Nutjob With a Nuke: Iran's Ahmadinejad Says Chavez Will Be Resurrected With 12th Imam

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad kisses the coffin at Hugo Chavez's funeral Photo: Reuters

Sure, let's be sure to get plenty of nuclear warheads into the hands of the Iranian President...you know, the guy who just the other day said that Hugo Chavez will be resurrected along with the Shia's 12th imam.  Nothing crazy about that, right?  I can see it now, the 12th imam clawing his way out of that dark and dank well hand in hand with a 2 bit banana republic dictator who isn't even a Muslim.

Apparently there's a least one Muslim cleric in Iran that thinks Ahmadinejad is off his rocker.

The story comes from The Telegraph.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused of 'heresy'

A senior Iranian cleric has accused Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of "heresy" after saying Hugo Chavez would be resurrected with the 12th imam.

Ayatollah Ahmed Janati, the hardline chief of the Guardians Council, told worshippers at Friday prayers in Tehran: "Those comments on Chavez's return with Christ were heresy."

Janati was referring to comments by Ahmadinejad on March 6 in which he called Chavez a "martyr" who would "return, along with the righteous Jesus and the perfect human."

The last was an allusion to Shia Islam's 12th imam that Iran's majority faith believes will return with Christ to bring peace and justice to the world.

Janati said Iran's clergy had been "upset" by the remarks.

"Should people say whatever comes to mind? I wish (Ahmadinejad) had spent a few days in a seminary before discussing such issues," he said.

"Chavez was a populist and anti-American. His political agenda was completely acceptable. But he was not a Muslim," Janati added.

Janati's Guardians Council is charged with overseeing elections and interpreting the constitution.

Iran has scheduled a presidential election for June 14 to find a replacement for Ahmadinejad, whose disputed re-election in 2009 sparked street protests and a deadly crackdown by the regime in response.

Iran and Venezuela have both pursued strongly anti-American foreign policies and have signed billions of dollars in investment agreements in recent years.

Chavez made 13 visits to Iran between 1999 and his death last week, while Ahmadinejad has made six trips to Venezuela since 2005.

Hugo Chavez Dead. Good Riddance, Asswipe.

The halls of Hell are welcoming home Hugo Chavez today as the dictator of Venezuela finally lost his battle with cancer.  According to the news source here at the Daily Mail, Chavez developed an infection that did him in.  Hmmm....he got an infection?  So Hugo, if you can hear me down there...how do you feel about the sanitary standards of that government run healthcare over there in Cuba now?

BREAKING NEWS: Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez dies after developing 'severe infection' during battle with cancer

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has died in hospital at the age of 58 after developing a severe respiratory infection during his battle with cancer.

The country's vice president Nicolas Maduro, surrounded by other government officials, made the announcement during a national television broadcast tonight.

He said that the long-standing president died at 4:25pm local time.

A government spokesman had earlier said that the far-left leader, who has held control in the country for 14 years, was in a 'very delicate' condition in hospital.

Details of Chavez's health, who championed a leftist revival across Latin America, have been cloaked in mystery since he was first diagnosed with the disease in June 2011.

Communications Minister Ernesto Villegas earlier appeared on national television last night to announce that the president was suffering from 'a new, severe infection'.

Chavez, 58, had been undergoing 'chemotherapy of strong impact,' Villegas added.

The president has neither been seen nor heard from, except for a couple of hospital bed photos, since submitting to a fourth round of surgery in Cuba in December for an unspecified cancer in the pelvic area.

The government said he returned home on February 18 and had been confined to Caracas' military hospital since.

Villegas said that Chavez was 'standing by Christ and life conscious of the difficulties he faces'.

He also took the opportunity to lash out at 'the corrupt Venezuelan right' for what he called a psychological war seeking 'scenarios of violence as a pretext for foreign intervention.'

He called on Chavez's supporters, who include thousands of well-armed militiamen, to be 'on a war footing'.

The president's death is expected to trigger a snap election, though the opposition has argued that it should have been held after Chavez was unable to be sworn in on January 10.

The campaigning has already unofficially begun, with vice president Maduro, who Chavez has said should succeed him, frequently commandeering all broadcast channels to promote the 'revolution' and vilify the opposition.

Chavez has run Venezuela for more than 14 years as a virtual one-man show, gradually placing all state institutions under his personal control. But the former army paratroop officer who rose to fame with a failed 1992 coup, never groomed a successor with his force of personality.

Chavez was last re-elected in October, and his challenger Henrique Capriles, the youthful governor of Miranda state, is expected to be the opposition's candidate again.

One of Chavez's three daughters, Maria Gabriela, earlier expressed thanks to well-wishers via her Twitter account. 'We will prevail!' she wrote, echoing a favorite phrase of her father. 'With God always.'

There had been speculation that Chavez's cancer has spread to his lungs.

Maduro said last week that the president had begun receiving chemotherapy around the end of January.

Doctors have said that such therapy was not necessarily to try to beat Chavez's cancer into remission but could have been palliative, to extend Chavez's life and ease his suffering.

While in Cuba, Chavez suffered a severe respiratory infection that nearly killed him. A tracheal tube was inserted then and government officials said his breathing remained laboured.

The Iranian-Venezuelan Plot To Hack White House, Pentagon and FBI Databases

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (left) and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (right) in Tehran.


Remember all of those photos we saw where Hugo Chavez was getting all cozy with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? Well, there's a story going around seen here at Family Security Matters that points to a major plot by Iran and Venezuela to use Mexican hackers and operatives to break into databases at the White House, the Pentagon and the FBI as well as some U.S. nuclear facilities.

I guess the fact that the Iranians worked with some Mexicans to try and assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington, D.C. lends some credence to this report.

Either way, you'd have to be an ostrich with your head buried in the sand if you didn't see by now that our porous southern border is becoming one of the biggest jihadis draws in the entire world right now.

Venezuela, Iran Linked to Alleged Cyperattack Plot


U.S. Spanish-language television network, Univision, has released aninvestigative documentaryin which it is claimed that Venezuelan and Iranian diplomats negotiated with Mexican hackers to break into White House, Pentagon, and FBI databases, as well as U.S. nuclear facilities. Critical to these allegations are a series of recordings made by one of the hackers, who went undercover and attempted to document the conspiracy.

According to the report, Juan Carlos Munoz Ledo, a computer instructor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, was recruited in 2006 to participate in cyber attacks on US government websites. In later years he met with former Iranian ambassador to Mexico, Mohammad Hassan Ghadiri, and former cultural attaché of the Venezuelan Embassy in Mexico, Livia Acosta, to give updates on the project’s advance. In a recording from one of these meetings, Acosta, who is now the Venezuelan consul in Miami, can be heard saying she could get information from the hackers sent directly to Hugo Chavez.

