'US rulers celebrating Chavez's death'

A Latin America expert tells Press TV that the United States politicians in Washington and New York are celebrating the tragic death of Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez.

Venezuela's leader Hugo Chavez has died after a long battle with cancer. Tearful Vice President Nicolas Maduro announced Chavez' death directly from a Caracas military hospital. Maduro had earlier told the nation that Chavez was given cancer by enemies, adding that the imperialistic powers were seeking to destabilize Venezuela-- both militarily and economically. The vice president said Caracas had expelled an American diplomat for trying to stir up a military coup against Chavez. The Venezuelan Foreign Ministry has also announced the expulsion of a second US official. The Pentagon has confirmed that a US military attaché -- expelled from Venezuela-- is en route back to the United States but US officials have rejected as absurd Venezuela's allegation that the US has been behind Chavez's death.

Press TV has conducted an interview with Richard Becker, a Latin America expert from Berkeley, California, to further talk over the issue.

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[dvalentino007]

If Obama dies then we'll all be celebrating

[MsColdCanada]

No. It is a completely bat-crap-crazy theory. Next you'll say my aunt who passed of lung cancer at the age of 47 was a test subject for Chavez's death. Cancer sucks but it happens.

[chuckb11]

First of all, I said contemporary, the Soviet Union hasn't existed in 22 years. Yugoslavia in 21 years.

Secondly, Soviet Union, Vietnam, Cambodia and North Korea are/were communist, not socialist. (which is not actually a type of government, but whatever...)

Thirdly, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia and Ethiopia are all republics. Just like, guess what? The Republic of the United States.

As I guessed, you have no idea what socialism is. You pretty much think it's communism for some reason.

[ripptorn9]

Socialist countries have tendencie to kill there own people.Never in life have I said that the is with out it's darkside,but does not have history killing large groups of it's own. Here are some that do.People's Republic of China,

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic,Democratic People's Republic of Korea,Cambodia,Democratic Republic of Afghanistan,Vietnam,People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia,Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and lots more.

[chuckb11]

How about the millions of others that have been killed under The American heel? there are plenty of existing nations employing a socialist social structure that are successful and far less violent than the war mongering United States.

Or maybe you could realize that one exception to the rule doesn't make it the rule. Or maybe you could stop seeing the world in black and white like a child and realize there are no defined parameters to make a good and just society.

[ripptorn9]

Ohh so the three years I lived in Albania never happened? I am so glad you know so much about what I know and have lived through. Maybe because you said so I never saw the horrible and disgusting things I saw of socialism. Maybe that you know what has happened in that time that I was there you could erase that from my heart. With your magic lies. Just like the magic lies of Socialism. Can you not see that under that banner the millions of it's own that have been killed under it's red heel.

[James Pua Keaweehu]

Yeah, that's what I mean about some of these people - they think the whole world is one big conspiracy theory.

[Daniel Burdick]

In 1973 a fraudulent document (comparable to the 1910 Flexner Report) was concocted by the American Psychiatric Association Task Force #7. This 58 page report pretended to be a peer review scientific work (comparable to the pretend clinical testing Reports on safety and efficacy of new psych drug agents and uses - see New England Journal of Medicine Risperidone for Autistic Children). TF7 in 58 pg.s declared Their Own Best people (for Chemical treatment in Psychiatry) Doctors WRONG for all time

[Daniel Burdick]

In 1973 they were planning to make the DSM3 which struck out the post Freudian Adlerian Jungian terms that had been with Psychiatry for decade (complexes, neuroses...). The DSM3 made everything "Medical model." Capitalizing on the Prescription writing capabilities of its practitioners the Am Psychiatric Association merged with Big Pharma. All deviance from normality Diagnoses were now to be a unidentified yet real Medical disease calling for real Medical treatment IE Prescription drug pills.

[Daniel Burdick]

Pick up Library Books for Laypeople, Professionals or Students - look at Magazines, watch Television Dramas, - listen to NPR radio, attend NAMI Meetings and you'll receive the Same Propaganda Messages from a hundred sources about this "Neuropsychopharmacology Psychiatry." Risperdal TMAP whistle blower trial happened finally in Texas (see, 1 boring Old Man) - Columbia Cornell and Duke CONSPIRED to create a Medication Algorithm (to in affect tell doctors to use Rispredal etc) in collusion w Pharma

[Daniel Burdick]

Very good. Different sources is problematic, a person could look at different sources and these are Time Warner and company. Its been said that CNN TV in the USA was somewhat better than most initially while know it is worse than FOX. I have that general feeling. FOX is an improvement over NPR and Liberal sources and some Progressive in regards to the hideous "Psychiatry" in the USA and abroad. They Psychologically "diagnose" with word tests and treat "Medically" with Patented drugging agents.