Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently stated, what U.S.-Venezuelan relations comes down to, is “what kind of hemisphere is this going to be? Is it going to be a hemisphere that is democratic and that is prosperous and where neighbours get along, where neighbours don’t interfere in each other’s affairs, where people fight drug trade and fight terrorism together actively?”
These neo-cons really don’t do irony, do they? The United States has spent decades training reactionary right-wing military leaders for some of the most despotic regimes in central and Latin America out of their terrorist training camps at Fort Benning in Georgia. Now they have the barefaced cheek to accuse the most progressive regime in the region, Chavez’s Venezuela, of "interfering in each other’s affairs".
Well, Condoleezza, there is one terrorist trained at Fort Benning and well known to Daddy Bush when he was the Director of the CIA, namely Luis Posada Carriles, who the Venezuelan authorities would seriously appreciate a bit of that good neighbourly co-operation over. Strangely, the Bush regime seems content to allow lying dogs to sleep.
