This is an article on a situation that is personal for me. My Step dad is Colombian, I am close with his family and I have visited Colombia many times. President Alvaro Uribe has turned that nation around, he’s reduced crime, improved the economy and has crushed the Progressive Movement in Colombia. Colombia is a staunch US ally and is allowing us to use their bases for Drug interdiction. However American Progressives despise him because he modernized his nation through Free Market means, they prefer Venezuela which is a Progressive Regime. The Tyrant of Venezuela is not an American ally and he wants to dominate our Southern Flank , it is time to confront him!
In early September, Colombia’s biggest businesses surprised everyone by declaring their wholehearted support for the country’s president, Alvaro Uribe, in his deepening conflict with Venezuela. If they lost the huge export market next door, well, that would simply be too bad.
For the first time, Colombian exporters of just about everything Venezuela buys, from toilet paper to gasoline, fruit and vegetables, and milk and meat, gave their president the green light to confront Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, instead of continuing to turn the other cheek, as they had been pressing him to do in the eight years since Uribe took office.
Venezuela had become a magnificent business opportunity for Colombian exporters. It produces next to nothing anymore (except oil), has a highly subsidised official exchange rate, and wields huge sums of petrodollars with which it can buy up everything in sight. While Colombia’s authorities were forced to deal with Chávez’s frequent insults, interventions in Colombia’s internal affairs, massive arms purchases, and diplomatic tantrums, the business community profited and pressured the government to compromise. Until now, that is what the government did.
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Chavez with his Petro money is destabilizing Latin America by installing Progressive Regimes via elections. He also supports Progressive parties who are trying to seize power in the Latin countries. Hugo is a menace not just to his neighbors, but to America as well. Colombia is the only nation in South America ready to confront this Totalitarian Progressive Tyrant and we should back them. However, Obama himself is a Progressive and his allies control Congress. He will probably back-stab Colombia to please Chavez and American Progressives.
It is a sad day when America stops backing its allies to please its enemies. Colombia is a great nation with wonderful people, they deserve our support. Again, this is personal for me, and I hope America does the right thing. Sadly with Obama in charge I can’t have that hope.
Tags: Alvaro Uribe, Colombia, Hugo Chavez
