Hugo Chavez Part- 1-6 United Nations Speech 2009 VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT
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This reminds me of a time (long before I was born) when leaders gave amazing speeches. Now they mostly recite the words of a few talented twenty-something speechwriters who have been trained to write speeches that contain easy-to-swallow passages and mind-numbing platitudes.
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aw no translation :( is this the one where he plays the air guitar?
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8. He has passed every law he wanted to in 5 years because the opposition didn't vote in the past National Assembly (Congress) elections, because they thought that way the election would be declared illegitimate. But nothing happened. So he had every single Deputy (Representative) in our unicameral congress. And then ONE of them became part of the opposition.
I do agree on something: the opposition is not right either. They're all looking for power. They don't care about th people
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7. I don't really have to care about what you think, because you can believe whatever you want but you don't live in Venezuela and you don't vote in Venezuela. I only want the people to understand the things from an average middle class Venezuelan point of view. I'm not the devil, I'm not an oligarch. I'm a Venezuelan citizen too.
Life was different before. It was happier. And how good can it be to change the CONSTITUTION just to stay in the power for more time? That's selfish
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@donskiber everyone else that doesn't live in Venezuela must understand that his actions are way different than his words. Just Google "petare caracas" and you'll see where the people live.
The lady who cleans my aunt's house is around 80 years old, and she still has to work. But the point is she's lost SIX members of her family because of the insecurity. That's where she lives: Petare. And her grandsons were all killed there. Do you think that's a good life quality? I don't think so...
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4. Believe it or not, I know at least 15 people who have been kidnapped and a lot more who have been robbed (including myself).
5. This morning my GRANDFATHER was driving to the church in Venezuela when two groups of criminals started shooting at each other, and one of the groups was hiding behind his car while shooting. No police officers showed up in the whole while.
6. I know and I agree that Chávez is an awesome speaker, and he says impressively accurate things. But you and
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@donskiber any gold or any other expensive jewelry in Venezuela, because it would be an act of stupidity. And I do know a lot of people who have been kidnapped. And you know what? I can tell the difference because I'm spending this summer in Florida.
From the smallest thing, everything's different. Houses don't have big walls and electric fences protecting them like they do in Venezuela. Streets are well asphalted here, too.
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@donskiber what I don't like. It's his actions, because they are completely different to what he says.
3. I understand that someone who doesn't live in Venezuela can't completely understand the situation, because even if you know all the facts you're not experiencing them in your day to day life. But we have to deal with not finding sugar, milk, etc. in the supermarkets; with electricity suddenly going off; being constantly nervous because of the insecurity.
I'm telling you that no one wears
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@donskiber expropriate these companies, and that would worry me if I was part of them, too. You don't have to be an expert to know that. And it's not the media that has told me that Chávez does this. It's his actions, like expropriating "Hipermercados Éxito", for instance.
2. I do admit that Chávez's PROPOSALS are not always wrong. The politicians of the so called 4th Republic in Venezuela, in fact, did not pay attention to the poor and I think that's completely wrong. It's not the proposals
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@donskiber EXCUSE ME? I'm sorry, but I think it's not me exaggerating, but you taking my words extremely literally. When I say he has destroyed Venezuela completely, I don't mean it literally. I'll extend myself a little to explain my point, since you're asking for "arguments of my own".
1) I'm not an Economist or an expert, but I do know that a lot of big companies that were established in Venezuela have moved to Colombia or Costa Rica. Chávez could arbitrarily decide that he wants to
The NY Times will say that Chavez "rambled," because he doesn't follow the style of American public speaking, scripted, with market tested sound bites and catchy words, fitting to a society with profit making in its marrow and attention deficit disorder fogging its mind. Chavez speaks the truth from his heart, and that shows. That's why he doesn't connect with the U.S. elites but does just fine with regular working people everywhere. Viva Chavez!
DoroteoAranjuez 2 years ago 18
Fantastic speech.
tchoco 2 years ago 9