WikiLeaks: US made efforts to isolate Chávez

[Bacchus39]

Some of the confidential diplomatic communications leaked by WikiLeaks show "efforts to woo Latin American countries to isolate Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez", Spanish newspaper El País said.

The whistleblower website disclosed 1,000 documents on Venezuela, the Spanish newspaper said.

In a communication between French and US diplomatic sources in September 2009, Jean-David Levitte, a French official, described Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez as "crazy" and said that "Brazil was not able to support him anymore."

"Unfortunately, Chávez is taking one of Latin America's richest countries and turning it into another Zimbabwe," Levitte said in a telegram disclosed by British newspaper The Guardian.

http://english.eluniversal.com/2010/11/29/en_pol_esp_wikileaks:-us-made-e_29A4789617.shtml

[bemildred]

1. Another stunning revelation.

One thing that is quite noticeable in the cable release is the tendency of diplomats to confuse their own wishes and intentions with facts.

[EFerrari]

4. Noam Chomsky called it "the bitter hatred of democracy"

these people display in the cables and he said that may be the most significant revelation so far.

None of them like him, either. lol

[Zorro]

2. Dang

Who'da thunk the US would have the temerity to attempt to isolate a self-declared adversary?

[Bacchus39]

3. was this the "racist" statement do you think??? n/t

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[Zorro]

6. Let me state for the record

I am not a Duckist.

[social_critic]

7. Crazy Gringos

I would have been more interested in all this brouhaha if they had some emails discussing something interesting. I guess this gives us an insight: most diplomats spend their time feeding bs and gossip back to the head office.

[social_critic]

5. El Pais is so perceptive

I read El Pais, but they sure sound naive. I suppose they expected to find cables explaining how the US government wants Chavez to have more influence in Latin America, and exchanges between US diplomants discussing their masochist tendencies and how they love it when Chavez insults the US government.

So far this Wikileaks leak is no news. Everything is as expected. And anybody who expected different has to have their head in the clouds (to be polite).