How is this an image of Chavez? Far from perfect, but he does actually run fair elections and abide by the results. Winning elections and then implementing what you campaigned on (especially when ou do it by emphasizing local government, as Chavez does) is not dictatorial.
Tommygunn, what's the evil you think Chavez is visiting on Venezuelans? There can be no doubt that they are on average richer, healthier, and better educated today than prior to his election. Nor that Venezuela actually has free elections, something that wasn't the case in the past either.
I think the rants against Chavez are based on his clownish behaviour and rhetoric, and not on his actual results, which have so far been good for most Venezuelans.
De Selby, in case you've had your ****head up your **** , Chavez has been confiscating privatly owned land and turning it over to people
he deems should own it. He has shut down radio stations. He has nationalized oil companies, and they are no longer as profitable as they were.
I told you before I have been there, done that, seen the people,
LONG before Hugo "the clown" Chavez infested the high political office he does now. There is no question that Venezuelans are much worse off now than before.
If you REALLY THINK confiscating property is something benign and transcendental and beneficent, I invite you to get your Aussie @$$ over hear and try confiscating mine ... and I will show you what the 2nd amendment to the Bill of Rights is all about.
Sometimes I think you are deliberatly naive and have a bunch of rocks in your skull. Do you REALLY like tyrants? You REALLY think what I've described above is
GOOD THING?If so, then may God help you...........