Please tell me this is CIA disinformation
Chavez plans to meet Kim Jong-il? Please tell me it ain’t so.
A progressive president with an impeccable democratic mandate who is sincerely attempting to improve the lot of the poor majority of his country plans to visit the leader of a country which is practically the opposite of everything he stands for (ie it has no concept of democracy and is prepared to stamp the poor into the ground in order to maintain its ruling system). What is that about?
I’m all for Chavez attempting to piss off the US administration in whatever way he can. He has every right considering they appear to have been implicated in attempting to overthrow him and they slander him as often as they can. But falling back to the old ‘my enemy’s enemy is my friend’ position is the dumbest trick in the book.
I guess you don’t share the opinion that the DPRK has a socialist system and Chavez does. That’s okay.
Comment by Tony — June 28, 2006 @ 6:09 am
It’s tempting to focus on the personalities of Kim and Chavez… but the broader trend of engagement (to the extent that this is happening) between DPRK and states such as Venezuela is a hopeful development for the welfare of Koreans, in my view.
Comment by Tyree Pride — June 28, 2006 @ 9:50 pm
I was reading the same some days ago in a German(left) newspaper..
Comment by CINA — June 29, 2006 @ 4:01 pm
Y’all do realize that Chavez led a military coup against a democratic government in 1992, don’t you?
Comment by Andy — July 3, 2006 @ 8:22 am
If at first you don’t succeed…
Comment by kotaji — July 6, 2006 @ 9:56 am