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I'dont think that the average Chavista is all that alert to Mr Bush anouncements on Iran even if Mr Chavez is bound to comment on them , the fact is that Mr Chavez floods the airwaves with such constant flood of disparate and fanciful 'warnings' that even his followers dont pay that much attention to what he says. May be Mr Bush's sabrerattling is indiscreet but I rather doubt that the same will have much effect on the Venezuelan public.

I think it is a very smart article!!

The article is fine in its assessment but where due to growing factors, a global war in some highly powerful minds, may make perfect sense. I say this as the greatest threat to humanity is the population explosion and where a major global war would solve this problem. Indeed, there is a minority of humans with considerable wealth and power who see the destruction of others as the savoir of themselves (and their vast wealth it has to be said also). The late Glenn Seaborg(Element 106 Seaborgium) our founding President personally appealed and implored President Truman not to drop the 'bomb' on occupied Japanese territory. The President though through his military advisers took no notice even though he discovered Plutonium and was head of the Plutonium plant on the Manhattan Project. But behind the scenes also at the time, there were dark figures who saw that after the fall of Japan, great wealth could also be secured. But basically again today, change-master politicians and governments in particular, are in the pocket of very rich and very powerful individuals/multinational companies, who seemingly do not look for peace but in many ways for wars and their own vested economic interests. Thinking that they can survive because they are on the strongest side and the reason why in many ways US$1.2 trillion per annum and growing, is spent on armaments now.
But getting back to humankind's greatest threat (even greater than that of even the warmongers it has to be said) is that of the ever-growing population problem and where I give a little evidence based facts that people may not be aware of.
The population of the world (in absolute numbers) has only to increase year-on-year by a mere 0.85% for there to be 12 billion people by 2075. The current population growth (in absolute numbers) is 1.27% (most recent UN figures), some 26% above the percentage increase for 12 billion humans to exist in 2075. But looking at the present rate of human growth, there would be 15.6 billion human inhabitants living on planet Earth in 67-years time. But again, as growth rates are, in statistical terms (not the best accurate measure by any means), slightly declining year-on-year, let us assume that the growth rate is the average of the two, which is 1.18%, then we would still have 14.7 billion people to support. In every scenario it is something that the world's resources could not possibly support considering rising standards of living throughout the world and where it is predicted that India alone will have over half-billion middle class citizens by 2025 (McKinsey, May 2007) on its present economic path. And a final point, what is happening with statistics is that they are being manipulated as usual. In this respect people say that population is declining statistically, but where in reality as we have a greater number each year for our base-line, the figures are really growing at the same rate as the year before, or close to that. It is a bit of a con job that governments in particular like to use so not to alarm their electorate.
Therefore overall looking at our bleak future in a world with vastly dwindling resources by the decade, a war may very well be on the cards for humankind in this century, and one where this time there will be no winners.
Dr David Hill
World Innovation Foundation Charity
Bern, Switzerland
www.thewif.org.uk

The real war is in Venezuela, where every day died about 40 persons while the ditatorship is talking and talking about his war and arms dreams and spends a lot of money in it.
Good position, Mr Martínez and is true Bush sings a song that Chávez wants not only hear, but dance.

Greed..is one of the 7 deadly sins....we should pray for our enemies, Ibsen!
Mr.Chavez is a Tyrant, and so is the likes of our President here...he bans abortion and is against it, yet under his administration, he has literally "killed" innocent lives that could have been saved had we not gone to war!! Not including all of the innocent by standards in Iraq as well!

Trust me, we don't like President Bush! He should be impeached for all the mistakes he has made!

Thank-you for sharing this news-column, it is muy triste, pero the truth!!

Aguda visión de la tentación totalitaria en Venezuela.

While people as you exist, I believe Venezuela has voices to tell what going on.
Thanks my friend.
My best wishes

The "asymmetric warrior" thing would have make Picasso laugh like crazy...

