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Hugo Chavez - "Enough ***** from you Yankees."

venezuelanalysis.com — ``The U.S. is behind the plan against Bolivia, behind the terrorism,'' Chavez said at a political rally for candidates of his United Socialist Party of Venezuela. ``We're committed to being free. Enough ***** from you Yankees.'' The US committed a coup against Hugo Chavez in 2002, and is funding terrorism in Bolivia through USAID.

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notque, on 09/12/2008, -3/+59Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has threatened to cut off oil export to the US in case of any 'aggression' against his country.

"If there is any aggression towards Venezuela" from Washington, "there would be no oil for the people of the United States," Chavez warned on Thursday that if he stops selling oil to the United States, world crude prices would immediately go above $200 a barrel.

Interview with Peter Bourne, who served as an adviser to former US president Jimmy Carter on Bolivia http://tinyurl.com/4exabq

“When there is a new government in the United States, we’ll send an ambassador,” Mr. Chávez said

The United States Treasury Department on Friday named Venezuela's top two intelligence officials as supporters of drug trafficking activities

On Venezuelan Television they played recorded audio tapes of coup plotters plotting to blow up the presidential plane. These are ex-military men that were also working within the US coup in 2002.
- RightHand, on 09/12/2008, -1/+19THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED
  http://freedocumentaries.org/film.php?id=97
  "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" is a film about Hugo Chavez, elected president of Venezuela in 1998, and the U.S. supported coup that briefly took him from power. He is beloved by his nation's working class and a tough-as-nails, quixotic opponent to the power structure that would see him deposed.
  
  Two independent filmmakers were inside the presidential palace on April 11, 2002, when he was forcibly removed from office. They were also present 48 hours later when, remarkably, he returned to power amid cheering aides. Their film records what was probably history's shortest-lived coup d'?tat. It's about political muscle and an extraordinary portrait of the man The Wall Street Journal credits with making Venezuela "Washington?s biggest Latin American headache after the old standby, Cuba."
  - sigg14, on 09/12/2008, -0/+8everyone should watch this movie. it will really expose the deceitful media/govt relationship.
- RightHand, on 09/12/2008, -1/+13Coup D’Etat Rumblings in Venezuela
  Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
  http://rinf.com/alt-news/contributions/coup-detat- ...
  The Bush administration tried and failed three prior times to oust Hugo Chavez since its first aborted two-day coup attempt in April, 2002. Through FOIA requests, lawyer, activist and author Eva Golinger uncovered top secret CIA documents of US involvement that included an intricate financing scheme involving the quasi-governmental agency, National Endowment of Democracy (NED), and US Agency for International Development (USAID). The documents also showed the White House, State Department and National Security Agency had full knowledge of the scheme, had to have approved it, and there’s little doubt of CIA involvement as it’s always part of this kind of dirty business. What’s worrying now is what went on then may be happening again in what looks like a prelude to a fourth made-in-Washington attempt to oust the Venezuelan leader that must be monitored closely as events develop.
  
  Since he took office in February, 1999, and especially after George Bush’s election, Chavez has been a US target, and this time he believes credible sources point to a plot to assassinate him. That information comes from Alimamy Bakarr Sankoh, president of the Hugo Chavez International-Foundation for Peace, Friendship & Solidarity (HCI-FPFS) in a November 11 press release. Sankoh supports Chavez as “a man of peace and flamboyant champion of human dignity (who persists in his efforts in spite of) growing US blackmail, sabotage and political blasphemy.”
- geddon, on 09/16/2008, -0/+1I don't think he's buying Obama's "Yes We Can [Invade Pakistan]" slogan. Chavez knows that he is next in line -- after Iran and Russia, of course.
Diggopolis, on 09/12/2008, -35/+4LOL Let Hugie whine... He's a pretty insignificant worm as it is.
- neurobox, on 09/12/2008, -0/+14Hey, just who's interests are you looking out for?
- ChloeMS, on 09/12/2008, -0/+8You REALLY need to understand more about world affairs. Just as the EU is proving to have a large impact on American globalization, South American countries have a trade agreement called, MERCOSUR and Venezuela has signed on to be a member.
  
