[QUOTE=BrainGlutton]
If so, it’s not necessarily a bad thing for the Venezuelan economy, as mswas assumes. Depends on how big a bite it puts on the budget.
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It is also a senate election plan for Joseph Kennedy (Joe wants to be senator, when Uncle ted’s liver final craps out). Plus, joe nets himself a $800,000/year salary from this good work! pretty nifty!
I’m not surpised by this. Chavez is trying to be the new Fidel. Arming left-wing rebels goes with the deal. He’s going to be a real pain in the ass for a long time.
[QUOTE=Evil Captor]
First Bush grabs her then Chavez insults her. She’s gonna avoid this hemisphere entirely.
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Dude, those are some SERIOUS hemispheres and you get to A Certain Age and, despite a lady’s, er, POLITICAL prominence, a straight, old, fart cannot keep his hands off such SERIOUS boobage. Bush is 60, Chavez is a month and a half younger than I, which is close to all of us, and Merkel, well, I get confused trying to figure out how old she is. They must be tested, though most of us would prefer it to be in a pretend “loving,” not political, manner.
Aw, who am I kidding? There’s tits and there’s votes, and they COMPLETELY overlap! You kids need to go get ice cream while Mom, Dad, Hugo, Angela, and several of our other elderly pals fuck.
[QUOTE=Captain Lance Murdoch]
You haven’t arrived until Chavez has taken a shot at you.
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Phew that makes me feel better! cos he called me a tight fisted cunt.
I dont FEEL important though.
[QUOTE=ralph124c]
It is also a senate election plan for Joseph Kennedy (Joe wants to be senator, when Uncle ted’s liver final craps out). Plus, joe nets himself a $800,000/year salary from this good work! pretty nifty!
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[shrug] However you cut that issue, Kennedy is right and his critics are wrong.
[QUOTE=smiling bandit]
I’ve been watching this myself. Chavez seems to have been deep in bed with Columbia’s worst elements. I’d say “rebel” is too kind a term here.
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Who, the FARC? Cocaine dealing and Marxist ideology notwithstanding, they’re still better than their enemies.
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton]
Who, the FARC? Cocaine dealing and Marxist ideology notwithstanding, they’re still better than their enemies.
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Except those have more or less calmed down. FARC’s big enemy is democracy itself these days.
[QUOTE=TJVM]
The Joe-4-Oil phone number is for a subsidized oil program supported by Citgo, the state-owned Venezuelan oil company. In other words, the government of Venezuela is providing aid to poor(er) Americans. Many view this as a bit of political theater by Hugo Chavez, intended to make the U.S. look bad.
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That program has been in place since the 1970’s, when Citgo was private and Venezuela was still “ours”.
I am unaware of Chavez, or any entity larger than Citgo or Joe Kennedy, claiming credit for it here in the US; are you?