U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner says his government is probing the report but hasn’t confirmed its claims. However, he suggested Tuesday the implications were “very disturbing.”

Solomon Chang, a researcher on cyber security for strategic planning and forecasting consultancy Wikistrat, suggests the report raises “alarming” uncertainties as it remains unclear exactly what the hackers were trying to achieve. “Were they trying to advance their technological capabilities at the expense of the U.S. military? Are they simply trying to explore U.S. cybernetic structural weaknesses? Sabotage the infrastructures? These questions remain unanswered,” he said.

In response, U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Florida) has written Secretary of State Hilary Clinton asking for an investigation into Acosta as a result of her alleged “willingness to undermine U.S. interests.”

Earlier this year, Chairmen of the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) called for hearings on Iranian activities in Latin America. This week’s report comes just months after U.S. prosecutors accused factions in the Iranian government of a plot to recruit a Mexican drug cartel to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. by bombing a Washington-area restaurant.

In response to the Univision report, Venezuelan opposition leader Pablo Medina has called ties between his country and Iran troubling, and the latest allegations “very serious.” Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, meanwhile, has called the report “lies.”

The Hits From Hugo Chavez Keep Coming, Venezuela Funds American Organization That Aids Illegal Immigrant Flow

The plush headquarters of Casa de Maryland.

For the past two and a half years, Hugo Chavez has consistently flipped the bird at the United States and of course, he's paid no price for it. Well, the hits keep a coming from the Venezuela dictator as it is now revealed that Venezuela is helping to fund an American organization that is doing its best to keep the flow of illegal immigrants coming into America.

From the story at Family Security Matters:

President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela is sending $1 million a year of his oil revenue to an American organization bent on keeping America's borders wide open. Casa de Maryland openly helps migrants illegally in the United States. It also receives $4 million from the state of Maryland and Montgomery County out of a total budget of $9.5 million a year.

Chávez is knee deep in potential lawlessness. Evidence has surfaced of his intentions to ship Russian weapons to terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah and criminal drug cartels such as FARC, to facilitate terrorist acts against the United States, including blowing up pipelines carrying oil to the United States. He has also promised to ship both uranium to Iran to help Tehran make nuclear weapons material and oil to help break a possible refined petroleum products sanctions law now before the US Congress. How much of this is just talk and how much real? The laptop on which these Chávez plans were found was a real computer, owned by a real FARC senior commander. How much risk do we want to face?

Open borders with the world pose grave dangers to the United States. The San Diego Union described the chaos on our borders this way: “Every night, the understaffed and outnumbered Border Patrol engaged in a losing battle of cat-and-mouse with thousands of illegal immigrants being led by ruthless smugglers. ... San Ysidro residents locked themselves in at night as smugglers and immigrants traipsed through their yards. Caches of drugs were carried across the border by smugglers and the people they were leading. Hundreds of illegal immigrants lingered in the median strip of Interstate 5 waiting for rides northward. Immigrants running across freeways were hit and killed by motorists."

Casa de Maryland condemns those who advocate effective limits on immigration as racists, as does Chávez. It has threatened civil disobedience should the US Congress not approve amnesty. It publishes pamphlets that instruct people to refuse to cooperate with immigration and law enforcement officials.

So let me get this straight - the state of Maryland is giving to the same organization that Hugo Chavez is giving to? I'm sure it makes most American feel all warm and cozy to know that there is an organization like this set up to take such good care of illegal trespassers into our country...an organization that is set up to aid and assist those that sneak across our border in the middle of the night.

Chavez Funding American Group That Assists Illegal Migrants


President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela is sending $1 million a year of his oil revenue to an American organization bent on keeping America's borders wide open. Casa de Maryland openly helps migrants illegally in the United States. It also receives $4 million from the state of Maryland and Montgomery County out of a total budget of $9.5 million a year.

Chávez is knee deep in potential lawlessness. Evidence has surfaced of his intentions to ship Russian weapons to terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah and criminal drug cartels such as FARC, to facilitate terrorist acts against the United States, including blowing up pipelines carrying oil to the United States. He has also promised to ship both uranium to Iran to help Tehran make nuclear weapons material and oil to help break a possible refined petroleum products sanctions law now before the US Congress. How much of this is just talk and how much real? The laptop on which these Chávez plans were found was a real computer, owned by a real FARC senior commander. How much risk do we want to face?

Open borders with the world pose grave dangers to the United States. The San Diego Union described the chaos on our borders this way: “Every night, the understaffed and outnumbered Border Patrol engaged in a losing battle of cat-and-mouse with thousands of illegal immigrants being led by ruthless smugglers. ... San Ysidro residents locked themselves in at night as smugglers and immigrants traipsed through their yards. Caches of drugs were carried across the border by smugglers and the people they were leading. Hundreds of illegal immigrants lingered in the median strip of Interstate 5 waiting for rides northward. Immigrants running across freeways were hit and killed by motorists."

A USA Columnist visited the border to examine the prospects for a fence. She wrote: : “The carnage makes one wonder why environmental groups aren’t out lobbying for a sturdy border fence — instead of arguing against tougher border enforcement.”

But we not only have a problem at the border. The United States still has no reliable system for verifying that foreign visitors have left the country. Federal officials estimate that “40 percent of the…illegal immigrants in the United States came on legal visas and overstayed.”

At a recent community event in Maryland, a veteran Democrat legislator told me there was no problem in Casa de Maryland receiving funding from Chávez because "Venezuela is a model for Latin and Central American development". I thought she must have been kidding. Inflation in the country is over 30% and may reach twice that. Unemployment is skyrocketing. Chávez has so mismanaged the economy the country does not produce enough coffee for domestic consumption for the first time ever. The currency has dropped in value by over half as Chávez prints money wildly.

Casa de Maryland condemns those who advocate effective limits on immigration as racists, as does Chávez. It has threatened civil disobedience should the US Congress not approve amnesty. It publishes pamphlets that instruct people to refuse to cooperate with immigration and law enforcement officials.

The Times Square bomber, or the Detroit underwear bomber, are just a couple of numerous examples of the latest example of the connection between lax immigration laws--or lax enforcement of the laws we already have-- and potential terrorism. In the case of the Times Square clown, it was a case of granting citizenship to someone from a known state sponsored terrorist hotbed (Pakistan) and apparently looking the other way when reviewing what appears to be a sham marriage. How much worse is it to give tax-exempt status to those who actively seek to leave unprotected our borders while supporting themselves with funds from terror supporting states?

