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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/06/wo...anted=all&_r=0CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela died Tuesday afternoon after a long battle with cancer, the government announced, leaving behind a bitterly divided nation in the grip of a political crisis that grew more acute as he languished for weeks, silent and out of sight in hospitals in Havana and Caracas.
With his voice cracking and close to tears, Vice President Nicolás Maduro said that he and other officials had gone to the military hospital where Mr. Chávez was being treated, sequestered from the public, when “we received the hardest and most tragic information that we could transmit to our people.”
Mr. Chávez’s departure from a country he dominated for 14 years casts into doubt the future of his socialist revolution. It not only alters the political balance in Venezuela, the fourth-largest foreign oil supplier to the United States, but also in Latin America, where Mr. Chávez led a group of nations intent on reducing American influence in the region.
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Personally, I don't doubt for one second that the United States will try and rig the political landscape to install a puppet more favorable to it. After all, we did it with Pinochet and several other leaders of other nations in South America in the past and our policy has always been of the meddlesome variety, especially with regards to nations that have any sizable amount of "American Interests" or "National Security". The best thing for Venezuela right now is for the country to sort its own problems without outside influence, feedback, rhetoric, input, suggestions or any derivation thereof.
Last edited by RRAHH; 03-05-2013 at 03:45 PM.
Secretary of State
How many dictators have been killed under Obama. This is insane!
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Originally Posted by Danny
Are you saying Obama is responsible for Chavez's death?
“Well, congratulations, President Barack Obama, Conspiracy theorists who generally can survive in anaerobic environments have just had an algae bloom dropped on their fucking heads, thus removing the last arrow in your pro-governance quiver: skepticism about your opponents.” - Jon Stewart
Secretary of State
I'm just poking fun at the "the debt has gone up under Obama" crowd for ignoring the cause. Same difference.
Are you saying Obama is responsible for Chavez's death?
President
Well, at this time I'd like to remember Chavez as a man who sold oil at a steep discount to provide heat for poor Americans...
Moderator
Yeah, you would.
The modern Liberal is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. OMD
U.S. Senator
lol.....
U.S. Senator
My only comment to this is that I am watching CNN coverage of Venezuelans in public squares reacting to this news and I could not help but notice they had a lot of fat and obese people in Venezuela. It was like looking at a buffet in Vegas.
Vice President
Sucrose...fructose...no glucose.
You should always have an informed opinion, so after I inform you, please feel free to express my opinion...USCitizen
2011 USPOL Most Valuable Poster (MVP)
ahoy all,
Rest in Peace, Mr. Chavez. wind at yer back and fair skies ahead.
(thats the correct response fer these "so and so has died" threads, aye?)
- MeadHallPirate
2011 USPOL Most Valuable Poster (MVP)
ahoy OldmanDan,
can't we wait at least a day or two without snide or snarky comments?
today be a day to think 'o Mr. Chavez' family and the loss that his children, Rosines, Maria, Rosa, and Hugo Jr, endured.
*collects himself as his eyes begin to water*
when i think Mr. Chavez, i like to think 'o him as a bright eyed youngin', when he pursued his passions 'o paintin' and singin'.
his favorite food was a chicken and rice soup called Aajiaco. when i eat this soup in the future, i don't think i'll be able to do without thinkin' 'o Mr. Chavez.
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- MeadHallPirate
Last edited by MeadHallPirate; 03-05-2013 at 08:45 PM.
U.S. Senator
I wonder why all the celebrities who all claimed Chavez was so great, didn't maintain a residence in Venezuela? Seems to me, the most outspoken people that were pro-Chavez were all people that didn't or don't live there. After all he was just so fantastic, who wouldn't want to live there?
"Rights aren't rights if someone can take them away, what we have are privileges, temporary privileges" -- George Carlin
President
Good riddance ... yippie kai yay...
There are 10 kinds of people who understand binary: Those that do, and those that do not.
President
Yeah .. And hitler unified Germany, provided thousands of jobs and his war machine provided some of the greatest advancements in science and technology.
There are 10 kinds of people who understand binary: Those that do, and those that do not.
Secretary of State
Difficult news for Hugo Chavez's family, probably a good thing for rest of Venezuela long term.
- Frustrated Independent
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
"Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people.” - Penn Jillette amazingly enough, and I agree.
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