What will be the end of this weird Bush-Chávez-Ahmadinejad mélange diplomatique? Raul Castro selling venezuelan oil in Galveston, perhaps?

Some months ago, in a Venezuelan newspaper, Mr. Martínez wrote about Chávez’ propensity to turn everything into an epic event (I am not quoting him, don’t have the article handy). I agreed completely and would add that such tendency is part of Chávez’ pathology.
Although it is impossible for any president to rule (fairly or not) just to avoid another president's temper tantrum, unfortunately GWB and his policies only add fuel to the psycho’s fire. Forget his local minions, GWB is Chávez’ best friend.

Funny, all the Chavez apologists are left-wing gringos who have never set foot in Venezuela.

Chavez is good just because he calls Bush a devil. What a bunch of morons these guys are.

Venezuelan democracy alive!!!!!!!!
We do not need a war
We have our own private revolutionary war!!!!!
Only three examples

These are official government declarations

According the figures from CICPC, since 1º of January to 30 September 2007 in Venezuela:

9.568 homicides in our country!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Marcos Chavez
CICPC Director
169 homicides in Caracas on a weekend!!!!!!!!!!
07-05-2007

Minister Carreño
147 homicides during the week on national territory
07-23-2007

PD
Everyone knows that the official statistics are minimized for the sake of the revolution
Venezuelan population…27.483.000

Crime is better armed then the police
Where do you think the weapons come?

Stella d'argento:

Love your comments and comparision to the Canadian model of democracy. I fondly remember one of Trudeau's comments: "The United States will NOT be the dog that wags Canada's tail'. How I wish Harper would follow this edict.

Alex, mi concern is how the main stream Venezuelan media that have access to the most prestigious news papers in the United Estate such as the Washington Post using inaccurate words and get away with it. In the Estate, I never heard of journalists writing irresponsibly, not backing up what they say. You are right; the conversation is not about Mr. Martinez and in my case is not about president Chavez either. I am a college graduated and well traveled middle aged woman and as you said “fair-minded” too. I know what I want. It is obvious that we have opposite political point of views when thinking about Chavez and the direction his democratic government will turn in the future. Some people might perceive Chavez as a “Red Gorilla”, a dictator, and others like me consider Mr. Chavez to be a democratically elected humanist.

My comments gravitate around inaccurate use of words, and their repercussions on the W. P. readers, the American people and ultimately on the majority of Venezuelans. I agree with Gary Mendel when he says “Mr. Martinez, like many other Venezuelans, expect too much from external factors to his country”. The fact is that “some” and not “many” of Venezuelans fell that the U.S. need to come and "save" them.
I don’t want well intentioned American citizens to fell guilty for not helping Venezuelans. When the majority of Venezuelans know what we want. Any one can look in a dictionary and find the concept of democracy.

There is a process called “Demonización” (I guess is demonization in English) that I hope not what goes on here. That would scare me the most. 1) The process starts when the language is manipulated using inaccurate words not based on facts. 2) There is a pretension that most of the people from the “demonized” country are suffering. 3) The next step is to ask for help to save those suffering people. 4)The last step tends to be an invasion, supported by the public opinion, but not by facts.
Some Venezuelan minorities wrongly proclaim themselves to be independent thinkers, to represent the majorities- and they happen to publish in prestigious newspapers. Miss- representing most of Venezuelans and probably sending -maybe because they are trully scared- a wrong message to the readers.

Alex, I can tell you responsibly and respectfully that most of Venezuelans support Chavez’s democratic revolution. I invite U.S. citizen at risk of being manipulated by deceitful language to think about the consequences to both nations if the U.S. army or the marines come and “help” the opposition minorities in Venezuela. Would it be good?

Yo, por mi parte, comparto la opiniòn de Martinez Creo que una cosa es verlo desde lejos y otra enfrentarse a la arbitrariedad y la obsecuencia todos los dìas. El propòsito de chavez es aniquilar cualquier opinion, pràctica o vision disidente....provenga de donde provenga.
Ines Q.

