The devil is in the details here that k3n left out, Chavez was saying he could be like Bush, and he hoped he was wrong by saying so, it was kind of a half-assed peace offering to Obama after such crap relations with the USA after neocons screwing everything up for so long.
This whole pro-corporate US oil company propaganda Anti-Chavez bit is STUPID.
Not only do quite a few of you know better then to buy that crap it is dumb as hell to isolate him, yay, lets force him into the arms of Putin of other unsavory characters that really are our enemies.
dumb dumb dumb, and you guys eat it up hook line and sinker.
If he actually killed anyone, oppressed his people or media then fine, bash him, call him a dictator, whatever.
But in reality he has helped his people, helped poor people here in the USA, and besides being a dick to bush done nothing but try to hold his shit together and help out the common man (and is wildly popular in his country unlike our president we have had for 8 years.)
Give it a rest, you guys sound like exxon lackeys.
The guy has been reelected over and over in some of the most watched elections in the world, now is not the time to go on being pricks to our neighbors, it would be nice to have friends and allies again in south america before china moves in and screws us in another way.
Or just let china/russia take it all, cuz Chavez is friends with Castro..oh noes!
Chavez has actually talked to Castro many times and Castro has admitted he was wrong to Chavez about many things, lets not even get into how stupid the ongoing cuban blockade is after all these years, and how pointless it is to continue it.
The anti-Chavez bit is just another continuation of such a irrational right-wing failed policy, how about we start using our heads again?