Ken Burch (30,701 posts)
If Chavez is dead, we need to be in solidarity with the people of Venezuela.
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The only chance the poor and the dispossessed of that country have is for the revolution to survive. They will be struggling with all their might to preserve it...and the alternative to preserving it is to have the Bain model imposed on that country through international financial pressure(or through the imposition of Capriles, a man who is pretty much the Mitt Romney of Venezuela).
A man may be dead, but the people fight on.
La Lucha Continua!
Cleita (62,236 posts)
2. I'm with you.
He is a complicated man, but one who accomplished much good. There are those here though who still regard him as murderous dictator.
Ken Burch (30,701 posts)How much solidarity can basement dwellers and disability recipients give?
If Chavez is dead, we need to be in solidarity with the people of Venezuela.
Cleita (62,236 posts)
2. I'm with you.
He is a complicated man, and no one understands him but this woman.
Chavez
They say this cat Chavez is a dead mother fuc... shut your mouth
I'm just talking about Chavez, he can take it.
Jose E. Serrano accountâ€@RepJoseSerrano
Hugo Chavez was a leader that understood the needs of the poor. He was committed to empowering the powerless. R.I.P. Mr. President.
Ken Burch (30,701 posts)
If Chavez is dead, we need to be in solidarity with the people of Venezuela.
Let the self righteous anguish begin....
It's just too damned bad that DUmmy tears don't keep worth a damn when you bottle them.Sounds like a good way to get hepatitis.
Sounds like a good way to get hepatitis.
The only chance the poor and the dispossessed of that country have is for the revolution to survive.
Cleita (62,236 posts)
2. I'm with you.
He is a complicated man, and no one understands him but this woman.
Chavez
They say this cat Chavez is a dead mother fuc... shut your mouth
I'm just talking about Chavez, he can take it.
Like almost all socialist experiments, Chavez's "Bolivarian Revolution" was pointless and harmful. It has left Venezuela with a basket-case economy. Venezuela's currency, the bolivar, suffers from 20% inflation and has been devalued five times in a decade. Chavez increased economic equality by spreading the poverty around. His attempts to promote nutrition through price controls resulted in food shortages and malnutrition. He spent millions on unfinished or never started public works projects. Chavez kept Venezuela afloat by exploiting the guaranteed income from the nationalized oil industry, which accounted for over half of government revenue. Nevertheless, he ran up massive budget deficits and increased foreign debt holdings, principally by China.
Looks like a Dem Rep feels like the Dummies... :mad:
From twitter
Read the comments :)
https://twitter.com/RepJoseSerrano/status/309068896734961665
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022463292
Tell you what, pack your bags and go stand in line at the airport for 3 days (because of the sequester) then fly to Venezuela and go show your solidarity by living there.
Chavez's grim legacyNew York Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/chavez_grim_legacy_i5Es9gFA4HrCRJANYPTZkK)
Venezuela’s economy is one of his greatest casualties. The Fraser Institute’s latest Economic Freedom of the World report ranks Venezuela as the least free economy of 144 nations studied. The inflation rate is among the highest in the world.
The concrete facts are grimmer still: The country suffers from chronic shortages of electricity and basic goods. Its roads, bridges and other infrastructure are literally falling apart after years of neglect, while Venezula’s industrial and agricultural capacity has been decimated by repeated expropriations and nationalizations.
The country now imports 70 percent of its food, while oil accounts for 95 percent of its export revenues. The currency was devalued by 32 percent after a government spending spree leading up to last October’s presidential election left a staggering fiscal deficit of 8.5 percent of GDP.
New York Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/chavez_grim_legacy_i5Es9gFA4HrCRJANYPTZkK)
Now that he's dead, all of his secrets will start spilling out of various closets.
New York Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/chavez_grim_legacy_i5Es9gFA4HrCRJANYPTZkK)
Now that he's dead, all of his secrets will start spilling out of various closets.
infrastructure are literally falling apart after years of neglect
Crumbling infrastructure! :panic: I thought socialism fixed all that.
Laura Ingraham just said that she sent Sean Penn a fruitcake in condolence. :lmao:
The Ghost of Hugo ChávezSlate (http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2013/03/hugo_chavez_s_legacy_the_former_venezuelan_president_was_not_the_typical.html)
What has Chávez bequeathed his fellow Venezuelans? The hard facts are unmistakable: The oil-rich South American country is in shambles. It has one of the world’s highest rates of inflation, largest fiscal deficits, and fastest growing debts. Despite a boom in oil prices, the country’s infrastructure is in disrepair—power outages and rolling blackouts are common—and it is more dependent on crude exports than when Chávez arrived. Venezuela is the only member of OPEC that suffers from shortages of staples such as flour, milk, and sugar. Crime and violence skyrocketed during Chávez’s years. On an average weekend, more people are killed in Caracas than in Baghdad and Kabul combined. (In 2009, there were 19,133 murders in Venezuela, more than four times the number of a decade earlier.) When the grisly statistics failed to improve, the Venezuelan government simply stopped publishing the figures.
The political ideology Chávez left behind, Chavismo, was a demonstrable failure for the Venezuelan people, but it is not as if it ever failed Chávez himself. Despite his government’s poor showing, the Comandante’s platform secured him another six years in office, with a decisive 11-point victory, only five months ago. Will Maduro, Chávez’s handpicked successor, and his other cronies be able to pick up where the former president left off?
His successors would be in better shape if Chávez had been a typical South American strongman. But he wasn’t just another caudillo who stuffed ballot boxes and rounded up his enemies. As I describe in my book The Dictator’s Learning Curve, Chávez’s rule was far more sophisticated than such heavy-handed regimes. Like many authoritarian leaders, Chávez centralized power for his own use. Not long after taking office in 1999, he controlled every branch of government, the armed forces, the central bank, the state-owned oil company, most of the media, and any private sector business he chose to expropriate. But Venezuela never experienced massive human rights abuses. Dissidents didn’t disappear in the night, and for all Chavez’s professed love for Fidel Castro, his regime was never as repressive as Castro’s tropical dictatorship.
Ken Burch (30,701 posts)
If Chavez is dead, we need to be in solidarity with the people of Venezuela.
Last edited Tue Mar 5, 2013, 05:15 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)
The only chance the poor and the dispossessed of that country have is for the revolution to survive. They will be struggling with all their might to preserve it...and the alternative to preserving it is to have the Bain model imposed on that country through international financial pressure(or through the imposition of Capriles, a man who is pretty much the Mitt Romney of Venezuela).
A man may be dead, but the people fight on.
La Lucha Continua!
Crumbling infrastructure! :panic: I thought socialism fixed all that.Under socialism, you don't need to work.
Laura Ingraham just said that she sent Sean Penn a fruitcake in condolence. :lmao:
If Chavez is dead, I am in solidarity with the worms that have to eat his stinking corpse.