The media and the Venezuelan elections

[hugocaracas2021]

Soon PATriot Venezuelan of the PSUV we will close down Globoterror, Tal Cual and stop fawscists like Mr V. Llosa from insurt our glorios Comander!!!! Venezuela need only our State Media nothing else. Long libve our Comander!!!! Fist of Iron, hard hand against the fascistss comander - liquidate all resistance!!!!

[Ametrida]

What does Chavez has of glorious? Are you completely high or what the fuck?.

[Lucem2]

Folks here have no idea how mental Chavez is.

I don't blame them, they don't know Spanish and can't see the obvious crazyness of that man.

If you are curious here is a video out of many.

The guy uses violent, disrecpectful and obscene language. Contradics himself all the time, etc.

watch?v=H4zxYsuTD5A

[uygurpeace]

Chavez is great man he only think about his people.Chavez is not dictator we are tired of Emperialist USA.

lots of love from Turkish Cypriots to all Venezuelan people.

VIVA CHAVEZ

[Ametrida]

Completely incorrect. I am Venezuelan, all my family is there. I lived there until 4 years ago. He is destroying the country manipulating the poorest people. Go to Venezuela, and if you have brains you will agree with me.

[hugocaracas2021]

Ametirsa you and your family are fascist antipatriot oligarchs - GET OUT of my country!!!

[melquideses]

The worst part of it, is that Chavez followers and some of the blind left are thinking that they are getting their independence from the evil empire but ultimately they're just switching masters; "None are more hopelessly enslaved

than those who falsely believe they are free." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

[cayetanoluis]

What matters is what the Venezuelan people want. Everyone else can either like it or lump it.

[hugocaracas2021]

Long live Bolivarian Stalinism!!! Go Comander!! Eliminate the fadcist oposition NOW!

[Ametrida]

Well, pana, Chavez is replacing extremely bad former governments with his fascism. Right now he is about to shot down another TV channel because he does not tolerate criticisms and freedom of speech. Venezuela is its sad way to become a freedom less Cuba.

[hugocaracas2021]

WRONG you fascist pitiyanqui!!!! The problem in the Bolivarian Republic is the MEDIA. We wll soon close down all fascist imperialist oligarch media both newspapers and TV and radio channels (radio spectrum). We need only State media not CIA tools

[Ametrida]

hahaha, evidence of dumb fascist minds: "We wll soon close down all fascist imperialist oligarch media both newspapers and TV and radio channels (radio spectrum)". FASCIST DO NOT TOLERATE OPPOSITION. NO FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN VENEZUELA.

[hugocaracas2021]

Ametirda whwta oyu tal of you idiot?!?>!>???? Fascist nust be liquidate, imperilaist media MUT BE CLOSE, CIA finace pitinyanqui must be PUNISH!!!! We must close ALLMfascist media leav eonly STATE MEDIA!!! Long live Bolvarian Stalinism, long live our glorios Supreme Comander Chavez!!!!

[Ametrida]

jajajaja with every single message you send, it becomes clearer to readers how fascists are dumb Chavez supporters, like you. Completely extremists, and terrorist. You guys do not allow pluralism, or freedom. If Simon Bolivar were alive, he would cut the head of the insect, Chavez.

[hugocaracas2021]

Ametrida you are a shameless traidor antipatriot imperiliast oligarch and will be arest and punish if you enter the Bolivarian Republic for TREASON of the Fatherland. Simon Bolivar, our revolusionary father and procer was first Comunist of Latin Americam a true revolusionary freedom fighter just like glorios Supreme Comander Chavez!!!! Long liue Mao, Live Stalin, Live OUR Comander!!!

[Ametrida]

hahahahahahahah!!!!! please write more. You sounds exctly as el DUNO RATAEL" traidor antipatriot imperiliast oligarch" you just needed to add: cyclist, saxophonist, journalist, and everything ended with "ist". If you do that you would sound like the vomit god you have, little Chavez. Simon Bolivar were born RICH, and he did fight for FREDOOM. Chavez wants all to become POOR and lacking FREEDOM (he wants to control media to stop critiques). You do not deserve to even mention Vargas Llosa!!

[Ametrida]

I bet you are into drugs, and you were completely high when you wrote it. Hahaha you are extremely FUNNY! please write more, clone of DUNNO Ratael (ppl should google the words DUNO RATAEL, to enjoy).

[hugocaracas2021]

Fascist like you will soon be liquidate by the glorios Supreme Comander!!! NOONE repoeat NO ONE insurt the Comander and our glorios Bolivarian Revolusion!!! Fatherland socialism or DEATH!!!

