Chavez promotes 147 Bolivarian officers including the first woman admiral

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Venezuelan head of state Hugo Chavez presided over the ceremony in which 147 Bolivarian National Armed Forces, FANB, officers were promoted to the ranks of general and admiral, including the first woman to hold the highest naval rank. Read full article

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Richfe
147 new generals and admirals? I thought the active manpower of the Venezuelan military was only about 150,000...
Jul 06th, 2012 - 08:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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rnbgr
Hugo, has the oil money and most likely
Jul 06th, 2012 - 09:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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briton
so are they Bolivian , or Venezuelan .
Jul 06th, 2012 - 11:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Guzz
Briton
Simon Bolivar is the fouding father of Bolivia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Colombia, hence the “Bolivarian Republic” and the very name Bolivia, the currency bolivares, and so on...
Jul 06th, 2012 - 11:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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cornishair
His Bolivian constitution placed him within the camp of what would become Latin American conservatism in the later nineteenth century. The Bolivian Constitution had a lifelong presidency and a hereditary senate, essentially recreating the British unwritten constitution, as it existed at the time, without formally establishing a monarchy. It was his attempts to implement a similar constitution in Gran Colombia that led to his downfall and rejection by 1830.

Regarding his immigration policy for Colombia, he viewed the immigration of North-Americans and Europeans as necessary, (except for the Spanish, who were expelled) for improving the country's economy, arts, and sciences,[29] following the steps of the Latin-American criollo elites, who accepted without questions many of the evolutionist, social, and racial theories of their time.

sorry i cut & pasted this :p i do like the way leftisted governments go on about him!
Jul 06th, 2012 - 12:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Guzz
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Difference is he lived 200 years ago...
Many of his ideas and values included a united South America, that is what he is hailed for (except the reason he freed half on South America from the spaniards)
Jul 06th, 2012 - 01:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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cornishair
6 Bolívar's political legacy has been massive and he is a very important figure in South American political history. The 'Bolivarianism' of the last two decades, such as in the Venezuela of Hugo Chávez, tries to evoke the memory of Bolívar, using a left-wing view of his writings and supposed ambitions as the basis for a political movement. However, some critics, including descendants of Bolivar, state that Bolívar would have rejected these positions..

I say he seemed to to be a great national leader!. But it seems odd that leftist governments use his name, when he wouldn't have agreed with them.?
Jul 06th, 2012 - 01:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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rnbgr
Chavez,z will be able to appoint as many Generals, admirals etc as he wants, he has oil money and the political votes hr needs to stay in power as long as he can maintain his health.
Jul 06th, 2012 - 01:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Guzz
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Bolivars ideals were an inclusive, united South America. Trade partners come and go... But not only Bolivar, also San Martin and (for us) Jose Artigas...
Jul 06th, 2012 - 02:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Alexei
With these politically appointed 'leaders' in command I wouldn't want to be in the Venezuelan armed forces when Chavez eventually does something stupid and things kick off, they will be toast.
Jul 06th, 2012 - 02:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Simon68
I hate to disappoint Guzz, but Simón Bolívar was a conservative politically who looked upon the USA as his pattern for a United South America.
Unfortunately the ridiculous nationalism that abounded in late 19th. century South America, and abounds to this day, stymied any hope of uniting South America, which would have been a more powerful entity than the USA.
Jul 06th, 2012 - 03:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Guzz
Bolivar conservative? Hahahaha!!!
Jul 06th, 2012 - 05:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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British_Kirchnerist
Of course even Spartacus if he came back might have all sort of views that we find “conservative” today, the question about someone like Bolivar was whether he was conservative in his time, and obviously he was not. Perhaps one day people will be so advanced that even I look like a conservative!!
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