What!!!!!! He deserved to die then. He must have been a monster. Of all the nerve!!
Just like and at the same time Saddam. Ahmwhatshisface, Kim Jong Il, and Afghanistan did.
What!!!!!! He deserved to die then. He must have been a monster. Of all the nerve!!
Well, that only leaves Ahmanutcase to bump off then. Gawd bless America for ridding the world of upiddy scum who don't use the US currency.Just like and at the same time Saddam. Ahmwhatshisface, Kim Jong Il, and Afghanistan did.
Well.... not all
Venezuelans celebrate Hugo Chavez's death in South Florida - YouTube
You can say that again!
Well, that only leaves Ahmanutcase to bump off then. Gawd bless America for ridding the world of upiddy scum who don't use the US currency.
So there Americans if they live in Florida Smack. And they have to live there because the good Venesulans kicked them out for working for Uncle Sham.
Former Caracas Wal Mart employees.So there Americans if they live in Florida Smack. And they have to live there because the good Venesulans kicked them out for working for Uncle Sham.
Former Caracas Wal Mart employees.
The crime problem in Venezuela is related to drugs and gang violence and unrelated to Chavez's reforms. Mexico has the same problems only worse and they don't have Chavez. Funny how no one blames the Mexican government for these problems, yet some here believe Chavez is somehow responsible for problems caused by what is really an American drug problem. Legalize and regulate drugs and the crime goes away.
I disagree with the way how Chavez nationalized some corporations. IMO, what he did was theft. As a result corporations pulled out of Venezuela and took their money with them, leading to devaluation of the Venezuelan currency. Also inflation is a predictable result of raising the standard of living of the poor. More wealth in the hands of the poor increases demand, reducing supply leading to inflation. But inflation resulting from these causes are short term. Eventually inflation should settle down as the Venezuelan economy stabilizes at a new normal.
If Venezuela increased monetary supply (quantitative easing) to pay their bills that would also cause inflation. Our governments here in Canada and the US have been doing this since 2008 and eventually all that extra money has to come back and bite us big time. We will eventually experience the same inflationary pressures when our economies recover and people start buying and borrowing.
Before or after sanctions for ditching the USD?I doubt Venezuelans could afford Wal-Mart prices down there.
Be nice, Goober; this is a memorial thread.
Seems like Bear took your advice...
I really don't know much about Chavez, but it is my tendency to judge a man's character by the number of people who buy the media inspired hatred for the person. Judging by who hated him and who thought he did good for his people, I would have to conclude he was not worthy of hatred.
The voices of his people.
BBC News - Hugo Chavez death: Supporters united in grief
Before or after sanctions for ditching the USD?
Well, you got THAT right.....anyone that disagreed with him was certainly not considered part of the people.
that is how tyrants operate.
Yanick Labrie: Hugo Chavez Left a Sad Legacy
Owen Jones in The Independent
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"The truth is that Chavez won democratic election after democratic election, despite the often vicious hostility of the media, because his policies transformed the lives of millions of previously ignored Venezuelans. Poverty has fallen from nearly half to 27.8 per cent, while absolute poverty has been more than halved. Six million children receive free meals a day; near-universal free health care has been established; and education spending has doubled as a proportion of GDP. A housing programme launched in 2011 built over 350,000 homes, bringing hundreds of thousands of families out of sub-standard housing in thebarrios. Some of his smug foreign critics suggest Chavez effectively bought the votes of the poor – as though winning elections by delivering social justice is somehow bribery."
So why did the CIA back out of the coup? They realized he was liked and there would be American blood spread far and wide across Venezuela and South America because of it?Before and after.
They forget to mention those were Native people pulled up first. Over Hugo's time in office how many got to at least grade 9 or 10 who would never have before? Will they be able to finish?From CNN
Making the poor count -- a Hugo Chavez legacy - CNN.com
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"But, for the outside world, at least, the inclusion of the poor will probably remain at the top of Chavez's legacy.
"The formula is so simple it makes you wonder why nobody thought of it before. After all, a 22-year-old single mother of two in Petare, Chapeu Mangueira, Chimalhuacan or Ciudad Bolivar, doesn't care about macroeconomic policies or free market economies, but about a leader who will make it possible to feed her children tomorrow. And to millions of Venezuelans, that was Hugo Chavez."