The Next Fidel

Death squads are reportedly active in 10 of Venezuela's 23 states, in nearly all of which there have been complaints that they carry out their activities in the shadow of the regional police forces. Six police officers in Aragua were arrested in the Diaz case, but none have been tried.

As the 700 Club's Pat Robertson put to words the Christian hymm --
Onward Christian Soldiers.
Marching as to War.
With the Cross of Jesus,
Going On Before.
Christ the Royal Master,
leads against the foe
-- the United Nations acts yet again as a traffic cop on valium;

In Venezuela, there is a kind of social legitimacy for extrajudicial executions…committed by the security forces…Venezuela's murder rate is one of the highest in Latin America, and continues to climb.

Yet,

Venezuela has ratified the United Nations convention against torture as well as other international human rights treaties.

Then how,

When Robert Diaz, a 21-year-old former navy cadet, objected, he was shot several times. The police dragged him out to their car, and drove away. Robert's father and his brother immediately set out for the hospital to look for him ... but, on the way, they reportedly found the police officers torturing Robert in a drainage ditch on the side of the road, and all three were killed by the police. Robert's girlfriend filed a lawsuit based on the results of the autopsy, which found signs of torture as well as mud in his nostrils and mouth that indicated he suffocated in the ditch. After receiving death threats, she was murdered in mid-2003.

I once crossed paths with President Hugo Chavez, on a U.S. State Department assignment in Caracas. Not long after my mission, Chavez's military reacted to the 500,000+ oppostion march, shown above, by firing upon civilians.

Liberals, there is evil in the world. Pat Robertson may shock simply because of the messenger, but his words are correct; Chavez is indeed evil.

Televangelist Calls for Chavez' DeathTuesday

Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson suggested on-air that American operatives assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to stop his country from becoming "a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism."

"We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability," Robertson said Monday on the Christian Broadcast Network's "The 700 Club." "We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator," he continued. "It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with."

"You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it," Robertson said. "It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war ... and I don't think any oil shipments will stop."