The Iranian Backed Missile Base In Venezuela

Think back to the early 1960's ...John F. Kennedy faces off against Russia's Nikita Kruschev over Russian missiles in Cuba....now, fast forward to 2011 and consider a missile base being constructed in Venezuela with the assistance of the Iranians...Barack Hussein Obama faces off against Venezuela's Hugo Chavez. How comfy are you with that scenario? Barack Hussein Obama spent 59 days last year on vacation, Hugo Chavez didn't take vacation - he was meeting with Iranians and Russians and all other elements of the year that would wish to have the United States under threat from a nearby neighbor.

This article from Family Security Matters sheds even more light on the growing threat from Venezuela's madman:

Like Marxist Fidel Castro was in the 1960s, Caudillo Chávez is today’s darling of American liberals and the international left. They are enchanted with his underclass roots, his anti-imperialist posturing, and insults he hurls at the United States in media shows that are crowd-pleasing combinations of Keith Olbermann rants and videos of “The Big Guy from Brooklyn.” More ominously, Chavez has imitated Castro, and like Fidel he has found a big brother to give him the nuclear military clout to dominate Latin America: The Islamic Republic of Iran.

Planning for Iran’s penetration of the Western Hemisphere is well underway. On 25 November 2010, the respected German journal Die Welt published a report that Iran and Venezuela agreed on 19 October to build a joint military base. That complex will include medium-range ballistic missiles (MRBMs) like the Shahab-3 (range 1200 miles) and Scud-B and Scud-C missiles (ranges185 to 340 miles). Those weapons will enable Chavez to make missile strikes on much of South America, the Caribbean Basin and, with the Shahab-3, even reach American cities. Longer range missiles being developed by Iran will threaten all of the United States when they are installed in Venezuela.

The missile base is part of a pattern that began in March 2009, when President Obama met Chavez at an Organization of American States meeting in Trinidad. President Obama shook hands with the dictator, as usual, and said he wanted to be friends and reset US-Venezuelan relations. Chavez responded by presenting Obama with a book that claims the United States plunders Latin America.

It has been one of the hallmarks of America's newest President to completely ignore the most threatening circumstances yet be all over the most minor of distractions - Obama simply ignored early threats from North Korea while jumped to immediate action when a black professor in Connecticut was arrested by a white police officer. Once again, Obama has been nearly completely silent on Iran's nuclear program but has been resoundingly vocal about bullying in public schools.

You know, there are times that one could argue that Obama simply doesn't see anything south of Washington, D.C. ...well, except for a threat from the state of Arizona - we have a southern border overrun by illegals, drug cartel terrorists and islamic terrorists and he ignores it, and now, we see a viable military threat to America's south and still we hear or see nothing of a Presidential response.

Is he confused? Is he scared? Or is it that he just doesn't care?

Iranian Missile Base In Venezuela?


Hugo Chavez, yanqui-hating dictator of Venezuela, will not accept Washington’s proposed emissary and has dared the United States to break diplomatic relations. It seems Ambassador-select Larry Palmer’s sin is that he did not applaud Chavez when he used his rubber-stamp parliament to perpetuate his dictatorial regime. The State Department’s limp-wristed response was to cancel the visa of the Venezuelan ambassador. That, and silence from the White House, told the megalomaniac in Caracas exactly what the United States will do when Iran finishes building a nuclear missile base in Venezuela – absolutely nothing.

Like Marxist Fidel Castro was in the 1960s, Caudillo Chávez is today’s darling of American liberals and the international left. They are enchanted with his underclass roots, his anti-imperialist posturing, and insults he hurls at the United States in media shows that are crowd-pleasing combinations of Keith Olbermann rants and videos of “The Big Guy from Brooklyn.” More ominously, Chavez has imitated Castro, and like Fidel he has found a big brother to give him the nuclear military clout to dominate Latin America: The Islamic Republic of Iran.

Planning for Iran’s penetration of the Western Hemisphere is well underway. On 25 November 2010, the respected German journal Die Welt published a report that Iran and Venezuela agreed on 19 October to build a joint military base. That complex will include medium-range ballistic missiles (MRBMs) like the Shahab-3 (range 1200 miles) and Scud-B and Scud-C missiles (ranges185 to 340 miles). Those weapons will enable Chavez to make missile strikes on much of South America, the Caribbean Basin and, with the Shahab-3, even reach American cities. Longer range missiles being developed by Iran will threaten all of the United States when they are installed in Venezuela.

The missile base is part of a pattern that began in March 2009, when President Obama met Chavez at an Organization of American States meeting in Trinidad. President Obama shook hands with the dictator, as usual, and said he wanted to be friends and reset US-Venezuelan relations. Chavez responded by presenting Obama with a book that claims the United States plunders Latin America.

Later, in Lisbon in November 2010, NATO agreed to develop missile defenses to protect Europe from the East (meaning Iran). That sensible decision was a backdrop for new plans by Iran’s President Ahmadinejad to destroy the United States—his Great Satan—and for old plans by Chavez to dominate Latin America. The two autocrats would simply build a strategic rocket base in South America, the vulnerable underbelly of America! And then there is that tractor factory.

Iran has already built what they call a ‘tractor factory’ in Venezuela, the most heavily guarded and secret tractor factory in the world. The fenced compound is so secret that even Venezuelans are not allowed to enter it, only Iranians. (There are reports Ahmadinejad visited the facility some months ago.) The factory is in a remote area, not far from a uranium deposit former Venezuelan officials estimate holds 50,000 tons of ore. Is it a stretch to connect the secret ‘tractor factory’ and the uranium? Maybe just smoke, but so much more is happening in Venezuela that one can only think there is fire, too. A few examples:

· In November 2008, Russia and Venezuela agreed on "cooperation in thermonuclear fusion…” involving the same Russian company that built the Bushehr reactor in Iran: Atomstroyexport. Russia has kindly extended a $4 billion line of credit to Chavez.
· In October 2010 Russia agreed to build two 1,200 megawatt nuclear reactors and a research reactor.
· Russia needs a new customer for the SA-300 missiles Iran tried to buy to protect its nuclear program from air attack. Now Venezuela tells Russia that it likes the SA-300. Might those missiles slip into Iran through a Venezuelan back door?
· Iran uses Venezuela and other Latin American countries as havens for its terrorists. For months Hezbollah, Iran’s terror army, has metastasized across our undefended border with Mexico to set up sleeper cells in our cities. And now we learn a senior Hezbollah thug was appointed as Venezuela’s Deputy Chief of Mission to Syria?

