Posted on 04/02/2010 11:17:40 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
CARACAS, Venezuela — Russia has offered to help Venezuela set up its own space industry, including a satellite launch site, as Prime Minister Vladimir Putin made his first visit to the South American country on Friday.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced Russia's offer before Putin arrived, saying officials would discuss the possibility of setting up a "satellite launcher and a factory."
The two countries are also discussing new weapons deals, Chavez said Thursday night in televised remarks, without giving details.
Chavez has built close ties with Russia, buying more than $4 billion in Russian weapons since 2005, including helicopters, fighter jets and 100,000 Kalashnikov rifles.
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Note the “red” tie.
He needs some lead salad in his pumpkin head.
is that Obama, the soldier second from the left?
Chavez has been a caricature up to this point, but this is starting to get serious and dangerous. Putin has steadily been re-creating the USSR and destroying the liberties that Russians have gained since the USSR fell.
If Russia succeeds in gaining a toehold in S.A., it places him and his bombers and missiles in range of the U.S. and we could see another Cuban missile crisis in our future . . . . . only this time, I don’t think Putin will blink.
Chavez is nuts, but Putin is dangerous. We need to pay close attention to this development.
Deja Vue from the Soviet involvement in our hemisphere in the eighties—Cuba, Grenada, & Nicaragua!
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