  With international trade a big component of the American ability to bully countries, Venezulan President Chavez's disdain for the Bush administration will be felt more, even in the few months he has in office.
  - Diggopolis, on 09/12/2008, -8/+1I understand world affairs just fine, Chloe, and I understand that Hugie Chavez is one of those leaders, with a big ego, who thinks what he says really matters in the world. Let him whine, if it keeps the insignificant worm happy.. in the end he'll follow the money like most of the leaders from these third world nations.
    
    Tell me where the US was Bullying Hugie and Venezula? US companies went iinto these central and South American countries and most often they gave higher wages to the nationals they employed - along with big payoffs to the so-called leaders of those nations for their personal coffers. In many nations these American Companies not only paid a higher wage to the nationals, but provided them with one meal a day (which was the most filling and nutritious meal these workers have received). As a result these leaders of these nations demanded more and more, while they allowed such atrocities as the child sweatshops go on in order to increase their profit margin. Many of these leaders have done a gross injustice to their own countries, only speaking out against these atrocities when caught. Then they want to try to blame America or American Businesses, as if these people are the only ones to blame.
    
    Yeah I know how the world works... and green doesn't mean environmentally friendly. :)
- ChristPissed, on 09/13/2008, -0/+3If you have any substantiated facts to support your opinion, I may be interested, otherwise you are just boring us with a ridiculous name-calling nonsense diatribe.
thepoliticalcat, on 09/12/2008, -0/+48Given the long history of intervention in the affairs of South and Central America, the U.S. government is going to have to work hard to demonstrate its innocence of the current problems in Bolivia. See "The Open Veins of Latin America," or the history of Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, Chile, etc.
- Pitofdoom, on 09/12/2008, -1/+3Build a US Southern wall of China, sound good to me,
  and we'll call it even !
- Striker101, on 09/13/2008, -0/+2I'd vote thepoliticalcat as ambassador to Venezuela, what a diplomat!
phnx0221, on 09/12/2008, -2/+46See The Revolution Will Not Be Televised http://tinyurl.com/4ncsux

Irish Journalists happened to be in Venezuela doing a documentary on Hugo Chavez, when the coup errupted in April of 2002. They were able to cover everything that happened in the Presidential Palace, as well as what occurred afterwards, when the people took to the streets, and demanded the return of their democratically elected leader.

Hugo Chavez has taken steps to improve the situation of the majority of the population in Venezuela. Free health clinics have been set up to provide health care to the people. Literacy programs have been instituted so that the people can not only read, but actively participate in their politics, because he believes that it is important to have an informed, literate, and active population. He provided everyone with a copy of the constitution, so that even the poorest peasants understand what is going on in their country, and what rights they have.

He has increased representation and participation in the government itself, for the members of the working class, peasant class, and shanty town residents, as well as those indigenous people living in isolated areas. Respect and representation for all groups of people in his country is a priority to him.

He has implemented several programs for workers giving them better pay, working rights, and in some cases, collective ownership of the places they work.

Just as Evo Morales has angered the US and the wealthy elite in his country, Hugo Chavez has done the same. Taking large amounts of money and power from a tiny elite is never looked upon favorably by that elite, nor by the US who benefits from the wealth of that elite. However, most importantly, it IS looked upon favorably by the majority of the population, who have been starved, discriminated against, and exploited for the gains of profit.

That's what is most important. What the population of the country thinks. The majority. Not us, not a small minority.
- RightHand, on 09/12/2008, -1/+8Best Documentary EVER! Inside the Coup
  http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/C663AB8E-6ED5-4DFC-B ...
- RightHand, on 09/12/2008, -1/+9Chavez film puts staff at risk, says Amnesty
  Recriminations after documentary on Venezuelan coup attempt is dropped from a Vancouver festival
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/nov/22/film.v ...
  An award-winnning documentary about the coup last year that briefly ousted the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, has become the subject of a bitter dispute. Last week, it was withdrawn from an Amnesty International (AI) film festival because Amnesty staff in Caracas said they feared for their safety if it were shown.
  
  The film, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, was made by two Irish film makers, Kim Bartley and Donnacha O'Briain. They were preparing a documentary about Mr Chavez, with his cooperation, before the coup and were inside the presidential palace in April 2002 when the events unfolded.
  
