Poliquicks » Venezuela http://poliquicks.com Military Affairs and Politics Done Quick! Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:02:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 LATAM BURNS ON WHILE WASHINGTON FIDDLES http://poliquicks.com/2010/04/28/latam-burns-on-while-washington-fiddles/ http://poliquicks.com/2010/04/28/latam-burns-on-while-washington-fiddles/#comments Wed, 28 Apr 2010 09:32:03 +0000 H. Thomas Hayden http://poliquicks.com/2010/04/26/latam-burns-on-while-washington-fiddles/

It seems that all the Washington political elite and major news media can think about is their domestic agendas. Unfortunately, the international picture continues to burn particularly Latin America.

In his continual clamp down on any dissent Hugo Chavez recently jailed a prominent judge and continues to jail anyone who disagrees with him. Judge Maria Lourdes Afiuni and her entire courtroom staff were arrested and are now sitting in jail.

According to many accounts Hugo Chavez has a firm grip on his government and people. The Cubans run his Intelligence services and his police. Cuban doctors and teachers work in schools and hospitals. Iranians run his oil production and now there is a Pentagon report that Iran is moving Iranian Guards into Venezuela.

The Pentagon report concluded that Iran’s Qods Force, an elite unit within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, is well established and increasing its presence in Latin America, particularly Venezuela.

Colombia, meanwhile, accuses Chavez’s government of supporting Colombia’s Marxist rebels, and Nicaragua and Bolivia are expanding military ties with Venezuela.

Venezuela has become the replacement for Cuba in expanding a socialist agenda throughout Latin America.

Hello – anybody home in Washington?

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Funny I did not see this in the major network news but Spain’s Prime Minister Jose Rodriguez Zapatero is under fire form his opposition for his coziness with Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez – saw this in the WSJ.

It seems that Chavez has given support to the Spanish terror group ETA.

Zapatero has asked Chavez to explain how and why the Colombian terrorist group FARC is working with ETA. However, Venezuela is a major trading partner with Spain.

Some 300,000 Spaniards live in Venezuela, which after Argentina is the second largest Spanish group living abroad.

It is well documented through captured materials and interviews with FARC deserters that top Venezuela military and Intelligence officers are engaged in supplying the FARC with weapons and money.

Stay tuned.

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