Chavez... tick tick tick
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You're clueless.. what choice did they have, the opposition was threatened into submission, family members kidnapped, as well as trying to control the media outlets..
Hugo Chavez threatens to take opposition TV station off air - Telegraph
Latin America politics is corrupt as hell.
https://www.whatsnextvenezuela.com/issues/abuse-of-power/
Funny, sorta reminds me of Obama and their hatred for FoxNews..
Which reminds me...
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Well I wasn't going to drink any booze for at least a month but seeing as how the end is close I'll have to buy a bottle of cheap 'champagne' to toast the dictator's demise.
Or maybe a half bottle-it's all he deserves.
Or maybe a half bottle-it's all he deserves.
Careful bill barilko, the Liberal ELITE of CanadianContent.net may attack you for that comment... :lol:
BTW, Cheers to ya..!
Boomer for heaven sake Chavez is not a dictator he won two or three elections in a row.
In the beginning he won over eighty percent of the vote this last one he was down twelve
percent. Yes he was elected and fairly, every supervisory group known to man supervised
the vote with monitors. The problem is that poor people were not given the vote and he
saw this as his advantage passed a law and millions of new voters supported him.
Where was America And other nations, they supported the old regimes that prevented
democracy. Now they are dealing with the error of their ways.
Someone said all that oil for America, that won't happen any time soon as the party in
power will remain with a strong showing from the poor and lower middle class as they now
reap the benefits. The shops may or may not be full but the present government makes
sure the poorer folks have what they need. I think the Chavez legacy will not fade with his
passing it will force the electorate to go out and vote.
Central and South America are both regions of the world where culture, status and even
religion are about to collide. the poor outnumber the rich accounting for electoral support.
As for culture and religion, Chavez is smart he is still a Catholic he has not abandoned the
church and if the Church wants to keep the poor and others on side they can't denounce
Chavez in full force. We are watching a changing world where almost all of South America
is going over to a left of center revolution with the exceptions of Columbia and Panama.
In the beginning he won over eighty percent of the vote this last one he was down twelve
percent. Yes he was elected and fairly, every supervisory group known to man supervised
the vote with monitors. The problem is that poor people were not given the vote and he
saw this as his advantage passed a law and millions of new voters supported him.
Where was America And other nations, they supported the old regimes that prevented
democracy. Now they are dealing with the error of their ways.
Someone said all that oil for America, that won't happen any time soon as the party in
power will remain with a strong showing from the poor and lower middle class as they now
reap the benefits. The shops may or may not be full but the present government makes
sure the poorer folks have what they need. I think the Chavez legacy will not fade with his
passing it will force the electorate to go out and vote.
Central and South America are both regions of the world where culture, status and even
religion are about to collide. the poor outnumber the rich accounting for electoral support.
As for culture and religion, Chavez is smart he is still a Catholic he has not abandoned the
church and if the Church wants to keep the poor and others on side they can't denounce
Chavez in full force. We are watching a changing world where almost all of South America
is going over to a left of center revolution with the exceptions of Columbia and Panama.
World News - If you thought that Costa Rica’s political landscape was something of a disaster zone then think again – you could be Venezuelan. Hugo Chavez became one of many “Elected Dictators” this week when he was voted in by the Venezuelan People (actually he was not) and will stay in office now for another 6 years. Poor Venezuelans.
Who is Hugo Chavez? Why is Hugo Chavez a dictator? Let’s look at the facts:
Chavez since he came to power has jailed his political opponents on trumped up charges. This includes his most recent challenger Henrique Capriles who he accused of being the ring leader on an assault on the Cuban embassy some years ago.
Chavez has closed the anti-Chavez television stations and made all newspapers join his revolution or go bust. In other words media is all pro-Chavez inside Venezuela. He has even tried to block out parts of the Internet but he’s not work outed how to do that quite just yet.
The largest single opposition voting bloc of Venezuelans is in Miami (that’s where they all flee to when Chavez accuses them of something or they get too successful). He closed the Miami embassy so they could not vote.
Chavez installed electronic vote counters that even Jimmy Carter’s electoral team did not believe. With an alleged 81% turnout (unheard of in Venezuela – where were the jungle natives going to vote to get to this crazy turnout figure?) Chavez could win by 10% easily.
Chavez funded his campaign with state cash. The Opposition had to rely on what they had and the Internet. Outside funds were hard to get hold of because bringing foreign currency into Venezuela is hard when you have no way to cash it (unless you are Chavez that is).
Finally, state workers and the military were told they’d lose their jobs if they voted for anyone apart from Chavez.
Chavez stole the election. So if you think we’ve got it bad here with a bunch of crazies running the country, always remember things could be far worse. We could be living in Venezuela.
SOURCE: Dictator Hugo Chavez Fraudulently Gets Re-Elected in Venezuela | The Costa Rican Times
A guy who hangs gays and a guy who sucks up to a guy who hangs gays.
Hey look RetCan... anyone that "stands up to America" is OK in their book. It doesn't matter how many gay people they hang. Besides the President of Iran has said there are no gay people in Iran and that it is an American phenomena.
Embargos?Boner said:
Why are there empty shelves in Venezuelan supermarkets?
Venezuela
Located in eastern Venezuela, north of the Orinoco River, the Orinoco Oil Belt is of a similar geographic extent as that of the Canadian oil sands. The deposits are not bitumen per se but extra-heavy oil. (Natural bitumen and extra-heavy oil are closely related types of petroleum, differing from each other only in the degree by which they have been degraded from the original crude oil by bacteria and erosion.)
