Socialist American Media Silent - Venezuela Murder Rate Jumps 10%

Where are all of the Chavez loving socialist vermin in the media? Where is Sean Penn? Too bad he was not part of that 10% spike in the murder rate....

This is socialism folks...enjoy it, because this is what you elected on Nov. 4th. You are about to get a lesson in Marxism you morons....

Venezuela Murders Shoot Up 10% Amid Official Silence
Some cases take some believing even in a society long inured to violence.

By Jeremy Morgan
Latin American Herald Tribune staff

CARACAS -- Venezuela's unenviable reputation for violent crime looks easy to prove but difficult to explain, as does the government's apparent inability to do much in terms of reining in murderous thugs with evidently all too easy access to firearms.

In the absence of official statistics, Provea, a civil rights group, says that 10,606 people died by violent means in the 12 months ending in September this year. That marked a 10.86% jump on the already high figure of 9,567 killings in the corresponding period a year before.

Provea is estimating that on current trends the full year will end with more than 13,000 murders. No wonder that crime repeatedly comes top in one opinion poll after another. And yet, people seem curiously inured to the relentless slaughter.

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=322811&CategoryId=10717

The Hugo Chavez Show on PBS?

The liberals in this country want your children waiting on bread lines and wearing plastic shoes. This is their future if we allow PBS to broadcast the Hugo Chavez show, like this guy is some mythical hero.

I get the feeling that the treasonous Kennedy clan is behind this.

Texasbail tipped me off to this one...thanks buddy.

Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers. Major funding for FRONTLINE is provided by The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Additional funding is provided by the Park Foundation.

Every Sunday President Chávez talks to the people in his TV show - which lasts for hours. Chávez basically improvises as he goes along.


http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/hugochavez/

Colombian defense chief warns against Russian military presence

BUENOS AIRIES, October 4 (RIA Novosti) - Colombia's defense minister said Saturday that Russia's increasing military presence in Latin America would lead to a return to the time of the Cold War.

"Russia, with its 16,000 nuclear bombs, has a great desire to be a key player in the world. But its presence in the region will promote a return to the Cold War," Juan Manuel Santos said on Colombian radio Caracol.

Speaking ahead of an official visit to Russia, he said the plans for Russian naval exercises in the Caribbean in November could "affect the balance of power in the region and its stability."

"Russia has already shown its strength, sending two strategic bombers capable of carrying 16 nuclear warheads to our neighbor Venezuela." Santos said, adding that the region had not seen anything similar since the Cuban missile crisis four decades ago.

"Who would have thought a couple of years ago that there would be a new center of the Cold War near us?" he asked.

Two Russian strategic bombers recently carried out patrols along the coast of South America during a visit to Russia's chief ally on the continent, Venezuela, and a naval task force led by the nuclear-powered missile cruiser Pyotr Velikiy is on its way to the country for joint exercises in the Caribbean.

Santos said he hoped his visit to Russia, the first by a Colombian defense minister, would improve relations between the two countries, particularly with regard to Colombia's struggle against terrorism, drug trafficking and organized crime.

http://en.rian.ru/world/20081004/117430854.html

Russia in Caribbean Raises Fears of War With U.S.

As one of Russia's nuclear-powered warships heads toward the Caribbean for military maneuvers with Venezuela, the suddenly resurgent country is raising fears of a future war with the United States.

The seizure of territories in the republic of Georgia last month seems to be only the first stage in a planned projection of military strength around the globe, say military experts.

The military exercises, which Venezuela President Hugo Chavez announced only two weeks ago, has U.S. officials and others dusting off old Cold War strategies involving threats from Cuba, Mexico and South America that many thought were no longer valid.

“The Georgian war in August was simply the first effort by a resurging Russia to pulse out, expand its security buffer and, ideally, in the Kremlin’s plans, break out of the post-Cold War noose that other powers have tied,” writes Peter Zeihan at Stratfor.com, a defense analysis Web site.

Zeihan goes on to predict that Russia will continue to behave much as the Soviet Union did, forging bonds with hostile Latin American governments like Cuba and Venezuela, while working with drug mafias to destabilize Mexico. That will keep the United States busy in its own backyard while Russia can gain footholds throughout Europe.

The nuclear-powered flagship Peter the Great set off for Venezuela Monday with the submarine destroyer Admiral Chabanenko and two support vessels in the first Russian naval mission in Latin America since the end of the Cold War. In November, they are to be joined by a unit of Russian long-range anti-submarine patrol aircraft that will be temporarily stationed at one of Venezuela's air bases.

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http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/russia_caribbean_presence/2008/09/23/133577.html

Chavez warns U.S. after getting Russian warplanes

Where is a Tomahawk Cruise Missile when you need one?

"Any gringo ship that sails into brown waters [river waters] will itself turn brown and go to the bottom, because they'll not get through," he said.

http://en.rian.ru/world/20080804/115619889.html

Chavez Grateful to Putin for Arms Sales

CARACAS, Venezuela: President Hugo Chavez says that Venezuela is fortifying "all levels of cooperation" with Russia, including the purchase of more arms.

Chavez says he spoke with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin by telephone, and his defense minister will visit Moscow on Wednesday for a series of meetings.

The socialist president says he's grateful to Putin for helping Venezuela buy arms in the face of what he sees as a U.S. "embargo." Venezuela, however, is the fifth largest supplier of oil to the U.S.

Speaking at a military event on Tuesday, Chavez said Venezuela is not afraid of the U.S. and that his country is experiencing an "armed revolution."

Venezuela spent US$4 billion on international arms purchases between 2005 and 2007. Most came from Russia and China.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/06/25/america/LA-GEN-Venezuela-Russia.php