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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
I don't understand the relevance to what I posted.
I'm not defending chavez, I just think it's silly to say his fears of foreign intervention are 'comical'.
Do coup's not happen in South America?
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Intervention can mean a lot of things.
In my original post, I said Chavez's scaremongering around the threat of an "imminent American invasion" was comical. . . . . which it is.
You're the guy who came along later and started talking about coups, a different thing, after which I pointed out Chavez would know all about coups since he participated in one.
Nevertheless, if Chavez follows through on his economic plans, all America probably has to do is wait a requisite amount of time for the Venezuelan economy to cave in . . . . and given the way he is concentrating power to himself, it probably wouldn't be a surprise to see a confluence of all those factors leading to a coup at some point, particularly given the history of the country.
The sad thing is, in a world awash in cash looking for places to invest, where all four corners of the globe are growing in sync for the first time in decades, Venezuela appears to be cutting itself off from access to that cash with nationalization schemes.
Cowperson