Posted by
PoliProp on Thursday, March 06, 2008 6:38:36 PM
Let me get this right. Colombia kills a FARC leader. We're told in Ecuador. Hugo Chavez then sends troops to the Venezuela-Colombia border. At some point he realizes that Colombia actually has a tested military that would seriously damage his less than stellar one. Ambassadors get recalled. He gets Rafael Correa, Ecuador's President (more on him later) to play along. He sends 3,200 troops to Colombia's SW border. The OAS is their usual helpful self and mainly wants to talk about how Ecuador's sovereignty has been violated. President Bush backs Colombia at a press conference. Chavez starts his usual talk of the how the U.S. and their lackeys will be responsible for causing a war. Only this time it's a war that Chavez would lose.
Then Chavez starts to panic. News comes out that Venezuela has been financing FARC. A terrorist rebel group trying to topple Colombia's government. Propaganda? Who knows. Wars have been started over much less. Like all good propaganda it has the ring of truth to it. Now old friend Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua's leader again) announces that Nicaragua is breaking all ties with Colombia.
It seems that Chavez has learned from his Iranian friends that even when you're really in the wrong just keep talking.