Hugo Chavez passes away

[Kirkland Laing]

@Kirkland Laing ,

If I could, i'd piss on Chavez' grave, as well as any other South American anti-American dictator. What makes Chavez any different from Cuba's Castro, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or any other sworn enemy of the U.S?

...ummm he "wanted to help the poor" ...DUH! it's completely erroneous that the man simply pocketed the cash from nationalizing oil fields, he wanted to help the poor.....he had good intentions man...and by God that counts for something eh comrade?

What you've got to remember is, it's all Bush's and/or America's fault that Chavez stole 100's of millions that never funneled down to the poor.

I'm not sure Chavez stole hundreds of millions. He certainly set his family up with various lucrative business opportunities in the part of Venezuela he comes from. And there was defnitely massive corruption in the Chavez government. But this is Venezuela we're talking about, a banana republic that used to be run by a few dozen families who used to keep all the dough, it's not going to become Switzerland in five minutes is it? Two-thirds of Venezuelans didn't even have electricity when Chavez came to power. Now the country has electricity, education, healthcare and so on. That would never have happened under the previous regimes.

So you're unaccountably hating a guy who did absolutely immense good in his own country because of stuff you read in the liberal media. It's amazing how powerful those guys are.

Why do you think, me Lyle and Charlie, et al, are just parroting what the liberal media barfs up, and not expressing our own opinions? That's seems especially lame, since none of us are liberals?

As for hating Chavez, not really, I just have no respect for cock-waving dictators who are sworn enemies of the U.S.

What I'm saying is the media isn't liberal. Anybody that goes against US corporate interests is demonised by all US media. Thus Cyhavez, a democratically elected leader becomes a dictator who is a deadly enemy of the United States. Again, if he hadn't fucked with the 1% oil thing you'd never have heard of him. Without googling, who was the previous Venezuelan leader? How much US media coverage did he get? Who is the current president of Peru? Yeah.