Shockingly – Chávez passing mourned
Maybe it isn’t terribly surprising that a guy who fought against having his country’s natural resources depleted in order to enrich some bloated American plutocrats isn’t so popular in the good ole’ U S of A.
Elsewhere his passing is being mourned.
Rafael Correa, president of Ecuador and one of Chávez’s closest allies, said: “We have lost a revolutionary, but millions of us remain inspired.”
The Bolivian president, Evo Morales, another of the Venezuelan president’s most loyal disciples, was teary-eyed and declared: “Chávez is more alive than ever.”
“Chávez will continue to be an inspiration for all peoples who fight for their liberation,” Morales said in a televised speech.
There was a similar tribute from Nicaragua, a nation that broadly benefited from cut-price Venezuelan oil. Rosario Murillo, the wife and spokeswoman of the president, Daniel Ortega, said Chávez was “one of the dead who never die”.
I don’t mourn him. Not because he was some evil enemy Socialist Fascist Communist or whatever the right wing wanted us to believe. I will not mourn him because he is what happens when a conspiracy theorist is given actual power. He espoused every conspiracy theory about America and the E.U. that was out there. From 9/11 being an inside job to the moon landing being faked, Chavez believed it all and repeated it all. And his followers are now claiming we killed him. Pfft. Why? He was giving us oil so we had no reason. If he turned off the spicket, then we might have killed him. But I digress.
I won’t mourn. He was egomanical and insane. Good riddance.
Given the United States’ history in central and south America, conspiracy theories are easier to believe.
I wouldn’t exactly use neighboring dictators as a barometer of how much chavez will be missed. Sure he kept his people happy, but at the expense of their own freedom. He was a selfish and power hungry man, that’s about it.
This whole thread is just Hube bait, isn’t it?
Chávez is lucky Bush didn’t blame him for 9/11. (It would have made as much sense as blaming Saddam)
Americans are so ignorant of what happens down here. Bush or Obama. Who cares as long as your silly political egos are stroked. Do not pretend you know anything beyond what it cost yesterday to fuel your car.
Keep ruining your country, trillions of dollars at time.
you wanna talk political egos…… How many pictures of Hugo’s face per square mile are there in Caracas? 300….400? more?
Yeah, pictures around town are definatly on par with American exceptionalism and corporate imperialism.
Interestingly DeSilva in Brazil completed more socialist reforms than Chavez and was willing to give up power. Brazil is poised to become a large economic and social power while Venezuela is a mess. Chavez squandered his countries oil wealth for the sake of his ego.
Chavez squandered Venezuela’s wealth? Yeah, he squandered it on cutting Venezuela’s poverty rate half, in eliminating it’s illiteracy rate, in providing health care to everyone and not just the very wealthy, in raising wages, in stopping the theft of foreign big oil companies from sending about 95% of Venezuela’s oil profits outside of the country, in increasing the number of employee owned businesses, etc. I only wish that the USA’s assets were squandered in such a fashion.
I see some common ground. I’m sure not sending 95% of the oil profits to the US WAS “squandering” the profits in that guy’s opinion.
Chavez did cut the poverty rate in half, but with all the oil money he could have put secured the countries future after the oil money slowed. I do not believe he eliminated it’s illiteracy rate. There is still widespread poverty. Chavez has certainly helped the poor but he certainly done harm also. The problem with so called progressives and conservatives is that they see everything in black and white, while most issues are shades of grey. I believe that is the case with all who see Chavez in a completely good or bad light.
If I am praising DaSilva in Brazil, I’m hardly justifying sending Venezuela’s wealth to the U.S.
yeh, yeh, yeh, and Evita closed on Broadway, so Tim Rice and Frank Lloyd Webber can get cracking on a new production, “Chavez”.