"Mysterious" Visit of Venezuelan Officials [to Puerto Rico]

El Vocero de Puerto Rico (Spanish-language article) ^ | July 16, 2008 | Yamilet Millán Rodríguez

[Ebenezer]

ping

Negotiating with Chávez’s government? Talk about playing with fire!

[ken21]

hey!

they can have pr.

who cares?

no 51st democrat state for us.

[Ron Jeremy]

Good.. let’s kick PR out of our country.

[theDentist]

OK, but we keep Vieques as a firing range....

[Non-Sequitur]

OK, but we keep Vieques as a firing range....

Too late. We shut that down several years ago.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Uh, isn’t Puerto Rico a U.S. Territory, under authority of the U.S. govnerment?

[HankArcher]

They want to kiss Chavez’s ass?

Let them have their freedom from the US, then.

Remove all the welfare and subsidies they receive, now!

Give Puerto Ricans in this country the choice of remaining US citizens or a free trip to the new marxist paradise.

[cll]

Fungible ignorance funnies of the day!

Puerto Rico Ping! Please Freepmail me if you want on or off the list.

[theDentist]

We re-open it by surprise then. ;-)

[mad_as_he$$]

1. PR will never be a State.

2. PR will never be "owned" by any other country.

3. PR is the home of the real headquarters of the IRS. It is also incorporated in PR.

[dfwgator]

Great, now where am I going to get my Mofongo from?

[ken21]

the irs is incorporated in pr?

where’s your source?

that’s rich!

[Non-Sequitur]

Nah, far better that the Navy washed its hands of Puerto Rico entirely. The surprise for them was that when they closed down Vieques, that left the base at Roosevelt Roads without any real purpose so they closed that down, too. Much to the dismay of those who had been demanding an end to the live fire range. I guess they didn’t connect the dots.

[theDentist]

Really? I don’t recall that, but that must’ve burnt a few backsides.

[ladyjane]

IIRC a couple of Kennedys and the usual cast of characters held demonstrations down there. For what? I guess to keep the money coming into the area but keep the military out. That’s logical thinking for those looking for handouts all the time.

[Non-Sequitur]

Really? I don’t recall that, but that must’ve burnt a few backsides.

Oh yeah. It fell under the 'beware of what you wish for' category. The very same people demanding the shutting of Vieques were suddenly up in arms over the job losses when Roosevelt Roads shut down.

[Ebenezer]

That’s right. I don’t know, however, how much power the island has to do this type of negotiating without the intervention of the federal government.

[milky]

"Petrocaribe is an initiative by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez to allow Caribbean countries to buy up to 185,000 barrels of oil per day at preferential prices through an Energy Cooperation Agreement.",/i> A lot of Latin and Caribbean countries are saying "no" to Hugo. Most can see it for the blatant attempt to curry favour and garner an aura of respectability and support that it actually is...

[cll]

This is all election year posturing. The PR Electric Power Authority has always been able to buy fuel from all over the world. However, the EPA told it that the Venezuelan fuel was too dirty and they can’t use that anymore.

Also, the PR goverment owns no refineries, so how the heck do they expect to “lower the price at the gasoline pump” by buying Venezuelan oil? If PR buys Venezuelan oil, they would just have to sell it to Gulf Caribe or to Sunoco for refining, no?

Again, this is all hogwash.