Song for Hugo Chavez

Lots of people have problems with Chavez. He's too free market for the communists. He's too authoritarian for the anarchists. He's too military for the pacifists. Whatever. He's also arguably the most radical elected leader of a national government on the planet today.

Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (born July 28, 1954) is the President of Venezuela. As the leader of the Bolivarian Revolution, Chávez promotes a political doctrine of participatory democracy, socialism and Latin American and Caribbean cooperation. He is also a critic of neoliberalism, globalization, and United States foreign policy.




A career military officer, Chávez founded the left-wing Fifth Republic Movement after orchestrating a failed 1992 coup d'état against former President Carlos Andrés Pérez. Chávez was elected President in 1998 with a campaign centering on promises of aiding Venezuela's poor majority, and was reelected in 2000 and in 2006. Domestically, Chávez has maintained nationwide Bolivarian Missions, whose goals are to combat disease, illiteracy, malnutrition, poverty, and other social ills. Abroad, Chávez has acted against the Washington Consensus by supporting alternative models of economic development, and has advocated cooperation among the world's poor nations, especially those in Latin America.
Chávez's policies have evoked controversy in Venezuela and abroad, receiving everything from vehement criticism to enthusiastic support. The government of the United States claims that Chávez is a threat to democracy in Latin America. Many other governments sympathize with his ideology or welcome his bilateral trade and reciprocal aid agreements. In 2005 and 2006 he was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people.

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[l0b1z0n]

maten a esa webada

ya hay 12 venezolanos que han pedid asilo en un pais vecino

ha matado peridistas de opsicion

ha cerrado canales de tv radios y prensa de oposicion

No merece vivir la basura esta

[blunt1984]

If Chavez is so bad, then why is Argentina's President, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, friends with him?

Si Chávez es tan malo, ¿por qué es el Presidente de Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, los amigos con él?

[SArmagh681]

dont really care for him, he is a dictator who is suppresing free speech in his country and flooding the airwaves with propganda, he is only intrested in his power, and to the guy who said his ties with Iran is only econmic, well that is still bad, The Iranian Goverment is horrible and is much worse than Isreal. not to mention Chavez is supplying FARC which kidnaps and murders innocent people in Columbia, even the poor farmers who wont help them

[blunt1984]

Hell, Obama's economic advisor, Jeffrey Immelt, the CEO of GE (General Electric) was selling technological equipment to Iran while Iran's EFP's (explosively formed projectiles) were killing American soldiers in Iraq!

Yes, the FARC are not nice guys, but the Columbian government is pretty much a neo-fascist American puppet that supports it's own right-wing death squads.

Chavez was freely elected president in 1998, then re-elected in 2000 and in 2006. A bit different from most dictators.

[shockolanu]

Long live freedom!

Long live Chavez!

Long live Castro!

[shockolanu]

All hail Hugo Chaves! All hail Castro! All fuck USA!

[ThereAreNoUnionThugs]

@Wraith23

Chavez works 16 hours per day and studies for another 2.

He reads the ancient greek philosophers.

Listen to his speech at the UN where he starts off recommending a book called "Hegemony or survival", then make your own judgement about his intelligence.

Then watch Obama or Romney or Santorum or Newt make a speech, I think you will find they lack substance in comparison to Hugo.

[ThereAreNoUnionThugs]

@Wraith23

Yes but the USA worked with Hitler; Ford and Lindbergh got iron crosses;

The USA set up a coup on Chavez with snipers and by distorting the time-line of the violence that followed on their private media.

If Chavez were fascist USA would realize he could control the people for them and would love him, just like the loved to sell tanks to old Hitler.

[ThereAreNoUnionThugs]

@blunt1984

In 1998 he won with the largest share of the popular vote in over 40 years.

He has also allowed for major decisions to be made by referendum in 1999, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2008.

The last time the people had their say in a referendum before him was in 1957.

He clearly loves freedom and democracy about 100 X as much as Canada or the USA, but 'cause he protects Venezuela's resources, is proving the worth of socialism and nationalization, uniting South America he is the enemy.

[raimercerus]

LONG LIVE CHAVEZ, LONG LIVE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD, ¡¡¡LONG LIVE REVOLUTION!!!

[swebbeeh]

Long Live Chávez!

[jaypauldini]

long may chavez rule

[magnus2400]

@shockolanu yes comredt viva socialism

[DODO7878]

@Wraith23 so was BUSH!

[Wraith23]

@blunt1984

"Chavez was freely elected president in 1998"

So was Hitler......... you are fascist!

[Wraith23]

@CallUmHowISeeUm

Chavez is an idiot..... thats 85% communist, the other 15% is ignorance.