Is Chavez a fascist or what?

Question

That guy is quiet, but Venezuela I believe is slowly becoming a fascist country.

Answer 1

unrestrained corporate control of society is closer to fascism than economic socialism is. an oligarchy of corporate society is essentially what mussolini defined as a fascist state. you see much more of that working behind the scenes in some western countries than in poorer left wing socialist states that are nationalizing their industires. the fact that people are so ignorant of what the actual meanings of the words they toss around is kinda sad.. do some research- fascism is the establishment of a totalitarian system run by oligarchs, not a socialist system. and there are oligarchs in every country, including the ones we like to call 'free'. some are just better at hiding it than others.

Answer 2

Fascists are on the far far right of any political scale you care to look at (on other words only slightly to the right of the Rubuplicans).

Hugo Chavez is a social democrat and hence is on the moderate LEFT of the political scale.

Venezuala is still a vibrant and open democracy. Hugo Chavez has been elected 9 times by the population in elections that both the Carter Center (headed by former US President Jimmy Carter) and the Organization of American States. This is despite the fact the 5 of the 6 television stations in the country are owned by people opposed to Chavez.

If you want to discuss fascism, try looking at the people the US state department funded to launch a coup against Chavez in 2002. One of their first acts was to declare that there would be no elections for 5 years. Two days later, the Venezualan people rose up against the coup leaders and returned Chavez to power. A subsequent referendum on whether Chavez should stay as President produced an overwhelming majority in favour.

Since Chavez took power, unemployment has dropped to 10%, inflation has dropped from 29.9% to 14.4%, infant mortality rates have dropped its lowest ever level, a free, government-funded healthcare system has been introduced; as has free education up to the university level. There is also an increase in primary school enrollment by one million students.

The reason why people in the US keep hearing that Chavez is an evil dictator, a communist and a fascist (which BTW doesn't make sense as fascists are far right and communists are far left), is that some of Chavez's policies, whilst benefiting the Venezuelan people, have been percieved as harming US economic interests. Chavez has instituted controls concerning the movement of capital, to prevent the kind of wild currency speculation that decimated the Far East economy a few years previous - good for Venezuela, bad for multinational speculators. He has helped dismantle the US backed "Free Trade Area of the Americas" agreement, which many economists including Joseph Stiglitz, former chief economist of the World Bank, agree has utterly failed in improving the lives of most Latin Americans, whilst pouring money into the pockets of a few, mostly American companies. Chavez has insisted that oil companies pay their fair share of taxes for the right to extract oil, which is used to fund public health and education programmes - again good for the Venezualan people, not so good for ExxonMobil, BP, Chevron, Shell etc.

This is not anti-Americanism. It's mourning that the intelligent people of the United States are not provided with proper news and information but rather just the agenda of the Government and its multinational financial backers.

Answer 3

Look up the meaning of fascist. That I know of, fascist went out when Italy was beaten along with Germany and Japan in the Second World War.

Answer 4

"Quiet"?!? Quiet like a nuclear explosion. He travels all over the world, making HUGE public rants/displays, buddies up to foreign leaders, including Argentina's Néstor Kirchner, China's Hu Jintao, Cuba's Fidel Castro and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to name a few - all of whom are hardly low profile. In his own personal military history, he has been involved in several violent coups. His behavior is anything BUT quiet. He may be a socialist liberator or an authoritarian demagogue, but I think the only thing fascist about Chavez is that he exerts strong autocratic/ dictatorial control.....and he seems perfectly ready, willing, and able to shout it from podiums and rooftops. He is dangerously arrogant, and, IMO, a bit of a fruitloop. I wonder when the US foreign policy will smarten up. This is one guy who should not be ignored. Anybody who invests in a company that manufactures US voting machines has got something up his sleeve. I boycott Citgo gas stations as a personal protest against Chavez' positions (yeah, I know, big deal - but it makes me feel better)

Answer 5

No Chavez is great. He's just anti-Capitalist and anti-Imperialist.
They are become a more socialist country not fascist.

Answer 6

I think you'll find Mr Chavez is slightly to the left of Fidel Castro.

Answer 7

He's not a fascist. He dosn't believe in the 'corporate' structure involved in the fascisti movement. He is simply a nutcase.

Answer 8

quit worrying about them and look at america, there's a facist government so racists it has genocidally almost killed all the Indian, so they are not above it. Dont be suprised when America becomes germany II

Answer 9

i like that coffee