I cannot stand that man!
2007-09-06 08:56:57 · 19 answers · asked by MM 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I feel sorry for Venezuelans. serious
2007-09-06 09:04:49 · update #1
No one said anything about bush -- i dont like him either.
2007-09-06 09:22:39 · update #2
I actually understand and like what his goals are, but his methods are horribly misconstrued. I guess you could say I admire him, but would never want to live in a place where he is in charge.
His stated goals are to help his people, to help the poor, and to level the economic playing field. His methods: to redistribute land, to control the media, and to oppress opposition to his plans. Also, living off oil revenue supports his social programs.
The reason his methods will fail is because they have been tried before failed for all the same reasons. Redistributing land does not change that the peasants may not know all the best methods of cultivating. Controlling the media builds distrust of your rule eventually: so long as the people know that the newspaper is only writing what you want written, the authenticity in it wanes. And the opposition does not need oppressing, it needs to be liasoned with. If he oppresses his critics he is no better than Mao ZeDong.
As to living off oil: it will be gone eventually.
And Venezuela is not a country of comradeship. Caracas has more people playing dice in back alleys then Chicago, while meat and bread are in short supply in poor neighborhoods the stores are full of beer, and police barely enforce the laws against money changing. Its as much of a town that 'lets it ride' as Las Vegas!
But look at all the nations of the world where the poor drive cars and get fat. What seperates them from Venezuela? Education. If you look at the amount of money spent on Education in Venezuela compared to first world countries, and/or the importance of it in the minds of politicians and people alike, is lagging.
And if you look at countries with the most upward mobility, they are the ones with the better education systems.
And that is something Chavez is not focusing on. His speeches are about peasants getting land to farm (the world is awash in food, its just not distributed well), and using oil wealth for healthcare. Education needs to be his priority, the sooner the peasants get degrees the sooner the country does better.
He needs to be training engineers, scientists, accountants, doctors. Instead he is training farm hands and factory Forman.
2007-09-06 09:33:10 · answer #1 · answered by Jake O 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why can't you stand him? He's done alot for the majority of Venezuelans in his country and they seem to like him alot. That's why they democratically elected him. He's trying to get the hostages in Columbia freed from FARC. He's doing some wonderful things for Latin America in general by providing a positive leadership role and uniting Latin America to become a more powerful economic entity and positive economic model. He may be verbose or you may not like his personality but so what. That doesn't mean he's not a great leader for his country or for that region of the world.. People claim he is insane yet, they don't have any evidence of it. They all base their opinion on what our corporate media says and that's it.
2007-09-06 09:04:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
I do NOT support this anti-American who came on our soil (United Nations) and ripped on our president and our nation!
I have went a full year now of not buying my gas from Citgo, owned entirely by Hugo Chavez's country.
2007-09-06 09:07:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
No, I am to busy supporting the lazy class in America.
2007-09-06 11:08:39 · answer #4 · answered by John himself 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, Chavez aspires to be a modern day Che Guevara or Castro.
With those as ones roll models, how could he be anything other than a perfect example of hypocrisy and corruption.
2007-09-06 09:02:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
No. Why should I? Mexico is not my country and it is none of my business who the Mexicans want to support. I am concerned with the people we should be supporting here at home and the quagmyre is that 'politicians' are not people that should be supported. I want a real leader. I want Ron Paul.
2007-09-06 09:19:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
I give him credit for at least having been democratically elected, but I don't support anyone who shuts down media outlets just because they disagree with his policies.
2007-09-06 09:04:24 · answer #7 · answered by tangerine 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He's absolutely nuts. Though his comment at the UN last year was right on.
2007-09-06 09:05:58 · answer #8 · answered by tiny Valkyrie 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No, I don't. But since he's president of a competely different country, I don't think he matters much in the scheme of the English speaking world.
2007-09-06 09:02:53 · answer #9 · answered by Vaughn 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
He's an authoritarian populist - bad combination.
[ADDED] To "VeryBadKitten" - you really need to think before you post.
2007-09-06 10:26:52 · answer #10 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