  The film has since been shown on television by the BBC, by RTE in Ireland, and elsewhere in Europe. This week it won two prizes at the Grierson documentary awards in Britain.
  ... Guardian
  
  But NOT in the free USA
ssquared22, on 09/12/2008, -5/+14Geez, this guy is harboring some serious animosity.
- notque, on 09/12/2008, -0/+24Well, we did commit a coup against him. It's likely if someone kidnapped you, and overthrew your democratically elected government you'd be pretty pissed too.
- RightHand, on 09/12/2008, -1/+4Chávez has balls and backbone worthy on the Andes. His protect is his people.
  Bush isn't worthy of a foothill of the Rocky's! George needs 1,000 to protect him FROM the people.
phnx0221, on 09/12/2008, -0/+33The US involvement in the April 2002 coup against Chavez is well documented. All you have to do is google it, and it's all over the place. The Bush Administration later even admitted its involvement, and it has been covered all over the major news networks. Until now that is, where you can find nary a mention. Here are some links from major news networks regarding US involvement:

From the Guardian in 2002 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/apr/21/usa.ve ...

From the New York Times in 2002 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0 ...

Another from the Guardian in 2002 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/apr/29/venezu ...
avasol, on 09/12/2008, -3/+21Is it possible to believe this guy is great without being a communist? Because I do, and I'm not.
- notque, on 09/12/2008, -1/+16Chavez isn't a communist either. His last series of actions under the enabling law took power from local governors and put it into the hands of the people.
  
  The people in communities of 300 families will make the decisions for their area. No leaders.
  
  That isn't communism. Communism was state socialism where the society was controlled by the state. This is a movement towards Socialism by the people.
  
  So it's not done to them. The decisions are made by the people involved. The people affected by the decisions.
  - Pitofdoom, on 09/12/2008, -4/+2Free and Fair elections ?
  - iainc, on 09/12/2008, -0/+6Pitofdoom: have them in the US first, then preach. Ok?
  - ChileanGoD, on 09/12/2008, -0/+6You cannot get any more democratic than that.
  - insurgente, on 09/12/2008, -0/+4"Chavez isn't a communist either. His last series of actions under the enabling law took power from local governors and put it into the hands of the people."
    
    Why wouldn't a communist do the same thing? We communists (primarily) in the Swedish syndicalist organizations would do the same thing, but of course to an even more extreme degree.
    
    "That isn't communism. Communism was state socialism where the society was controlled by the state. This is a movement towards Socialism by the people."
    
    "Communism", as defined by the bourgeoisie, was state capitalism. It was not actual communism nor was it socialism in any way, shape or form. The capitalist relations to the means of production were still in effect.
- notque, on 09/12/2008, -1/+14But yes. I think Chavez is right, and I am 100% not a communist.
  - insurgente, on 09/12/2008, -3/+2Are you not in favour of a stateless and classless society?
    
    Claiming you're not a communist based on the bourgeois definition of communism (state capitalism) is just playing by their rules. Just like Social Democrats accepting the market economy out of fear of being called "traditionalists" by liberals and conservatives.
  - vault, on 09/13/2008, -1/+3Why would anyone want to live in a stateless/classless society? That means janitors would make the same money as pediatric neurosurgeons, that there is no incentive to actually work since you'll make the same money anyway, and that you'd be stuck with the same ***** circumstances your entire life no matter what.
    
    I know communists are scared of open competition, but in capitalism people can and do move beyond the class they're born into with education, hard work, ambition, and risk-taking.
- sigg14, on 09/12/2008, -1/+4I think that anyone who actually learns the truth about Chavez and what he did for the people of his country, and is not an idiot will see that this man is a hero. Now let me say I do not believe Socialism is the best form of government but Chavez breaking the grasp of the wealthy oligarchy on the native people of Venezuela was about as patriotic an act as I have ever seen. This country could use some leaders who put the countries need in front of the wealthy
- geddon, on 09/16/2008, -0/+1Did you miss the part about the Socialist Party?
activist, on 09/12/2008, -4/+7notque, I am not a communist but a socialist but your ideas of communist sound to me very brainwashed,
why all americans even in the left have the idea that communism is what the soviet union had? well I know because you grow up in the land of propaganda, but really communism at the end is about small goverment
and peoples power, just because 3-4 sectarian totalitarian made up some ***** like Stalin that does not probe that the scientific method of communism is power for the state and not the people.
- notque, on 09/12/2008, -0/+12You can call them "brainwashed" on what little you've heard of my views. It would be a long discussion that you are attempting to have here, and I'm not interested in it. I am more concerned with Latin America currently.
  
