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Offline Karin

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Re: If Chavez is dead, we need to be in solidarity with the people of Venezuela.
« Reply #25 on: March 06, 2013, 02:26:57 PM »
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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:
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Re: If Chavez is dead, we need to be in solidarity with the people of Venezuela.
« Reply #26 on: March 06, 2013, 02:49:21 PM »
Quote from: Karin on March 06, 2013, 02:26:57 PM
Crumbling infrastructure!  :panic:  I thought socialism fixed all that. 

Laura Ingraham just said that she sent Sean Penn a fruitcake in condolence.   :lmao:

A fruitcake for a fruitcake.

How appropriate!   :lmao:
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Re: If Chavez is dead, we need to be in solidarity with the people of Venezuela.
« Reply #27 on: March 06, 2013, 03:24:45 PM »
More Chavez goodness.  He was a great guy.  Seriously, you guys.

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The Ghost of Hugo Chávez

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.
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Re: If Chavez is dead, we need to be in solidarity with the people of Venezuela.
« Reply #28 on: March 07, 2013, 09:20:51 AM »
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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!


It HAS to be a mental disorder that that this idiot and the rest of the DUmpmonkiees cannot fathom the reality that for all the years Chavez was in power, NOTHING got better for the people. Only worse.


My God there isn't enough  :bird: for these retards. (sorry retards)
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Re: If Chavez is dead, we need to be in solidarity with the people of Venezuela.
« Reply #29 on: March 07, 2013, 07:44:48 PM »
If Chavez is dead, I am in solidarity with the worms that have to eat his stinking corpse.
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Re: If Chavez is dead, we need to be in solidarity with the people of Venezuela.
« Reply #30 on: March 07, 2013, 08:12:35 PM »
Quote from: Karin on March 06, 2013, 02:26:57 PM
Crumbling infrastructure!  :panic:  I thought socialism fixed all that. 

Laura Ingraham just said that she sent Sean Penn a fruitcake in condolence.   :lmao:
Under socialism, you don't need to work.
Unicorns and fairey-dust fix all your problems. Yup.
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Re: If Chavez is dead, we need to be in solidarity with the people of Venezuela.
« Reply #31 on: March 07, 2013, 11:23:06 PM »
It's March 7th 2013 and Hugo Chavez is still dead.

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Re: If Chavez is dead, we need to be in solidarity with the people of Venezuela.
« Reply #32 on: March 08, 2013, 09:17:30 AM »
Quote from: Duke Nukum on March 07, 2013, 07:44:48 PM
If Chavez is dead, I am in solidarity with the worms that have to eat his stinking corpse.

Especially since the poor worms are going to go hungry.  Just heard on the news this morning that they're going to stuff and mount his carcass and stick it in a glass case in a museum. :puke:
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Re: If Chavez is dead, we need to be in solidarity with the people of Venezuela.
« Reply #33 on: March 08, 2013, 06:17:12 PM »
Jesse "Shakedown" Jackson went to his funeral. Wonder if his buddies Penn and Stone showed up too.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/03/08/rev-jesse-jackson-attending-chavez-funeral/



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Re: If Chavez is dead, we need to be in solidarity with the people of Venezuela.
« Reply #34 on: March 09, 2013, 07:40:46 AM »
Well, at least he's in a glass box where we can keep an eye on him.
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