"THE VICAR" <whiney.baby@gmail.com> wrote :

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The communist dictator of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, who's like
Saddam in that he's using the oil wealth of his country to
maintain an oppressive dictatorship, was asking OPEC to raise
oil prices so

oppressive dictatorship? Any evidence to back that up, sonny?

Which word didn't you understand in english?

http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4199
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=2312

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50201

Ex-mistress accuses Hugo Chavez
of 'imposing a fascist dictatorship'
Warns: 'A totalitarian regime is coming ...
he doesn't believe in democratic institutions'
Posted: May 14, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

Herma Marksman, who spent nearly 10 years of her life as "the
other woman" at the side of Hugo Chavez, as the military man
plotted his way to power in the '80s and 90's, still recalls her
ex-lover as "sweet" and "kind," but when it comes to his current
rule over Venezuela, the ex-mistress uses words like
"totalitarian" and "fascist dictatorship."

The professor of history, who's written two books about Chavez's
politics, told the London Times: "He is imposing a fascist
dictatorship. A totalitarian regime is coming because he doesn't
believe in democratic institutions. Hugo controls all the
powers."

Marksman, whose home was used by Chavez to plan his coup against
the Venezuelan government, says the two once shared a dream of "a
prosperous Venezuela where justice would reign".

"We were preparing for the time when we would be in government,"
Marksman has written. "We wanted to establish a state in which
the law was respected, to abolish corruption, to develop our
basic industries and to do a real restructuring of the education
system. None of that has happened.

"If anything, there has been a turning for the worse. Today there
is more injustice, and no sign of that group of democrats who
voiced, and accepted, different opinions. We live under an
autocrat who does not respect the separation of powers. There is
a chief justice who does not act, a financial comptroller who
does not control, an ombudsman who only defends government
interests. So where is the Bolivarian project?”

Chavez' populist "Bolivarian revolution" has propelled the
Venezuelan president into the spotlight and made him one of the
leading voices of anti-Americanism around the world. It is a
voice backed up by billions of dollars from Venezuela's vast oil
riches.

"Is Chavez another Fidel Castro?" asked Alberto Garrido, a
Caracas political scientist. "Is he a 19th-century caudillo? Or
is he a Peron with oil? Venezuelans debate this continuously, and
all we know for certain is that the Chavez phenomenon is
different from everything that has gone before."


Hugo Chavez

Opposition leaders argue that Chavez's championing of the poor
and his much-publicized welfare program are a facade and that
little has been done to improve the nation's infrastructure or to
root out fraud and ineptitude in government. Venezuela's police
force has been blamed by human rights groups for much of the
nation's violence and Caracas, the capital, has the world's
highest murder rate per capita.

"In Venezuela they say we have no good presidents or bad
presidents," said Julio Borges, an opposition candidate in
December's election. "We have presidents who either benefit from
high oil prices or suffer from low oil prices. Chavez had the
luck to be a president with high oil revenues, but he's like a
man who wins the lottery and at the end he spends it all and
turns out more broke than before."

Chavez has been using his luck to buy influence domestically and
internationally.

During a recent visit to Cuba, Chavez told Castro, "Capitalism
leads us straight to hell, Fidel, I think you were always right:
It's socialism or death."

Earlier this year, Chavez embraced U.S. antiwar activist Cindy
Sheehan on national television and announced his plot to bring
the U.S. to its knees. "Enough of imperialist aggression," Chavez
said. "We must tell the world: Down with the U.S. empire. We have
to bury imperialism this century. Cindy, we are with you in your
fight."

Chavez's plan for burying imperialism includes attempting to
build a 2-million-man army in a country not threatened by any
external forces.

Increasingly, Chavez's Bolivarian revolution is being viewed
negatively by Venezuela's neighbors. The candidate endorsed by
Chavez in Peru's upcoming presidential election has plummeted in
the polls. In Mexico, the presidential candidate identified with
Chavez has fallen behind a pro-business, U.S. educated opponent.
Brazilian officials have complained of Venezuela's oil policies
and criticized Chavez ally, President Evo Morales of Bolivia, for
his nation's plans to nationalize it's natural gas industry.

Marksman, now a member of the opposition, understands why those
once attracted to Chavez might be having second thoughts.

"I keep the best memories of him close to me," Marksman said.
"He's the kind of man that showers you with flowers and
chocolates, serenades you with romantic songs and never forgets
your birthday. People say he is a violent man, but he never
raised a hand or his voice to me."

But now, she says, Chavez is a man who "disguised himself as
little Red Riding Hood and turned out to be the wolf."



--
Viva Venezuela Libre!
“La libertad no es negotiable.” – Jose Marti
"DE OPRESSO LIBRE"

Ex-mistress accuses Hugo Chavez