Colombia says Chavez will head home early next week

[Peace Patriot]

1. I'm glad to hear that Chavez is in good health and high spirits...

...but I have some reservations about Santos and his possible motives for not exactly telling the truth about this. He has staked a lot on peace with Venezuela and on their bilateral trade agreements--all negotiated with Chavez and his government. And Santos is in quite a struggle with the far right in his own party (led by mafia don and Bush Jr pal, Alvaro Uribe). Santos, I think, would hate instability in Venezuela (unless he is a two-faced hypocrite, which can't be ruled out, when it comes to U.S. client states like Colombia). (A U.S. Air Force commander and head of the U.S. "Southern Command," was yammering away, in Congress, the other day, about "instability" in Venezuela and what might happen if Chavez dies. Reasonable assumption: The U.S. is planning to instigate a destabilization plan if Chavez dies. Would Santos be in cahoots with this? That is a question I don't have the answer to. On the surface, no. But I'm not sure.)

Chavez and Santos are buds, at the moment. Would Santos lie for Chavez? Possibly. A second tumor is NOT GOOD. It raises the probability that the cancer is winning. So I wonder about these statements....