Friday, February 25, 2011

Libya and Latin America

Another conservative criticism of the Libya-Latin America link from José Cárdenas at Foreign Policy.  For once I actually agree with most of what he says, until the end when he cannot help make it into a criticism of the Obama administration.

All this crystallizes the situation for the United States in Latin America today: between serious governments with whom we can do business and the irresponsible outliers with whom we share hardly any common interests. It is a distinction the Obama administration doesn't always seem to appreciate. At a House Western Hemisphere subcommittee hearing last week, Rep. David Rivera (R-FL) chided Assistant Secretary of State Arturo Valenzuela on this score, saying that our hemispheric policy seems to be all about trying to make up with our enemies and ignoring our friends. Let's hope the disparate reactions to the carnage in Libya will serve as a wake-up call to realign our priorities in the Western Hemisphere.

If we didn't "do business" with "serious" countries that had ties to Libya and had nice photo-ops with Gaddafi, we wouldn't do business with much of Europe.  Plus, Bolivia is not the same as Venezuela, since the former is actually pursuing unpopular market reforms.  In general, the stubborn inability to see any nuance is tiring, though not surprising.

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Defensores de Democracia 5:25 PM  

VIDEO : Paling with Dictators, Colonel Gadaffy and Colonel Chavez - Chavez gives a jewel of a sword with gold and precious stones to Gadaffy - Chavez compares Gadaffy to Bolivar as Liberators
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The Sword has the image of Emperor Athaualpa of the Incas ( in Peru ! ) - Made of Pure Gold and has three thousand precious stones engraved !

Nobel Prize Winner and Novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez never met such clowns of "Le cirque du soleil" to portray them in his famous book "The Autumn of the Patriarch", to tell the story of the Supreme Alienation and Stupidity of Dictators.

Chaves says : "I am not exaggerating : "What Bolivar is for Venezuela, Gadaffy is for Libya"..... Chavez says : "Gadaffy is a leader of Libya, of Arab Nations, of Africa and Latin America"

Hugo Chavez uses cute children in funny peasant attire in order to improve the adoration, beatification, glorification, sanctification and apotheosis of Dictatorship. Children are also used to convey innocence in "The Autumn of the Patriarch".



CHAVEZ REGALA A KADAFI ESPADA DE BOLÍVAR SWORD SEP. 2009 معمر القذافي GADAFFI KHADAFI


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f__NO9MY6Q
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