Chavez’ Euro weapons purchases turn up in FARC
The Colombian government has recovered weapons from their encounters with the terrorist organization FARC that it turns out were purchased by Hugo Chavez’ Venezuelan government from European countries (El Universal);
“In several operations in which we have recovered weapons from the FARC, we have found powerful ammunition (and) powerful equipment, including anti-tank weapons which a European country sold to Venezuela and which turned up in the hands of the FARC,” Santos told Colombia’s Caracol radio, without giving the name of the European nation.
The Swedish government asked Venezuela for an explanation about the seizure from the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) of Swedish weapons sold to Caracas, a Swedish government officer told AFP on Monday.
“We have it confirmed that a smaller amount of (defense) material made in Sweden has been found in a FARC camp. We have asked the officials of the government of Venezuela to give us information on how they believe this material was found in Colombia,” said Jens Eriksson, a political advisor to the Swedish ministry of commerce.
But, since Chavez called Obama an ignoramus for suggesting that Chavez exports terrorism and obstructs progress, we can expect that Obama wil do nothing in regards to this latest evidence that Chavez is exporting terrorism. I suppose it will only influence Obama to reinstall Zelaya in Honduras.
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Foreign Policy, Hugo Chavez
Recall the 100,000 AKs he bought from Tsar Putin I.
They weren’t for the military.
I figure that most were for his private, election army, some for FARC and I bet a dollar a bunch have ended up in Mexico.
Whatever he does with weapons is irrelevant… He is a good marxist who gives healthcare to the masses and cares for the poor.
And does it with “free and fair” elections, monitored by Jimmah Cahtah. Or was that World Can’t Wait? Or Kos, or du? Wait, I know, it was Achmedinnerjacket.
How many here have actually read the Venezuelan Constitution or carefully studied Venezuelan politics AND history using a variety of sources that would include Venezuelan news sources?
None.
UpNorth, ever read any of Ahmahdenijad’s UN speeches? Looked at the actual Farsi translation of the most misquoted quote in history? Have any information at all on US covert operations in Iran and Venezuela?
No.
Prager; have you, concerning Venezuela? Do you know about covert ops in Iran and Venezuela? No, you don’t, so why bring it up?
You probably know less about the subjects you just put out there, than the people on this blog.
Actually I’m retired and spend absolutely all of my time studying global politics and war and I’ve been retired from the publishing business for 5 years now. That’s 5 years sitting here reading for approximately 5-10 hours a day. You’re clearly wrong.
I brought it up because very, very typically Americans support opinions without the necessary factual data to support them and that’s obvious reading the comments herein.
Mr. Prager, please notice that ALL of the people who write here and most of the people who comment here are combat veterans. We’ve never had the luxury of reading about history – we were too busy MAKING history. Please take your snooty, elitist attitude somewhere it’ll be appreciated. Somewhere like Barbie.com.
That’s not a very good excuse for total ignorance but I suppose it’s what I might have expected. And combat veterans don’t make history, people like Henry Kissinger do. Wait, didn’t he say, “military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy” I don’t remember. Maybe it was Major General Smedley Butler. No wait, he said, “My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.” Butler was the most decorated marine in US military history. Ever read anything by him? He’s was a great writer.
My point, since it went right over your empty head, is that, while you sit around reading nonsense written by fools who are just as ignorant as you seem, we were DOING things.
I don’t know how Smedley Butler has anything to do with what happened after the wheel was invented, but I know you pseudo-intellectuals will cling to anything that supports your tenuous grasp of reality.
I’m dressing my Ken and Barbie for the prom but feel free to leave a message.
So, mr. Prager, please explain how you know the Venezuelan Constitution. Did you read it? Did you study it? That’s what I’m talking about. Do you know, for a fact, that we have been pulling covert ops in Venezuela and Iran? No you don’t. That’s the beauty of covert ops, you don’t know about them, that’s what makes them “covert”. You are simply floating an idea and asking people here to prove a negative, which is a classic, if yet futile, attempt to win a debate. Reading 10 hours a day doesn’t make you an expert. Just as me reading several books on Navy SEALs doesn’t make me one. Studying politics and war is actually one in the same. All wars are political in their roots. So, in studying war, you are either interested in the political manifestations, or, you are interested in the stratergery (I love to use that word, it pisses off the leftists) of the battle plans, but that doesn’t mean you know what is, or is not, being done on the ground in Iran and Venezuela, or Afghanistan and Iraq.
While you promote a statement by Butler, you also say that his statement is a blanket stereotype of everyone in the military. How would you know? Did you ever spend time in the mud, heat, rain, snow while wearing the uniform of your country’s military? You throw out boiler plate stereotypes as though they are facts. That is the sign of someone who considers themselves an “intellectual”. What I have found, through experience, not reading about soemone elses experience, is that those who consider themselves intellectuals are really not that smart, are rather physically lazy, pretty arrogant, and have never done anything of note, they just read about what others have done. With that, they also have this built in sense of self importance and look down on those that are actually doing, rather than reading about someone else doing.
Mr. Prager
You use actual Venezuelan news sources?? I’m sure they’re unbiased and historically acurate……
Who told you about our ops in Venezuela and Iran?? Chavez and Ahmadinnerjacket? Good sources….