Friday, November 23, 2007
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Charges of ‘Traitor’ for Chávez Ally Turned Critic - '..A Roman Catholic, he has been criticized, for instance, over his close friendships with members of this country’s small Jewish community, many of whom are increasingly concerned about Mr. Chávez’s growing alliance with Iran and the government’s tense diplomatic relations with Israel. General Baduel described his outreach to Jews as part of his “ecumenical” beliefs, but some people here have a different view. “He has been captured by the international ultra right wing, by international Zionism,” Tarek William Saab, the governor of Anzoátegui State and an ally of the president, said in an interview this month with the daily newspaper El Nacional...'


