Facts please, Not drivel spewed from your conservative news sources.What do you actually know about the man? Something besides he is evil and supports terrorists.I will tell you one thing and we will go from there.He re negotiated his countries contracts with exxon mobil and conoco philips, they were paying less than one percent in taxes to his country.Now they pay more.
2006-09-20 10:22:36 · 11 answers · asked by stephaniemariewalksonwater 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Ok this is great some of you actually know something about him.He was democratically elected twice. In 98 I believe he wanted to change the constitution of the country for the better and he got a 95 percent voter turn out on this.He is not a communist.He feeds poor, he helps illiterates to read, he used the military to provide services to the poor until it was found they were corrupt, then he stopped.Thats when he re negotiated the contracts with the oil companies, because his country had no money.Oh and its his right to do that by the way as its that countrys oil, if you have a problem with the price of gas dont buy it. The US has been trying to overthrow him for years because thats what we do.He is not a bad guy, he freaking helped out the victims of hurricane katrina, he provided oil at cost to low income families in the US that our own government said sorry we have no money to help you.
2006-09-20 10:38:03 · update #1
He is my hero! :o)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Chavez
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/print.php?artno=1031
2006-09-20 10:26:31 · answer #1 · answered by Perplexed Music Lover 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Chavez is cozying up to Iran and Cuba to provide bases for missiles that can reach US targets. He's inviting Jihadis, Communist Cuba, and Communist China into Venezuela. He's enslaving the country and expropriating huge amounts of property [including industries]. He's exporting instability into the rest of the Hemisphere.
Despotic psychopaths like Chavez are a dime a dozen. What's distressing is that he's part of an international forum from which he can spew his lunacy and many people will agree with him. It's quite obvious that mass insanity is the latest pandemic, making horrible sense of Hitler's Germany. Evil is clearly infectious. Any red-blooded American should be insulted and show their support for our President and country. Just like the regimes of Syria, Iran....etc., in the ME enable terrorism...... the left in America enables wing-nuts like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and fools like Chavez to rant and rave about Bush. These buffoons know that they have Lenin's useful idiots in the West on their side supporting their vitriolic nonsense. Chavez insulted not only the President, but every American. It's bad enough when our own "leaders" go around the world criticizing our President and our form of government; it's another to let someone in to just mouth-off and spew their own brand of hatred. Americans have got to say 'enough is enough' and say it now. Chavez' speech sounded like it could have been written for Dick Durbin, Nancy Pelosi or Teddy Kennedy. Right out of the DNC talking points of "Bush Bad" and the US being the biggest threat to the world. Chavez is proving to be Ahmadinejad's (the Hitler from Iran's) Mussolini. This guys the best campaign commercial the Republicans could ask for. The fact that he parrots DNC talking points should anger the electorate nicely, thanks Hugo. And a big thank you to the leftist Democrats. Your name calling, your belittling of the President of the United States of America has given free rein to these loonies to come here and call our President and our country the most vile of names. You really have our interest at heart. It seems in the recent past that even Al Qaeda has used the main stream media's words...even the words of the left in their vitriol. You are disgusting, one and all.
2006-09-20 18:31:59 · answer #2 · answered by MorgantonNC 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I know a rumor that the U.S. backed a coup to remove Hugo but the people took to the streets and got him back. I know he has sold oil cheaper and that drove down oil profits. I know the oil in Venezuela is citizen owned and they use oil revenue to feed the poor people. If these ideas caught on in the U.S., the idea that anything under the ground belongs to the people.(not the land above) would kill oil profits.
2006-09-20 17:32:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Hitler was also democratically elected and did good things for Germany in his early years while demonizing the Jews. Does that mean he was not one sick bastard? It's hard to believe how naive some of the people in here are. Open your eyes people, Chavez and Abadinabinajad, and Hitler are one in the same, anti-semites filled with hatred!
2006-09-20 17:48:25 · answer #4 · answered by Cleareyes 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Isn't that great! By him raising taxes on oil companies, that helped cause gasoline prices to go up on us. Cool!
You forgot to mention that he is a Rabid Communist.
He is corrupt and keeps his people poor and ignorant.
His government takes in billions of dollars from oil money.
2006-09-20 17:32:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
he looks alot like fox news man wendell goler.... and he has a big heart, his only complaints with america is with the administration, he helped in the aftermath of katrina
2006-09-20 17:25:00 · answer #6 · answered by shut up dummy 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He's the democratically elected president of Venezula who is a moron with a big fat mouth. He called Bush the devil yesterday.
Everyone know that Bush is not smart enough to be the devil. So ....I rest my case....
2006-09-20 17:33:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Check out the annual average income in Venezuala.
Check out how many illegal immigrants we get daily from Venezuala.
Check it out yourself! See what he has done to his own people!
2006-09-20 17:24:48 · answer #8 · answered by ? 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Not a lot other than he called Bush the devil; so I guess he's not all bad.
2006-09-20 17:29:03 · answer #9 · answered by spongeworthy_us 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You don't want knowledge, you want someone to support your leftist view.
2006-09-20 17:25:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