Welcome your new Venezuelan President: Hugo Chavez!

[Juror No. 8]

Ah, another federal reserve snorter or funny pharmacologist.

I'll accept this non-response as tacit agreement.

Thank you very much.

 

[Vdubchaos]

Yes comrade, the people of Venezuela thank you ...

...from their shanty towns, and slums. Chavez is working out great for them.

Funny, if you Google images of "rich Venezuelans" it's like 98% pictures of Chavez.

Funny, I thought that just about every country on this planet has poverty.

If you were to ask me, that looks much better than some of the tent towns that are popping up around US......

Poverty in US is NO different.....

 

[EagleKeeper]

All that oil $$$ going to educate/feed his people instead of profits for the top who scammed their way there fair and square sure pisses em off.

What more sacred and unholy sin could you commit in the eyes of a conservative then fucking up their capitalist hustle and get rich quick religion.

Dictator my ass, (most free and open elections anywhere) owns and controls the media my ass. Watch some Venezuela TV, they trash Chavez all day everyday, they would make Foxnews blush if you compared their trashing of Obama as a commie.

If anything Venezuela news is what Foxnews (and the rest of our media they are dragging down to the lowest common sensationalist denominator) will be in 5-10 years.

With that said, I have a lot of complaints about comrade Chavez's style of Bolivarian Socialist Revolution, but speaking of such things is beyond the realm of corporate media talking points and accepted thinking in here.

Does not look like much of the wealth is going to help pull the public out of poverty.

28% inflation rate - that really is helping people.
28% percent poverty rate

 

[Steeplerot]

Does not look like much of the wealth is going to help pull the public out of poverty.

28% inflation rate - that really is helping people.
28% percent poverty rate

And? We are a so-called first world country still and have a about a 15% poverty rate. People dying on the streets with needles in their arms and a rural population hooked on pills/meth/alcohol with no future but sensationalist corporate media. Thing is at least VZ has had great results in many areas like the literacy rate. For the fuckups, I give Chavez no mercy. He has brought VZ from being a failed banana republic and bitch of US Corporations to the start of a first world country with a educated population.

This is why anything remotely socialist must be bashed endlessly from the capitalist media. It's always the same line. Talk shit about others, and provide zero results.

Our form of capitalism has provided no results in 30 years but to make the elites richer.

Like it or not, Chavez has some correct points. You all are too chickenshit to take a look at our own problems though. You know, the real problems of why people are poor in the first place.

 

[Exterous]

Dictator my ass, (most free and open elections anywhere) owns and controls the media my ass. Watch some Venezuela TV, they trash Chavez all day everyday, they would make Foxnews blush if you compared their trashing of Obama as a commie.

I seriously hope that you aren't trying to argue that the elections are fair? The challenger is limited - by law - to 3 minutes of ads per day. The President has no such limitations. He lobbied veiled threats of civil war if the opposition won. He tiptoes around laws allowing publicity on government buildings while preventing his opponent from doing so. On at least two occasions he used the cadena nacional (a presidential announcement that is required by law to be broadcast by all of the country's media) to bump scheduled coverage of his rival's events. Doesn't even cover the reports of government workers being threatened to vote for Chavez or lose their jobs

 

[Steeplerot]

I seriously hope that you aren't trying to argue that the elections are fair? The challenger is limited - by law - to 3 minutes of ads per day. The President has no such limitations. He lobbied veiled threats of civil war if the opposition won. He tiptoes around laws allowing publicity on government buildings while preventing his opponent from doing so. On at least two occasions he used the cadena nacional (a presidential announcement that is required by law to be broadcast by all of the country's media) to bump scheduled coverage of his rival's events. Doesn't even cover the reports of government workers being threatened to vote for Chavez or lose their jobs

The media there (besides basically PBS that Chavez is on) riips him apart all day everyday like a soap opera Foxnews orgy. The guy cant even talk without someone here or there using his words for their agenda.

So whatever, he has an agenda like the USA 'interests" I will cautiously side with teaching kids to read over enriching some oil cartel that doesn't even pay taxes to the USA.

Either way it affects me not. (although the cheap heating oil he hooks people up with who are cold here in the grand capitalist paradise USA is cool of him)

He seems to not be so fat now. This is good after his surgery in Cuba, they say Cuba has some of the best comrade Doctors. Hopefully he will be around for awhile pissing off the righties.