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Comrade Chavez At It Again
Comrade Chavez is spewing more venom in Venezuela again. This time in response to President Bush's tour in Latin America. From FoxNews:
Venezuela's firebrand leader said Friday that President Bush's Latin American tour was nothing more than an attempt to improve America's image, dismissing pledges of U.S. aid as a cynical attempt to "confuse" the region.
I find the word choice in this opening statement, refering to the communist dictator as a "firebrand leader' rathr repugnant, but typical of the MSM viewpoint that anything that is opposite America and our values must be good, and America and its leaders are invariably bad. At least Republican leaders.
President Hugo Chavez, who complained last week that Bush's tour was meant to divide Latin America and isolate his leftist government, launched a counter-tour of his own, arriving late Thursday in Buenos Aires. He said the U.S. leader only recently "has discovered poverty" in the region."I believe the chief objective of the Bush trip is to try to scrub clean the face of the (U.S.) empire in Latin America. But it's too late," Chavez said of recent Bush pledges of aid. "It seems he's just now discovered that poverty exists in the region."
In an interview with Argentine state television Channel 7, Chavez promised his scheduled soccer-stadium rally Friday night in Buenos Aires "will be confrontational. I believe you have to point out the contrasts. If he says 'Yes,' we say, 'No!'"
America has been very cognizant of poverty in the region south of the U.S., and its causes: government corruption, communism, drug cartels, and dictators like Hugo Chavez.
This year, Chavez has been very successful in concentrating total power in his country with himself, including the power to pass laws and confiscate property by decree (no checks and balances).
Okay, so if Chavez wants to be confrontational, and say "no!' to everything we say "yes" to, let that also include ALL economic aid to that region as it is obvious that they do not appreciate our efforts to help them rise out of poverty and grasp the hand of freedom. They seem to prefer totalitarianism and enslavement rather than liberty and self-government.
Gotta wonder: how long will it take the people of Venezuela to wake up and smell the roses; to realize that they've been had and have given total power to megalomaniac.
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