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Zorro

(15,740 posts)
Thu Apr 11, 2013, 06:31 PM Apr 2013

Think Chávez was paranoid? Venezuela's Maduro warns of US-funded biker gangs

Interim President Nicolás Maduro has spoken publicly about conspiracies ranging from murder plots to Salvadoran mercenaries. They serve as a political tool to unify the population and silence criticism.

Since the day of Hugo Chávez’s death, acting president and presidential candidate Nicolás Maduro and other top government officials have put forward a steady flow of conspiracy theories unmatched by any period in the Chávez era, eight by our count.

March 5, acting President Maduro expels two US attachés for “searching for active military personal in order to propose conspiratorial plans to them.”

March 5, Maduro, in the last public announcement before the passing of the President, suggests that Chávez was “inoculated” with cancer by foreign enemies (See our previous post on the issue). He afterwards insisted many times on this theory, originally proposed by Chávez himself, the latest on March 21. On that day he promised that after winning the elections, he would name a scientific commission in charge of investigating the issue. He also mentioned that “there are already a lot of articles on the internet on this. You only have to look them up. The Empire has created these types of experimental viruses since the 40s. They are methods of biological, bacteriological warfare.”

http://news.yahoo.com/think-ch-vez-paranoid-venezuelas-maduro-warns-us-144848293.html

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Think Chávez was paranoid? Venezuela's Maduro warns of US-funded biker gangs (Original Post) Zorro Apr 2013 OP
Chavez wasn't paranoid. n/t mwrguy Apr 2013 #1
What a nut! ForgoTheConsequence Apr 2013 #2
The USA would never interfere with elections or sponsor undemocratic coups. Mika Apr 2013 #3
No, I don't think Chavez was paranoid. And I wouldn't put ANYTHING past... Peace Patriot Apr 2013 #4
The article is from the Christian Science Monitor not Yahoo. joshcryer Apr 2013 #5
No, they don't naaman fletcher Apr 2013 #6
He wasn't paranoid. ocpagu Apr 2013 #7
I actually don't think it's paranoia naaman fletcher Apr 2013 #8

ForgoTheConsequence

(4,868 posts)
2. What a nut!
Thu Apr 11, 2013, 06:39 PM
Apr 2013

Its not like America has ever done anything to undermine Democratically elected politicians in South America before.


We have a political party and power structure stealing elections in our very own country and yet we judge other countries?

 

Mika

(17,751 posts)
3. The USA would never interfere with elections or sponsor undemocratic coups.
Thu Apr 11, 2013, 07:02 PM
Apr 2013



"Economic hit men (EHMs) are highly-paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. They funnel money from the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and other foreign "aid" organizations into the coffers of huge corporations and the pockets of a few wealthy families who control the planet's natural resources. Their tools included fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder. They play a game as old as empire, but one that has taken on new and terrifying dimensions during this time of globalization."
- John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man




Peace Patriot

(24,010 posts)
4. No, I don't think Chavez was paranoid. And I wouldn't put ANYTHING past...
Thu Apr 11, 2013, 08:15 PM
Apr 2013

...U.S. secret agencies acting on behalf of transglobal corporations, banksters and war profiteers. THEIR intent to reconquer and subdue the new, leftist, independent South America has been quite clear for some time. And it's not as if they don't have a history of infiltration, destabilization, chaos-making, murderousness, "Big Lie" propaganda, stealing billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars and giving them to fascists, and the dirtiest of dirty tricks, for over half a century in Latin America, and recently--in Colombia, Honduras...and Venezuela!

I'm very glad that Maduro and his government are being vigilant--keeping up with the destabilization/coup-plot intelligence, throwing U.S. agents out and warning people.

Think Maduro is stupid--a fool, a clown, a mere bus driver? Think again! This man, who has so much experience in union organizing and in top positions in the Chavez government, including Foreign Minister, is as smart as they come, and obviously the majority of Venezuelans trust him with their government and their "New Deal," since ALL TEN major opinion polls in Venezuela give him a 10% to 20% lead over the rightwing opposition candidate.

What can the Corporate Media do, in the face of a SUCCESSFUL "New Deal," but deride and demean and belittle its leaders, or puff hot air into their "bogeyman" balloons? They are maliciously "clueless" on what is happening in Latin America, and have been complicit in tyranny, torture and murder by their fascist allies for many decades. Yahoo is one of the worst, among a bad, bad lot--right up there with the Associated Pukes for bald-faced campaigning for the rightwing cause in Venezuela. And they don't even have to be re-named. They already call themselves what they are--yahoos.

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Definition of YAHOO

1
capitalized : a member of a race of brutes in Swift's Gulliver's Travels who have the form and all the vices of humans
2
(influenced by 2yahoo) : a boorish, crass, or stupid person
— ya·hoo·ism

(Snip)

Antonyms
brain, genius

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yahoo
(my emphasis)

joshcryer

(62,269 posts)
5. The article is from the Christian Science Monitor not Yahoo.
Thu Apr 11, 2013, 08:34 PM
Apr 2013

Can people here not read source attributions?

You'll note the end of the article how they do note the US meddling in Latin America, if you actually read it.

 

naaman fletcher

(7,362 posts)
6. No, they don't
Thu Apr 11, 2013, 08:36 PM
Apr 2013

This happens so often that the only conclusionis that they only read the headline and the URL and then decide whether or not to attack or support.

Watch now, the CsM is about to be attacked.

 

ocpagu

(1,954 posts)
7. He wasn't paranoid.
Fri Apr 12, 2013, 02:49 PM
Apr 2013

He just knew more of US foreign policy and Latin American history than some of the Capriles' cheerleaders at DU.

 

naaman fletcher

(7,362 posts)
8. I actually don't think it's paranoia
Fri Apr 12, 2013, 02:55 PM
Apr 2013

I think it's politics. The fact is, as noted elsewhere here, the US HAS proven itself capable of almost anything. It is therefore a convenient and easy whipping boy for politicians.

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