Should the US support Venezuelan Rebels?

[Grasshopp3r]

With the recent closure of one and likely closure of the other major TV network in Venezuela, should the US give support to the rebels? What sort of support?

[Grasshopp3r]

Personally, I think that Hugo must go and the sooner, the better. At this point, I don't think that it will be that difficult to topple his government and defeat the Venezuelan armed forces. Plus, there are plenty of interested foreign oil companies that will allow for worldwide support for such as move. I see this as another Noriega situation.

[iron81]

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Personally, I think that Hugo must go and the sooner, the better.

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What has he done to hurt anyone outside of Venezuela and the oil companies whose assets he seized?

[AzDesertRat]

I guess the Middle East doesn't provide many lessons to some people here. Let them sort their [censored] out and we will go from there.

Blowback people

[Grasshopp3r]

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Blowback people

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How about WWI or WWII or any other war? What happened after Noriega? Blowback is a weak argument. We don't need to dismember the millitary, like what we did in Iraq.

[AzDesertRat]

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Blowback people

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How about WWI or WWII or any other war? What happened after Noriega? Blowback is a weak argument. We don't need to dismember the millitary, like what we did in Iraq.

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I was actually referring to Iran, not Iraq.

[Bremen]

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Personally, I think that Hugo must go and the sooner, the better.

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What has he done to hurt anyone outside of Venezuela and the oil companies whose assets he seized?

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Seriously. Besides which we know what happens when the US puts its nose in and tries to "help" other countries.

[Dan.]

Let's us send in the military. gogogogogogogogo

[Grasshopp3r]

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Personally, I think that Hugo must go and the sooner, the better.

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What has he done to hurt anyone outside of Venezuela and the oil companies whose assets he seized?

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Take your pick.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critici...go_Ch%C3%A1vez

Hugo is a bad dude that eliminates the possibility of a free and prosperous Venezuela.

[bdk3clash]

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Hugo is a bad dude that eliminates the possibility of a free and prosperous Venezuela.

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Chavez being a "bad dude that elminates the possibility of a free" Venezuela is debatable (god only knows what criteria you're using.) In their Index of Economic Freedom analysis of Venezuela, the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal state that Venezuela ranks low in terms of "economic freedom" (as they define it,) so you've got company

But the same report indicates 1.2% 5-year compound annual growth in GDP, including 17.9% (!) growth in 2004 alone. (Granted, these figures should be taken with a grain of salt, given the radical left-wing nature of the sources.) So I'm having a hard time understanding how Chavez "eliminates the possibility of a...prosperous Venezuela." I mean, according to this International Herald Tribue article,

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Economic growth this year [2006] is set to pass 10 percent, making Venezuela's the fastest-growing economy in the Americas.

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Do you have an inside scoop on oil prices plummeting in the near future?