Hugo Chavez Sends Fuel Shipment To Help Prop Up Syria’s Assad Regime…
Homeboys.
CARACAS, Venezuela — A day before the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to condemn President Bashar al-Assad of Syria this month for his bloody crackdown on the uprising in his country, President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela was conducting a very different kind of diplomacy on his own.
A ship owned by the Venezuelan state oil company sailed into the Syrian port of Baniyas, its location captured by a satellite system that tracks ship movements. The ship, making its second trip to Baniyas since December, appeared to be carrying fuel to help prop up the embattled Mr. Assad.
The Venezuelan shipment flies in the face of international efforts to isolate Mr. Assad and pressure him to step down, but Mr. Chávez is no stranger to such controversy. Last month, he played host to another Middle Eastern ally, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, ridiculing Western claims that Iran was seeking to be able to produce nuclear weapons.
Still, Mr. Chávez is at the start of what could prove to be a difficult re-election campaign overshadowed by his battle with cancer, and the political equation here may be shifting. While provocative moves like oil shipments to Syria play well among Mr. Chávez’s staunchest backers, they may prove to be a liability among voters who resent his oil tanker diplomacy.
The Venezuelan ship, the Negra Hipólita, arrived in the Syrian port on Feb. 15, according to John H. Paskin, the chief executive of Commodity Flow, a company based in London that compiles satellite data and other information to track the movement of ships.
He said the ship left a Venezuelan refinery complex at Puerto La Cruz on Jan. 25. The Puerto La Cruz complex produces gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and fuel components, according to the Web site of the state oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela, known as P.D.V.S.A.
Posted by ZIP on Wednesday, February 22, 2012, at 8:03 pm | 
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I wonder if that ship will also provide fuel for the Iranian ships that aren’t supposedly docked there?
Awww, shucks, they’ll probably refuel in Egypt. The enemy of their Enemy is their Friend. (That’ll make you dizzy if you try to think it out too much)
Shame if it got scuttled by an attack sub.
Things are going to get fun over there. This Assad guy is a Psycho and it will get pretty intense.
I do not think Assad has any country to flee within it’s borders and be safe.
A whole tanker full? Beats the hell out of a can and piece of hose.
Condemning Assad’s inhuman brutality and his craven disregard for the sanctity of human (yes, even Muslim) life is tantamount to that worst of sins, “Colonialism” — so supporting his brutality must therefore be righteous “Anti-Colonialism”!!!
There, it makes perfect sense!!!
Shi’as slay Sunnis with the aid of Progs
But don’t you fret
For’t mayn’t be your turn yet…
Soon Shi’as, Sunnis, Commies will make you food for frogs.
Time for hugo the horrid to get his daily injection of ricin
Shit, ites, or Scummies, American people are not fretting, bring it on, you third world, 6th century caveman degenerate.
Hey Mo, or Akbar, just pay attention to your sodomy wants, you sick piece of sh;t.
You have no idea what anger is coming your way.
Doctor, I’d like to report there’s an ASSHOLE attached to my tumor.
Did someone say a**hole?
“I pulled your finger, now you pull my thumb!”
“Can you smell the sulphur?”
“difficult re-election campaign”
more like a song and dance show for retards and the UN, I’m a dinnerjacket’s last “election” was a butcherfest
How sad that Syria has to rely on some SAmerican dictator for support.