Why is Chavez cutting ties with Colombia?
I'm from Venezuela and I can explain you better. First Chavez is losing popularity, he no longer has Bush in the Us presidency, he needs an enemy, he needs to find a way to make people look outside of the country instead of looking inside. Believe it or not many people in my country voted Chavez because they feel he is strong, they feel he is the boss.
You know the way during school times, when people consider the tough guy, the hard guy, the most popular? It's something like that. When Chavez insult people, when Chavez claim that outsiders are a menace, when Chavez ask the people to unite against an external enemy... It's hard to believe, but then many people consider Chavez popular, think about him as "The Boss".
Chavez appeal to the most primitive instincts of people and sadly succeed. On the other hand Chavez claims that it's because Colombia has accepted to have US Military bases in Colombia borders, however if the problem is with the United States, why Chavez keeps selling Oil to the US? It's just an excuse.
Because he is pig headed. He doesn't realize what he is doing and that having all of these foe's will harm him...not help him.
(CNN) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he is preparing to break off diplomatic relations with Colombia over the neighboring country's plan to allow U.S. troops access to its military bases. "It is going to happen," Chavez said on Tuesday in a state broadcast. "We are going to prepare for this, because the Colombian bourgeoisie hates us.
And now, it just isn't possible to make up. No, it is impossible. "The agreement of the seven bases is a declaration of war against the Bolivarian Revolution," Chavez added, referring to his socialist political movement, which he named after 19th-century Venezuelan leader Simon Bolivar.
Relations between the two countries have been tense since Colombia entered into negotiations with the United States to allow its troops to operate from seven bases. Colombia says the troops will tackle drug traffickers and leftist guerillas. And the United States says it needs the bases because Ecuador has ordered the closing of a U.S. installation there.
Chavez says the troops have an ulterior motive: They could be used to unseat him. Three anti-tank weapons seized from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, had been traced to Venezuela, Colombia said earlier this month. FARC has been fighting the Colombian government for more than 45 years.
Chavez, at the time, said the accusation amounted to blackmail. "What a coincidence that this information comes from Colombia one day after we started to raise our voice against the installation of Yankee bases in Colombian territory," Chavez said in a televised news conference. "Of course this is not a coincidence," he said.
"This is the government of Colombia trying to blackmail us." CNN's Esprit Smith contributed to this report.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.
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