* Latin America: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad praised his country's ties to several Latin American states and said that there are “no limits” to their relations.* Honduras: The Honduran political crisis could force that country’s critical October 10th World Cup qualifier against the U.S. to be played in another nation.
* Puerto Rico: The island’s economic woes continue as Gov. Luis Fortuno threatened to lay off 30,000 public workers on top of the 8000 he dismissed four months ago.
* Colombia: On a related note, Colombia has been hit with its hardest recession in a decade.
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Iran, 'The Cuban Missile Crisis in Slow Motion' - And the relation to Venezuela and Latin America - The Washington Post
ReplyDeleteThe Washington Post
With Iran, 'The Cuban Missile Crisis in Slow Motion'
David Ignatius
September 25, 2009
With Iran, 'The Cuban Missile Crisis in Slow Motion'
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2009/09/with_iran_the_cuban_missile_cr.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
Some excerpts :
So why didn’t the Obama administration lay down an even stronger marker in response to this breakout -- by threatening, say, to intercept ships at sea that it believed were carrying parts for the Iranian nuclear program?
Comment in the Washington Post by: tropicalfolk September 25, 2009 :
What does Iran -a country half the world away from the United States- have to do with the Cuban missile crisis?
Iran will NEVER, EVER, be able to launch a nuclear bomb on U.S. territory. It's just too far away.
But Venezuela could!!!
And Nicaragua!!!
And Russia, if given enough time and the right facilities, somewhere near the United States!!!
In fact, that is happening already.
Hugo Chavez has spent many BILLIONS of his petrodollars buying large amounts of Russian weapons: fighter jets, warships, tanks.
This escalation has prompted other countries in Latin America to increase their defense spending as well. Last week, Brazil's President Lula signed a major defense deal with France, aimed at containing the Russian-Venezuelan menace in the Atlantic.
Moreover...
For several months now, two Russian NUCLEAR SUBMARINES have been patrolling the eastern coast of the United States, using a tiny Venezuelan island in the Caribbean as their base.
And two weeks ago, Hugo Chavez went to Iran and Russia and renewed their ANTI-U.S. alliance, which includes building A DOZEN nuclear plants in LATIN AMERICA, in those countries where Chavez's buddies are in control: Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, of Course Venezuela, and probably Cuba. The cover-up is the same: "we are pursuing nuclear energy for strictly pacific purposes".
Of course, nobody talks about nuclear threats this close to U.S. soil. It's a lot easiear to go with the old enemy: Iran.
Prophesizing.com
Vicente Duque
Hugo Chavez : From Elementary Terrorism killing children with Land Mines in Colombia ( via FARC ) to Postgraduate Nuclear Terrorism and Threat
ReplyDeleteHugo Chavez has been in the Elementary School of Terrorism. First he helps the FARC to kill children by sowing land mines in agricultural fields, throwing gas cylinders over the houses of Old People and Women in the poorest hamlets to burn and explode them.
Nobody paid attention, so now he wants to be in the Big Leagues of Nuclear Terrorism and Atomic Threats.
Real Clear Politics
Three Dangerous Stooges
By Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and author, most recently, of "A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War."
October 1, 2009
Three Dangerous Stooges : Gadhafi, Ahmadinejad Chavez
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/10/01/three_dangerous_stooges_98535.html
Some excerpts :
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez may have delivered the strangest monologue. He mostly idolized leftwing filmmaker Oliver Stone for making a fawning documentary about revolutionary Venezuela. But somehow Chavez also brought up the Kennedy assassination. And, yes, he also faulted America for his own problems.
Chavez has cut off all relations with Israel. Jews have been increasingly attacked in Venezuela, and reports have spread that Chavez is reaching out to Iran for a nuclear program.
Listening to all this insanity, it's clear that the problems these dictators pose (and the attitudes they represent) go beyond whether our president is Texan George Bush or post-national Barack Obama.
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Take away oil and the money it garners - Iran, Libya and Venezuela are all larger petroleum exporters -- and these strongmen would never receive high-profile television venues at the UN. Oil props up all three economies, which have largely been wrecked by their own incompetence.
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All three freely express hatred of Jews, reminding us that there is no longer a downside to flashy anti-Semitism. It used to be rightwing scourges whom we associated with the hatred of a Hitler or the Klan.
Today, leftist oil-rich thugs voice slander against tiny Israel to show their revolutionary credentials, even as they find scapegoats for their own colossal failures.
Ahmadinejad, Chavez and Gadhafi are not just regional buffoons, but international dangers. Iran will probably get a few bombs soon. Gadhafi was scheming to obtain one until the Iraq war -- and has the money and the anger to try again. Chavez brags he has bought "little rockets" from Russia and now wants his own nuclear program.
Prophesizing.com
Vicente Duque