I guess his motivation of beefing up his military is in order to fuel his visions of grandeur?

Sounds like he is playing more of a game of "chicken" with our government.

I'm not saying I support Chavez's move, because I don't, but the reason is quiet obvious: American imperialism.

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Chavez arrested ?

Are you seriously blaming the government for murders ? Not even the biggest Bush critics would try and blame him for crime in the US. All the government can do is tackle the causes of crime, like poverty andhave strong detterents, beyond that they are helpless.

That is just simply not true. Venezuela has many elected opponents of the government, as mayors, in the assembly and at a local level.


I really wonder where you get your information from since it is so obviously full mistruths, half truths and outright falsehoods.

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"If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism"

"North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity"

Venezuela is allied with countries that support repression and terrorism and will therefore be judged by its actions and relationships.

How has the US in any way interfered in Venezuelan society, politics or government?

When has the US even lightly inferred that it had any intention of interfering with Venezuela?

Proof with links from credible sources please.

Oh yes I do. Venezuela can buy all the Russian junk it wants but, as I've said, it's like handing rifles to chimps. The Venezuelan military is a joke.

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Originally Posted by New Governor Of Alaska However, you might do know that what you are saying is nonsense but you say it just because you are mad of the fact that there is nothing American Empire can do to intervene in Russo-Venezuelan relationship.

Why would we mant to? Let Venezuela throw its money away on third rate Russian junk.

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Originally Posted by New Governor Of Alaska But WHATEVER you say will not save the American Empire from collapse.

Absolute typical socialist nonsense.

It helped the coup against Chavez, funding the plotters. Watch "The War on Democracy" by John Pilger, it's on google videos. If you don't watch all of it start at about 30 minutes. I know Pilger is a biased source but his facts are facts and he provides documents for evidence and the words of an American (CNN I think) reporter who was told of the conspiracy before it ever happened.

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Read this article also: Venezuela coup linked to Bush team | World news | The Observer

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There's power in a factory,power in the land, power in the hand of the worker. But it all amounts to nothing if together we don't stand, there is power in a union.
The union forever defending our rights, down with the blackleg, workers unite. To our brothers and our sisters in many far off lands, there is power in a union.
Money speaks for money, the devil for his own. - Billy Bragg

The obvious bias in Pilger's video aside, based on one incident Chavez is so paranoid that he wastes mony on military equipment under the guise of a threat from the US when there obviously is no threat. The man is nuts.

What? An American funded and backed coup is certainly reason to be fearful of the empire, so is America's history of violent interference within Latin America.

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There's power in a factory,power in the land, power in the hand of the worker. But it all amounts to nothing if together we don't stand, there is power in a union.
The union forever defending our rights, down with the blackleg, workers unite. To our brothers and our sisters in many far off lands, there is power in a union.
Money speaks for money, the devil for his own. - Billy Bragg