Time: Why Pat Robertson’s Statements Help Hugo Chavez Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has a new best friend this morning: television evangelist Pat Robertson. With his astonishing call for the left-wing leader’s assassination last night—”I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it…We have the ability to take him out”—Robertson will have surely [...]
Continue Reading August 24th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
I wouldn’t want US agents of any sort, drug enforcement or otherwise, in my back yard. By following US policy it is quite apparent that they don’t hesitate to use even their own good name and civilian / humanitarian assistance as a trojan approach towards subverting troublesome foreign powers. For the casual observer, Chavez may [...]
Continue Reading August 9th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Here we go again. Via the Agonist. The US in on the move, trying to reign in the populistic movements that "threaten democracy" in South America. Their means for doing this is the Organization of American States (OAS). The US now want a "permanent committee of the OAS that would monitor the exercise of democracy [...]
Continue Reading June 6th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
The situation is chaotic at best and the US is of course betting against the people. What else is new. Leftist and indigenous groups are now calling on Congress to impeach Gutiérrez, whose economic policies, which have thrown open the economy and deregulated the state, are backed by the United States and the International Monetary [...]
Continue Reading April 9th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Via Agonist. Yes, the not so eloquent or talented Mr. Rumsfeld is out stirring up trouble again. This time in Venezuela. Yes indeed. The same place where the Bush administration tried to incite a coup in 2002. And to answer Rumsfeld’s question, I think they are going to use those weapons to defend themselves against [...]
Continue Reading March 24th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
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