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INSIDECOSTARICA.COM
| COSTA
RICA NEWS
| Monday
28 February 2011 |
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Where
Gadhafi's
Name Is
Still
Gold
Gadhafi's
cronies
in Latin
America
stand by
his side
While
most of
world's
leaders
condemn
Lybain
leader
Moammar
Gadhafi
for
unleashing
a brutal
repression
that has
killed
hundreds
of his
fellow
countrymen,
his
cronies
in Latin
America
stand by
his
side.
And one
of those
cronies
is
Daniel
Ortega,
the
current
president
of
Nicarauga
and
former
Sandinista
revolutionary,
who has
been
said to
be
telephoning
Gadhafi
to
express
his
solidarity
against
Libyan
rebels.
Cuba's
retired
dictator
Fidel
Castro
said
this
week it
was too
early to
criticize
Libya's
government
and
warned
of a
North
Atlantic
Treaty
Organization
(NATO)
invasion
of Libya
he
claimed
was
being
orchestrated
by U.S.
"imperialism."
The
normally
voluble
Hugo
Chávez,
a
longtime
friend
of
Gadhafi,
has been
quiet on
the
Libyan
situation
- even
as
neighboring
leaders
like
Peru's
president
condemned
Gadhafi's
actions.
Suddenly
on
Thursday
night,
Mr.
Chávez
tweeted
to his
millions
of
followers,
"Viva
Libya
and its
independence.
Kadafi
is
facing a
civil
war!!!"
he
wrote,
referring
to the
Libyan
leader.
Ties
between
the two
men have
been so
close
that
rumors
circulated
this
week
that
Gadhafi
had fled
to
Venezuela
on his
jet
prompting
an
appearance
by
Gadhafi
before
cameras
to rebut
speculation.
The four
leaders
have
seen
themselves
as
comrades
in arms
in an
international
effort
to
counter
U.S.
influence
abroad
Castro
and
Ortega
initially
came to
power
through
revolution,
and
Chávez,
an army
officer
like
Gadhafi,
failed
in a
1992
coup
attempt
before
turning
to
electoral
politics
seven
years
later.
All came
up with
their
own
eccentric
versions
of
socialism.
In
Nicaragua
this
week,
Mr.
Ortega
said he
placed
several
phone
calls to
Gadhafi
to
express
his
support
for the
embattled
colonel.
Ortega
later
told a
rally of
supporters
in
Managua
that the
Libyan
leader
was
fighting
a great
battle
to
defend
the
country.
"How
many
battles
has
Gadhafi
had to
fight,"
said
Ortega.
"I
transmitted
to him
the
solidarity
of the
Nicaraguan
people."
David W.
Close,
an
expert
on
Nicaraguan
politics
at
Memorial
University
in
Canada
said the
Nicaraguan
president,
himself
ruling
with a
strong
hand,
has
little
to lose.
"There's
still
something
kicking
around
in
[Ortega's]
head,
that
one-party
rule
could
still
work,
like
Gadhafi,"
Close
said.
The
support
or
silence
of
Gadhafi's
old
revolutionary
buddies
in Latin
America
underlines
the
contradiction
at the
heart of
these
governments,
analysts
say. As
they
wish
Gadhafi
luck,
they are
also
aligning
themselves
against
the very
type of
popular
revolution
that
brought
them to
power in
the late
20th
century.
"They
claim
that
they are
on the
side of
popular
change,
that
they
stand
with the
people—and
yet
that's
not what
they're
doing,"
said Ray
Walser,
an
analyst
with the
Washington-based
Heritage
Foundation,
a
conservative
think
tank.
With
files
from
Nicholas
Casey of
the Wall
Street
Journal
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