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Which seems to be a major topic in the general Latin America Thread.....

Making fun of El Pais publication of a fake picture of Chavez in hospital...

Endovelico wrote:Making fun of El Pais publication of a fake picture of Chavez in hospital...

Thank You VERY Much for your post, Endo.



Good one.........

Except Chavez looks too thin........

If that really is him maybe he can have his cousin ET , to get aid from the Culture instead of Cuba.......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture

Or maybe the Federation......

AIUI neither one uses money......

Except for the Ferrengi...........




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferengi#Ec ... _and_trade

I have a feeling that Hugo Chavez won't last much longer. Now there is news of him having "alternative" treatments.

Azrael wrote:I have a feeling that Hugo Chavez won't last much longer. Now there is news of him having "alternative" treatments.

Drone suppository?

He is alive...

Endovelico wrote:He is alive...

Seems like that is kind of a weird camera angle.

Endovelico wrote:He is alive...

Thank you Very MUCH for your post, Endo.......

This reminds me of the scene at the end of Mel Brook's Young Frankenstein with the Monster reading a newspaper in bed.......

Rats.... Can't find it............

So in a Frankly Comic Spirit....

xos2MnVxe-c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xos2MnVxe-c

It seems increasingly likely that Hugo Chavez will be unable to take his oath of office and may soon die. The question now is whether Vice-President Maduro will win the almost inevitable elections, and be able to continue the Bolivarian revolution. He is probably intellectually competent but he will not inherit Chavez charisma. But that might be a blessing in disguise. Venezuela must learn living in a normal manner, and Venezuelans could benefit from a little less excitement. But will the revolution survive? Probably yes. As long as enough efforts are made to continue improving the quality of life of the poorer Venezuelans the revolution will prevail and a majority of people will continue supporting it. And eventually even the richer Venezuelans will realize that going back is impossible, and that they must learn sharing wealth and power with the other Venezuelans. Maduro's priority should thus be spreading firms ownership so thinly that economic power will no longer be a threat to democracy. Generalizing the use of cooperatives would be the best way to do it, but there may be other ways to achieve the same results.

VP starts election campaign claiming Chavez was infected with cancer by his enemies.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/ ... 5420130305

Venezuelan vice president says Chavez was infected with cancer by foes

Doc wrote:VP starts election campaign claiming Chavez was infected with cancer by his enemies.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/ ... 5420130305

Venezuelan vice president says Chavez was infected with cancer by foes

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/ ... 5420130305

CARACAS | Tue Mar 5, 2013 4:58pm EST

(Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has died after a two-year battle with cancer, ending the socialist leader's 14-year rule of the South American country, Vice President Nicolas Maduro said in a televised speech.

Yeah, Hugo Chavez is dead. Damn. End of an era.

Enki wrote:Yeah, Hugo Chavez is dead. Damn. End of an era.

Personally I look at it like the end of a fascist reign of terror.

Doc wrote:VP starts election campaign claiming Chavez was infected with cancer by his enemies.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/ ... 5420130305

Venezuelan vice president says Chavez was infected with cancer by foes

Year, probably by the CIA, that also infected Bob Marley.
The end of another autoritarian regime in SA; what's next now?
An ugly fight for power among his polítical supporters?

BBC story on Chavez death, in case anyone wanted to hear from British imperialists.

The way I see it, he made some mistakes; but he did try, with some success, to improve the lives of the masses in Venezuela.

Hopefully his successor will learn from his mistakes while still striving to improve lives.

Azrael wrote:BBC story on Chavez death, in case anyone wanted to hear from British imperialists.

The way I see it, he made some mistakes; but he did try, with some success, to improve the lives of the masses in Venezuela.

Hopefully his successor will learn from his mistakes while still striving to improve lives.

He wanted to be president for life "He cared so much for the masses"

Doc wrote:VP starts election campaign claiming Chavez was infected with cancer by his enemies.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/ ... 5420130305

Venezuelan vice president says Chavez was infected with cancer by foes

Hot News From Hell - Chavez says that Bush W is Not the Devil ....

Thank You VERY Much for your post, Doc.

You beat me to the scoop......... Congratulations ...........

FWIW, Hannity on his radio show remarked that this is Bad News for Michael Moore & the Cuban Medical System Moore touted......

Fox Cable News saying this is Bad News for Iran...... Chavez helped Iran by pass sanctions

That Chavez was a unorthodox socialist..... a Bolivarian..... But doctrinaire anti American.........

Just on Fox...... Chavez also had a Visceral Hatred for Uz..........

And others.....

Bad news for Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua and other socialist governments that he was supporting with oil money......

Recalling a video a clan member shared with me about Chavez cursing Israel from his entrails.....
With the comment that it was ironic that Chavez's entrails were now cursed with cancer....

For me, he was a fat clumsy clown
A Castro Killer Klown Wannabe ........
Who ran the economy into the ground
With inflation.......

With not much respect for the constitution beginning from his coup days............
Remembering the time he tried to get elected Leader for Life.....
He said that he had failed........
For now.........

Now he has both succeeded and failed forever.......

Hope Chavez died well confessed.......
Or he may have discovered that George W.W. Bush for all his faults..........
Is not the Devil....

Doc wrote:

Enki wrote:Yeah, Hugo Chavez is dead. Damn. End of an era.

Personally I look at it like the end of a fascist reign of terror.

As far as dictators go, he was fairly benign. No Qaddafi or Putin.

Doc wrote:

Enki wrote:Yeah, Hugo Chavez is dead. Damn. End of an era.

Personally I look at it like the end of a fascist reign of terror.

It only shows you never lived through a fascist reign of terror. It usually starts with something like the Patriot Act, so better get ready...

Endovelico wrote:

Doc wrote:

Enki wrote:Yeah, Hugo Chavez is dead. Damn. End of an era.

Personally I look at it like the end of a fascist reign of terror.

It only shows you never lived through a fascist reign of terror. It usually starts with something like the Patriot Act, so better get ready...

Sure

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Interesting comments about passing away of a good human being, unlike all those beast doing America's dirty work in that part of the world

well ,

thanks G_D Hugo got the ball rollin

Shows why Ahmadionejat makes sense, a whole lot of sense


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I liked El Comandante.

Chavez sucked, but Endo is right about decaying civil rights and institutions having grim implications.

In terms of Latin American lefties I prefer Morales.

Doc wrote:

Endovelico wrote:

Doc wrote:

Enki wrote:Yeah, Hugo Chavez is dead. Damn. End of an era.

Personally I look at it like the end of a fascist reign of terror.

It only shows you never lived through a fascist reign of terror. It usually starts with something like the Patriot Act, so better get ready...

Sure

If uniforms and funny salutes are all that matter to you, here we have another two...

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Sean Penn , " Today the people of the United States lost a friend it never knew it had. And poor people around the world lost a champion "



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