So now it’s on our borders once again: two dictators who hate America, uranium, secret factories, and rocket bases. What is to be done?

In 1962 President John F. Kennedy blew the dust off the Monroe Doctrine. He saw Soviet and Cuban dictators building missile bases that threatened America, and he sent me and other airmen and sailors to Cuba to end that menace. We did it because President Kennedy’s resolve to protect the United States was firm and clear. The foreign menace was driven away.

My service in Cuba in 1962 gives me the standing to ask Mr. Obama a simple question: Why do you allow Iranian missiles to threaten our homeland?

Venezuelan Students Take To The Streets In Protest, Hugo Calls In Troops

It doesn't sound like the mass demonstrations that we've seen in Greece and before that in Iran but there WERE hundreds of university students in the streets of Venezuela protesting newly passed authority for the government to control those same universities.

Confronted with the protests, Hugo Chavez's government sent in troops with water cannons and rubber bullets to disperse the crowds. Now, if I am not mistaken, this is one of the first examples of public unrest to this magnitude in Venezuela - where actual troops and action had to be taken against protesting crowds.

From the article at Reuters via Breitbart:

The measure, passed in the early hours, is the latest in a package of laws rushed through by the National Assembly to entrench President Hugo Chavez's self-styled socialist "revolution" before a new parliament is sworn in next month.

The students say the law gives too much power to the government, aims to promote socialist ideology and will be used to crack down on autonomous universities that have long been centers of opposition to the president's leftist agenda.

In the latest of a string of minor protests against the new laws, about 500 student demonstrators converged in downtown Caracas. Some waved signs reading: "We will not obey your law!" and "I'll swap Christmas for freedom."

They were confronted by National Guard troops in helmets and riot gear, and clashes briefly blocked a major highway, Reuters witnesses said. A photographer from another news agency was hurt when he was hit in the head by a rock.

I cannot imagine that Chavez is going to keep these protests down - the guy is on a complete roll of dictatorial madness - his economy is shot, his people are disgruntled, his inner circle has got to be whispering behind closed doors.

This is just another example of a regime where, if we had a President that didn't have his head up his ass, we should be involved in an uprising campaign against Chavez. We should have CIA agents in Venezuela assisting in actions that would help topple the most dangerous dictator in the Western hemisphere.

Venezuela security forces break up student protest


The measure, passed in the early hours, is the latest in a package of laws rushed through by the National Assembly to entrench President Hugo Chavez's self-styled socialist "revolution" before a new parliament is sworn in next month.

The students say the law gives too much power to the government, aims to promote socialist ideology and will be used to crack down on autonomous universities that have long been centers of opposition to the president's leftist agenda.

In the latest of a string of minor protests against the new laws, about 500 student demonstrators converged in downtown Caracas. Some waved signs reading: "We will not obey your law!" and "I'll swap Christmas for freedom."

They were confronted by National Guard troops in helmets and riot gear, and clashes briefly blocked a major highway, Reuters witnesses said. A photographer from another news agency was hurt when he was hit in the head by a rock.

Elsewhere, student supporters of Chavez celebrated the passing of the measure, stringing up a copy of the old university law and beating it with sticks.

The outgoing National Assembly, which is dominated by Chavez loyalists, has passed a raft of legislation in recent days including bills making it easier for the government to nationalize banks, police criticism on the Web, and prevent lawmakers from voting against their own parties.

Most controversial among those was an "Enabling Law" that gave Chavez the power to rule the continent's biggest oil producer by decree for the next 18 months, taking him to within six months of the next presidential election.

"This was a predawn ambush by 100 people who intend to govern the lives of more than 20 million Venezuelans," the rector of the Central University of Venezuela, Cecilia Garcia, told local media, referring to the 3 a.m. vote on the new law.

An opposition coalition that won about half the popular vote at a legislative poll in September is due to take 40 percent of seats in the next Assembly beginning on January 5.

It has accused Chavez of launching a "coup d'etat" by bypassing the incoming parliament and urged peaceful protests.

He rejects allegations he is using the new laws to usher in Cuban-style Communism. The government says the university law reform was essential to develop the country's higher education system and involve grassroots groups in decision-making.

Is It Really Possible That Hugo Chavez Is Going To Have Nukes?

The opening line of the article here at Family Security Matters goes way beyond "sobering"... it states:

If something isn't done to prevent it, we'll likely be facing an emerging nuclear threat from President Hugo Chavez's Venezuela sometime in the next 10 years.

Now, if that doesn't send a chill down your spine, I don't know what will. But the article does address what some probably just have laughed off as some grand plans by a quircky dictator in Venezuela. Well, the fact of the matter is that this nutcase to our South, namely Hugo Chavez, has extremely close ties with every misfit nuclear power or nuclear wannabe in the world and I don't think there's an American alive who doesn't know of Chavez' hatred of America.

From the article:

Just two weeks ago, on one of several stops of his grand tour abroad, Chavez alighted in Russia (on his ninth visit there) to sign an agreement for the building of two 1,200-megawatt nuclear reactors and a research reactor back home, according to Russian sources.
As the most popular purveyor of proliferation problems (e.g., building North Korea's and now Iran's first nuclear reactors), Russia is a perfect place to start your nuclear program.
Of course, Chavez insists he's only looking to achieve energy independence. But anyone who looks at Venezuela's vast oil wealth is understandably skeptical that peaceful power generation is his real motive.
Consider some other stops on Chavez's seven-country whistle-stop tour. In Iran, he visited his "brother" Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Some experts fear Caracas and Tehran may already have some small-scale nuclear projects underway. Plus, the two regimes are reportedly working on the mapping and mining of Venezuela's uranium deposits, possibly the world's largest.
This would certainly benefit Iran, whose nuke program is laboring under punitive sanctions that are meant to inhibit access to supporting materials and technology.
Clearly, getting its hands on uranium won't be a problem for Caracas. But it might trade the raw material for Iranian uranium-enrichment technology -- technology that Venezuela is widely thought to have solicited from neighboring (nuclear) Brazil and Argentina. (They refused.)

As you can see, it looks like Chavez is trying to go the route of Iran in saying he needs nuclear reactors for energy - just a need of his people for running their A/C , yanno. And why shouldn't he try this approach....hell, it's worked like a charm for the Iranians.

The Iranians will have nukes within two years and Barack Hussein Obama and European leaders will STILL be sitting their with their thumbs up their asses.