  Venezuela isn't communist, and that was my point. It seems we agree.
  
  .... and there is no "scientific method of communism."
  - Pitofdoom, on 09/12/2008, -3/+1Unless your counting the dead !
  - insurgente, on 09/12/2008, -0/+2Agreed, Venezuela is not communist. Economically it's market capitalist, and politically it has started to implement policies similar to the 20th century "People's Home" in Sweden.
    
    As for the "scientific methods of communism", I would claim historical materialism and dialectical materialism are highly scientifical, even if only compared to the idealist and non-scientific idea of "the invisible hand" of the market.
- activist, on 09/12/2008, -0/+9notque seriously, I live in a place were socialist,communist and anarchist are in the same barricades and in the CNT and in the antifascista movement, as well in the anti globalization movements, your view of communism is a old school one and one that not even the now a days communists or for the fact anyone that knows one will agree with you, I do have to agre that in the US communists are in general totalitarians because the follow a very sectarian path and views. everytime I travel to the US makes my stomatch feel weird to see how the left not only is dead but also divided with old ideologies from the 30's the us propaganda did a good job in dividing everyone and making sure it keeps that way this is why instead of having a one big movement there are tons of small ones under the liberals(in the us liberals are suposely left for those from outside the US) hood.
  - notque, on 09/12/2008, -0/+9I understand your point. I really do. I understood everything you said. I'm familiar with Anarchists, communists, socialists, and CNT. I get it.
    
    I still disagree with you, and I'd still like to have this discussion another time. If you want to trade emails or something fine, but today's focus is Latin America, not infighting.
- Pitofdoom, on 09/12/2008, -3/+1On paper communism looks great, but once you add greed for
  money, power and fame, just like all "isms" it turns to ***** !
  If Russia had a US Constitution (separation of powers)
  they may have had a chance to make it work, but alas ***** again....
  - insurgente, on 09/12/2008, -0/+3Capitalism creates the "greed" for money, as it does the capitalists itself.
    
    Your rambling is based on the old cliché that communism is a "nice idea" in theory, but wouldn't work in practice. That's what you have socialism for.
  - Pitofdoom, on 09/13/2008, -1/+2And they call it the EU, where more power is taken further away from the people, who by referendum vote no.
    So, it's empire or die..
rek2, on 09/12/2008, -3/+16Viva el socialismo!!!! vivan los pueblos de Latino-America! YAKIS GO HOME!
http://www.dailyradical.org
binaryfreedom, on 09/12/2008, -4/+16Support to the socialism of South America and against the US imperialism and capitalism!
the comrades from http://www.binaryfreedom.info
notque, on 09/12/2008, -1/+22Support the people's will. No reason the US should be overthrowing Democratically elected leaders.
- PolishLogic, on 09/12/2008, -6/+3The Democratically elected leaders that are trying to abolish term-limits and institute a quasi-dictatorship by vastly expanding the leadership's power?
  
  Not that we should really give a ***** about what Chavez wants to do with his country, but let's call a spade a spade here.Chavez is not exactly a guy who puts his citizens first.
  - notque, on 09/12/2008, -1/+6A, Not having term limits doesn't make you a dictatorship.
    B. The population voted for it, and voted it down.
    C. Stop lying.
  - PolishLogic, on 09/12/2008, -4/+3A:It does when part of your plan is to give you sole control over regional governmental appointments.
    
    B: He most likely learned his lesson. You sometimes have to manipulate the results to get your agenda passed.
    
    C: Show me where I'm lying. Did he not try to abolish term limits? Did he not try to vastly expand the power of his rule? Has he not said that he will continue trying to get his plan in place?
    