Prefiero escribir en español. Me aterra lo que explica Ibsen, porque soy venezolana, no me voy a ir jamás de aquí y resulta espeluznante convivir junto a este desatado que tenemos por presidente. La censura a los disidentes llega ya hasta cantantes y actrices.

Mr. Martinez, like many other Venezuelans, expect too much from external factors to his country. U.S. has committed so many serious errors in his foreign policy in Latin America, to expect anything good.

Disculpen un comentario en español. No solo suscribo la opinión de Martínez sobre la Reforma de Chávez sino que, además, quiero destacar los dos párrafos finales del post. La lógica perversa que trata de instaurarse todos los días en Venezuela es esa que Martínez describe con sus dos preguntas finales: quienes escriben o actúan desde la izquierda (de paso, desde "mi izquierda", no otra, sean Bandera Roja, Podemos o el PCV) lo hacen movidos siempre por buenas intenciones y hermosos sentimientos, el resto son serviles ventrílocuos del imperialismo y la oligarquía. Termino presentando dos signos de esta "revolución": los partidarios del gobierno no ganan ni una sola elección estudiantil en liceos y universidades, la mayoría de los creadores, artistas, escritores, artesanos, etc. adversan o son indiferentes ante el gobierno. Gracias

Stella, Well, your definition of democracy is like Chavez's (and any moveon or koz junkie) if its not done to yr liking then it must not be democracy. I am no fan of Pelosi and Pelosi is no fan of Bush, but to think that this automatically derails 200 + years of democratic elections is at best intellectually dishonest. If you ck yr Canadian history, you'd see that Pierre was "prime minister" for all of 15 years, Castro is still dictator for life 55 years and counting. You say when you see Chavez w/Castro , you see another Trudeau ? yr close but you s/b seeing another Castro. Its also really nice of Castro to "regret" not allowing democracy, I'm sure he's soooo torn up inside he's ready to resign..not. Cuba is a basket case in all respects, what Castro has inflicted on this backward island nation is a joke. Of course you'll point out wonderful health and economic statistics on the Cuban people, but I'm sure you'll realize all the statistics come from ...surprise!!..the..Cuban gov! , which must be telling the truth because there is not one Cuban newspaper or TV station that would disagree. See how this works ??.You control the press and airwaves and you can say whatever you want. People like yourself will swallow it hook line and sinker, yr logic is bizarre at best. I cant even believe anyone with a semblance of education would compare our democracy with what is going on in Venezuela. And no, Jimmy Carter sitting next to Castro at a one day funeral didnt change any American Policy towards Cuba when JC was president, short little sweet stories about retired presidents and funerals rarely have anything to do w/reality.I dont even understand yr reference to nationalized Canadian tv, clearly that wasnt a political move. Chavez is shutting down the only opposition TV station left, the other Ven tv stations spew out Chavez propaganda 24/7. How would you like Fox news on every channel ?

A pretty insightful analysis -- the kind Washington's deaf ears, blind eyes, and dumb brains would benefit from paying attention ... but will they ever?

Alex, if true democracies have a vigorous opposition, then the US is definitely NOT a true democracy right now. Look at that wimp Nancy Pelosi, supposedly an opposition leader, bowing down to BushCo at every turn, and then try to tell us with a straight face that you have a "true democracy"! Let's face it--the US stopped being a democracy in 2000. It therefore has no moral standing to lecture other countries on their democratic deficits.

Plus, you say: "Democracies do not make it a habit of nationalizing radio and TV." Oh? Tell it to us Canadians, if you can bear the sound of 31 million people laughing their heads off. We have a national, public radio-TV network--it is the CBC, and it is more vigorous and objective, for all its taxpayer funding, than all the major commercial networks combined! We also don't have term limits for our prime ministers. And we have a War Measures Act, which has seldom been invoked, and which looks a lot like the emergency provision Chavez is currently trying to add to the Venezuelan constitution. We are still, in spite of all that, a democracy. How 'bout them apples...

