.....this....
...which compares to this story yesterday.
The United States said Monday an ongoing military buildup by Venezuela poses a serious challenge to regional stability. The comments follow an announcement that the Caracas government of President Hugo Chavez has received a line of credit from Moscow to purchase Russian tanks and anti-aircraft missiles.
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UPDATE: Kind reader 'MH' left a comment with this link to a BBC report that has the "embattled Chávez" (58% approval rating missed out of report, surprisingly) mentioned time and time again. If you read through to the end and get your eyes to gloss over the normal BS rhetoric, the writer does actually get close to the truth. But the biggest lump of ridiculousness is yet another analyst trying to create some some of friction and rivalry between Lula's Brazil and Chávez's Venezuela. This is the stuff of Rory Carroll's wet dreams and forms no part of reality. We laugh at you when you talk funny, gringos.
But the denouement of the report gives the whole game away. Right at the foot of the page we have that destabilizing Venezuela in context via this chart. Isn't it amazing how the US forgets to mention Colombia's arms purchases...
But the denouement of the report gives the whole game away. Right at the foot of the page we have that destabilizing Venezuela in context via this chart. Isn't it amazing how the US forgets to mention Colombia's arms purchases...
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Wow, that tiny widdle blue slice is all of LatAm.
And that big huge chunk is the YouEss of Ay.
And yet the YouEss of Ay claims that one teeny-tiny widdle sliver of the tiny widdle blue slice is a menace to THEM? Just because it refuses to be content with obsolete, rusty crap that crashes, dies, and just generally doesn't work for shit?
Methinks someone doth protest too much.
Here is the farce over at the BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8256686.stm
Notice the 'important' story is contained in a graphic at the end of the page. Venezuela's scary military spending? Chavez's "internal problems"? How about the BBC hires someone who stops making shit up, and pays someone who can read the charts and graphs they put into their own articles.
BTW, Chavecito is also right to be concerned about Colombian encroachment on Venezuelan turf. It's not paranoid to observe that western Venezuela borders on Colombia, and what's the biggest thing in western Venezuela? Lake Maracaibo--underneath which lies a hefty chunk of those vast Venezuelan oil reserves, the same that would dwarf Saudi Arabia's when the Orinoco region in the east is figured in. Someone in Colombia would no doubt like to get his hot widdle mitts on that stuff--if not the Orinoco belt, Lake Maracaibo would no doubt do just fine anyhow. It would win him no end of favors from his gringo pals.
Just one more reason why this Munks dude really needs to learn to read maps, and to figure in all that oil.
I beg to disagree. Although the fantasy "arms race" between Venezuela and Brazil, that only exits in the imagination of rightist "analysts", is utterly stupid, i find the thesis that the 2embattled Chavez might be tempted to launch a military adventure to divert attention from his growing domestic woes, pushing his AMX-13 and Scorpion 90 light tanks across the border and launching long-range airstrikes" way more insane. I mean, with an approval rating of around 60% who wouldnt attack an army that is 400% bigger and supported by the USA, in order to divert attention from domestic problems? The question is, has the whole BBC gone totally insane, or do they know what they are doing?
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