From AP via Breitbart.com:
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Humbled by his first electoral defeat ever, President Hugo Chavez said Monday he may have been too ambitious in asking voters to let him stand indefinitely for re-election and endorse a huge leap to a socialist state.
“I understand and accept that the proposal I made was quite profound and intense,” he said after voters narrowly rejected the sweeping constitutional reforms by 51 percent to 49 percent.
Another quasi-democracy saved… For now. Oh yeah: Don’t buy gas from this Ass.
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The absolute arrogance of some of the OPEC member countries; Chavez in particular. At the moment they are awash in cash and seem to be under the illusion that its going to last. I say, go ahead, cut oil sales to the U.S. It’ll hurt Venezuela more than it’ll hurt us. A true free-market society will always outperform and outlive a socialist one.
CARACAS, Venezuela (CNN) — President Hugo Chavez on Friday wrapped up his campaign to push through broad constitutional changes with a broadside attack against adversaries at home and abroad — including a threat to cut off oil exports to the United States.
Chavez told a crowd gathered in the center of Caracas that if the referendum was approved and the result was questioned — “if the ‘yes’ vote wins on Sunday and the Venezuelan oligarchy, playing the [U.S.] empire’s game, comes with their little stories of fraud” — then he would order oil shipments to the United States halted Monday.
Chavez spoke after tens of thousands, brought on buses from throughout the country, marched down the capital’s principal boulevard to rally support for Sunday’s referendum, which would free Chavez from term-limit restrictions and move the country toward institutionalized socialism.
Read the rest: Chavez threatens to cut oil if U.S. questions vote.
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This from Associated Press via Breitbart: Glass Monument to Che in Venezuela Shot.
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - A glass monument to revolutionary icon Ernesto "Che" Guevara was shot up and destroyed less than two weeks after it was unveiled by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's government.
Images of the 8-foot-tall glass plate bearing Guevara's image, now toppled and shattered, were shown Friday on state television, which said the entire country "repudiated" the vandalism.
The monument on an Andean mountain highway near the city of Merida was unveiled Oct. 8 by Vice President Jorge Rodriguez and Cuba's ambassador to Venezuela to mark the 40th anniversary of Guevara's death.
Chavez venerates Guevara as a model socialist for all Venezuelans. He named a state-funded adult education program "Mission Che Guevara," and murals of the iconic revolutionary have become a common sight in Venezuela.
Police said they had yet to identify those responsible. The Venezuelan newspaper El Nacional published a copy of what it said was a flier found by the monument signed by the previously unknown "Paramo Patriotic Front."
"We don't want any monument to Che, he isn't an example for our children," the flier read. It called Guevara a "cold-blooded killer" and said the government should raise a monument in Chavez's hometown of Sabaneta, in the nearby lowland plains, if it wants to commemorate the Argentine-born revolutionary.
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Seems like few have heard of the group calling themselves "Páramo Frente Patriótico" (Paramo Patriotic Front.)
My guess? Chavez was behind it.
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'Nuff said.
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This gem from The Australian:
VENEZUELAN President Hugo Chavez accused his American counterpart George W. Bush overnight of ordering his assassination for calling the US leader the devil during his speech at the United Nations this week.
"The devil appears very sulphurous, and a few people say that he has given the order to kill me," Chavez said during a speech before scientists in western Venezuela.
"Many concerned friends have called me, (saying) that because I said 'devil' over there (at the UN), they have sentenced me to die. They will not kill me, I have much faith in life," Mr Chavez added.
The leftist Venezuelan leader called Mr Bush "the devil", "a liar" and a "tyrant" during his speech at the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, one day after the US President spoke from the same podium.
Mr Chavez again showed a copy of Hegemony or Survival overnight, a book by US academic Noam Chomsky that he had first held up during his address to the UN assembly.
He said he had to wash the book "with holy water because I put it in the same place that the devil put his papers."
Note to Chavez: When you have some free time do yourself a favor and check yourself into the nearest psychiatric hospital. Oh, and saying someone walks like John Wayne is not an insult. At least not in this country.
OR:
Cuando usted encuentra una elasticidad libre de la hora usted mismo un favor y va a un hospital psiquiátrico. Una más cosa. Para decir alguien él camina como John Wayne no es un insulto. Por lo menos no en este país.
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I'll say it again:
To the Venezuelan people, your president, Hugo Chavez, is an embarrassment to your nation…
This a follow-up to my last post.
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From the Latin America News agency: Kadafi, Chavez Analyze Energy Issue. Chavez's visit to Libya is just one more example of how foreign governments, left-wing groups and extremist groups opposed to the "imperialist" USA are taking advantage of what they perceive as a weakened administration. And why shouldn't they? What with members of our own Congress, "whistle-blowers" and their media allies constantly undermining our President. The various factions are aligning themselves. Iranian rhetoric is becoming more and more daring and dangerous. In South America, leftist elements, led by Chavez are shoring up support among various middle-eastern groups opposed to the United States. Most notably, the Iranian and Venezuelan governments are actively cooperating. Chavez's own rhetoric has also become increasingly brazen. It's no coincidence that the Iranians are saying Israel will one day cease to exist, while Chavez proclaims the end of the US Empire (story featured in al Jazeera, no less.) During a recent trip to Havana, it's no coincidence that Chavez talks about the virtues of socialism versus the evils of capitalism (barbarism):
"We are facing the threat of global challenges stemming from the genocidal, immoral, sick, and corrupt elite currently governing the United States, which appear to have no limits,"
While Iranian president states in a recent letter to President Bush:
"Liberalism and Western style democracy have not been able to help realize the ideals of humanity. Today these two concepts have failed. Those with insight can already hear the sounds of the shattering and fall of the ideology and thoughts of the liberal democratic systems."
These factions are working towards one goal; the demise of America. They openly campaign for it and some are even arming themselves in preparation. Their blatant hypocrisy is breathtaking, but to them it doesn't matter. What matters is the destruction of American society as we know it, and wiping Israel "from the map."
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(Guardian Unlimited):
Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez arrives in London today with an extraordinary promise to offer cut-rate heating oil for needy families in Europe, modelled on a similar campaign in the US which has been seen partly as a bid to embarrass President George Bush. Last night Chavez also issued a taunting obituary for the 'American empire' on the eve of a visit where he will be shunned by Downing Street but welcomed by London Mayor Ken Livingststone.
Chavez tried the same PR stunt aimed at the poor communities in the United States: (Reuters via Common Dreams [Warning: liberal website]):
Chavez Offers Cheap Gas to Poor in U.S. HAVANA, Cuba - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, popular with the poor at home, offered on Tuesday to help needy Americans with cheap supplies of gasoline. "We want to sell gasoline and heating fuel directly to poor communities in the United States," the populist leader told reporters at the end of a visit to Communist-run Cuba. Chavez did not say how Venezuela would go about providing gasoline to poor communities. Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA owns Citgo, which has 14,000 gas stations in the United States.
Before Hugo Chavez tends to Europe's and America's poor, perhaps he ought to look after his own. I'd say this is a prime example of leftwing hypocrasy. This is simply a public relations move on the part of Chavez to build support for his pro-communist movement.
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