So the latest from Hugo Chávez is that he added Oliver Stone to the list of useful idiots who applaud him. Who do we have on our side (referring to the field of the rule of law and those who support democracy)? Let’s keep score, okay? We have:
Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, The European Union, Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, Sweden (and basically every country that sees the FARC narcoguerrillas from Colombia as a terrorist organization), the United States, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control, U.S. Government Accountability Office, International Labour Organization, The Church, WaPo, NYT, The Guardian, El País, Le Monde… and now, Robert Morgenthau.
Meanwhile, Hugo has the aforementioned clowns and:
Robert Mugabe, Fidel Castro, Aleksandr Lukashenko, Vladimir Putin, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Muammar Gaddafi, FARC, Omar al-Bashir, The Kirchners, and Bashar al-Assad among other governments that support terrorism outside the Andes.
Hugo has military muscle, no doubt. He is friends with almost all rebel organizations, fundamentalists, dictators, and terrorists, certainly. But he lacks credibility. What about his associates, are they any more credible?
Now, should we be concerned about some propaganda film by Stone, or should the Bolivarian Transnational Crime Groups come up with creative financial architecture to triangle the flow of illegal or stolen funds to allied countries, after Morgenthau’s warning on money laundering in Venezuela? There’s a precedent of him catching some Venezuelan criminals in the past…
Hat tip: Pedro B.