Comments on: Freedom of Speech? Not in Venezuela. Hugo: You struck out!

By: Jefe Hugo shows Bro Barack how Socialism works »Coolweather

Jefe Hugo shows Bro Barack how Socialism works »Coolweather — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:35:28 +0000

[...] Then there is the meltdown Chávez faces at home. Despite the recovery in oil prices, the Venezuelan economy is deep in recession and continues to sink even as the rest of Latin America recovers. Economists guess inflation could rise to 60 percent in the coming months. Meanwhile, due to a drought, the country is threatened with the shutdown of a hydroelectric plant that supplies 70 percent of its electricity. And Chávez’s failure to invest in new plants means there is no backup. There is also the crime epidemic — homicides have tripled since Chávez took office, making Caracas one of the world’s most dangerous cities. At a recent baseball game a sign in the crowd read: “3 Strikes-Lights-Water-Insecurity/President You Struck Out.” [...]

By: Jefe Hugo shows Bro Barack how Socialism works « Vermontwoodchuck's Blog

Jefe Hugo shows Bro Barack how Socialism works « Vermontwoodchuck's Blog — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:31:47 +0000

By: HACER Latin American News | Venezuela: Hugo Chavez’s presidential strikeout –

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:39:29 +0000

[...] Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chávez is having a bad month. He’s been forced to devalue the currency and impose nationwide power cuts, steps that will worsen a serious recession and Latin America’s highest inflation. The U.S.-led humanitarian intervention in Haiti has undercut his propaganda about an evil American “empire.” As his baseball-crazy country watches its annual championship series, a new slogan has gone viral: “Chávez — You Struck Out.” [...]

By: A VENEZUELAN GIRL!

A VENEZUELAN GIRL! — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:38:10 +0000

i’m a venezuelan girl and im seventeen years old. I live in Caracas ( the Capital of my country) and i just want you to know that we were fighting this goverment since we realice how awful it is. But it wasn’t easy at all ’cause there is a lot of people here that even after everything that had happened still believe in CHAVEZ, ’cause they feel relate with him and they believe everything Chavez says. Honestly i think they are just ignorant cause HOW could we live in a country with no freedom of speech ? chavez wants to be the only opinion, the only truth, and that’s imposible in a democracy. But the good news is that actually this loyal followers of him are less that they were before, and everyday that it happens become lower.

I also just want you to know that live here its not easy at all. The insecurity its beyond your imagination, people die here more than in wars, in the inside of the country everyday there’s cuts off water and electricity EVERYDAY LIKE 4 or 5 hour at day!

This guy ( ’cause i believe the word president its way too big for him) its taking us to destruction! he wants to take all the big private industries ( banks, oil, electricity, phone lines, etc etc etc). and the ones that he had already taken are broke or the service that they provide its not working.

Besides he created an increible HATE between rich or middle class people and poor people! he divide our nation in two. and OF COURSe he had stolen OUR MONEY like no other president does before!

The only thing a lot of venezuelan dream of its a country with security, freedom and opportunities for all of us as equals and that’s why we keep fighting and we will keep fighting.

All we need from the other countries its to understand what we are living and support us!

The international comunity that support chavez its cause 1. Chavez its giving OUR MONEY to them to BUY SUPPORT! 2. they thing this wrong-called revolution its what chavez said.

But you don’t know what its like to live in here and don’t get me wrong I LOVE MY COUNTRY SO BAD and i’m so proud of been a venezuelan but its hard to live in here, its hard to have this JERK as a president.

But i have a LOT of hopes and all we have left to do its keep fighting!

I apologice for my english i know its not good, but at least i hope that you understand what i wanted to tell you.

By: Hugo Chavez Governs a Sojourn Into the Abyss | ICED BORSCHT

Hugo Chavez Governs a Sojourn Into the Abyss | ICED BORSCHT — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:18:22 +0000

[...] out our boy Hugo has had a busy month — when he hasn’t been sending thugs to beat up baseball fans, he’s been censoring the media and getting schooled by [...]

By: The Chavez decline and fall - Techlog

The Chavez decline and fall - Techlog — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:21:48 +0000

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Anonymous — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:59:48 +0000

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By: El Panadero

El Panadero — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:39:03 +0000

Why did Chavez get elected? Yes the poor people and the rich elite bought his message, one because they thought he would get them something for nothing and the other because they thought he “was one of them” after all. (Hmm I wonder where I have seen that kind of enlightened, benevolent “Democratic” takeover). But the truth is that the elections were rigged. Venezuela’s touch screen election machines are programmed by a company owned by one of his cousins. In one of the referendums there was an inordinately high number of machines reporting the exact same percentage of For/Against votes. Statisticians reviewing the data said that result was statistically possible but with a very low probability.

They may be cheaters, but they aren’t stupid. They don’t rig the vote the way they did under Hussein in Iraq where the vote comes out 99.9% in favor. They know enough to set up a result that looks plausible, but is still a fraud.

In so far as the police is concerned, there have always been a variety of police forces, municipal, national guard, Technical Police (like the FBI) and even a State Intelligence Police (dressed in black uniforms and a cross between an internal CIA and Nazi SS). In the pre-Chavez days they were all corrupt and mostly inept. Now they have been re-organized with significant power given to a national Military Intelligence Directorate (DIM) to conduct operations for political purposes, not crime control. Crime is unabated and out of control.

By: Francesco Morazani

Francesco Morazani — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:42:45 +0000

Micheletti is out of a job as of this week.

I am sure he would like to relocate to Venezuela.

By: An Interested Observer

An Interested Observer — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:54:49 +0000

Floyd, a very interesting story, and I’d never heard of that either. Note that the citizens caught the police, yet refused to kill them. I can’t prove this, but I doubt that would have been the case that day in Caracas. And do note the key difference – in TN, the cops were the corrupt officials in person. in VZ, the cops were, at worst, working for corrupt officials, and even if that’s true, less corrupt than the officials the citizens were supporting. It was upside-down on many levels, none of them justifiable.