that Condoleeza Rice, of the Kill and Torture Regime, was visiting Michele Batchelet, one of Pinochet's torture victims who is now the new socialist president of Chile.
How Batchelet views all this, I can't imagine. Condi would just as soon torture her again, and dump her 'disappeared' body out of an airplane over the Pacific, as negotiate with her. That's who Condi is. Ms. Ghoul, in league with the Dark Lords.
I don't know what "free trade" has done for Chile. It's blighted most of the rest of South and Central America. Has Batchelet traded Venezuela for higher sweatshop wages and maybe bathroom privileges for the workers? I hope not.
I hope she is shrewd and clever and independent. I hope she says, "Sure, Mr. Bush, sir, we'll help vote Venezuela out of its rightful temporary seat on the Security Council, which all General Assembly countries are entitled to, from time to time, if you will disclose all your secret prisoners, stop torturing them, publicly disavow torture, and grant Geneva Convention rights to all detained persons--and also turn over the terrorist, Luis Posada Carriles, who is wanted in Venezuela for the bombing of Cubana Flight 455, in which 73 people were killed, who was on the CIA payroll at the time, and whom you are protecting in a Texas jail."
That wouldn't be such a bad bargain. Chavez might even approve. (Well...).
Or maybe she has some Pinochet henchmen hiding out in the United States, whom she would like to see extradited back to Chile.
I would LOVE to see Hugo Chavez staring down the "torture and kill" nose of John "death squad" Bolton in the UN Security Council. Security Council meetings might become fun again. Can you just imagine it? Well, Condi for sure has been. That's their CHIEF INTEREST in South America???!!! Keeping Venezuela--whose elections have been approved of by the OAS, the Carter Center and EU election monitoring groups, as among the cleanest elections on earth--OUT OF the UN Security Council???!!!
Har-har! Well, DON'T DO IT, MICHELLE! RESIST! NO DEVIL'S BARGAIN, PLEASE! But if you do, make it a HARD bargain!
And watch your back at those White House functions! Killers and torturers, every one.
Yeeesh! It gives me the heebeejeebees!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubana_Flight_455Cubana Flight 455 was a Cubana de Aviación flight departing from Barbados, via Trinidad, to Cuba. On October 6, 1976 two timebombs variously described as dynamite or C-4 planted on the Douglas DC-8 aircraft exploded, killing all 73 people on board in the most deadly commercial airlines incident in the Western hemisphere until the September 11, 2001 attacks. Evidence implicated several CIA-linked anti-Castro Cuban exiles and members of the Venezuelan secret police DISIP. Political complications quickly arose when Cuba accused the US government of being an accomplice to the attack. CIA documents released in 2005 indicate that the agency had prior knowledge that the bombing was going to take place.
Four men were arrested in connection with the bombing: Freddy Lugo and Hernan Ricardo Lozano were sentenced to 20-year prison terms, Orlando Bosch was acquitted because of technical defects in the prosecution evidence, and now lives in Miami, Florida, and Luis Posada Carriles escaped from prison and eventually fled to the United States, where he is currently being held on charges of entering the country illegally as of April 2006.
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