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Chávez, now hostage merchant


nothing more convenient
ABC Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez to be found as a fact to exploit a propaganda bonanza that could overshadow the resounding failure of their attempts to impose a socialist dictatorship life for Venezuelans. After losing a referendum plebiscite, divert needed attention to a matter with which to regain the initiative, clear the picture of a coup defeated by a student movement and return to be the continental leader who wants to regain the support of their fans disappointed . And since after the historic phrase of Don Juan Carlos, at the Iberoamerican Summit in Chile Atrabiliarios insults against governments that do not fit their eccentricities are no longer profitable, Chavez has found the perfect butt in a supposedly humanitarian operation to take advantage of the release of three hostages who were held by the Colombian narco-guerrillas.
But in reality, what they have planned Chavez and the guerrilla leader 'Sureshot', apparently with the assistance of the Cuban dictatorship has some humanitarian. obscene is a propaganda operation in which criminals who are holding innocent people for years have agreed to the staging of an act of clemency if there would be some justice in their origin. Chavez has been featured as a "facilitator" of the release of hostages in exchange for offering foreign policy justification to their jailers. And he who does nothing but uphold the law and the rule of law to fight against a gang of highway robbers and drug traffickers, President Alvaro Uribe, make it appear as the evil to which they attribute the cause of virtually that the hostages are not released. The hostages, and what else they might do, will appreciate your efforts to Hugo Chavez, which could be presented as well as the great benefactor, the supposed hero of peace that the captives returned to his family. It is simply the world upside down.
long time ago that Chavez is seeking to involve Colombia its hegemonic delusions, it is the key that has prevented the Andean Pact and control gets in its way in hallucinations in which he is seen as the reincarnation of Simón Bolívar. In fact, Chavez's case can not be ruled out and even that might attempt an operation with military implications that their dreams would end with the victory of the narco-guerrillas. The Venezuelan has made no secret that his sympathies are closer to "Sureshot" that President Uribe and, if this operation goes well, you probably already calculated that you can change the balance of forces in Colombia itself. Thousands of relatives of hostages (the guerrillas have more than three thousand captives in their power) can be raised calling for Chavez's intervention in the liberation of his people and it is clear that narcoguerrillas support anything that may weaken the institutional system of Colombia. The Colombian president has little choice but to oppose this offensive. Chávez has detected attempts to infiltrate his doctrine "Bolivarian" between the Colombian general and is the first to realize that if he allowed rampant Chavez in Colombia and maintain an open relationship with the guerrillas (the clandestine support of Venezuela to insurgent groups is something which nobody doubts), it would greatly complicate the situation in Colombia.
utilization of feelings destabilizing humanitarian lens is simply an act despicable and intolerable. It is human that captives are subjected to the "Stockholm Syndrome." What is not acceptable is that these feelings are manipulated with a vile political ends.