Hugo Chavez, that absurd left wing nutcase who recklessly spent money his starving people could have used to make changes to the Venezuelan flag, has again shown the world what is wrong with communist dictatorships.
In his quest to discredit the United States and generally anger the rest of the civilized world, Chavez has seized control of France’s oil interests in that country. As a key element of his “Bolivarian Revolution,” and in true leftist fashion, Chavez put the screws to the various oil companies who have made it possible for him to have the cash which he then pisses away.
Chavez changed the terms of the deals he had with the various oil interests after, naturally, the wells were drilled and operating. To their credit, France and Italy refused to be a party to Chavez’s grand schemes.
According to insiders, he intends to use the money to purchase arms (uh-oh), step-up his anti-U.S. campaign (maybe now he can afford to pay Alec Baldwin to fly down there for a good old fashioned Hate America Festival), and sell oil below market value to other South American countries in order to destablize world markets. Meanwhile, the people of Venezuela are starving to death waiting for the largess Chavez promised them.
These hijinks go way beyond blowing a few million bucks to reconfigure the national flag. As is the case with all two-bit dictators, the seriously over-inflated self-importance that informs Chavez’s actions will eventually turn the entire world against him. Except for, of course, Harry Belafonte, Cindy Sheehan, Alec Baldwin, the ACLU, Code Pink, MoveOn.org, – am I leaving anybody out? – the People for the American Way, A.N.S.W.E.R., etc., etc., etc.
¿Why France? jaja everyone is stealing oil from Venezuela, ask Fidel, Chavez just want to be Oprah, let him be Oprah, he wants drama but in monologs.