I hear that President Lula of Brazil recently decreed a national TV channel, too. To counterbalance the far-right commercial station Globo, yet. If you're going to complain about Chavez not renewing a frequently law-breaking channel's licence (hello, RCTV!) and handing its former frequency to a start-up public channel, you might also want to kvetch about Lula, just for the sake of fairness. Oh, and how 'bout that oh-so-democratic Alan Garcia of Peru? He suspended a couple of channels for broadcasting unflattering but true news about himself...and I hear nobody here complaining about him. Funny how some things are only bad when a Hugo Chavez does them! (Surely all that oil he's sitting on has nothing to do with it; Peru and Brazil, though they have some oil, are both pipsqueaks by comparison.)

BTW, for those who think Chavez is a communist dictator (or trying to be one) just for being friends with Fidel Castro: Again, you're all wet. We had a prime minister, Pierre Trudeau, who had a nationalized oil program, and was also friends with Castro. His conservative enemies may have tried to tar him with the commie brush, but nothing stuck. Trudeau remained a democrat--and a Liberal. And a thorn in the side of Richard Nixon, to boot. And at Trudeau's funeral in 2000, Fidel attended...and sat right beside Jimmy Carter, who was also Trudeau's friend. Funny how three so dramatically different men were nevertheless able to get along well together. When I see Chavez befriending Fidel, I just see another Trudeau.

Finally, there is nothing in Chavez's actions to suggest a real move toward dictatorship. As has been pointed out here repeatedly, Chavez is elected, and every law he put to a public vote, won by a landslide. The 1999 constitution was written by an elected assembly and then ratified by popular vote, and the reforms Chavez has just completed will be voted on by all the people--and if they reject 'em, those reforms will not stand. Actually, Fidel recently told Evo Morales (president of Bolivia) to follow Chavez's example--because Chavez went the democratic route. Fidel Castro admitted that he made a mistake in placing limits on democracy in Cuba (there IS some, but it doesn't extend to the presidency).

Again--how 'bout them apples?

I find it difficult to call Chavez a dictator when he was elected democratically. The elections were observed by the UN, EU, USA and others including international journalists. If the constitution is changed, it is done in parliament with a lawfully elected government. The elections in Venezuela were not stolen. Blacks were not turned away from the polls or sent to polls where they were not found on the voters lists. There were not shads, nor pregnant shads. Votes were not found discarded in garbage bags, and finally a conservative republican Supreme Court did not declare Chavez, President of Venezuela.

America has its own problems which it brought on itself. It should take its nose out of sovereign states and pick at it own navel.

Rosa,

I'm really not commenting on Mr Martinez, what I am commenting on are the events in Venezuela and yr contention that the gov is a "democracy". Democracies do not make it a habit of nationalizing radio and TV. The countries that do this are usually communist totalitarian or fascist i.e Cuba ,China , Russia. You can clearly see in the US how democracy works. Bush nor the US gov own the TV stations or the newspapers. Many newspapers and TV commentators dislike Bush and are free to comment at will against him. How often can that happen in Venezuela ? I'm sure its much fewer then it used to be. You I think are a fair minded person who is looking for a fair leader, but what I dont think you see is the danger in the road the Mr Chavez is travelling. Each day that goes by, he consolidates his power, it is a familiar pattern . We have seen it with mao, Fidel, Stalin, Franco, Hitler etc. He is a dangerous man when it comes to democracy, but I think your a bit lost in all his wild promises of equality and ruling for the people by the people.If you check the history books, Mr Chavez's actions and character mimic the precursor to the the dangerous communists/socialists of the past decades. In the end the people pay dearly, sadly , they never see the danger until its too late. I read about Chavez's peoples militia. You know this people's militis could never stand up to any real invasion, so what is its purpose?, to cow and intimidate those who oppose Chavez in Venezuela.
Every totalitarian reginme has a "people's militia". Cant you see what the man is doing ? it is sad that after communism's fall, many still will run to its deadly embrace. I think the former Eastern European countries can tell much to the people of Venezuela. Democracy is fading fast for Venezuelans

Go Chavez! USA could learn a thing or two about democracy from Venezuela.

