March 3, 2008 (LPAC)-Lyndon LaRouche noted that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has "gone a little bit wild" with his March 1 threats against Colombia, and that he is "sucking for a catastrophe" in the region by what he is doing. Ever since Chavez explicitly defended the British operation to sink the dollar and the United States with it, back in November of last year, and called for "revolutionary forces" across South America to hit the U.S. flank, he has shifted policy, LaRouche explained. Chavez has played directly into the British Empire's current attempt to bring down the U.S. and destroy the world with chaos and war in every part of the world. In so doing, he is also setting himself up for a British-sponsored assassination, LaRouche again warned.
Chavez responded wildly to the Colombian military's killing of Raul Reyes, the second-in-command of the FARC cocaine cartel, and 16 other terrorists, with an air raid apparently on Ecuadorian territory, near the Colombian border, where the FARC leaders were encamped. In his March 1 radio and TV address, Chavez responded by announcing that he was closing the Venezuelan embassy in Colombia and withdrawing all personnel, and he ordered that thousands of troops, tanks, and planes be sent immediately to the border with Colombia:
"Mr. Defense Minister, move 10 battalions to the border with Colombia for me, immediately, tank battalions; deploy the air force," Chavez announced on national TV. "This is something very serious. This could be the start of a war in South America." Chavez went on to warn Colombian President Alvaro Uribe: "If it occurs to you to do this in Venezuela, President Uribe"-- referring to the cross-border raid which killed the top FARC terrorists--"I'll send some Sukhois" [the Russian warplanes recently bought by Venezuela].
Chavez went on to characterize the fallen Raul Reyes--best known for his 1999 jungle embrace with the visiting head of the New York Stock Exchange Richard Grasso, in which they cemented a relationship for "mutual investments" between the drug cartel and Wall Street--as "a true revolutionary, a good revolutionary," and called for a minute of silence in his memory. He described President Uribe as "a criminal lapdog" of Washington, saying "Dracula's fangs [are] covered in blood." He went on to call for the overthrow of the Uribe government, which he characterized as a "terrorist state," saying "we have to liberate Colombia."