[Ametrida]

Ok, now I am 100% you are a kid 14 years old from the opossition trying to exagerate to make the crappy Venezuelan goverment bad. Dude, you do not need to do so, Chavez and his brown nosed crew are so criminal and stupid, that such an immature act (your act) is completely unnecessary. Lets fight against Chavez with brain, not as a kid. In any case, I am glad to hear you are in the right side, against the funny ignorant dictator.

[Ametrida]

ASESINOS!

[Ametrida]

hahahahah I AM SO AFRAID! hahahahahahaha IGNORANTE!

[fatmaggi]

Lucem2, you're free to watch propaganda all you want. I'll give my money to The Real News (which I do regularly) and you shove yours up your arse. There you go, feel better?

[WhoRonPaul]

pretty cool at 0:20

[executiveassistant07]

Great video (news), thanks for sharing this. The reason Bush hates Chavez in my opinion is because he is competition to the WORLD BANK.

[Ametrida]

Bush is an evil and the worst shit in the world, but he completely ignored Chavez, because Chavez is just a crazy silly ignorant (similar to Bush, in many senses).

[Lucem2]

RealNews sucks.

They are clueless about the Hugo Chavez reality. I' know, I'm a political geek and I'm Venezuelan.

Chavez is even more incompetent than Bush and is trying to stay indefinitely in power.

How come RealNews can defend I guy like that?

Plese don't donate to "RealNews" this is left wing propaganda media, or Tabloid on conspiracy theories.

Check the PBS Frontline Documentary or read The Economist, for a better and more REAL understanding of Chavez. That is JOURNALISM !!

[PhoenixTears25]

Hey everyone read or google Svali, she explains the illuminati well, she was part of the group she said russian trainers would come back and forth and train them, its just a game, they have control over all medias, the world is being brainwashed, just when Hitler and 50,000 other nazi's were brought to america they played a game, its just about creating a problem and killing people!! And then getting something out of it!! Like a world government!!

[PhoenixTears25]

It doesn't matter our empire is a European empire anyway, europeans are running us, they run all countries and have infiltrated all!! Even Russia!! The people need to stop fighting each other and fight there governments!! The Illuminati!!

[OneMove33]

You are right, however the extent that the illuminati have control over governments worldwide is not easily known. How exactly is Russia corrupted as i see evidence in America and Europe. People need to realise the illuminati are real, if they are not then all their symbolism which is found not just in money but in architecture would be random and it would make no sense.

[cutegual]

RIP the USA Empire,,,is going to be alone:)isolated but i am so sorry for the good and poor American.

[coffeebeaner]

It's cool. We can handle it.

[Placidezz]

I realized that when I red the complete story of the news, and I said to myself "Did I just read this wrong? or am I reading a different story? 'cause it clearly states that PSUV won the majority of the states"

[falcon02012]

Arab League accepts Venezuela as member observer and Russia establishing close relation that mean removing Chavez by force will lead to world war 3.

[Salvatrucho213]

What I noticed as the results came in last Sunday night, that the states won by the opposition were by slim majorities. They were close. States won by Chavistas were by 70% or 69%. The only close states were states won by the opposition. This is in no way a defeat for Chavez, besides the opposition in Venezuela is actually center left so it wouldn't be a dramatic difference if they ever come to power (which they won't)

[vktrsx]

The US media frames anything left of center in a negative light, because the acceptable spectrum here is entirely right of center. The Democrats are to the left of the Republicans, but they are not left of center because that's not allowed here. So Chavez and the rest of the Bolivarian revolutionaries must be framed as extremists or else Americans will figure out what the left actually looks like, and they'll want it, because it puts humanity above consumerism. See Chomsky's "Propaganda Model."

[asperin]

The states that the opposition won are geographically strategic for drug trafficking.

Take a look.

The people of those areas follow a different kind of life, a more wannabe USA type of people, but USA sheeple not USA constitutionalists.

[rudymontes1]

Thanks Russia!

Soon we will have a latin nuclear power!

w00t!

Deplelted Uranium cocktails for the USA if they try and spread their fake democracy and satanism to venezuela.

[cycimian]

rudymontes1. Its a scary world when people advocate war out of a blind passion for any reason other then self defence. And talking about it like its a sports event just goes to show your limited experiances in life.War Rudy is the dirtiest actions against alleged oppositions that shows no mercy for those caught inbetween the conflicts. The war your cheering is a nightmare if it happens will quickly make you cry. Even a limited exchange will kill billions.

[kingnek]

Chavez is the man!

[antiparticlesteve]

New players on the block. US Superpower will soon be part of history.

[vktrsx]

I'm American and I hope you're right.