Couldn't have said it better. Completely agree, scary!

Alex says: “A true democracy has a vigorous opposition” I wonder Alex if you don’t think Mr. Martinez represent a strong opposition. Although, he portraits himself as independent he is not, and I bet he knows it. When Mr. Martinez says that he doesn’t longer write for “Tal Cual” –witch was one of the most emblematic opposition newspapers- he is attempting to present himself to his English readers as the true independent thinker he is not. I lived in the USA, I worked there and I learned to admire the rigor of the US press.
Alex: Have you lived and worked in Venezuela? Have you experience both “media cultures”: US and Venezuelan? It amazes me how freely the media here in Venezuela, can miss inform well intentioned people, how inaccurate they are and how they get away with it.
I have seen opposition leaders inviting TV viewers to kill a democratically elected president. I never saw that in the Estates.
How do you know what you are reading from the Venezuelan main stream media is true? I invite you just to challenge what Mr. Martinez is saying. The fact that Mr. Martinez distant himself from President Bush administration and that he distant himself from “Tal Cual”, doesn’t tell me he is objective. It tells me he is trying to look objective to the Washington Post readers.

Mr. Martinez: THANK YOU!

Le debo un agradecimiento público, desde hace ya bastante tiempo, a la oposición intelectual del chavismo. Muchos de sus escritores, la mayoría, creo, han ejercido y ejercen, una enorme influencia en mi pensamiento y accionar político.
A intelectuales que van desde el famoso Mario Vargas Llosa, hasta oscuros columnistas de periódicos de provincia que asumen roles de sesudos analistas para atacar con ferocidad al gobierno bolivariano de Venezuela, debo en gran parte, la fuerza de las convicciones raigales y el aquilatamiento y claridad de mis propias ideas.
A la pléyade de estos pensadores de la derecha internacional, nacional o local, a quienes debo agradecer su contribución a ello, debo agregar ahora, en sitio de honor, al dramaturgo de origen venezolano, Ibsen Martínez, columnista del “Washington Post”, muy en especial por su artículo Risk of Worl War III? Music to Mr. Chavez`Ears, en el que “critica” al actual presidente estadounidense por considerar que su discurso planteando la posibilidad de una III Guerra Mundial es “música para los oídos de Chávez”.
El dramaturgo de origen sudamericano, como ya apuntamos, no asume como pudiera pensarse de un hombre de los círculos de la cultura y el humanismo, una posición pacifista y en contra del horror inimaginable de lo que pudiera ser una guerra en el tercer milenio. No, Ibsen Martínez, reprocha el discurso belicista del presidente Bush, porque en este momento, tal discurso le es conveniente internacionalmente al gobierno de su país de origen. Los términos del “desacuerdo” de Ibsen con el mandatario estadounidense son por no intervenir de manera más ejemplarizante (¡!) en contra de Chávez , es decir, por no invadir militarmente a Venezuela, y pasan por explicar que ello, desde tal punto de vista, es una papaya, facilito pues, ya que el ejercito de reservistas, por ejemplo, no pasa de ser una cuerda de cerveceros viejos, amamantados por el gobierno, que arrastran sus pies en sus cómicas y risibles prácticas de guerra.
Bombardeado mediaticamente como casi todos, no puedo decir que soy inmune a las técnicas de desinformación y manipulación. No obstante he conseguido mantener mis convencimientos bolivarianos, gracias, muchas veces, paradójicamente, al desmedido entreguismo y cobardía de gran parte de la intelectualidad opositora venezolana.

27/10/2007

Great article Mr. Martinez.

Hugo Chavez is doing his best for what he sees will serve his people best. It might be wrong in some ways.

In contrast to...

George Bush is attempting to do what is best of the corporate heads of the United States of America. It might be the wrong way of handling things.

