Capriles is a great governor, crowd-sourced locally made clothing to get money to go up against the Chavez regime. Check him out, he's a great guy - you might need some spanish to see : ) https://www.facebook.com/HenriqueCaprilesRadonski http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK2HAB147LY
Interesting comments so far .... it seems we have forgotten the "School of the Americas", our death-squad training program and our good friend Batista (Cuba before Fidel)and our good friend Noriega (Panama before CIA Bush Sr.)
America is the country that created Abu Graib, Guantanamo Bay, the secret prisons and prison ships around the world; America is the country that launched two recent wars on faked justifications and killed more than a million civilians, America is the country that overthrew 13 legitimate democracies, and installed and financed 42 bloody and brutal dictatorships around the world.
America is not concerned about the welfare of the peoples of Venezuela ... WE JUST WANT YOUR NATURAL RESOURCES ... Privatized!
The people of Venezuela elected Chavez in what was apparently a fair election. Unless you want to turn Venezuela into a U.S. territory, you should respect the fact that they voted for him. Respect doesn't require us to like the late Chavez or agree with him but we should respect the Venezuelan people and their vote.
Steven F. Hayward wrote: While exit polls conducted by the very reliable American firm of Penn, Schoen, and Berland showed Chavez losing by a large margin (41 to 59), the official results put Chavez free and clear by a vote of 58 to 41 percent.
A 26 February 2003 report by Robert Tracinski obliterates the left-wing mythology around Chavez:
Step one: Chavez has initiated formal proceedings to revoke the licenses of independent, privately owned television and radio stations. Meanwhile, his political militias, the Bolivarian Circles, have staged violent attacks on independent media outlets. After all, elections don't mean much if all people watch is propaganda on state-run television.
Step two: Chavez has used a moratorium on currency conversion--needed to pay for imported goods--to punish his opponents. Vowing "no dollars for coup-mongers," he has used this power, for example, to prevent opposition newspapers from importing ink. After all, elections don't mean much if your opponents are too busy worrying where their next meal is coming from.
Step three: Venezuelan police acting on Chavez's orders have arrested Carlos Fernandez, the head of Venezuela's largest business federation and a leader of the recent anti-Chavez strike, charging him with rebellion and sabotage. Another strike leader, Carlos Ortega, head of Venezuela's largest labor union, has gone into hiding. In one move, Chavez has neutralized two potential rivals for the presidency. After all, elections don't mean much if all of the other candidates are in jail.
Step four: Last week, four protesters were kidnapped while returning from an anti-Chavez rally. They were blindfolded, tortured, and shot execution-style. Some of the victims were witnesses to a previous pro-Chavez political killing, and they had planned to testify against the shooter. Consider the message sent to the opposition when the mutilated bodies of their friends start showing up in the city streets. After all, elections don't mean much if your opponents are afraid to leave their houses and walk to the polls.
Step five: A few days ago, Chavez delivered a speech denouncing Spain, Colombia, and the US for interfering in Venezuela. This morning in Caracas, the diplomatic missions of Spain and Colombia were bombed. Credit was claimed by a splinter pro-Chavez group--but this was not a bunch of kids cooking up homemade bombs in their basement. The bombs were powerful plastic explosives, the kind of weapons that are difficult to obtain without government complicity.
$4 billion dollars were spent paying paramilitary groups to attack unarmed protestors and other dissidents during and after the elections.[10]
The European Union condemned the conditions placed on election monitors as unacceptable and declined to attend. The Carter Center was shut out for three days. Experts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University have identified signs of fraud based on statistical analysis.[11] ============================
Neinzionist, There is no shame in being completely uninformed. It has been my pleasure to have schooled you on the subject.
"Steven F. Hayward is a conservative writer and political commentator who is the "F. K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow" at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and a senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute.[1] F.K. Weyerhaeuser was a timber and paper industry magnate, third generation of the Weyerhaeuser family business started by his grandfather Friedrich Weyerhauser,[2] who is the eighth richest American of all time, at $72.2 billion net worth estimated in 2006.[3]"
If so what he said means nothing because he's a one percenter from a far right wing think tank. Find someone independent and a little less likely to profit from the extreme right wing point of view and I'll consider it. Till then, forget it.
Actually Louis, you're wrong too. Wikipedia: "In the presidential election of December 2006, which saw a 74% voter turnout, Chavez was once more elected, this time with 63% of the vote, beating his closest challenger Manuel Rosales, who conceded his loss. The election was certified as being free and legitimate by the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Carter Center. After this victory, Chavez promised an "expansion of the revolution."
...Notice the words "the election was certified as being free and legitimate by the organization of American States and the Carter Center.
So which so you listen to? Fox, Limbaugh, or do you overdose on those right wing chain emails that are 99% lies?
An honest man is now needed for Venezuela, he should be true of heart and strong of mind and speak only English. His bright smile will be a disguise as he robs the people of their oil wealth.
Is there corruption is the US yes but its not to the point of enslaving its people. or stopping the average man from rising up and achieving.Are there thing the US has done that were necessarily right yes. But no one that the US has befriended has slipped into chao and poverty. Hugo Chavez has brought failure and economic harm. Take away the oil revenues and he is a total disastrous failure...
