10 Things You Didn't Know About Hugo Chávez

Wow, Ms. Eddie, you bring up some good points. Nepotism is one. When you say that were you thinking of the Bush family? No, wait… The Clintons. Oh no, you meant the Kennedy family. Ohhh, you meant the Rockerfellers. Oh, you were just having a brain fart. Yeah, yeah, that’s what I thought.

You say, “Its sad that Venezuela has become the current village idiot of this continent.” Shouldn’t that be “It” with an apostrophe s? But generally your English good for a Mexican. But you don’t think you live in Mexico—ahhh, a historically retarded Mexican. Alas, that is not the only blunder in that sentence: you are under the misguided notion that Venezuela is on the same continent as Mexico. Now that’s stupid. Did you learn that in the public school system?

Then you make the blunder, “Everything you own, everything you consume and eat is because of Capitalism making it all happen.” Your current form of capitalism, which is largely financed by communist China and Imperial Japan, only bails out the rich and supports corporations; you need look no further than the bank bailout and the interstate highway system. I think it’s really socialism that makes it all happen. Your capitalism can’t even pay its own bills. (Go Gov. Schwallepecker!)

At least you can take pride in your intellect. You blame the deaths of millions on Russia but fail to look into the mirror. You, and scum like you, managed to inspire Hitler in his quest for the extermination of a race. The weird part is that they failed where you succeeded. You killed millions and you celebrate it every year. Your idol, Ronnie Raygun, was convicted in the World Court for crimes against humanity for killing hundreds of thousand in Nicaragua and Central America. (Go Ronnie!) Your other idol, GeeDub, killed more Iraqis that Hussein did during his regime. (But it wasn't for oil, it's just because scum, and scum like you, enjoy killing. Not to mention oil.)

If you want to have a civilized discussion, bring some facts to the table, not just a heapin’ helpin’ of your arse fudge. Man, are you smart. Capishe?

P.S. Your mom says hi, between gagging and licking.

Just Call Me Sir 10:12AM May 20, 2009

Hector Alvarez of NY, thanks for taking the time to respond. I could find no source to verify you claim that, "61,5 PC of the population are against the chavez way of governing..."

I don't believe that there is a good vs. evil argument to be made. It's really a people vs. people argument. For centuries the indigenous population has been given the the table scraps of the colonists. I don't see a problem with the poor indigenous getting their fair share of the countries resources.

There is no such thing as free trade. It's more like the rich taking commodities from the poor for less than market value, selling those commodities for more that market value, then taxing the poor for stealing from them.

Capitalism is the belief that money is more important than people. I don't believe that philosophy. I support anyone who opposes capitalism. If the people vote in someone who believes differently that you, that does not mean it's not democracy.

You did answer a question, but it was about Carmona, not Chavez.

Some statistics on crime I found indicate that in Venezuela there are

9.3 crimes for every 1000 people vs 80/1000 in the US

Rape - .11/1000 vs .30/1000 in the US

Robberies - 1.37/1000 vs. 1.38 in the US

Prisoners - 76 per 100,000 vs 715 per 100,000 (nationmaster.com)

Even though the US claims to be fighting a war against terrorism, and has an extradition treaty with Venezuela (since 1923), why is Luis Posada Carriles living as a free man in Miami,Florida?

No offense intended, but it takes a blind man to believe the US is a great country and Venezuela evil.

You claim, "It is imposible to live well in Venezuela beacuse of people like you who have an instruction to destroy what is good, I call it EVIL." (I think you mean to imply that my thinking is evil.) I claim it is impossible to live well in Venezuela because of the meddling of the US government and its desire to control global oil reserves. Imagine if N. Korea had oil... We'd've bombed them back to the stone age years ago. The basic philosophy of oil is something like: If you are brown people whose country sits atop a vast reservoir of oil, your lives are in danger. You don't see us going after Canada, Norway, Russia, or any white nations... What about Iran, Iraq, Venezuela, Afghanistan (pipe lines from Iraq)? Next we're going after any nation with a good supply of clean, fresh water.

Who's evil?

Chris Jones 9:36AM May 14, 2009

Hector Alvarez of NY, please give me some facts or figures to cross check. My mind is open, it seems that you are the one blinded.

In your first letter you state, "Gentlemen, he had resigned by the day of february 11th, his resignation was readed by his minister of war in a television transmition country and world wide." In the documentary, "The Revolution will not be Televised," it's pretty clear that he never resigned. The CIA backed puppets of the U.S., and the snipers who shot innocent bystanders, aided by the elitist media owners, staged this failed coup.

In your response to me, you state, "Hugo Chavez lies in all his speeches saying wrong and outdated things supposed he did and you'll see later it was not true." I'm totally open and interested in your examples of your claim.

You also state, that Venezuelans want "to travel to USA to visit as the ones like me that consider your great nation as my second country. Bush lied virtually every time he opened his mouth while on TV. Obama has already backed out of most of his election campaign promises.

What are the parts that make it great? Do you think that the politicians here don't lie to you? Please, I'm wanting to be persuaded... give me some examples. You didn't answer a single question I posed in my first letter. Here's just one more; why don't you think Pedro Carmona is a traitor? What makes him so good?

Chris Jones 12:05PM May 10, 2009

Hector, why don't you move back to the land of the free? If it's so great, why did you leave?

Alberto, Jimmy Carter's organization monitored the election. In the U.S. the government refuses to allow Carter, or anyone, to monitor the elections (except maybe FOX news). This is a quote from www.cartercenter.org "...We congratulate the Venezuelan people for their enthusiastic participation in yesterday's election, and for their demonstration of faith in the democratic process. They voted calmly and peacefully, but definitively for change. We congratulate Venezuela's National Electoral Council and all of those who worked to ensure a smooth and efficient electoral process."

Rosa, President Chavez never resigned. He was kidnapped and held captive. He was elected my greater margins than any president from the U.S. ever has been.

Currently Venezuela has a better literacy rate than the US. Why is that? There is health care for all; what about the US? There is free higher education; the U.S.? He provides the U.S. poor with low cost heating oil in the winter; the U.S.? He's redistributing land which was stolen by colonists. He still faces well coordinated opposition from colonialist capitalists there and from the U.S. Sure there is crime, but just look at any newspaper from the US--there has been a huge rash of violence against police, fathers killing families, church workers killing children, actors head-butting fashion designers... where is there no violence?

Any of you, answer me this, why should American and other foreign corporations own utility companies in Venezuela? Why should 20 percent of the population, made up of colonialist familes, own more than 80 percent of the land. Why should oil companies get the lions share of profits from the oil of Venezuela? Why did the private television stations refuse to broadcast any of the legitimate government's news after the failed coup attempt? Why did the elitist doctors refuse to help the poor when Chavez asked them for help? Why did he have to turn to Cuba to find qualified doctors that would volunteer to help? Why would you worship the only country to successfully accomplish genocide against its original inhabitants--by some estimates to be more than 12 million innocent aboriginals? The US has a health care system that has, what, the best infant mortality rate in the world? No, 31 on the list for infant mortality. Now that's some great health care.

Long live, and good luck to, the most popularly elected president in the history of democracy, Hugo Chavez!

Chris Jones 3:23AM May 08, 2009