Monday, October 30, 2006

Chavez: Fidel's Boy Wonder


Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez will build 20 military bases in Bolivia, which will be situated on the borders with five other nations: Chile, Peru, Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil. Those installations will be under the control of Venezuelan and Cuban personnel, in complicity with Bolivian soldiers. Most certainly, the Cubans will carry Venezuelan passports and identification papers. It isn't easy to tell them apart...The plan reprises an old dream and early strategic concept created by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara: to turn Bolivia, a country in the heart of Latin America, into the subversive bastion of South America....Madmen Bent on Destruction, Carlos Alberto Montaner, The Miami Herald

Just when we thought democracy was gaining a foothold throughout Latin America, the usual caudillo returns, usually arm in arm with the doddering Fidel Castro, proclaiming themselves the next Bolivar. Is anybody else paying attention?

Luther

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