Tag Archives: Hugo Chavez

Frank Gaffney

On Obama’s Watch

On February 5th, President Obama provided his own Super Sunday show.  In some respects, it was almost as bizarre as Madonna’s performance at half time. In particular, in his interview with NBC’s Matt Lauer, Mr. Obama responded oddly to concerns raised last week by leaders of the U.S. intelligence community.  They testified [...]
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Trevor Loudon

Iranian Organization Helped Organize Communist Protests in U.S.

This weekend, thousands of protesters gathered in cities all over the US and in several other countries to march against alleged US plans to make war on Iran. In the US, the ultra militant, pro Cuba and North Korea Workers World Party is taking a leading role to coordinate the demonstrations. From Workers World: U.S.-based anti-imperialist [...]
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Dan  Riehl

The Left Begins to See Obama’s a Foreign Policy Flop

Less than a year into his current term, Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize; Obama would do well to keep his eyes on the prize, as, almost four years in, he has virtually nothing to show for it at all. OSLO — President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for [...]
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John J.  Xenakis

15-Jan-12 World View — Consensus Is Growing For Military Action In Syria

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Qatar now favors military action in Syria to ’stop the killing’ Arab League observer in Syria says his life was threatened Incumbent Taiwan leader Ma Ying-jeou wins close reelection bid Iran seeks revenge for killing of nuclear scientist Venezuela’s Chávez says U.S. is giving cancer to Latin leaders Qatar now favors military action in Syria [...]
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Sun Tzu

Nicaragua’s Ortega Poised For Re-Election Win

From Reuters: Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, a former Marxist guerrilla leader, looks likely to win re-election on Sunday after heavy social spending won him strong support among the country’s poor. Ortega has overseen a period of economic progress in his five years in power, backed by financial aid from his socialist ally in Venezuela, President Hugo Chavez. A former [...]
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José Kalosha

Mao With A Latin Accent

Chavez in Venezuela and some other Latin American leaders are looking at the Chinese economic and political model for development, they need to read Frank Dikotter book Mao’s Great Famine on events from 1958 to 1962. In the 1950s and 1960s the reporting on China was uninformative and few had an accurate picture of China. [...]
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Niccolo Machiavelli

So Who Do You Root For? Hugo Chavez Fights ‘Worldwide Peace Project’ Over A….Rock

So what happens when South America activists backed by Venezuela dictator Hugo Chavez get into a fight with organizers of a “peace project” in Berlin, Germany?  Cynical me wants to sit back and watch the fight unfold. A German artist named Wolfgang Kraker von Schwarzenfeld brought a red sandstone boulder back to Berlin a decade ago [...]
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John J.  Xenakis

3-Oct-11 World View — Greece Misses Requirements For Next Bailout Payment

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. * Greece misses requirements for next bailout payment * Greece’s banks face nationalization * Terrorist groups in Pakistan are splintering into smaller groups * US aids Uzbekistan despite human rights record * Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warns that Israel is too isolated * Venezuela’s Chavez promises China all the oil it needs * China using Tibetan [...]
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Secure Freedom Radio

Roger Noriega: Bracing For Impact

Former US Ambassador to the Organization of American States, Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and our go-to-guy on Latin American affairs, Roger Noriega visits with Secure Freedom Radio to give Frank Gaffney his insight into the December 2012 presidential elections that will happen in Venezuela. He expresses his fears that the opposition will [...]
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Humberto Fontova

The Cuban Hostage Crisis

On August 5th Cuba’s Stalinist regime upheld their sentence of 15 years for U.S. citizen Alan Gross, a contractor for USAID jailed in Cuba since December 3rd, 2009 for bringing cell-phone and internet equipment into Castro’s fiefdom. Mr Gross was trying to help Cuba’s tiny Jewish community communicate more freely with the outside world.  For [...]
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