But if you want to find a nut job even more off their rocker than Ahmadinejad and the whack job mullahs....just look at Chavez. With this madman having nukes, the likes of Columbia would be nothing but a smoldering, molten block of land. I've said several times that I didn't think Chavez was going to survive the economic and social collapse of his country - I only hope it happens a hell of a lot quicker now.

El Loco's Nuke Push


If something isn't done to prevent it, we'll likely be facing an emerging nuclear threat from President Hugo Chavez's Venezuela sometime in the next 10 years.
He vows that "nothing will stop us" from bringing "nuclear power" to Venezuela. Unfortunately, "nuclear power" is now a common coverup term for a nuclear-weapons program, such as we're seeing in Iran.
After five years of talking up his atomic aspirations without making much headway, the anti-American Chavez is finally getting somewhere.
Just two weeks ago, on one of several stops of his grand tour abroad, Chavez alighted in Russia (on his ninth visit there) to sign an agreement for the building of two 1,200-megawatt nuclear reactors and a research reactor back home, according to Russian sources.
As the most popular purveyor of proliferation problems (e.g., building North Korea's and now Iran's first nuclear reactors), Russia is a perfect place to start your nuclear program.
Of course, Chavez insists he's only looking to achieve energy independence. But anyone who looks at Venezuela's vast oil wealth is understandably skeptical that peaceful power generation is his real motive.
Consider some other stops on Chavez's seven-country whistle-stop tour. In Iran, he visited his "brother" Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Some experts fear Caracas and Tehran may already have some small-scale nuclear projects underway. Plus, the two regimes are reportedly working on the mapping and mining of Venezuela's uranium deposits, possibly the world's largest.
This would certainly benefit Iran, whose nuke program is laboring under punitive sanctions that are meant to inhibit access to supporting materials and technology.
Clearly, getting its hands on uranium won't be a problem for Caracas. But it might trade the raw material for Iranian uranium-enrichment technology -- technology that Venezuela is widely thought to have solicited from neighboring (nuclear) Brazil and Argentina. (They refused.)
Down the road, the concern is that Iran will also share with Venezuela the military dimensions of its nuclear program, such as ballistic-missile and nuke-warhead systems and technology.
The scenario has all the trappings of an over-the-horizon Cuban Missile Crisis.
Chavez also popped into Libya to see Moammar Khadafy, who had his own nuclear aspirations until a few years ago. Libya's program was helped by Pakistan's proliferator extraordinaire, A.Q. Kahn, and may still have some expertise to share.
He stopped in Syria, too, which had been (and may still be) receiving nuclear assistance from North Korea. (Israel destroyed a nuclear reactor being built by North Korea in Syria in a 2007 raid.)
Chavez didn't visit North Korea on this tour, but he plainly wants to go -- he reportedly canceled a trip to see "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il earlier this year, after some opposition from the Venezuelan parliament.
But it's not just the possibility that we'll see a nuclear threat emanating from Venezuela in the years to come that should concern us; others in the region will feel the need to react, too. Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, for one, already has, reportedly saying this week that a Venezuelan nuclear program poses a serious threat to Latin American security.
Not all Chavez's neighbors have the resources -- but big powers like Brazil and Argentina, which had bomb programs in the '70s and '80s, might pursue nukes again. (Similarly, a number of Arab states are hedging against Iran's nuke-quest with their own new nuclear programs.)
What was President Obama's reaction to Chavez's Russian deal? "Our attitude is that Venezuela has rights to peacefully develop nuclear power . . . We have no incentive nor interest in increasing friction between Venezuela and the US, but we do think Venezuela needs to act responsibly."
Talk about the triumph of hope over experience.
It's clear: We're in the early stages of a potentially big problem. Being in denial or waiting to get tough, as we did with the Iranian nuclear program, likely would have the same ineffectual results.
Like an aggressive disease, a nuke program under Chavez would only get worse with time unless steps to deal with it are taken early on. The time to start is now.

Oh Great...Now Chavez Wants His Own Nuclear Weapons

At some point in time, the American people are simply going to have to form a human ring around the White House and demand of this rookie, socialist President that he keep his oath to protect the American people. We have sat idly by while this fool that "leads" our country has allowed tyrannical leaders to not only move towards acquiring the means to endanger America but he has encouraged them.

The latest nutjob world leader to explore nuclear capabilities is the madman from Venezuela, Hugo Chavez. No one in their right mind would even trust Hugo Chavez in a room of 20 people while he has access to a steak knife...imagine this loon with nuclear weapons.

Here's the story from Yahoo News:

Venezuela seeking uranium with Iran's help

PORLAMAR, Venezuela – Iran is helping to detect uranium deposits in Venezuela and initial evaluations suggest reserves are significant, President Hugo Chavez's government said Friday.
Mining Minister Rodolfo Sanz said Iran has been assisting Venezuela with geophysical survey flights and geochemical analysis of the deposits, and that evaluations "indicate the existence of uranium in western parts of the country and in Santa Elena de Uairen," in southeastern Bolivar state.
"We could have important reserves of uranium," Sanz told reporters upon arrival on Venezuela's Margarita Island for a weekend Africa-South America summit. He added that efforts to certify the reserves could begin within the next three years.
The announcement came as revelations that Iran has secretly been building a uranium-enrichment plant provoke concerns among countries including the U.S., Russia, France, Britain, Germany and China.
On Friday, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev urged Iran in a statement to prove it is not seeking to develop atomic weapons, saying the undeclared construction of an enrichment facility flies in the face of U.N. Security Council demands for Iran to stop uranium enrichment at its only declared facility.
Iran is under three sets of Security Council sanctions for refusing to freeze enrichment at what had been its single publicly known enrichment plant, which is being monitored by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
U.S. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said recently that U.S. officials also have "concerns" about a possible transfer of nuclear materials between Iran and Venezuela.
But analysts say Iran, which has significant uranium deposits, currently has no need to import uranium, although those deposits may not be enough to sustain its future enrichment goals.
Sanz dismissed suggestions that Venezuela could aid Iran with its nuclear program, saying Venezuela is only aiming to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. Chavez has repeatedly said that all countries should end their nuclear-weapons programs, while insisting that Iran and Venezuela have a "sovereign right" to pursue peaceful nuclear ambitions.
Michael Shifter of the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington said that regardless of whether the uranium exploration efforts lead to nuclear cooperation, they are going to cause "a serious problem in the relationship" between Caracas and Washington.
Chavez's government has "clearly announced they're sort of beginning down this road," Shifter said. "It's going to be very difficult for the U.S. to really pursue any cooperation with Caracas on other issues because this is going to top everything else."
Chavez's project remains in its planning stages and still faces a host of practical hurdles, likely requiring billions of dollars, as well as technology and expertise that Venezuela lacks. Russia has offered to help bridge that gap, and Chavez has announced that the two countries have created an atomic energy commission.
But Sergei Novikov, a spokesman for Russian state nuclear agency Rosatom, has said there are no concrete projects and that any joint work on mining deposits of uranium or the radioactive metal thorium would have to wait until Venezuela decides whether it wants Russian help exploring them and, if so, create a joint venture for the purpose.
Both Chavez and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are well-known for their anti-U.S. rhetoric, and have forged ties in everything from finance to factories, provoking concerns in Washington. Iran now manufactures cars, tractors and bicycles in Venezuela.
Earlier this month, Chavez sealed a deal to export 20,000 barrels of gasoline daily to Iran, giving Tehran a cushion if the West carries out threats of fuel sanctions over Iran's nuclear program.

