Paranoia in South America

South America has long been the bastion of the world's social trash. From ex-patriot Nazi's and SS members to the drug dealers who pollute the streets of the world with cocaine and other drugs.

Now the President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez needs to get his nose out of the Coke bag and into some clear air. At a youth conference this week, Chavez said the US is the worst imperialist regime in the history of the world. Huh? Imperialist? The US has never invaded and taken over the sovereignty of another nation in its 225+ year existence. The US is the largest benefactor to world aid anywhere on the planet by any measurement - total money, per capita, etc. This guy is a kook.

He keeps strange company. Here he is with Castro:

I mean a world leader who meets with Castro in this world climate - come on. He also has purchased 100,000 assault rifles from Russia to "defend itself" from American imperialism. This week he also told those impressionable kids that if the US came to Venezuela they would "kick the US back in the dust," whatever that means.

This dictator is a frightening. He said:

"The rifles are defensive weapons, " Chavez said, adding Kalashnikovs are nothing to the array of weapons wielded
by U.S. forces, such as "transatlantic missiles."
"If I were buying one of those devices, with which we press a button to travel, arrive at the White
House, then they could worry," he said.
"They have thousands of those
devices."

Wha? it is like reading a Democrat's Blog about Carl Rove or WMD's a complete freak with no basis in fact. A device that allows travel at the push of a button? Is he watching too much Star Trek?

He continued his attacks on the Catholic Church calling a Cardinal a "bandit and coup-mongerer" after the cardinal said in a newspaper interview the president was running a dictatorship. he was calling a spade a spade in my estimation.

I have read many stories on this "gentleman" and the best depiction I have read shows Chavez as Castro's "mini-me" in a series of jousts against windmills.