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Thursday, March 6, 2014

THREE MARTINI LUNCH: MARCH 6, 2014

Jim Geraghty is covering CPAC and so Alec Torres fills in.  Alec and Greg like that an RT anchor resigned on air in response to Putin's propaganda and actions in Ukraine, shake their heads as Crimea makes it clear that it will become part of Russia, and rip Debbie Wasserman Schultz for comparing the repression in Ukraine and Venezuela to how Darrell Issa treated Elijah Cummings in Wednesday's IRS hearing.



Venezuela Breaks Ties With Panama, Terror Groups Honor Chavez in Cuba
Another day, another bizarre set of moves by the assorted thugs allied with Venezuelan's socialist totalitarian regime. President Maduro, facing a ceaseless tide of protests, announced he would break diplomatic ties with Panamá today, as the terrorist guerrilla group FARC honored the legacy of Hugo Chávez in Havana.
"Those who mess with us cannot complain in this world when the ire of the gods descends upon them," Maduro said in a typically dramatic speech delivered at a military observance of the one year anniversary of Hugo Chávez's death. Hours after announcing in that speech that he was "evaluating a very definitive response to a lackey government conspiring openly against the Venezuelan government," Maduro announced that he would break economic and diplomatic ties with Panamá, "in defense of the sovereignty and peace of the nation." Bolivian President Evo Morales was present at the event, an implicit showing of solidarity with the economic war on Panamá.
The Panamanian government incurred the wrath of the strongman dictator by appealing to the Organization of American States to investigate the various human rights abuses of the Venezuelan government in the past month, beginning with the arrest of opposition party leader Leopoldo López last February. According to Spanish newspaper ABC, the current streak of protests have claimed the lives of 19 student protesters and injured more than 260 individuals. The number of arrests for expression have passed the thousand detention mark, and reports have surfaced of unconscionable abuses during those detentions. In the most egregious account, one Spanish citizen detained for days after participating in a protest has alleged that he was raped repeatedly with a rifle by Cuban soldiers during his detention.
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