The Venezuelan deposits are less degraded than the Canadian deposits and, due to their more equatorial location, are at a significantly higher temperature. Therefore they are easier to extract by conventional techniques - however they are still too heavy to transport by pipeline or process in normal refineries.
Unlike Canada, Venezuela has not had access to capital and technological prowess; therefore it has not been able to optimize the design and construction of bitumen upgraders and heavy oil refineries. In addition, the Venezuelan product has a high sulphur content and particulate emission making it difficult to meet international environmental regulations.
We can't let them get ahead of us.
The embargos will end when Northern Gateway, XL and a few others go through.
North American economy....tick tick tick
I don't think the "no pissing on someone's grave for 30 days rule" should apply to war criminals and mass murderers. Anyone care to attempt prove Chavez is either?
Chavez has a better record regarding starting unprovoked wars of aggression and number of innocent civilian deaths than US President George W. Bush.
Unlike recently deceased war criminal and mass murderer General Norman Schwarzkopf, Chavez never gave an order to slaughter disarmed retreating soldiers in violation of an agreement to prevent a city's destruction. (@20,000 dead Iraqi soldiers, mostly involuntary conscripts in their late teens and early 20's)
Unlike recently deceased war criminal and mass murderer General Norman Schwarzkopf, Chavez never gave orders to drop millions of leaflets and radio broadcasts into a sovereign country encouraging a popular revolt with promises of military support and then did nothing as the people revolted. ( @ 100,000 dead Iraqi civilians as a result)
If you want to debate those statements about war criminal mass murderer Schwarzkopf, that would be on topic here:
http://forums.canadiancontent.net/history/113536-leaving-kuwait.html#post1693646
Chavez came to power by democratic elections. He was re-elected, proving he represented the will of more Venezuelans than any other candidate. While Venezuela's wealthy elite and foreign investors took a hit under Chavez, Venezuela's middle and poor class are far better off now than they were before Chavez came to power.
Chavez's worst offenses:
Property Expropriation: Landowners with giant estates who were not using all their land, faced expropriation of unused land. If they could prove they were using it, they could keep it. Expropriated land was then sold at affordable prices to people who would use the land to generate economic activity or build homes.
Increased Resource Royalties: Resource extraction companies (oil) have to pay far more now for the right to exploit Venezuela's resources than they did before Chavez came to power. But the terms are still far more generous than what corporations have to pay in Canada or the US to do the same thing.
Reactions:
TV host urges US to kill Chavez
Assassination call
US religious broadcaster Pat Robertson has called for the US to assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
BBC NEWS | Americas | TV host urges US to kill Chavez
and
CIA and FBI Plan to Assassinate Hugo Chávez | Global Research
Chavez has a better record regarding starting unprovoked wars of aggression and number of innocent civilian deaths than US President George W. Bush.
Unlike recently deceased war criminal and mass murderer General Norman Schwarzkopf, Chavez never gave an order to slaughter disarmed retreating soldiers in violation of an agreement to prevent a city's destruction. (@20,000 dead Iraqi soldiers, mostly involuntary conscripts in their late teens and early 20's)
Unlike recently deceased war criminal and mass murderer General Norman Schwarzkopf, Chavez never gave orders to drop millions of leaflets and radio broadcasts into a sovereign country encouraging a popular revolt with promises of military support and then did nothing as the people revolted. ( @ 100,000 dead Iraqi civilians as a result)
If you want to debate those statements about war criminal mass murderer Schwarzkopf, that would be on topic here:
http://forums.canadiancontent.net/history/113536-leaving-kuwait.html#post1693646
Chavez came to power by democratic elections. He was re-elected, proving he represented the will of more Venezuelans than any other candidate. While Venezuela's wealthy elite and foreign investors took a hit under Chavez, Venezuela's middle and poor class are far better off now than they were before Chavez came to power.
Chavez's worst offenses:
Property Expropriation: Landowners with giant estates who were not using all their land, faced expropriation of unused land. If they could prove they were using it, they could keep it. Expropriated land was then sold at affordable prices to people who would use the land to generate economic activity or build homes.
Increased Resource Royalties: Resource extraction companies (oil) have to pay far more now for the right to exploit Venezuela's resources than they did before Chavez came to power. But the terms are still far more generous than what corporations have to pay in Canada or the US to do the same thing.
Reactions:
TV host urges US to kill Chavez
Assassination call
US religious broadcaster Pat Robertson has called for the US to assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
BBC NEWS | Americas | TV host urges US to kill Chavez
and
CIA and FBI Plan to Assassinate Hugo Chávez | Global Research
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I think we should introduce a nation-wide two-minute morning hate. It would be refreshingly cathartic. All our dear leaders would have to do is select a personality to whom we would direct our hate. The choice would not have to be particularly sophisticated or based on reality; anyone really would do. This would get the blood flowing before breakie.
Orwell 2 Minutes of Hate - YouTube
Orwell 2 Minutes of Hate - YouTube
Thanks, I needed that! Pass the toast and jam, please. Weather's improving, don't you think?
What a load of BS. Disarmed and retreating soldiers... in violation of an agreement to prevent a city's destruction. Since when is attacking a retreating army... retreating because they are were getting thumped a violation of the rules of war.
Chavez murdered tens of thousands of Venezuelans and Columbians and tortured millions.