Chavez says Colombian candidate would pose threat

[Bacchus39]

Chavez doing his best to see Santos gets elected.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100420/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_venezuela_summit


Chavez says Colombian candidate would pose threat

CARACAS, Venezuela – President Hugo Chavez is hurling harsh words at the leading presidential candidate in neighboring Colombia, saying he would pose a threat to Venezuela and its allies if he is elected.

Chavez complained about the leading candidate to succeed Colombian President Alvaro Uribe on Monday night while he denounced U.S. meddling in Latin America. Chavez was hosting a summit of allies ranging from Cuba's Raul Castro to Bolivia's Evo Morales.

Chavez warned that Colombia would become a serious threat to its neighbors if former Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos wins the presidential elections. Voting will be held on May 30, and a second-round runoff is likely between the top two candidates.

"Now he wants to be president. This is a threat to all of us, especially for Ecuador, Venezuela and Nicaragua," Chavez said.

Chavez said he is convinced that Santos would be willing to launch cross-border raids or bombardments if Colombian authorities suspect rebel groups are seeking refuge in neighboring countries.

In Colombia, Santos told Radio Viva of Pasto on Tuesday that Chavez's remarks "clearly indicate that he wants to interfere in the election."

Colombia's war against Marxist guerrillas has spilled over into neighboring countries, leading to regional antagonism toward Bogota, especially since March 1, 2008, when Colombian warplanes wiped out a rebel camp in Ecuador. Chavez along with Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa remain fiercely critical of Uribe.

Chavez warned Colombian leaders against trying anything similar, saying that "an aggression against any country" among his close allies "would be an aggression against Venezuela."

Chavez also criticized Colombia's agreement for the U.S. military to use more bases there and said Santos and others "feel supported by the Yankees."

Correa, who also attended Monday's summit, said his government is still "trying to patch up our bilateral relations" with Bogota. He warned against another military raid on Ecuadorean territory, saying: "We will know how to respond."

Colombian leaders accuse Chavez of collaborating with the rebels and allowing them refuge in Venezuela, and have complained that Ecuador had done too little to deny them shelter before the 2008 raid.

[protocol rv]

1. I think Chavez is scared

If that guy Santos wins, he may cut off the gas supplies to Western Venezuela. We really need that Colombian gas.

[Peace Patriot]

2. Colombian leaders' accusations against Chavez are as about as reliable as who they claim

they have killed in their Forever War. For instance, in the case of La Macarena, Colombia, where a recent mass grave with up to 2,000 bodies was found (because local children drinking the water got sick from the pollution of the corpses), the Colombian military claimed that the bodies were of FARC guerrillas--as if that would be justification for a mass grave--and local people said they are the bodies of 'disappeared' community activists (union leaders, farmer organizers, human rights workers, political leftists--of which tens of thousands have been slaughtered by the Colombian military and its closely tied rightwing paramilitary death squads). On other occasions, they have murdered local people and dressed the bodies up like FARC guerrillas, to up their body count to impress U.S. senators.

Colombia's 40+ civil war is their gravy train. That's why they lie. And Venezuelans having clean, transparent, internationally monitored elections, free universal health care, free education through college, and numerous other social benefits, and all that oil in the control of their transparently elected, popular government induces hatred in Washington DC and makes Venezuela the caboose on that train carrying $7 BILLION U.S. TAX DOLLARS to the murdering fuckers running Colombia.

Santos is the 'Donald Rumsfeld' of Latin America. He is itching to invade Venezuela, kill all the leftists with the same alacrity that the Colombian military (possibly with the help of the U.S. and U.K. militaries*) slaughtered 2,000 community leaders in La Macarena, and give control of the oil back to Exxon his paymasters. He is sarcastic, arrogant and cold as ice, like Rumsfeld, and conscienceless like Rumsfeld, and he is the darling of the fascists and war profiteers in this country. Chavez is right about Santos. He is a bloody menace.

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*The La Macarena massacre (includes a description of, and links to docs about, U.S. ops in La Macarena)
http://www.cipcol.org/?p=1303

The UK military connection
http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2010/02/04/silence-on-british-army-link-to-colombian-mass-grave/

Posted: April 1, 2010 09:22 AM
U.S. and Colombia Cover Up Atrocities Through Mass Graves, by Dan Kovalik
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-kovalik/us-colombia-cover-up-atro_b_521402.html