Chavez rains insults towards Uribe..

[R_P_A_S]

sorry guys. but this video is in Spanish. basically Chavez this morning pretty much told the world how he feels Colombian President Alvaro Uribe is "anti-bolivarian, a right wing tool, pawn of the empire," and so on.. LOL

I agree and though I personally enjoy Chavez insulting pawn presidents like Mexico's and Colombias.. I still don't see how this is good for him and Venezuela.. their image world wide I mean... hmm

http://youtube.com/watch?v=lPmyA2cq6t8

[Geronimo Pratt]

I think its about time he revealed his true feelings about imperial proxy states like Columbia rather than sugar-coating his thoughts for "good relations". He's been level-headed with Uribe to this point even though he wasn't receiving similar respect in return. The "pawns of the empire" in Latin America always seemed to fear that they were being treaded on by the "imperial Cuba" while under the economic control and political backing of the United States. The latest example is Uribe fearing of "Chavez intervention" while he has remained under the footprint of the U.S. for his whole presidency.

[Zurdito]

The image worldwide is not that important, any real revolution will be slandered by every bourgeois media outlet under the sun. Worrying about that is an inevitable rightwards pressure on any movement - in fact only a bourgeois movement would ever even worry about looking good in the US media or whatever.

more to the point though, isn't this kind of thing, in the long run, not that important?

[metalero]

think its about time he revealed his true feelings about imperial proxy states like Columbia rather than sugar-coating his thoughts for "good relations".

I was expecting the same anytime. But I think this fuels the patriotic bullshit of Uribe, and make some of colombian workers rally under this false banner; I'm not saying Uribe doesn't deserve the naked truth on his face, after all he's treated the leftist democratic opposition and workers in colombia as terrorists and much worse attacks. But Chavez must be more intelligent, and should try to built an international consesus specially with the progressive governments in latinamerica to put a more effective pressure on Uribe, instead of exploding in anger at every provocation from the Colombian oligarchy.

[BobKKKindle$]

Chavez's populist rhetoric allows him to draw attention away from growing economic problems in Venezuela, such as the shortage of food supplies, as well as the growing tendency towards political centralisation, by cultivating semi-nationalist sentiments in Venezuela. This is hardly progressive.