A Peek At Hugo Chavez' Appointment Book

Communist dictator and mentor to the President of the United States, Hugo Chavez, has some "interesting" plans for the near future. From the report at the Counterterrorism Blog, here's a sneak peek:

Chávez's Excellent Adventure

Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, apparently afraid that Colombia's willingness to allow Forward Operating Locations (FOLs) in Colombia, will spend early September visiting a number of pariah states in an effort to strengthen his standing.
According to the official presidential press office, Chávez will spend most of the first two weeks of September visiting Libya (where a convicted terrorist was just received as a hero by Gadaffi et al); Iran (whose newly-nominated defense minister Ahmad Vahidi is a wanted terrorist and responsible for numerous terrorist attacks, including one that killed Americans), then off to buy a battalion of tanks from Russia, arriving via Syria, another state sponsor of terrorism.
Lovely trip. While visiting Gadaffi, Chávez will also participate in an African Union summit, perhaps for the chance to rub elbows with Mugabe, Kabila and others to share lessons learned in destabilization.
Chávez is deeply vexed that Colombia would allow the United States to locate several FOLs in its national territory, a move largely designed to offset the loss of the Manta FOL in Ecuador, where the 10-year lease expired in July and was not renewed by the Correa government.
One of the issues that is of serious concern is not just the loss of the ability to monitor the Pacific corridor drug flights without Manta (a capacity that would be enhanced by the Colombian SOLs but would still be far less than it was in Manta), but the impact of the loss on the Mexican drug situation.

How Hugo Chavez And His Gang Are Messing With Honduras

To this day, it still baffles me how the United States of America can literally be on the side of Hugo Chavez, Daniel Ortega and the Castro brothers, but hey, I guess the Democrats in America were right...elections DO have consequences. Anyway, there is a fantastic piece up at Counterterrorism Blog written by Douglas Farah that really lays out just how the dictators of Central and South America are meddling and intervening in the situation in Honduras. What we are seeing is an alliance...an alliance of thugs...of totalitarian Marxist thugs who are all about control of their lands, their people and of course, their neighbors. And since Barack Hussein Obama has bought into this alliance, America is thus complicit in the illegal activities of it all.

Here's the entire article:

Honduras and the Bolivarian Revolution
By Douglas Farah

Once again an outside power is meddling in the internal affairs of a small, poor Central American country and threatening military action if its preferred candidate is not restored to office. The irony is that it is not Uncle Sam interfering in Honduras-which has happened often enough-but Venezuela's Hugo Chávez, who has made a career of railing against foreign intervention. Chávez's belligerent threats of military action to restore his ally, ousted president Manuel Zelaya, to power are supported by Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega, Bolivia's Evo Morales and the Castro brothers in Cuba.
The leaders, as part of Chávez's oil-fueled regional "Bolivarian revolution," have twisted their constitutions like pretzels, run roughshod over due process, worked to silence the press, concentrated power in their own hands, and fomented violence against the legal political opposition. In addition to their current autocratic and anti-democratic governing styles, Ortega led a violent, successful revolution and Chávez led an unsuccessful military coup attempt, making their outrage over a constitutional maneuver, no matter how questionable, ring hollow.
What is more disturbing is the growing ties between the Bolivarian revolutionary states and armed groups in Latin America and across the world, their open embrace of Iran, and the teaching of terrorist methodologies pioneered by radical Islamists as official military doctrine. The sole point of convergence between the Iranian theocracy and the secular Bolivarian populists is a deep hatred for the United States and liberal democracy. Zelaya, hooked on subsidized Venezuelan oil, was following the same autocratic and anti-democratic path pioneered by Chávez and joining an alliance that has strangled democratic development wherever the Bolivarian revolution has taken root.
Zelaya's ouster is the first clear sign that there will be a reaction against the abuses and excesses of the Bolivarian model of radical populism, megalomania and violence, often called "popular democracy" and described as 21st Century socialism. The concern of Chávez and his allies have for Zelaya has much more to do with a fear that the reaction against them will grow than it does with any commitment to democracy. A successful removal of Zelaya could be a model for their own demise.
Make no mistake. Giving the military a leading role in a political drama in Honduras may be akin to giving a pyromaniac matches and can of kerosene. It can end badly. I covered Honduras for 20 years and reported extensively both on the military's egregious human rights abuses and voracious economic appetite that sucked the national coffers dry, although the troops have stayed in the barracks for more than two decades.
But look at the alternatives. Zelaya was illegally attempting the same political move successfully executed by Chávez and Morales-a constitutional change that would allow him to stay in power indefinitely-always among the first actions of the Bolivarian leaders. The nation's supreme court ruled that his attempted referendum was unconstitutional. His party broke with him, his attorney general said it was illegal and the army refused to cooperate in light of the court ruling. Yet Zelaya proceeded, after leading a crowd to burn an army installation in protest of the institution's failure to defy the supreme court decision. He was flown into exile at gunpoint and replaced by Roberto Micheletti, of his own party and head of the National Assembly. Micheletti promises to hold scheduled presidential elections this year and not be a candidate. Time will tell.
The Honduras situation leaves the United States with difficult options. How the Obama administration handles this challenge against a government that was in the process of breaching the constitutional order will have powerful repercussions across Latin America. Similar challenges could appear in Bolivia, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Ecuador as the Bolivarian governments move to consolidate their hold on power and meet resistance.
It is tempting to see the restoration of Zelaya as the democratic imperative, and most of the international community is pressing for this outcome, while not endorsing Chávez's threats of violence. The Organization of American States is set to impose a series of crippling economic sanctions if Zelaya is not allowed to return in some form. But it is worth looking further at the implications of the Boliviarian revolution writ large.
It has been almost two decades since the democratic processes began in Central America, and a few years more since South America moved from military dictatorships and coups to liberal democracies with imperfect but improving institutional processes, transparency and freedoms. I lived in Latin America during civil wars and the difficult transition from decades of brutal authoritarian regimes to the fragile democratic structures, built through sweat and blood.
These still-fragile democracies are now in danger of being choked by the new radical populism, fueled by oil money, deep disillusionment with the corruption and mismanagement of the traditional political classes and exclusion based on race and class. The need for deep reform certainly exists. But Chávez's model is not the solution.
Reasons for deep concern about the spread of the Bolivarian revolution are far deeper than simple ideological disputes, and Zelaya's actions are only one piece of a wider pattern. The threat of Chávez and his allies goes to the heart of the region's democratic processes and institutionality. While the moves against civil society and institutions have been amply documented, the contours of the broader threat of the Bolivarian alliance and its ties to radical Islamist regimes, particularly Iran, are now clearer.
Venezuela has adopted an official military doctrine that is based on strategies Hezbollah and other radical Islamist groups are already practicing, and one embraced to a significant degree by Iran, the primary state sponsor of those groups. The embrace of this doctrine provides an important link in understanding the ties of Venezuela and its allies to Iran.
Since 2005 Chávez has rewritten Venezuela's security doctrine, replacing "imperialist" influences with a doctrine centered on asymmetrical warfare, in the belief that the primary threat to Venezuelan and Latin American security is a U.S. invasion. This doctrine is being taught by Venezuelan instructors to the militaries of Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Honduras.
One of the main books Chávez has adopted is Peripheral Warfare and Revolutionary Islam: Origins, Rules and Ethics of Asymmetrical Warfare by the Spanish politician Jorge Verstrynge. Although he is not a Muslim Verstrynge's book lauds radical Islam (as well as past terrorists like Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, better known as Carlos the Jackal) for expanding the parameters of what irregular warfare can encompass, including the use of biological and nuclear weapons. He is particularly taken with suicide bombers, whom he praises for their willingness to die for the cause. Verstrynge has lauded Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda for creating a new type of warfare that is "de-territorialized, de-stateized and de-nationalized," a war where suicide bombers act as "atomic bombs for the poor."
Chávez invited Verstrynge to give keynote address to military leaders in a 2005 conference and ordered a special pocket size edition of the book to be printed up and distributed throughout the officer corps, to be studied cover to cover.
The fascination with asymmetrical warfare may explain why Chávez and other members of the Bolivarian axis maintain close ties to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a designated terrorist and drug trafficking organization by both the United States and the European Union. Chávez personally requested that the FARC train Venezuelan military and militias in guerrilla warfare in case of a U.S. invasion.
These actions are part of why many who viewed the Bolivarian revolutions in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Honduras with hope are now turning away in disillusionment. With more and more avenues of legitimate protest, dissent and political change cut off, there few options to return to the values so many fought for in decades past-freedom of speech, the rule of law, unfettered media, a separation of powers and chance to replace poor governments with better ones in regularly scheduled elections. Zelaya's removal was evokes old school methods and appears to be ill-considered. But the Obama administration needs to weigh the bigger picture before handing Chávez and his allies an easy victory by backing Zelaya under the illusion that such a move will bring advance democracy in Honduras or Latin America.

