Columbia Confronts Chavez Supported Narco Terrorists
Friday, March 7th, 2008
Latin American politics entered the spotlight with the saber rattling of Venezualian President Hugo Chavez threatening to mass troops along the Columbian border after Columbian forces mounted a successful military stike resulting in the death of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia [FARC] commander Raul Reyes last Saturday. Ecuador claims the strike took place inside their border violating their national sovereignty. Venezuela claims to have deployed some 9,000 troops to the boarder with Ecuador claiming more than 3,000 troops. (more…)
Hugo Chavez suffered his first real political defeat since becoming Venezuela’s president in 1998. His supporters failed to turn out in numbers that would have allowed him to run for re-election when his term ends in 2012. The ardent support he had gained among the nations poor by redistributing the nations oil wealth has not bought their trust that he would act in their best interest indefinitely.