Hopefully, people throughout the world understand that the media, more and more, do not represent how the American people feel. As the days pass, much of the American media is more like that of a fascist state.

CNN reported, today, that FEMA staged a fake news conference. The people calling into the suddenly announced press conference were not actually journalists. Rather, they were FEMA employees.

Chertoff, the head of Homeland Security called a press conference to condemn the ruse... said he was upset and will sort it out. The apology press conference organizers contacted ONLY the AP. No other press outlet had been contacted.

Attention to Hugo... Bush is a thing of the past. The media has appointed Hillary Clinton the next President. If Mr. Chavez is going to stay ahead of the curve, he best contact Mrs. Bill Clinton and get the negotiations rolling.

I agree. Great article!

Mr. Martinez, excellent article.....and 10 points for your response

as always very realistic

Mr Martinez:

Dimik's comment just goes to show the intellectual stupidity of left-wing Americ these days. Whatever happened to our good old left????!!

E.A.

Rosa writes:The fact is that most Venezuelans voted for Hugo Chavez for president and keep on voting and the opposition has failed to prove that Venezuelans is not a true democracy.

Well Rosa, a true democracy has a vigorous opposition. If you look at the United States, the media has virtually free reign, the gov does not silence opponents nor operates a secret police that takes people away and does not take over TV stations. Venezuela no doubt started as a democracy but surely you can see what it is slowly turning into? Do you think that the forthcoming elections in Cuba are a joke, many in the civilized world do, is Cuba a democracy ? Unfortunately Venezuela is slowly but surly turning into a Cuba.
I'm surprised that you live in this country, which is a true democracy, yet think Venezuela is the same. You need to be honest about what a real democracy is and then compare it to Chavez's actions. Chavez will prove you wrong, he will be in power for a very very very long time.

Dimik72: Your apologies mean a lot to me since I am always suspicious of the motivations of any media. Readers should be suspicious of both media and commentators too, and that's Ok with me. As to comparisons, come to think of it, they seldom shed light on anything and should be used sparingly. If brought into any argument, the writer should clearly qualify what he means and I didn't. I forgot this rule-of-thumb. My apologies.

OK liberals! All together now:

Bush bad, Bush bad, Bush bad

Feel better now?

I will apologize for misrepresenting the author's opinions on the coup of 2002. I would in fact aplaud such courage. I am not sure I see the point in the comparison of Le monde with the papers mantioned in his bio. Le Monde has no supported Pinochet and comparing democratically elected leaders or others rising through toppling of long standing dictatorships with Pinochet is certainly not an accurate depiction of reality.

Yet, let me restate the apology.

I hope that the writer is as suspicious of the motivations of the Post and other US free media in highlighting whatever is going on in Venezuela. I would, as anyone welcome critique and light on Chavez's actions. I am, however, skeptical of the medium (that being the post) and as a result I am possibly unduly harsh of the message.

The same way as Mr. Ibsen Martinez finds “untimely and distressing” President Bush’s remarks on Iran’s war. I find I.M.’s words both: “untimely and distressing” but most of all inaccurate.
I.M.’s words are obviously pretending to represent the majority of Venezuelans. When he says “Every one down here” “there is a widespread conviction among most Venezuelans” he proofs my point.
The fact is I.M.’s words represent a minority of Venezuelans: an heterogeneous group that opposes Chavez and is called the opposition. Mr. Martinez is a well known intellectual and this is why his words concern me enough to white back. I won’t extend myself listing how many times the majority of Chavez supporters have won elections in Venezuela. The fact is that most Venezuelans voted for Hugo Chavez for president and keep on voting and the opposition has failed to prove that Venezuelan’s is not a true democracy. I also believed that Mr. Martinez, being a journalist, and a well known intellectual there, knows those facts but chooses to ignore them. There is when his words become one more thing: Misleading.
As a Venezuelan woman, who lived and worked as a teacher in Nashville TN I learned to admire the rigor I saw in the media when it came to prove the facts: You pretty much can say anything but you have to back it up. That is precisely what Mr. Martinez is not doing with the Washington Post readers. His words being inaccurate can be misleading for the American people. I wish Martinez words were responsible and represented not only the oppositionist intellectuals that have access to the most prestigious newspapers, but the majority that supports a democratically elected president.