[odef007]

anti... US Superpower already is part of history.. remember WW1 they have been making history ever since.. :)

[Marco81MX]

I dont agree with most of Chaves´s policies, but you must admit that the man has balls. He is one of those few leaders that will fight like a cornered cat to avoid that what is happening in Africa happens in south america (Have their resourses exploited and their people sunk in ignorance, hunger and unres). He migh have a loose mouth, but you must have some big set of cojones to be like that in the world today.

[thelastemperor909]

fuck venezuela !!! and fuck hugo chaves they are both douche bags

[briandubbs]

nice well informed rhetoric....

[random0815]

maybe in the course of such a partnership they might have real democracy some day in the usa.. (not really though)

i think they tinkered with the news this time :o)

[Edgrot]

More of the real news pushing socializim over national socialisim here in America. More bull crap media.

[Edgrot]

I want the rep republic screw all forms of socialisim.

[blackiron60]

Chavez has certainly proved that he can endure.

[lyden2006]

If the CIA cannot contain Chavez then I am expecting a more significant response coming his way in the near future when natural resources are becoming critically low. I'm surprised Real News didn't politically assasinate Hugo, though I know they wanted to very badly.. you can almost feel it.

[abarzilai664]

The opp. won Caracas, yet the Real News won't bother to analyze this gain cause then they will have to mention inflation and sky high crime rates. They did not bother to mention that those 17 districts were mainly ruarl.

[funmapi]

yeah the RealNews' main goal is to balance the American media, so they have a bias Like all biased sources, they leave out facts. But I believe the RealNews is much better than than most news sources, and it is a great balance and source of analysis.

[lyden2006]

If your smart enough to pick out the bullshit, it can become an effective tool. However, you have to overcome your own stupidity lest you be lead in the wrong direction.

[vktrsx]

...and you did not bother to mention, abarzilai664, that the Caracas opposition is the privileged class. Naturally, they want to maintain that privilege.

It's like how the privileged young people in Pakistan supported Musharraf's dictatorship because they had disposable incomes to party and enjoy their lives.

In neither case was rational logic consulted. Only blind self-interest.

[abarzilai664]

They managed to win over the slums of Caracas because of inflation and crime, as for Pakistan's affluent they were also in opposition to Perez due to his sacking of justice Chuadry.

[vktrsx]

abarzilai664, see if you can find a rerun of this, or a copy online:

pbs [dot] org [slash] independentlens [slash] dinnerwiththepresident

The privileged elite of Pakistan, teens and young adults in particular, were quite happy with the dictatorship, which they believed provided the stability that allowed them to enjoy their lifestyle.

When you're a member of the privileged class, you can find all manner of ways to rationalize injustice, as long as it preserves your status.

[t4705mb6]

If the "elections" in the US in 2000 & 2004 hasn't shown you exactly how much the US reich HATES democracy, your head is still in the mud.

Remember the Palestinian elections?

[lyden2006]

Hilarious to me that you would make a comparison like that. =)

[t4705mb6]

Dictators. Yep. They always seem to work out better. Greedy, suckup dictators.

".....just as long as I'M the dictator!"

[barlog20]

Haha you white devils,Chavez will never let you take Venezuela.And you devils just lost Pakistan when they got rid of the puppet last year hahahahaha.that `s why Obama wants to go war in pakistan.He wants to take pakistan and give it back to his white masters.

[southerntokin]

You are fucking stupid.

[Elmeromero1]

VIVA CHAVEZ!!!!!

[SKClouD]

Well I'm really disappointed with Chavez buying massive amounts of weapons now instead of investing the money they have out of their oil to create anti-poverty programms for the poor in Venezuela and in the 3rd world.

Also I'm beginning to have the impression that he rarely ever constructevily criticizes the US but is repeating the same "STOP IMPERIALISM AND COLONIALISM" over and over again.

Still hope the Venezuelean people can build up more forms of non parlament-democracy.

[lyden2006]

What choice does he have? It's widely known history the CIA keep interfering in their internal affairs, and when he actually does defend himself by arming his men. The US media does its part by crying out Chavez isn't doing anything for his poor and just buys weapons all the time. Now, if I really wanted to help my people that were being constantly terrorized by US government thugs and hitmen and trying to topple my ability to protect them.

What would I do? Tell me, what would I do?

[random0815]

umm.. reaching out to the competition (like russia and china)!? try to demonstrate real democracy to the rest of the world!? what else can you do?

[odef007]

I would show the IMPERIAL PIG that he lies. I

would make food for my people not import more and more from Columbia. But I guess he has not been in power long enough to get the seed into the ground.

