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COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT URIBE AND UNCLE SAM

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El Universal, Venezuela

If War Breaks Out, Venezuela's 'Fifth Column' Will Have to Be Confronted

 

"One mustn't underestimate the number of internal allies of Colombian-U.S. forces, who, if war beyond the usual storm of declarations broke out, would strike Venezuela. … No less than 25 percent of Venezuelans would in some way work for the other side."

 

By Clodovaldo Hernández

 

Translated By Halszka Czarnocka

 

November 7, 2009

 

Venezuela - El Universal Original Article (Spanish)

Addressing the U.N. General Assembly in September, Venezuela President Hugo Chavez says, 'It doesn't smell of sulfur any longer, it smells of hope. ... God should protect Obama from the bullets that killed Kennedy.'

 

UNITED NATIONS TV: Venezuela President Hugo Chavez addressed the opening of the 64th session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York, Sept. 24, 00:58:15RealVideo

In a hypothetical war with the Commonwealth of Colombia, one must consider not only what Colombians living in Venezuela might do - of whom there are many, and what a pigheaded crowd they are! - but the possible actions of Uribe's Venezuelan allies [Uribe is president of Colombia]. Take a look at their plans.

 

We have to accept it: this fifth column, long stewing in its own juices (a thick broth of yearning to topple President Hugo Chávez at any cost), is a mystery that must be accounted for in any military equation. One doesn't have to be a Clausewitz to figure that out.

 

[Editor's Note: A "fifth column" is a group of people who clandestinely undermine a larger group, such as a nation, from within, by aiding an external enemy.]

 

In a hypothetical conflict with our neighbor Colombia, and unfortunately our Greater Colombian brothers [encompassing the territories of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Panama] - the conduct of collaborationist forces could be critical. The problem isn't a matter of individuals enlisting on the enemy side. And of course, our not inconsiderable security forces have at their disposal, among others, weapons of mass destruction that could be disseminated on a grand scale.

 

According to political scientist Prodigio Pérez, one mustn't underestimate the number of internal allies of Colombian-U.S. forces, who, if war beyond the usual storm of declarations broke out, would strike Venezuela. “No less than 25 percent of Venezuelans would in some way work for the other side,” he says without batting an eye.

 

   

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“Are there that many traitors among us?” I asked. Prodigio replied that in actuality, they are all patriots, but that everyone, as we all know, loves their country in their own way.

 

Pérez applied Content Analysis to statements made by several [Venezuelan] opposition leaders (most of them “lizards,” in the political jargon of to our [Colombian] neighbors) and those of the internationalists, and has concluded that they would gleefully support a Colombian-U.S. military operation in order to achieve their life-long dreams of regime change and the installation of their own style of democracy. They are our potential Marshal Pétains [Pétain was a French collaborator with Hitler], who thrive on sinuous speeches, lectures full of quotes from foreign writers and the donning of clothing so beloved by the "Triple A," the venerable Alliance of Anti-Chavez columnists.

 

“In the past, when barber shops and taxicabs were full of talk of a possible war in the Gulf [of Venezuela], people said that immigrants from Colombia, including many women who work as domestic help, would slit our throats before the fighting began,” Prodigio reminisces as he recalls the “Corbeta Caldas” crisis.

 

“This time, it's not even the Colombians who are the prime suspects.”

 

But I belabor the point.

 

clodoher@yahoo.com

 

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[Posted by WORLDMEETS.US November 11, 7:39pm]

 







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