Anti-imperialist alliance

It's so nice to see such honor among thieves. The dictators Chavez and Lukashenko have sealed a 'strategic alliance' between Venezuela and Belarus. Trade and arms are the top two priorites. With Chavez saying that the arms from Belarus would enable them to, "strengthen national defense," to face, "internal and external threats."

The agreement on military-technology is also significant. While short on details of the agreement Chávez said it would contribute to the strengthening of national defense capacity, leaving Venezuela more capable of facing internal or external threats. Given that Eastern Europe generally is considered a producer of quality defense hardware, it is said that the agreement could also help build relationships across that region. ~venezuelanalysis.com

Can someone please tell the democratic opposition still within Venezuela that their days are numbered.

As part of the Axis of Evil tour it was a credit to Chavez. The obligatory anti-imperialist alliance rhetoric was voiced and disseminated. Not only that but this article actually found an American 'Useful Idiot' professor to defend the dictatorship in Belarus.

And all of this was wrapped in the rhetoric of anti-imperialism. Lukashenko said that “a natural urge to depart from the unipolar model of the global order to a community of equal partners is becoming an irresistible consolidating factor.”

Chavez continued, saying, “Belarus is a model of a social state, which we are also building and we must defend the interests of the individual and not the hegemonic interests of the capitalists, wherever they may be, in Europe or Latin America.”.

But while the agreements on economic cooperation may seem relatively benign, politically this is a much more controversial trip for the Venezuelan government. President Chávez has had his shouting matches with the US government and there have been disagreements with one or two European leaders. Economic relations have, however, remained normal.

On the other hand, Belarus has actually been sanctioned by the US and the EU for allegedly rigging elections and for the political oppression of opponents. Lukashenko is known among US and EU elites as “Europe´s last dictator.” Chávez is bound to come under criticism for this meeting from both at home and overseas.

Not everyone views Belarus in such a negative manner, however. Some, such as Dr. Mark Almond, a historian from Oxford University, while acknowledges that Belarus “is far from perfect,” but points out that “Belarus has an evolving market economy. But the market is orientated towards serving the needs of the bulk of the population, not a tiny class of nouveaux riches and their western advisers and money launderers.”  ~venezuelanalysis.com

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