Scarletwine said:Jeez you guys are so paranoid.
Not as paranoid as him. He has grandmothers taking rifle practice. giving little kids guns so they know how to shoot incase of a US invasion.
Scarletwine said:Jeez you guys are so paranoid.
Mofo said:I definitely think he's crazy but the man has charisma and charm
Macfistowannabe said:But what about our revolution, Comrade?
Moshepop said:Hey Guys, a Venezuelan writing here. Chavez has been a disgrace for our country, he rose to power, and he was given a chance by everybody, then he couldn;t help start intriducing all his "reforms", which have been nothing but measures to increas his own power. Since he is in power our country has deteriorated very rapidly, suddenly the poor hate the rich, which never happened before, Even with all the wealth from the oil that is coming in nothing has been invested in infrastucture or becoming an economy that's not dependent on oil. He ran for president with platform against corruption, and he and his friends are leading the most corrupt goverment ever. The guy is a lunatic. Half of our country or more, does not agree with his ani US stances, on the contrary we ahve always been super frriends with the US. But an election is coming in december, Manuel Rosales, is the name od the oposition leader, and there is hope, however, it is known that the elections are going to be crooked, but lets see what happens. Best for All.
Moshepop said:Hey Guys, a Venezuelan writing here. Chavez has been a disgrace for our country, he rose to power, and he was given a chance by everybody, then he couldn;t help start intriducing all his "reforms", which have been nothing but measures to increas his own power. Since he is in power our country has deteriorated very rapidly, suddenly the poor hate the rich, which never happened before, Even with all the wealth from the oil that is coming in nothing has been invested in infrastucture or becoming an economy that's not dependent on oil. He ran for president with platform against corruption, and he and his friends are leading the most corrupt goverment ever. The guy is a lunatic. Half of our country or more, does not agree with his ani US stances, on the contrary we ahve always been super frriends with the US. But an election is coming in december, Manuel Rosales, is the name od the oposition leader, and there is hope, however, it is known that the elections are going to be crooked, but lets see what happens. Best for All.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5755-2005Mar27.html[On March 18, 2005] Chavez handed [Venezuela's minister of communication and information Andres] Izarra a still-bigger stick: a new penal code that criminalizes virtually any expression to which the government objects -- not only in public but also in private.
Start with Article 147: "Anyone who offends with his words or in writing or in any other way disrespects the President of the Republic or whomever is fulfilling his duties will be punished with prison of 6 to 30 months if the offense is serious and half of that if it is light." That sanction, the code implies, applies to those who "disrespect" the president or his functionaries in private; "the term will be increased by a third if the offense is made publicly."
There's more: Article 444 says that comments that "expose another person to contempt or public hatred" can bring a prison sentence of one to three years; Article 297a says that someone who "causes public panic or anxiety" with inaccurate reports can receive five years. Prosecutors are authorized to track down allegedly criminal inaccuracies not only in newspapers and electronic media, but also in e-mail and telephone communications.
Justin24 said:[Is Chavez a real threat or Schizophrenic
If you looked at the video footage of Stalin, Hussein, and Hitler, you find the propaganda very similar. I don't think he's "popular" when he's not organizing "anti-war" rallies against Bush.verte76 said:Why do you think he's popular in Venezuela? The people seem to like him even though he's not very nice to the media.
He's pissing on his own country in the process. He's a criminal by Venezuela's standards.A_Wanderer said:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5755-2005Mar27.html
That depends on whether or not Jimmy Carter gets involved.Mofo said:I'm sure the majority of the population will go for Rosales, what I meant is how high is the possibility of fraud and Chavez getting away with it
But former US President Jimmy Carter endorsed the results, saying they tallied with the findings of his referendum monitoring team.
Macfistowannabe said: