Caracas, 3 de octubre de 2003 - Offnews.info

20Hungry and hopelessIt would be a huge mistake to dismiss this blueprint to conquest just becauseit's the senseless madness of a couple of characters who didn't take Prozacwhen they should have. The Third Reich spawned by the Nazis was no lessmad or absurd, yet it cost the world 40 million dead and the monstrousHolocaust. Cuba is an impoverished Third World island, hungry andhopeless, but that didn't deter its government from participating in successfulcoups d'etat in Madagascar and Yemen, or sending its troops to fight inbloody African wars, both in Angola and Ethiopia, for 15 years.With his petrodollars and the help and guidance of the Cubans, who areexpert and combat-tested, Chávez is building the largest Spanish-speakingarmy: 1.2 million men who will have at their disposal the most destructiveair force in all of South America. Once that machine is well oiled, he won'thesitate to put it to use as the Cuban armed forces were once used. Once thetool is available, it will inevitably be put into operation. No matter thatChávez is mad. Madmen also kill.U.N. fight: Guatemala surprising Venezuela; Guatemala shockedVenezuela but fell short of two-thirds majority needed to win a seat onthe U.N. Security Council. UNITED NATIONSBY PABLO BACHELETU.S.-backed Guatemala got the upper hand in a see-saw tussle Monday tosecure a seat on the U.N. Security Council, dealing a surprising blow toVenezuelan President Hugo Chávez's ambitions to lead a worldwide anti-Washington front.But in 10 rounds of voting Guatemala fell short of the two-thirds majorityneeded to win the seat, reserved for a Latin American nation, raising thespecter of a lengthy battle that could eventually lead to a compromisecandidacy.