighbor Colombia, a US ally.
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Did you hear a boom-boom?
Chávez said during a speech to thousands of supporters that if there were an “armed aggression against Venezuela’’ from Colombia backed by the United States, “we would suspend shipments of oil.’’
Chávez said “we wouldn’t send one more drop’’ of oil to the United States, which is the top buyer of oil from the South American country.
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The Venezuelan leader cut off diplomatic relations with Colombia on Thursday after outgoing President Alvaro Uribe’s government presented photos, videos, and maps of what it said were Colombian rebel camps inside Venezuela.
Did Chavez show them the photos of our military bases?
Chávez calls it a bogus show intended to smear his government and has said that Uribe could be trying to lay the groundwork for an armed conflict.
Not like we have never done that before, 'eh, AmeriKa?
The Colombian government denies seeking a conflict.
Yeah, it just seems to happen.
It says it went to the Organization of American States with its evidence about the rebels’ alleged presence in Venezuela last week because Chávez’s government had not taken steps to address the situation.
Chávez said he is canceling a trip to Cuba because of the tensions with Colombia.
He said in a newspaper column, however, that he will wait to see if Juan Manuel Santos, Colombia’s president-elect, expresses willingness to ease the diplomatic conflict. Santos is to take office next month.
The former defense minister?
I would expect a continuation of U.S.-directed policy there -- and Chavez knows it. He is trying to buy time and perhaps forestall the thing altogether.
Good luck, Hugo. Madmen that wish to dominate the world are seldom deterred.
“We have to receive clear and unequivocal signals that there is a real political will in the new Colombian government to take up the path of dialogue again, without tricks,’’ Chavez wrote.
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Wow, that is a LOT of people FOR HIM!