Stupid comment! Let alone the fact Chavez was president of Venezuela long before Obama was elected President of the USA, the Obama administration were NOT supporters of Chavez.
Like all those "successful people" going from millionaires to billionaires in a record-high stock market, and record corporate profits? The boom in entrepreneurship? Housing starts and home prices rebounding? A reborn and revitalized auto industry? All the more remarkable with the tanking economy inherited from the previous Administration. If there were "ideologies" in place similar to those of Chavez's NONE of that would be taking place.
Isn't it amazing that a intelligent modern society Venezuela. Are now in fear because the dictator is dead and the puppet government is now without any helm to steer it. So now the people who are not in control of there government wait to see what the select few will do to them.....
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK2HAB147LY
America is the country that created Abu Graib, Guantanamo Bay, the secret prisons and prison ships around the world; America is the country that launched two recent wars on faked justifications and killed more than a million civilians, America is the country that overthrew 13 legitimate democracies, and installed and financed 42 bloody and brutal dictatorships around the world.
America is not concerned about the welfare of the peoples of Venezuela ... WE JUST WANT YOUR NATURAL RESOURCES ... Privatized!
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Where the hell were you and what were you doing on the morning of 9-11-2001?
Faked justifications! Yeah, right!
Saudi Arabia is one of America's allies.
Bush told no lies in regards to Iraq.
Inaccurate statements based on flawed intelligence is not the same as an intentional deception. There was no intentional deception.
Your comment is very misleading. Saudi Arabia had nothing to do with the 9-11 attacks.
Why would you make such a foolish comment about our allies?
While exit polls conducted by the very reliable American firm of Penn, Schoen, and Berland showed Chavez losing by a large margin (41 to 59), the official results put Chavez free and clear by a vote of 58 to 41 percent.
A 26 February 2003 report by Robert Tracinski obliterates the left-wing mythology around Chavez:
Step one: Chavez has initiated formal proceedings to revoke the licenses of independent, privately owned television and radio stations. Meanwhile, his political militias, the Bolivarian Circles, have staged violent attacks on independent media outlets. After all, elections don't mean much if all people watch is propaganda on state-run television.
Step two: Chavez has used a moratorium on currency conversion--needed to pay for imported goods--to punish his opponents. Vowing "no dollars for coup-mongers," he has used this power, for example, to prevent opposition newspapers from importing ink. After all, elections don't mean much if your opponents are too busy worrying where their next meal is coming from.
Step three: Venezuelan police acting on Chavez's orders have arrested Carlos Fernandez, the head of Venezuela's largest business federation and a leader of the recent anti-Chavez strike, charging him with rebellion and sabotage. Another strike leader, Carlos Ortega, head of Venezuela's largest labor union, has gone into hiding. In one move, Chavez has neutralized two potential rivals for the presidency. After all, elections don't mean much if all of the other candidates are in jail.
Step four: Last week, four protesters were kidnapped while returning from an anti-Chavez rally. They were blindfolded, tortured, and shot execution-style. Some of the victims were witnesses to a previous pro-Chavez political killing, and they had planned to testify against the shooter. Consider the message sent to the opposition when the mutilated bodies of their friends start showing up in the city streets. After all, elections don't mean much if your opponents are afraid to leave their houses and walk to the polls.
Step five: A few days ago, Chavez delivered a speech denouncing Spain, Colombia, and the US for interfering in Venezuela. This morning in Caracas, the diplomatic missions of Spain and Colombia were bombed. Credit was claimed by a splinter pro-Chavez group--but this was not a bunch of kids cooking up homemade bombs in their basement. The bombs were powerful plastic explosives, the kind of weapons that are difficult to obtain without government complicity.
$4 billion dollars were spent paying paramilitary groups to attack unarmed protestors and other dissidents during and after the elections.[10]
The European Union condemned the conditions placed on election monitors as unacceptable and declined to attend. The Carter Center was shut out for three days. Experts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University have identified signs of fraud based on statistical analysis.[11]
============================
Neinzionist, There is no shame in being completely uninformed. It has been my pleasure to have schooled you on the subject.
Good job!
"Steven F. Hayward is a conservative writer and political commentator who is the "F. K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow" at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and a senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute.[1] F.K. Weyerhaeuser was a timber and paper industry magnate, third generation of the Weyerhaeuser family business started by his grandfather Friedrich Weyerhauser,[2] who is the eighth richest American of all time, at $72.2 billion net worth estimated in 2006.[3]"
If so what he said means nothing because he's a one percenter from a far right wing think tank. Find someone independent and a little less likely to profit from the extreme right wing point of view and I'll consider it. Till then, forget it.
...Notice the words "the election was certified as being free and legitimate by the organization of American States and the Carter Center.
So which so you listen to? Fox, Limbaugh, or do you overdose on those right wing chain emails that are 99% lies?
Chavez was a major disaster as a leader. The people of Venezuela are the ones who suffered while Chavez became a billionaire.