Obama...Silent On Iran, Meddling In Honduras

I'm not going to get into all of the details of the Honduras "coup" that has taken place here as you have more than likely read that elsewhere by now, but this story from The Wall Street Journal has some information that I don't want to see anyone miss. It's subtle, but it lays out some interesting observations of the reaction of President Barack Hussein Obama. One thing to note about this "coup" is the fact that the ousted President of Honduras was basically trying the same manuever that his buddy and supporter, Hugo Chavez, had pulled off in neighboring Venezuela and that was undermining the country's Constitution by extending his Presidential term. You probably won't hear about that angle on MSNBC tonight.

But the point here is that Barack Obama, silent for days on end when a people in Iran revolted against the thugocracy of the mullahs, has stepped into the middle of this Honduras situation from the get go. It was almost a race as to who was going to make the first statement of outcry...Obama or Chavez. I ask you this, if you have taken the same position as Hugo Chavez, don't you think that a normal person would reevaluate their position? The ousted President of Honduras was buddy buddy with Hugo Chavez AND the Castro boys in Cuba and yet, President Obama is quick to thumb his nose at another country's Constitution. Oh wait, I guess that's par for the course since he's busy doing the same to the U.S. Constitution.

Are you familiar with the term "bizarro world?" Well, many of us have to believe that is where we are residing now as the President of the United States of America supports Constitution-busting regimes, takes common ground with Chavez and Castro, roots for the mullahs in Iran so he can continue his mission of diplomacy, and sits on his hands as the North Koreans prepare to fire missiles on the United States. Somebody, please, wake me from this nightmare.

Here's the portion of the WSJ article that deserves special attention:

Coup Rocks Honduras

Mr. Zelaya called the action a kidnapping, and said he was still president. The U.S. and other countries condemned the coup. President Barack Obama said he was "deeply concerned" and called on all political actors in Honduras to "respect democratic norms." Venezuela President Hugo Chávez, a close ally of Mr. Zelaya and nemesis of the U.S., said he would consider it an ''act of war" if there were hostilities against his diplomats. "I have put the armed forces of Venezuela on alert," Mr. Chávez said.

The efforts accelerated over the weekend, as Washington grew increasingly alarmed. "The players decided, in the end, not to listen to our message," said one U.S. official involved in the diplomacy. On Sunday, the U.S. embassy here tried repeatedly to contact the Honduran military directly, but was rebuffed. Washington called the removal of President Zelaya a coup and said it wouldn't recognize any other leader.
The U.S. stand was unpopular with Honduran deputies. One congressman, Toribio Aguilera, got prolonged applause from his colleagues when he urged the U.S. ambassador to reconsider. Mr. Aguilera said the U.S. didn't understand the danger that Mr. Zelaya and his friendships with Mr. Chavez and Cuba's Fidel Castro posed.

Mr. Casas-Zamora and other regional analysts said the coup raised questions about just how much influence Washington actually has in Central America, given the Obama administration's failed effort to avert it. Honduras receives more than $200 million in development aid from Washington annually.

