Thread: Venezuela Sends 15,000 Troops to Colombia Border

Sure I did.

and any number of other human rights organizations. Here's a reference from a HRW report from 2009: Human Rights Watch Comments to the Office of the US Trade Representative Concerning the US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement September 15, 2009 ~snip~ Paramilitary Violence Most trade unionist killings have never been investigated, so it is impossible to know exactly who is responsible and why all the killings have been committed. What is...

In case you weren't aware, it's a Democratic administration. Looks like that makes me more of a Democrat than you.

Do you speak spanish? "Señores militares no perdamos ni un día en el cumplimiento de nuestra principal misión: Prepararnos para la guerra y ayudar al pueblo a prepararse para la guerra , porque es responsabilidad de todos" "Señor comandante de la guarnición militar, batallones de milicia, vamos a formar los cuerpos de milicianos , a adiestrarnos. Estudiantes revolucionarios, trabajadores, mujeres: ¡Todos listos para...

Populist leader seizes power, weakens congress, declares outside enemies, builds up military, silences dissent, builds up border armaments, claims they're being provoked... not good.

And he has followed the laws for the most part. He did start playing with fire when he cut out "Fox Venezuela" - and I can't say that I blame him. But still, he should have done better. That's what makes me leery of him. And it wasn't like he just denied them access to the government, he plain out took them off the air. You don't do that But he has followed the law the whole time - and even used the ballot to...

in office. Was Thomas Jefferson a dictator? He and many of our Founders opposed term limits as anti-democratic. (The Pukes of the 1950s overruled the Founders in order to prevent another "New Deal" from ever happening in the US again, and to begin dismantling the one we had, which they have just about succeeded in doing.) The important thing is the honesty, fairness and transparency of elections, not term limits. Venezuela has...

The original Bruce Wayne.

Wow; sounds like someone accidently left the lid off the crack jar last night.