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Hugo Chavez Loves Free Speech...

Lech Walesa was also told he could not enter the country unless he was closely monitored by Chavez goons.

Chavez asked the population to cancel Valentines day and he would give them a love week (if he wins) and made it a non alchohol day.
 
I used to think Chavez was just another Latin American Dictator who used Marxist rhetoric to fool the suckers, but now I think the guy really does see himself as a messiah. Which, of course, makes him more dangerous.
And, of course, he finds his gang of Useful Idiots in the US and Europe who supporting his every move, a lot like Useful Idiots told us what a wonderful misunderstood buy Stalin was in the 30's,40's and 50's.
Truth is, the Useful idiots do not have much use for individual freedom. That is a Bourgeois idea anyway......
 
dudalb said:
I used to think Chavez was just another Latin American Dictator who used Marxist rhetoric to fool the suckers,
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Marxist rhetoric? 21st century calling. Rhetoric in any case would not have won him a second term.

No his rhetoric for foreign consumption was anti-americanism which understandably sold well enough during the Bush years. Attacking José María Aznar can probably be considered a miscalculation.

His left wing stuff is mostly for domest consumption and is backed by action. Unfortunately it is also backed by dictatorial tendancies but to be fair so was the oposition he originaly beat. The current oposition probably less so.
 
Did you know that majority of the russians support Chavez because they see Chavez as anti-american? Did you know that? Why do you americans haver over 2 million russians in the USA? :mad:
 
moon1969 said:
Did you know that majority of the russians support Chavez because they see Chavez as anti-american? Did you know that? Why do you americans haver over 2 million russians in the USA? :mad:
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The majority of russians I know do not even know who he is. Yawn X2
 
Coup shmoop. Us capitalists would have assassinated Hugo Chavez by now if the U.S. government wasn't standing in our way, and the same applies to every other third world dictator out there disrespecting our property rights. All governments are in bed together...
 
dudalb said:
Which, of course, makes him more dangerous.
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Dangerous to who? I used to create the most chavez criticism threads here. I never thought he was a danger to anyone except himself and his people.

During the oil bubble he was able to spend their money on "defensive" fighter planes and weaponry. However, the oil bubble is over and he's just another crackpot world leader of a country nobody cares about anyway again.
 
Alex Libman said:
Coup shmoop. Us capitalists would have assassinated Hugo Chavez by now if the U.S. government wasn't standing in our way, and the same applies to every other third world dictator out there disrespecting our property rights. All governments are in bed together...
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Err given the result of the first coup attempt I would suggest any capitalist trying that would end up spending a fair amount of time in jail.
 
moon1969 said:
Did you know that majority of the russians support Chavez because they see Chavez as anti-american? Did you know that? Why do you americans haver over 2 million russians in the USA? :mad:
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Uh, they came here because they felt they would be a lot better off in the US then Russia?
 
corplinx said:
Dangerous to who? I used to create the most chavez criticism threads here. I never thought he was a danger to anyone except himself and his people.

During the oil bubble he was able to spend their money on "defensive" fighter planes and weaponry. However, the oil bubble is over and he's just another crackpot world leader of a country nobody cares about anyway again.
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Dangerous was maybe the wrong world. "More Crazy" was probably better.
 
geni said:
Err given the result of the first coup attempt I would suggest any capitalist trying that would end up spending a fair amount of time in jail.
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If oil prices stay as low as they are now an internal coup is not out of the question. He needs a minimum of 60 dollar oil to maintain his spending.
 
I don't know what to think of my country anymore. I can only say that all it takes is revisiting once every year to be able to see very clearly that the social, economical and political situation are going down to Hell. I wouldn't directly blame Chavez, but I think the fanatism that has developed from this party isn't helping much.
 
Ron_Tomkins said:
I don't know what to think of my country anymore. I can only say that all it takes is revisiting once every year to be able to see very clearly that the social, economical and political situation are going down to Hell. I wouldn't directly blame Chavez, but I think the fanatism that has developed from this party isn't helping much.
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Are you from Venezuela? I spent a lot of time in Caracas in the early nineties and loved it there. I have never seen more beautiful women in my life and that constant 72 degree weather was heaven since I am from Houston.
 
moon1969 said:
Did you know that majority of the russians support Chavez because they see Chavez as anti-american? Did you know that? Why do you americans haver over 2 million russians in the USA? :mad:
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Because almost all of those "Russians" are actually Americans?

I don't think there are many Russian illegal immigrants. See here.
 
moon1969 said:
Did you know that majority of the russians support Chavez because they see Chavez as anti-american? Did you know that? Why do you americans haver over 2 million russians in the USA? :mad:
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you have links to those polls?
 
Texas said:
If oil prices stay as low as they are now an internal coup is not out of the question.
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Questionable. The first coup kinda gave him the opertunity to remove anyone likely to try that kind of thing.
 
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