Chavez and Obama: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

" The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys. " - Hugo Chavez

"The grand destroyer of the world, and the greatest threat ... is represented by U.S. imperialism," - Hugo Chavez

Hugo Chavez' Military Takes Over Venezuelan Airports and Ports

Venezuela continues to fall under the complete Socialist dictatorship of Hugo Chavez as today, the Venezuelan military took control of all airports and maritime ports. Pray for the country folks, because the end of any personal freedom is near. Here's are some of the details from the report at Breitbart:

Venezuela's military took control Saturday of all the country's major airports and maritime ports, following a recently enacted law handing management of the facilities to the central government.
Soldiers occupied major facilities under the legal reform approved by the pro-Chavez parliament, taking over maritime terminals in the opposition stronghold city of Maracaibo in the state of Zulia, the port of Guanta in Anzoategui and others in the states of Carabobo and Nueva Esparta.

"Since this morning we began to reverse the disintegration of national unity," said President Hugo Chavez, referring to the reversal of decentralization moves 20 years ago that handed authority of ports and airports to state governments.
"We are reunifying the motherland, which was in pieces. This is a very important step."

The "motherland" ? Does that sound just a bit too familiar? And Chavez has the nerve to talk about unity. What this motherfucker is gonna find himself in is a country with 97% of the population looking for his head on a platter - I only hope they get it soon.

Venezuelan military takes over country's airports

"Since this morning we began to reverse the disintegration of national unity," said President Hugo Chavez, referring to the reversal of decentralization moves 20 years ago that handed authority of ports and airports to state governments.
"We are reunifying the motherland, which was in pieces. This is a very important step."
When Chavez announced the move last week, he threatened to arrest opposition governors if they resisted. Many opponents decried the order as unconstitutional and as an attempt to concentrate all power in Chavez's hands.
Thousands of people took to the streets of Caracas in protest Friday over the president's jail threats to opposition figures.

Leftist Wins Presidency of El Salvador

With the likes of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and the Castros in Cuba continuing to stir up things in the Western hemisphere, it's unfortunate to see that the people of El Salvador have elected their first Leftist President in 17 years but it's happened - Mauricio Funes has been elected as president of the central American country. Here's the entire brief notice over at Breitbart:

Leftist candidate wins El Salvador presidential race

SAN SALVADOR, March 16 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Mauricio Funes of the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front secured victory in the presidential election of El Salvador on Sunday.
It is the first time since the end of a civil war in 1992 that the FMLN has won power.
Funes, a 49-year-old journalist, will formally assume the presidency on June 1 for a five-year term.

I read one other headline regarding this election where Funes was literally compared to BOTH Hugo Chavez AND Barack Obama....that's a bit spooky, now isn't it? The fact of the matter is that Funes' party is "associated" with FARC and this is not going to be a good situation, in my view. As central America turns more and more to the Left and to extremism, it's going to put extreme pressures on the U.S. defense of our southern borders and of course, with the recent claims that Chavez is willing to house Russian bombers in our hemisphere, it could contribute to even bigger issues.

And this leads to questions as to what the Obama administration did to assist the U.S.-friendly party in this election? Did they even attempt to support that side in El Salvador or are they continuing their position that the U.S. is a bad player in the world and we deserve more hostile neighbors to the south?

Obama To Meet Face To Face With Hugo Chavez In April

Words cannot express the rage I have over this slop. The insinuation that President Obama would stoop so low as to even CONSIDER meeting with Iranian thug Ahmadinejad was enough to send me over the edge but for the President of the United States of America to meet the likes of Hugo Chavez face to face, let alone stand on the same land mass as his skanky ass, is beyond comprehension.

Here's some of the shocking news from Caribbean Net News...read it and weep:

United States President, Barack Obama will have a face-to-face meeting with his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez in April in Port of Spain, when the two leaders will be among three dozen heads of government and state at the three day Summit of the Americas. This information was confirmed by Summit Secretariat Communications Co-ordinator, Felipe Noguera.

I'm not putting up more of the article...it's B.S. This better be disspelled by the Obama administration in the next couple of days. There is no way anyone in the American government can rationalize ANY meeting being worth the interaction of ANY of our high officials with the likes of a murdering, conspiring terrorist like Chavez. The only representative of America to ever meet Chavez ought to be a CIA agent with a suitcase bomb in his hand.

(Hat Tip: Atlas Shrugs)

Obama and Chavez to meet in Trinidad in April

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: United States President, Barack Obama will have a face-to-face meeting with his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez in April in Port of Spain, when the two leaders will be among three dozen heads of government and state at the three day Summit of the Americas. This information was confirmed by Summit Secretariat Communications Co-ordinator, Felipe Noguera.

Top of the agenda of the Summit will be burning energy issues in which both the United States and Venezuela have a keen interest. The Trinidad Express reported that Noguera told newsmen that Secretariat Chairman, Ambassador Carlos Luis Alberto Rodriguez indicated that Venezuela and the USA were at loggerheads on energy issues to be highlighted in the Declaration of Port of Spain. The declaration -- outlining policy goals in coming years for the 34 countries in the Americas in the fields of energy, education, environment and health -- will be signed by the leaders during the April 17-19 summit. Asked to identify the contentious energy issues between the two countries, Noguera noted, "Any energy related issues that exist or emerge between the United States and Venezuela will be discussed during the Summit by both leaders who are expected to be present." He added that the Secretariat was not at liberty to discuss the issue publicly. Chavez has been at loggerheads for months with former US President George W Bush accusing him of being a warmonger. Two months ago he expelled the US Ambassador to Venezuela. Since Obama took office on January 20, however, Chavez has toned down his anti-US rhetoric, even saying he has great expectations of the new US President.

Chavez Whines That U.S. Is Using Hezbollah Ties To Go After Him

I'm not quite sure who is more paranoid - Venezuela's Hugo Chavez or a crack cocaine addict. Chavez is again pointing a finger at the bad old big bully United States of America. Here's the complete story from YNET:

Chavez accuses US of using Hizbullah ties to attack him

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says that the United States is trying to bring him before an international court.
Chavez says the United States is using accusations that the Venezuelan government is supporting the Lebanese group Hizbullah to ''see if the world will make a move'' against him. The United States has charged a Venezuelan official and others with helping Hizbullah. The U.S. Treasury Department said Wednesday that it has frozen the accounts of two Venezuelans: Diplomat Nasr al Din and Lebanese-born businessman Fazwi Kan'an. (AP)

Well Hugo, this time I think you might just be right. We probably ARE setting you up for status as a state sponsor of terrorism. But haven't you already admitted to that? Haha.

I give Chavez about two more years at the helm in Venezuela and he won't go out of office by resigning or even by going to jail. This guy's days on Earth are probably numbered because he is in the crosshairs of far too many people. And at the same time, Hugo Chavez has made alliances with some of the world's nastiest characters and quite frankly, in most cases they are using Chavez - when his usefulness is over, he will become cannon fodder.