[Marxism] Chávez's Promised Hostage Release Fizzles, His Second Major Setback in Weeks

[Néstor Gorojovsky]

Néstor Kirchner, immediately upon return to Argentina, blamed Uribe
and the leadership of the FARC for the failure. Anyway, Uribe kept the
power of the Colombian state in his hands, and his speech at
Villavicencio was a masterpiece of delusion.

He insisted in that there had been "no combats" in the area for 15
days (as if the only military operations imaginable were combats), and
that there might exist a probability that some child in Caracas was
Emanuel.

In this context, the declarations by Kirchner put the greatest burden,
by far, on Uribe's side.

2008/1/2, Walter Lippmann <walterlx en earthlink.net>:
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> THE NEW YORK TIMES
> Chávez's Promised Hostage Release Fizzles, His Second Major Setback in Weeks
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> By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO
> Published: January 2, 2008
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> RIO de JANEIRO — Last week, Venezuela's president, Hugo Chávez, seemed on
> the verge of one of his biggest triumphs to date. Now, amid renewed acrimony
> with the Colombian leader, Álvaro Uribe, he is staring at his second major
> political defeat in just over a month.
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