[Promoted from the diaries by susanbhu with a note on another underreported story: “[T]housands of Venezuelans are joining militia units created by the government to fight off anyone – especially U.S. troops – that tries to thwart President Hugo Chavez’s socialist ‘Bolivarian revolution.’ ‘We don’t want a Yankee country,’ said Julimar Garcia, a 29-year old government clerk who has been training with the Popular Defense Units since February. ‘If they put their feet down here, we’ll be ready to fight them off.'”].
Could this be a warning sign for Bush and Bug Bomb Tom?
Thanks once again to Mainstream Media for the advance notice and heads up on this one! Perhaps I must accept blame as well for not being able to keep up with world events as responsibly as I’d like…
Although the economy in the oil-rich country, also the world’s biggest exporter of bananas, has been flourishing there has been little relief for the country’s poor and Gutierrez’s support plummeted.
A man of dark, native Indian features, he promised voters a change after centuries of domination by a white elite.
Perhaps I need to slap on another layer of tinfoil, but doesn’t this sound a lot like Venezuela and Hugo Chaveza, where our government has been a busy little beaver…?
Is this another attempt at hemispheric oil resource stabilization/destabilization upon the part of Bu$hCo? I honestly am clueless about this situation, but it has a “crude” smell…
I appeal to all you knowledgeable people out there to weigh in on clarification before I go out to buy more tinfoil…