[odef007]

What Real News did not mention is that the States the opposition won are the most populated and productive areas. Sparsely populated unproductive land counts for what on Vote day? It counts as a number, a colour a Territory. How does that help the People?I have no doubt Chavez will try a Revised referendum. Hopefully it will be his last mistake.

[overmind25]

Wow Hugo has magic powers. Lower working hours and more "free" services.

[blahblah7949]

it not magic american done it during the progressive era

[overmind25]

I'd love to see the evidence of that.

Just for the record because I didn't put this in my first comment: I am opposed to the US trying to overthrow Chavez and I am opposed to corporate tyranny that is propped by US tax payer dollars.

[McOath]

medvedev to chavez, "So how does it feeling being elected in a genuine democracy, and not just being a puppet of a balding judo master?"

[midwestcharm]

We need receipts from voting here in the U.S.

[Giorgio879]

I live in Venezuela and trust me, Chavez's government it's fulled of incompetence, intolerance and simply plain hate to anyone with a different opinion, what can you say about a President that blames ALL of our society problems, (the high rates of violence, the down of social services, inflation) as BusH and USA's fault, I know Bush is an idiot that just screwed the world, but blaming someone that everybody hates will not solve our problems.

[RationalLiberty]

hmmm. Even Venezuela has paper trail voting machines. 65% voted.

They seem to have a more vibrant democracy (at least in those terms) than the U.S.

I ask rhetorically- What is the reasoning behind NOT getting a reciept if you vote at a machine?

[vktrsx]

I think you know the answer to that, RationalLiberty.

[vktrsx]

Also, the US isn't a democracy. The founders intentionally set up a system where only white male landowners could participate. They were very fearful of democracy, because they were afraid of losing their privileged position. It took 200 years to tear down the final enfranchisement barrier (18-year-olds, who the state sends to war, only got the vote in '71). I shouldn't say final; there's now activism to extend it to 16-year-olds, who can work and pay taxes but not vote.

[vktrsx]

But we're still not a democracy in any meaningful sense. The corporations trot out a few acceptable candidates and allow us to select one. We then go back to football and "reality" TV. Our selection then proceeds to do the bidding of their corporate masters.

In a democracy, we would select representatives from among our own ranks and propel them to power, as happened in Bolivia with Evo Morales. That can't happen here, because corporate interests are diametrically opposed to human interests.

[RationalLiberty]

agreed with everything you said. I contributed to Nader's campaign and recieved the book No Debate by George Farah.

Just another example of corporate influence overpowering principles here.

[lonwitness]

Oh oh Hugo opposition is building.

[ZABERNISMer]

Sending my gratz over seas :)

[jackie11lilly]

namaste!

[usergently]

VIVA CHAVEZ!!!

[HomoGeneyes]

IMPEACH BUSH

[gilbertoarends]

It will be interesting to see Chavez govern the next few years with the price of oil in $40 a barrel and not at $120 and see if he will be able to maintain his popularity.

[odef007]

He will not remain popular.Food has been a problem for over 2yrs now. People who work for the gov. (doctors, Fire Dept, Oil workers)are not getting cost of living (inflation at 25%)and in some cases have not been paid for weeks. Empty stomach cries loud. It will be heard. He will not be able to keep up the payments on what he has done. The last year BF

(new money) will be downgraded. He will not be able to borrow money on the Intl market, inflation may hit 40% depend on the downgrade eetc etc

[gilbertoarends]

3) Last year Chavez tried to reform the constitution, in which it included in having an indefinite reelection to the presidency, and only the presidency the governors and mayors were limited to only 2 times. It was rejected in last years election.

4) Chavez has tried to centralize the government, which attempts against grassroot democracy, and pretty much gives you an authoritarian regime.

[DoJaenin]

empire strikes back, huh?

[gilbertoarends]

Just one to point out a few things.

1) In the past 40 years venezuelan governments have been pretty much socialist, they vary on their level. (Public Hospitals, Public Schools, Public Universities, subsidies gasoline, etc.)

2) Chavez more than a socialist I would dare to say is a populist, his politics rely mostly on sustaining lower class people, making them depend on the government and that way being able to manipulate them. Thats why Chavez is more popular in rural areas.

[abilityoflove]

70% socialism, 30% capitalism is good for me.

[mounir1426]

Congratulations to all Venezuelans.

[bigmoney714]

real news is great

[MASUNIDOS]

Agree, 100%

[stevenaudet]

Haha! Another country where the electing process is better than the US.

I'm quite happy that Venezuela's parliament goes half socialist, half capitalist. I think, it's the best system.

[freethink15]

the venezuelan parliament is all for chavez.