    I know you're a fan of his, but at least be realistic about what he is. It reminds me of the people that call Che a fine human being, all because he's on some hipster t-shirts.
  - asurroca, on 09/12/2008, -0/+3Yes. If they elected him, they can deal with him, for better or worse. By this logic, Europe should have helped overthrow Bush.
sultanica, on 09/12/2008, -1/+10Dugg and shouted. Spread the love.
eldudereno, on 09/12/2008, -0/+16George Bush stirring the pot again, just before the presidential elections?
- notque, on 09/12/2008, -1/+10I am curious about his withdrawal from Iraq. He only redeployed some of the troops to Afghanistan. Maybe he needed troops for Latin America?
  
  Just speculation.
- tomjeff08, on 09/12/2008, -0/+8Bush couldn't stir a pot if you showed him an instructional video on how to do so.
  
  This goes far beyond the puppets that we bitch about.
rek2, on 09/12/2008, -1/+13http://www.handsoffvenezuela.org/urgent_coup_plots ...
Wednesday, September 17
picket of the US embassy

Grosvenor Sq, London
4 to 6 pm
public meeting

NUJ headquarters
308 Grays Inn Road, London
from 7pm

speakers:

* Maria Beatriz Souviron (Bolivian ambassador)
* Jeremy Dear (NUJ)
* John McDonnell (MP)
* Félix Plasencia (Venezuelan embassy)

Please forward as widely as possible.

provisional list of supporters:

* Hands Off Venezuela Campaign
* Bolivia Solidarity Campaign
* Movement of Ecuadorians in the UK

See also: Coup plots in Bolivia and Venezuela!
caferrell, on 09/12/2008, -0/+19We have to learn to mind our own ***** business before we are evicted from everywhere.

It certainly doesn't help that we have candidates who are perfectly insular Americans
- Pitofdoom, on 09/12/2008, -0/+7I want the US to be kicked or walk out of every where.
  Nothing we've "tried" good or bad has done anything
  other then cause our own nation to disintegrate !
  - caferrell, on 09/12/2008, -0/+5I'm with you my deep friend.
    What we want to have in every country is an embassy where people can come to learn about America to organize business and vacation trips to America, to learn about educational opportunities in America. We want to offer friendship everywhere and disband the CIA.
  - Pitofdoom, on 09/12/2008, -0/+4The harm done by the CIA is only matched by the Catholic Church,
    mostly because they've got a longer history !
RightHand, on 09/12/2008, -1/+9Five Years Later, Venezuelan Ambassador Reflects on US-Backed Coup, and Discusses Venezuela’s Oil Plans, Posada Carriles
http://www.democracynow.org/2007/4/11/five_years_l ...
The leader of the coup was a business executive named Pedro Carmona. Carmona quickly received the support of the Bush administration as well as much of the corporate press in the United States. After the coup, the New York Times proclaimed in an editorial “Venezuelan democracy is no longer threatened by a would-be dictator.”

But within 48 hours, following massive street protests, Chavez was back in power. After the coup, Carmona was arrested, but he managed to flee to Colombia where he sought political asylum. However, Carmona’s fate could soon change.

On Tuesday, Venezuela’s highest court ruled that state prosecutors could request Carmona’s extradition from Colombia on charges of civil rebellion. In a moment we’ll be joined by Venezuela’s ambassador to the United States, Bernardo Alvarez Herrera, but first let’s turn to a documentary made by two filmmakers who were in Caracas during the 2002 coup. The film is called “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.” This excerpt begins with White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer.
... Democracy Now!
tomjeff08, on 09/12/2008, -2/+9It's not truly the US Government. It's the Federal Reserve. Take a look at which countries are being targeted. Those being targeted aren't under the thumb of bankers. Venezuela, Iraq, Iran, N. Korea.....et al.

