A recent good example was Alvaro Uribe's visit to Venezuela. After one year(2007-2008) of the hardest vitriol, lead by university scholars such as James Petras, Narciso Isa Conde, Nestor Kohan among others. In Venezuela, the lynch mob was lead by recently defeated Carabobo candidate Mario Silva who lobed the worst kind of junk on Alvaro Uribe. Should one debate all of Alvaro Uribe's accusations perhaps is one topic, but for now let us consider these fools actually believe the things they are saying.
To their pleasure Hugo Chavez parroted all of the garbage, of Alvaro Uribe being a Paramilitary leader, orchestrating massacres from his hacienda, of being George W. Bush puppet, of being a top drug smuggler. "Dictadura narco-paramilitar" as they like to go on their never ending mind numbing sentences. To their pleasure Chavez traveled the world spreading the word, sending troops to the colombian frontier, threatening to send his Zukhois over Bogota, to deliver the FARC from their "terrorist" pro-noun in every international organization's list, namely the UN and the European Union. To their erotic orgasm they saw Chavez almost declare war on Colombia allied by Ecuador, Cuba, Bolivia and Nicaragua.. and as all of this took place their pens kept erecting the worst kinds of lies as they smiled at the sublime image of the FARC and the venezuelan army pulverizing Colombia and turning it into the newest Cuba. Nothing was better as they would turn on nationally televised program "alo presidente" and get their fix on Uribe bashing from Chavez...
Yet after the dust settled suddenly Ingrid Betancourt was freed in the epic hollywodesque Ocean 12's "operacion Jaque" and both Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez suddenly declared that the FARC needed to lay down their weapons and free unilaterally all hostages.
but... its really tough ...when your entire thesis lies on the values of a few idiots, its quite easy to see it crumble in front of your eyes.
It reminded me of Saddam Hussein and Yasser Arafat condemning the september 11 attacks. I was in my office and I almost started freaking crying.. I couldn't possibly believe it.. Ingrid Betancourt was freed... but now what? to put it in the most blatant, superficial way: who's the fool now? who's looking back at the scenes of Hugo Chavez lionizing the FARC in international forums? is the king naked or what? maybe everybody???
So as Petras, Kohan, Ivan Marquez etc. started to triangulate the ideas, putting together a few calculus moves, leibniz, mathematical logic, beating the dead horse etc. I mean they had to come up with something, but what? Petras started trashing Fidel Castro, Ivan Marquez stated in one of the many interviews he broadcasts somewhere in the mountains of Venezuela that "I am not going to exteriorize our feelings(on Castro's statements)." Argentinian Nestor Kohan euphemized the polemic of Petras vs Castro, saying that it is all a minor dissagreement between good revolutionaries. As if we all love each other deep inside. The question is, does Castro or Chavez care?
So now what, pappa revolution is trashing the FARC.. I mean things can't get any worse.. that is until Colombia's air force one landed in Caracas... best thing is to look at the video, but the pictures say a lot:
I mean, WHAT IS THIS MURDERER, DRUG SMUGGLER, MAFIA KING, OLIGARCH Alvaro Uribe doing shaking hands with Comandante Hugo Chavez??? but not anywhere, straight up inside Venezuela. Just look at Chavez Chronies in the right hand picture, all dressed up in uniform and everything.. what's nice is their look of suspiciousness. Its like children in that prime moment when they can finally separate fact from fiction. Lets call the interpol!, oh wait, we already trashed them.. Lets call the hague!! oh shit, we already have a file there.. Lets put him in jail here!! oh no, he's shaking hands with our president!
So something's gotta happen... the FARC apologist PCV, the communist party of Venezuela, condemned Uribe's presence in Venezuela, as one of a war criminal to be tried by the hague. But it is interesting, because of all the parties that barely exist anymore in Venezuela, Chavez doesn't only trashes the parties of the oligarchy, but also the communist party of Venezuela, as of whom he recently called in the november 23rd election: TRAITORS!!. Again, FARC apologist Narciso Isa Conde berated this... as he's the selfproclaimed father of the dominican left, criticized this attitude of Chavez but always did so, like a good servant, by praising his master: "mi comandante."
Sometimes the pipe dreams of these fools actually do become reality, such as the 2002 coup d'etat in Venezuela.. thank god things like operacion jaque happened in order to reverse venezuelan expansion. Like september 11 and Bush, the 2002 coup served Chavez to be a moralist of the revolution, there were no compromises in values, the revolution was under attack from the rich oligarchy, it was a new rennaissance and the FARC was going to benefit from it. Between 2002 and 2008 Chavez and his children were allowed to lie down comfortable at the expense of the coup, world opinion was in their favor, the french were silent, they just wanted to be part of the Ingrid blockbuster, and flirted with Chavez terrorism exemption for the FARC. The US rambled on through Bush's wars, and the intellectuals wrote and burned the ships for Chavez,Castro and the FARC.
But after the genesis of this world of bolivarian piety reality struck in july 2008 and it was such a calamitous earthquake that truth became so evident that Chavez and Castro were forced past the realm of the apology down to the outright REJECTION of the FARC. Hussein and Arafat on 9/11? anyone? But now what for James Petras, Narciso Isa Conde, Nestor Kohen, and Ivan Marquez (please don't kidnap me)? perhaps they should stop being more cuban than pappa cuban himself, perhaps they should stop being more venezuelan than pappa venezuela himself, because they don't give a damn, all they care is that they remain in power for the rest of eternity, and all of their putrid vitriol is only useful whenever its useful for them. Now they should focus their work on Ollanta Humala from Peru, because Evo from Bolivia also called on FARC to lay down weapons.
Please, check it, its in the record, as Noam Chomsky would say.
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