Hello World! and especially to the Developing Nations!

The real terrible facts found on this present world to all to view and think as:

Fact-1: China and Russia are two most terrible and most treacherous and harmful nations sitting in UNSC, exploiting this organization inhumanly and dangerously to flare up, initiate and promote devastations to several nations, and to influence, convince, condone and support the world criminals and tyrants, especially those naive and mindless nations (i.e., Syria, Iran, Sudan, Venezuela, Burma, N. Korea, etc.,) to practice violence of all sorts, domestically and globally, and all acting like their Russia and China terrorizing communist masters such as: Iran, Syria, N. Korea, Burma, Venezuela, Central Asian nations, etc., to follow their brutal violences, lawless and uncivilized ways to run their terrorizing businesses at home and to other nations!

Fact-2: Iran, the land of fanatic terrors and terrorists that relentlessly loves to apply the murderous deeds and efforts to devastate other nations and including its own unfortunate brainwashed citizens, who suddenly turn themselves naively from harmless innocents previously into the present very blood-thirsty crazy murderers and terrorists! as proven worldwide!

These Fact-1 and Fact-2 are the main ingredients to boil up this world and all unfortunate nations and their citizens have directly and indirectly become infested by these world diseases caused by the both offending, very bloodly communist Russia, China and the mindless and shallow-minded followers as shown to the world that the unfortunate and foolish tyrants have volunteerly become slaves for their China and/or Russia or both masters in order to be able to exploit all resources and lives in their own nations!

The problem partly is due to this world is full with naive and mindless and have-no-value tyrants who are very easily to be corrupted by their masters, that these naive tyrants have forcibly gained controls their own nations and have deadly opportunities be able to enslave and devastate their own innocent citizens like animals and no-more-and-no-less than the millions of suffered animals in this world today!. And sadly, these very little valuable UN and UNSC can do nothing to help them while the both harmful and treacherous China and Russia that only want them to die in suffering, in torturing of all sorts in their own lands as the entire world have seen for years!
In essence, the entire mindless nations ruled by their own bloody, iron-fisted tyrants these devastating folks are nothing more than the volunteered victims for both China and Russia!, and unfortunately, only China and Russia can harvest all benefits greedily for themselves at the cost of millions of innocents suffering mentally and physically and endlessly as seen by all mankind!
And these are the very sad things of human misery that all mankind have to see in the days in and days out in several unfortunate nations where people here should deserve the better lives instead of valueless life of the slaves or born to be automatically become slaves as seen!

Thanks and have a good weekend to all!

Kevin Schmidt writes:"Instead you parrot the propaganda of a fascist, imperialist war profiteering and criminal administration."

-Reminds me of the communist rhetoric of the 60's "imperialist running dog" etc. You'd think that after the massive failure of communist and socialist countries + the deaths of tens of millions under socialist communist regimes that leftist dinosaurs like Kevin would be extinct, but no, they still exist. I can only smile and laugh at the language being used, its sad how even with the incredible evidence of how socialist and communist regimes end up , they still have supporters, its just amazing. Very sad for the Venezuelans, they are a hard working industrious people with great wealth, now this communist idiot takes over, very sad indeed. Venezuelans not only have to fight Hugo, but the Kevins of the world.

Martinez whines, "Still, I wonder why should an independent columnist be deemed guilty of being just a pawn of the owners of the paper that runs his opinions?"

Because you are a stenographer lapdog.

That's not an ad hominem, that's just an accurate observation. The Freudian slip was "the owners of the paper that runs his opinions." If you ran your own opinion in WaPoo, then you would be considered to be an independent columnist. Instead you parrot the propaganda of a fascist, imperialist war profiteering and criminal administration.