I'm not defending the dingbats running these countries, I'm merely pointing out the fact that they won't *play ball*.
- USNavyBlue, on 09/14/2008, -1/+1Orthodox Christian Russia NO longer plays ball either and look what the Fed's relatives that own the MSM have done to Russia! Now they are trying to get America to pick a fight with her!
RightHand, on 09/12/2008, -1/+10Venezuela coup linked to Bush team
Specialists in the 'dirty wars' of the Eighties encouraged the plotters who tried to topple President Chavez
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/apr/21/usa.ve ...
The failed coup in Venezuela was closely tied to senior officials in the US government, The Observer has established. They have long histories in the 'dirty wars' of the 1980s, and links to death squads working in Central America at that time.

Washington's involvement in the turbulent events that briefly removed left-wing leader Hugo Chavez from power last weekend resurrects fears about US ambitions in the hemisphere.

It also also deepens doubts about policy in the region being made by appointees to the Bush administration, all of whom owe their careers to serving in the dirty wars under President Reagan.

One of them, Elliot Abrams, who gave a nod to the attempted Venezuelan coup, has a conviction for misleading Congress over the infamous Iran-Contra affair.
911ArtStudent, on 09/12/2008, -2/+10I wish America could crack down on foreign influence in our politics as well as Chavez did.
Pitofdoom, on 09/12/2008, -12/+2Can we do everybody a favor and just cap this guy ??
badwithcomputer, on 09/12/2008, -3/+3didn't realize the guy was a baseball fan
Bograthian, on 09/12/2008, -1/+5Pitofdoom, you sicken me.
jmpeagle, on 09/12/2008, -9/+6wow....what's with some of the disturbing comments here. Rarely do I see support for a guy who takes business and puts it under the control of the military. The guy wants a perpetual presidency. Has ANY good come from a leader who stays in power for multiple decades?

This is why they have a emigration problem, not to mention the encouraging of class warfare and that anyone with a professional degree or who leads an intellectual life is somehow the enemy. Any leadership that attacks its University system as subversive (Bush, Chavez, Stalin...etc) is obviously in the wrong...of course there are various degrees from Pinochet's and Mao's mass killing of professors to Bush's mrere condemnation of "ivory tower" elitists.
- SuperMoses, on 09/12/2008, -0/+7He's done by 2012 and he hasn't violated the constitution, which was voted in by the Venezuelan electorate, to allow him to run for two terms of 6 years. He was elected twice and his 2nd mandate ends on 2012. This is not multiple decades, as you suggest.
  
  In most developed countries, there are no term limits for the president/prime minister. I live in Canada and we had Chretien in power for 10 years. He left the country with 5 consecutive surpluses, so ya.. some good can come from giving the electorate the power to re-elect a leader they like.
  
  Nonetheless, they have a limit of two terms in Venezuela where a term is 6 years. The electorate also has the option of recalling the president through citizen-initiated referendum. Something the US should probably add to their constitution.
rhayat1, on 09/12/2008, -0/+13Now why would he call the U.S. an "empire"? Oh wait. It IS an empire. Otherwise why station U.S. troops in hundreds of other countries?
cjshamrock, on 09/12/2008, -8/+3Chavez is a foul-mouthed populist hack, a bully, and a dictator. A dangerous clown. (Sound familiar?)

And he's got OIL. A lot of it.

He constantly blasts the US government imperialist tendencies and dirty tactics in Central and South America in the last century and uses this argument as a scapegoat for Venezuelans. It works. Things are not pretty down there, freedom is being suppressed at an alarming rate, yet when he yells "***** Bush" everyone is down with it.

His attitude is just reflective of how much "respect and deference" the US still hold across the world.
- ChileanGoD, on 09/12/2008, -1/+2Yeah.. the guy is nuts. But he yells high and loud what many think deep down and low.
- SuperMoses, on 09/13/2008, -0/+2"He constantly blasts the US government imperialist tendencies and dirty tactics in Central and South America in the last century and uses this argument as a scapegoat for Venezuelans"
  
  I'm pretty sure that Venezuelans voted him back for a 2nd term because of what he's done with the economy, including the non-petroleum sector, public education and increasing its access to the poor, substantial decrease in poverty, increase in employment...and ya, people also like it when he calls the US on their imperialist *****.
ChileanGoD, on 09/12/2008, -0/+9Well said Hugo, well said.
quesi, on 09/12/2008, -1/+8"Oligarchs beware - Long live freedom!"
sigg14, on 09/12/2008, -0/+3this is funny I am wearing this shirt right now given to me by a friend who went to Venezuela and met Hugo. it says

