Chavez: U.S. spy plane violated Venezuela's airspace

I like Chavez. He thinks he is important for some reason, and I respect people that think they are. Looks like psychotropic drugs are in order here.

What a jackass. If we want to spy on you we will use satellites which produce hi-res photos. I think we've all seen the lower quality images received from Predator drones. Putting up smoke screens so people don't pay attention to his own administration's ineptitude in governing the country. All Chavez has is empty threats and saber rattling. He does make funny comments though.

If we had another country like Iran, that we didn't trust, flew over our airspace we'd be saying the same thing. No surprise. < :-)

We had George W Bush and the Venezuelans have Chavez. Only difference is we had to put up with him for only 8 years. Good luck Ven.

The U.S. needs to stop the saber-rattling and build-up of forces in Colombia. How much oil control does the Federal Reserve and its' owners need?

Hugo, that's not a spy plane! That's Google Earth mapping out your area! Just bitch like Japan did and they will stop.

Something flying over Venezuela?

Look, up in the sky!

It's a bird!

It's a plane!

It's ...

Why do we need to send forces to Columbia? You looking to start another war somewhere?

We need to bring our troops home from everywhere; Korea, Japan, Germany, Iraq and eventually Afghanistan. < :-)

Sure it wasn't Putin rearing his head again?

Chavez is probably trying to divert attention from his latest economic failure. I'd bet that the "spy flight" never really took place.

As Chavez's popularity falls and his programs become even more counterproductive I suspect he'll be saying more of the same in the future. And he knows there are people who will side with him because the enemy of my enemy is my friend....

The U.S. should humbly apologize for violating Venezuela's airspace. Any other reaction plays into his hands in his attempt at inciting paranoia in Venezuela.

Of course U.S. troops are not in the area to invade Venezuala. I cannot say if they are there with the secondary task of spying though. If you think the U.S. would never meddle in such things, then you are not just a little ignorant of history, you are TOTALLY IGNORANT of it. Best to downplay this. Its a way of giving Chavez enough rope...

Mr Obama sent the plane, he likes to bow and curtsy!

"If we had another country like Iran, that we didn't trust, flew over our airspace we'd be saying the same thing."

Lest we forget. It was called Iraq. Remember the "no fly zones?" Just saying.

Chavez is funny, he is destroying his country, economically, politically and now he is crying fowl because of a gringo spy plane? Oh come on, grow up and accept big brother is watching us more than Santa Clause.

Well, what is a dictator going to do when people start to get tired of him? Go back to the formula that's always worked so well. Time to drag out the Gringo boogey-man.

If it were not for the oil money, there'd have been riots all over Caracas years ago. It's sad how a person* who rose from the people so blatantly uses (the way a john uses a trick) them for his own perpetuation -they may be suspicious but are not yet the wiser.

"If it were not for the oil money, there'd have been riots all over Caracas years ago."

Oil sure changes everything, doesn't it? If it weren't for the oil, the Russians would not there, the US would not care, they would not win beauty pageants, they would not own large US corporations, and I would not be reading this. If only there were a large international conference designed to get people to give up using fossil fuels so much. Maybe then most of the world could get back to normal.

For the irony impaired: it is amusing that the same people who rail against Copenhagen, which is fundamentally about energy conservation and decreased use of fossil fuels, are the same people railing against the Chavez regime. It's not him, it's you.

Numbskull has the right idea for the short run. For the long run, the West will have to do better.

Oil sure changes everything, doesn't it?

In the larger world you're right, of course. But I'm talking about how he can mismanage the whole country to the point of ruin. Oil has enabled his ineptitude to go little noticed --or at least be forgiven cuz you know, it wasn't really breaking the "obreros" now was it? Yet, it is, but who cares when one can blame the gringos for the ills?

I wonder how much oil Venezuala has left? When it's all gone will they make big stinks like this?

Hey Chavez....just choot it down and chut up!

Chavez should really teach us in America a lesson and stop selling us all of that Venezuelan crude. I wonder what is stopping him.

m5... I know you are right. Chavez is dealing with a double edged sword, and he is such an amateur compared to the Saudis, for instance. My point is that oil dependence by the west allows these idiots to run their extraction fiefdoms like Disneyland instead of having to manage resources as most countries do. Demagogues and oil go hand in hand, whether you are talking about Alaska, Texas, Nigeria, or Iran.

Junnama, your wish is my command: bad news if you follow the link. Venezuela apparently has the most reserves of any country in the Western Hemisphere (OMG) and its tar sand deposits are greater than Canada's. Looks like Venezuela will be producing for a long time, especially if the price of oil goes up. After US reserves dry up, Venezuela will be pumping away. Makes Cash for Clunkers look a lot smarter, doesn't it? If you see my comments above, I guess that makes Chavez the top jerk in the jerk hierarchy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves_in_Venezuela

If someone is not spying on Chavez, they ought to be!

Venezuela is an independent (Iran, North Korea, Cuba etc) +they have oil assets = the NWO (Federal Reserve) wants them under their monetary slavery (IMF) and expects them to take their worthless fiat currency and debt in exchange for assets and control.

Chavez, what actual evidence do you have that any plane violated Venezuela's airspace?

Knowing Chavez, he is exaggerating but playing to the people. You love him or you hate him. Great use of Spanish sound bites there, BTW.

Knowing the USA, it probably was a spy plane violation.

Venezuelans strongly supported Chavez' stance towards US and their own neighboors. The poverty they are experiencing now due to Venezuela self declared isolation, well, they had it coming.

Chavez is a dangerous man. He's just looking for a reason, even a paranoid one, to start a war against Colombia. Would it affect the rest of the world? With oil fueling it and Amazon forest as the battle ground, I think so.

this spy plane was a visual sighting of a remote-controlled drone. 2-3 meter type.

$26 drone video-feed hack:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126102247889095011.html

-it sounds cool, but I will wait for the iPhone version.

Buda, Chavez is the elected leader of a sovereign nation. He does NOT have to get used to a gringo spy plane. I'm sure you'd freak out of Mexico, Canada, Russia, or China were sending them over our airspace.

The US is wrong. The US has no right to violate the airspace of another country. Is that so hard to undersand?