The mystery country in the United Nations voter lineup for Security Council seats, Chile, led by a socialist with roots in the Allende era, is apparently fed up to the quick with the government of Hugo Chavez.

Chavez’s anti-American diatribes disgusted most nations that had planned to support Venezuela over Guatemala for the Security Council seat, but didn’t bother Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet all that much. More recent Chavista attacks over the weekend, charging her with being rightwing – on the weekend she laid a wreath at the spot where Allende’s foreign minister, Orlando Letelier, was assassinated, was an entirely different story. Michelle Bachelet is now said to be only on spitting terms with the Caracas thug, and Chilean officials are telling the Chilean media that diplomatic relations are irreparable now.

This whole turn of events stuns me. But that is only because I am a North American. Bachelet feels deeply about her identity and who she is and tries hard to reconcile her own position as the social-democratic president of the free Chile with her own family’s totalitarian past. Chavez, suspecting she is not a Chavez loyalist, went and charged her with being rightwing just for not kowtowing to his cult of personality.

She’s gonna beat the crap out of him now .

Free Republic has an amazing translation of a long article, that will knock your socks off, from El Mercurio, here.

It will blow your mind!