The Evil Doer of Latin America

Even though I am forever seeking a fair and balanced view, Lord knows how I end up stuck on some channels when I am surfing. I ended up hearing way more of this segment than I wanted to this morning. The urgent tone of the "emergency bulletin like" report leaves no wonder why the far right drones often have racist and vigilante mentalities. They did all they could to call Hugo Chavez everything but a child of God. I really had to laugh.

His name is Hugo Chavez. He is the president of oil-rich Venezuela. Mr. Chavez has decided that America is his enemy, so he is building up his army. He has forged an alliance with Fidel Castro, and many think he is going to make trouble for the United States.

Chavez believes he is in a fight with the devil. Sometimes he even brings this visual aid to his rallies, so that his supporters remember what they are up against.

But the devil that Chavez fights does not reside in Hell. Chavez believes that the devil resides in Washington.

Chavez has actually been on a collision course with Washington for years. But for the most part, Washington was not paying attention. It is now.

But Washington's concern has been too little too late, and now some fear that a new Cuban-Venezuelan alliance has a plan to create a new block of Leftist-run, anti-American states across Central and South America."

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Chavez calls the United States the world's greatest menace and says he simply wishes to be left alone to do his work. But there is a growing fear that Chavez is preparing to export his Bolivarian revolution to his neighbors. Why else would he need 100,000 recently purchased Russian AK-47s?^* Why announce plans to increase the size of the army reserves from 50,000 to 1.5 million? Why the ties to guerilla movements?

Chavez says the arms buildup is defensive. His opponents disagree. Taylhardat says, "He wants to do now what Castro failed to do in the 60s, when he sent out Che Guevarra to export the Cuban revolution to the rest of the continent."

Chavez said, "The U.S. administration is behind the opposition in Venezuela, and Mr. George Bush has a black hat, black horse and black flag. He is the main instigator and the main planner of all the movements that have attacked us."

Chavez says the U.S. is plotting to have him killed, and he says if that happens, oil shipments to the U.S. will stop. It is a strange relationship between business partners. But get used to it. Hugo Chavez remains the most popular politician in Venezuela. And he shows no sign of going away.

He states, "I bet a dollar to Mr. Bush to see who will last longer, him there in the White House or this Venezuelan, Hugo Chavez, here in the Miraflores Palace. Let's see who lasts longer, Mr. Bush."

In his fight with America, Chavez intends to be the last man standing.

To hear CBN tell it, between Islam (which is the bulk of the middle east and significant parts of Asia and Eurasia) and Latin America, it looks as though the US is but the one holy place on this earth. So, I also assume that when the rapture comes, the US (and possibly a select few converts in Israel) will be among the few who get caught up in it. How convenient!

^*Gotta chuckle again at the absurd reference to their obtaining, what amounts to, an everyday weapon of choice for average American hoodlums of any means.