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Old 03-02-2008, 07:24 PM
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Default A Moment of Silence, Please, for a Great Revolutionary

Hugo Chavez offered a moment of silence during his weekly television and radio address, in homage to Raul Reyes, and his "compatriots in death" (the other 16 members of FARC killed in an attack by the Colombian military). Chavez called Reyes a "Great Revolutionary," and his death a cowardly assassination on the part of the "criminal, mafioso, paramilitary narco-government" of Alvaro Uribe.

Ecuador and Venezuela are moving troops and tanks to the border with Colombia, after Colombia attacked a FARC camp 2 kilometers inside of Ecuador that was being used as a base for operations against Colombia.

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Old 03-02-2008, 08:12 PM
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Chavez= IDIOTA !!!!!:mad:
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Old 03-02-2008, 08:56 PM
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Default Re: A Moment of Silence, Please, for a Great Revolutionary

Why would Ecuador let the FARC stay on their side of the border?
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Old 03-02-2008, 09:21 PM
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Default Re: A Moment of Silence, Please, for a Great Revolutionary

Airto, They've allowed FARC on their soil for a long time, mainly because the the Ecuadoreans didn't want to fight them. In return, FARC most of the time wouldn't conduct business (i.e. kidnapping, extortion, protecting drug lords) on Ecuadoran soil. I'm sure there was some corruption involved on the part of the Ecuadorean officials too.

That was then. Now, the president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, is a Chavez protege. And, as you know, Chavez considers FARC to be potential comrades in arm in the great Bolivarian revolution.
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What a challenging neighborhood Colombia has.
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I was out with a couple of colombianos last night visiting from Colombia, they didn't here the news of the Killing of reyes, but when I told them they erupted in the restaraunt like it their team won the superbowl! When I told them what chavez was saying, they laughed and blew it off like a bad rash!

Colombia will ignore the whole business and chavez will be wasting his time and get more pissed as his neighbors move farther away from his idiocracy and his belief that he is the reborn Simon Bolivar!

Boy do colombianos laugh when you ask them about chavez and how he thinks he is Simon Bolivar!

Here is a link, sounds like ecuador can forgive them, it is Chavez egging them on!

http://www.pr-inside.com/ecuador-cal...ia-r466046.htm
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Guys, you can teach a monkey to be more intelligent and to do things that us human do BUT you will never be able to teach a monkey to think like a himan being ...Having a cerebro big like a bean would not help him(chavez) to realize how far his stupidity goes
Maybe soon he will consider himself the new ''CHE''


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