Coinciden en casi todo: Venezuela ubicada al norte del continente
suramericano frente al Mar Caribe y rica en petróleo
Colonels
Hugo Chávez and Mohamar Qaddafi: two peas in a pod?
El Tiempo, Colombia
Hugo Chavez: South
America's Own 'Qaddafi'
"Just like the the Bedouin Qaddafi who sits atop the oil Libya produces, the dirty, heavy Venezuelan crude allows despotic, arrogant, foul-mouthed Chavez to do whatever he likes."
They coincide in almost every
way: Venezuela is located in the north of the South American continent on the shores
of the Caribbean, and is rich in petroleum. Libya is located in the North of
the African continent on the shores of the Mediterranean, and rich in petroleum.
They are countries governed by two colonels who came to power or intended to
come to power by coup d’état.
The protagonists: Hugo Rafael
Chávez Frias in Venezuela, and Mohamar Qaddafi in Libya.
This preface is meant to bring to the attention of American nations how dangerous the Caracas regime is,
after Spain’s National Audience [High Court] accused President Hugo Rafael
Chavéz Frías of collaborating with the feared Basque terrorist organization
known by its acronym ETA, and no
less a terrorist group than Colombia’s FARC-EP [Revolutionary Armed
Forces of Colombia].
Qaddafi has ruled Libya for
40 years. Chávez aspires to remain from 1999-2030.
Until the middle of 2000s,
Tripoli was in the black book of international sponsors of terror, and among
the items in Qaddafi’s criminal record is responsibility for bringing down a
commercial airliner full of passengers over Scotland that killed 300 people.
Caracas is often accused of
harboring FARC guerillas and providing passports, money and weapons to the
outlawed movement. Chávez is accused of having advanced knowledge of the deaths
of over a dozen Colombians, and of having attacked the Colombian economy.
For nearly 40 years, Libya
was in the sights of the Western powers. In the mid-1980s, it was attacked with
missiles as punishment for sponsoring terrorism, and Qaddafi saw one of his
nine children killed during a U.S. air operation. [Operation El Dorado
under President Ronald Reagan, which was a retaliation for the Berlin
Disco Bombing by Libya].
Venezuela is increasingly isolated
from the international community - to the point that potential investors are avoiding
the Chávez government and Venezuela is suffering through a period of food
shortages, extended blackouts and a crime wave in the capitol that makes
Caracas one of the most insecure in the world.
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After accepting all the allegations,
cooperating with Western countries and compensating his victims, Mohamar Qaddafi
is a repentant dictator and has been reinstated into the international
community, thanks to his rich oil fields, his investment in nuclear energy and
the fact that he has renounced terrorism.
Chávez Frías, who says in the
style of a Cancunazo [person from Cancun], “Be a man and say it to my face,"
is stepping back from his hostile behavior toward Colombia, but worsening his
relations with Europe and demonstrating to Spain, an important member of the
European Union, that the Caracas government offers refuge to ETA.
It's lamentable for the suffering
people of Venezuela that their head of state, Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías, is a
figure on the world stage that looks like the "Mohamar Qaddafi of South
America." It's a name that dishonors the honorable, healthy, good and
peaceful society of the Venezuelans.
But just like the the Bedouin Qaddafi who sits atop the oil Libya produces, the dirty, heavy Venezuelan crude allows despotic, arrogant, foul-mouthed Chavez to do whatever he likes
in his neighboring country [Colombia].
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As noted in a past blog entry,
if the United States would stop importing about 15 percent of Venezuelan oil,
Chávez Frías would run out of foreign currency with which to sponsor
far-away terrorist movements in disregard for the will of the Venezuelan
people.
It’s not certain that Russia,
the world largest oil producer, and China - countries very far from Venezuela -
will want to replace the United States market and create diplomatic and
economic friction among Moscow, Beijing and Barack Obama.
The way things are going,
Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías is on the well-traveled path of the overthrown ex-president
of Panama and U.S. prisoner, Manuel Antonio Noriega, who will almost certainly live out the remaining
days of his life in a French prison.