"Todo 11 tiene su 13" on front

"el pueblo sigue en la calle, ahora rumbo al socialismo" on back
sigg14, on 09/12/2008, -0/+8"Things are not pretty down there, freedom is being suppressed at an alarming rate"

where do you get this information from? because I can tell you for a fact that it is false.
Paultards, on 09/13/2008, -9/+0We should take out Chavez right after we get that nitwit in iran
- quesi, on 09/13/2008, -0/+3Why would Israel "take out Chavez"??
  - Paultards, on 09/13/2008, -3/+0Some one should, why not Israel ? The US should have long ago but they don't have the balls Israel does
  - quesi, on 09/13/2008, -0/+3confirmation - that IS who you are here representing. i kinda knew it
    
    get out, infiltrator - stay out of our politics
  - cashman57, on 09/13/2008, -0/+3quesi- Don't pay any attention to paultards. He's just writing whatever comes to his little mind. He has had three other digg accounts that are now banned.All three were banned because of violations of the terms of use.You may have seen him write as sportsstar67,pajeff2, and drmagicone.
    Most of the time when I see his lame comments I just digg them down and move on.
    He really isn't worth your time and trouble.
Striker101, on 09/13/2008, -1/+4Well what do you expect from a socialist? But we shouldn't be messing in their affairs, nor anyone's.
- geddon, on 09/16/2008, -0/+1What do I expect from a Socialist?
  
  1. Public Education
  2. Public Roads & Transportation
  3. Police Protection
  4. Public Health Care
  5. Emergency Services
  
  What do I expect from a Capitalist?
  
  1. Private Education
  2. Toll Roads
  3. Private Security
  4. Corporate Insurance
  5. Global War
urik88, on 09/13/2008, -6/+1Okay guys, you can agree with some of the Chavez policies as much as you want. However, I'd like it if you don't glorify the man financing Hezbollah in South America, and the responsible for antisemitism in Venezuela, which caused the family of a friend to flee to Puerto Rico because of that.
Thanks.
RightHand, on 09/13/2008, -1/+3Alleging Coup Plot, Chávez Ousts U.S. Envoy
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/world/americas/1 ...
President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela said Thursday that he was expelling the American ambassador, Patrick Duddy, giving him 72 hours to leave the country. Mr. Chávez took this step after he said his government had discovered an American-supported plot by military officers to topple him.

He also recalled his ambassador to Washington, Bernardo Álvarez, and explained his decision by expressing solidarity with Bolivia’s embattled president, Evo Morales, who on Wednesday expelled the American ambassador there, Philip S. Goldberg, accusing him of supporting rebellious groups in eastern Bolivia..

“When there is a new government in the United States, we’ll send an ambassador,” Mr. Chávez said, using an expletive to refer to Americans.
RightHand, on 09/13/2008, -1/+2Honduras in diplomatic snub to U.S. over Bolivia
http://uk.reuters.com/article/wtMostRead/idUKN1240 ...
Honduras, a former U.S. ally in Central America now run by a leftist government, told a U.S. envoy not to present his credentials as ambassador on Friday in a diplomatic snub in support of Bolivia.

Bolivia and anti-U.S. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez are in a fight with Washington over what they see as U.S. support for violent protests against Bolivian President Evo Morales.

Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, who has moved the country closer to Chavez, was due to receive a new U.S. ambassador on Friday in a ceremony at which the envoy would present a letter with his diplomatic credentials.
... Reuters
spankaccount, on 09/13/2008, -3/+2Despite what you think 911ArtStudent, the Jews aren't in control of everything.
- USNavyBlue, on 09/14/2008, -1/+2What are you smoking? Where did 911's post in this thread have anything to do with Jewish people? You are borderline paranoid. Dude - take a cold shower or something.
pentupentropy, on 09/22/2008, -0/+2I'm not saying this guy is an angel, but I love the way he tears Bush up when no one else will. At least a leader somewhere in the world with an actual interest in something is willing to say "Bush, you're f'in retarded"
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Hugo Chavez - "Enough ***** from you Yankees."

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