Spain has "full confidence" that Venezuela will collaborate in the fight against the terrorists on its payroll
Just a couple of days after Spanish newspaper ABC noted that a second high profile ETA sympathizer, José Antonio Egido Sigüenza, is also on the Venezuelan government's payroll, a Spanish government spokesman reaffirms Spain's "full confidence" that Venezuela will cooperate in the fight against ETA.
Egido Sigüenza - whose day job is as a paleomarxist academic at the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry's Institute of Higher Diplomatic Studies - was one of 40 Batasuna members accused by Spain's Public Prosecution service in 2008 of "subordination to ETA," after a police investigation that lasted almost six years. He was barred from participating in local elections in the Basque Country last year due to his documented ties with ETA. (Which, obviously, hasn't barred him from getting invites to TeleSUR.)
So lets review the bidding: Spain has "full confidence" that a government which won't even stop paying terrorists and their sympathizers a salary every month is going to collaborate fully in the fight against them. The Moratinos Doctrine never looked more schizophrenic.
Pathetic.
Juan Cristobal
Francisco Toro
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Just as you said a few days ago
Quico, as you said a few days ago, there are too many spanish corporate interest in Venezuela.
As they said 'por la plata bailaa el mono'
Sadly that's the reality of the world, money trumps all
Billete mata galan.
Galan con
Billete mata galan.
Galan con billete mata todo.
Of course, but there's a question of dignity...
Chávez is specifically humiliating Spain by forcing Spanish spokesmen to make statements that are, on their face, insane. And Moratinos just takes it!
I hope they pay a steep political price for this. When you hop in bed with people who coddle terrorists, you're going to get fucked up the ass.
This title belongs in Chiguire Bipolar
That single line informs, mocks, entertains and summarizes the issue succinctly.
:)
Thx!
Not wanted by Spain
The ABC article states that "Egido no tenga causas pendientes con la Justicia española" so what is the fuzz about?
The fuss is....
It's called "trial by the media" where the media are the accusers, judge , jury and executioner....
It is gonna be interesting to see how Venezuela handles any arrest order or extradition request for Arturo Cubillas. He cannot be extradited since he is a Venezuelan citizen (see 1999 Consitution) ....and so what if there is damning proof that he did conspire to kill Pastrana or Uribe in Spain?
Look at this link of Judge Velasco giving VIP treatment to Raúl Reyes in 2000. Now I wonder what Judge Velasco was doing greeting FARC terrorists when he was head of justice in the Generalitat de Valencia? Anyone?
http://www.pascualserrano.net/noticias/el-juez-que-implica-a-chavez-con-...
So what? That was 10 years
So what? That was 10 years ago.
So does that mean that all who have met with say, Fidel or Mugabe, they cannot bring a judicial action later against them?
I read the article linked. There is no indication of what was discussed, what the purpose of the meeting was or who said what to whom.
So, no news there, just gossip.
Roberto N
Double standards
So, Spanish authorities can meet with FARC and that's OK? My impression is that Valencia could have been funding FARC in some way, as Chavez allegedly does even though there is no evidence except in news reports. A terrorist is a terrorist whether it is now or 10 years ago. BTW and so that you know neither Fidel nor Mugabe are classified as terrorists, unsavory as they both are.
ETA is a very sensitive issue in Spain and Lula's nutties
Chavez will not collaborate and in the end Zapatero and Moratinos will have to pay for it.
Meanwhile Lula called Chavez and Ahmadinejad "nutties"
http://en.mercopress.com/2010/03/15/lula-da-silva-refers-to-ahmadinejad-...
The Onion
The Onion couldn't have done a better send up of Chavez than mercopress! Thanks for the link. That made my day!
Paleo-Marxism
I don't feel any shame in saying I had never heard the term before, so I just had to look it up. Apparently, it is a way to revive Marxist ideology in spite of its unbroken string of failures in practice. It appears that the Paleo-Marxist says that all of the previous Marxists got it wrong because they just didn't understand what the "Great Man" was really saying. If we just implement Marx's social theories properly, than the political and economic theories will work correctly.
Which is pretty much the same as saying that if we can just get a chicken to swim, then it can be a duck.
And they call Sociology a "Science"... What a crock!
When you least expect it . . .
And in other news, sources from Madrid say that Franco may not still be dead after all.