The Chavez Connection - USA

May 2008
Hugo Chavez's cheeky diplomacy has reached new heights recently; standing the US's policy of global intervention on its head, he has launched an aid campaign to reinvigorate the New York Bronx.

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[wnxsilence]

The USA is a great example of a Socialist paradise.....For the rich! Corporate profits are privatized, and losses are nationalized.

The so called radical Communist(As the U.S media claims) Obama has no problem with giving billions in bailouts the very bankers who caused the collapse of America's finanicial network.

[DMPineau]

Apparently you've never been to West Philadelphia, or the Pueblo rez in New Mexico. Believe me, there are parts of the United States that are third world. In this, the richest country in the world, we have no universal healthcare, education, our unions are a joke, our real wages have been dropping for 20 years, and we have the world's largest prison population by far. Capitalism thrives on scarcity, keeping the world poor so a few can benefit from wage labor while the rest of the world starves.

[ScotteDio]

Yet, American poors living better most Venezuelans...especially with people who use to be middle class.

[SupremePenguinTone]

Okay, I love what Chavez is doing, but with poverty, inflation and violence tearing Venezuela apart how can they justify spending millions of THEIR money on America? It's like what the Bible says about trying to remove a straw from your brother's eye when you have a rafter in your own. It is A LOT easier to escape poverty in the Bronx than it is in many Venezuelean cities. I just think Chavez is doing this to try and make America look bad. 

[studape]

If you need help from the US government you better be ready for bombs, death and destruction because that is what we are about. Our cities are being destroyed from within and the government does not care. No universal health care means more weapons to fuck with the resource rich people of the world.

[izquierda7]

minute 12:23

he has a rather unusual smile for somebody that speaks the truth.

[joesl8]

So true. I remember my co-workers going into a frenzy on how we need to bail out the banks. The economy will collapse, we and businesses will not be able to get loans!? I knew this was a bad thing, giving these bastards more of our money but our government once again feared us into doing what they want. Not to many people know about Chavez's donation, so this guy speaking against him is an idiot puppet. Chavez might be crazy but he's doing more for poor in the US than our politicians? Crazy huh?

[wnxsilence]

See this? The Venezuelan people extend a hand of friendship to America, and the U.S only responds with agression and threats.

No wonder Chavez hates the U.S government. I am not suprised the fascists who run America don't want people to help the poor.

[RubirosaVillalona]

but fuck the the heritage foundation guy... hypocrite...

[RubirosaVillalona]

I do agree tho ... The US doesn't really help the poor,. However, criticizing capitalism as ineffective and citing that it should be overhauled is not productive. its best to fix the wheel not reinvent it