Posted on 01/12/2005 5:58:14 PM PST by Kitten Festival
We are going to let go for a while the Anderson case to occupy ourselves with the other political scandal, the one of Granda, the affable "chancellor" of the FARC. This appears to have the façade of pure theater, by both sides. Granda was detained here, by Venezuelan police, and handed over to the Colombian police....
Our hypothesis is that for some reason that this very opaque government will never make public, the presence of the guerrilla chief got uncomfortable for the executive and, in the framework of the new relationship that has developed between Chávez and Uribe ("I swear that I never have supported nor I will support the FARC." Remember? Chávez said this not so long ago, in the last interview with his counterpart on the other side, the government of Venezuela decided to get rid of him, handing him over to Colombia.) The rage of the FARC, expressed officially through its Web page, is comprehensible. They consider themselves ... betrayed.
Afterwards, each actor, particularly ours, carried out his role. For Uribe it is easier. He does not have to explain anything....
...But Chávez has another class of problems.
He is "ideological". He has everything on the left from "Assholes without borders", typical revolutionary tourists who were here recently, to his own demolishers of statues.
To neither of these it can fit in their head that a government who is said to be revolutionary can play such a dirty trick on a "comrade." That the kids from “Aporrea" or some young historian do not understand this may happen, but that an old man like Chomsky ... it is a little bit too much. But this class of people exists, and Chávez has to give them some sort of explanation.
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