Why do Republicans regard Hugo Chavez as an objective threat?

Question

Jong-Il, Musharraf and Mugabe are genuine threats to their region or their people but the Republicans are relatively silent or supportive of these. Chavez is neither militarily aggressive nor oppressing his people.

Wow, some real uninformed answers here. Chavez may be a (non-violent) threat to a small group of industry fatcats who hijack workers profits. Chavez supporting other Latin American friends is nothing new, the US has been doing it for decades. As for harbouring terrorists, nonsense, look up Luis Posada Carriles.

Answer 1

Chavez is amassing huge amounts of weapons AND allowing terrorist to reside in Venezuela, AND threatening the US. You do the math

Answer 2

Jong-Il, Musharraf and Mugabe are not OPEC. Chavez, on the other hand, is. A western ally of the great moslem threat. A South American country with a strong economy. A socialist with money.

Answer 3

I think that you need to investigate/research your facts prior to stating beliefs as facts. In fact Chavez is oppressing his people perhaps not in the same fashion as N. Korea's Jong Il. Chavez has nationalized many businesses in the state that were once private including seizing privately owned plantations which is much worse and different than imminent domain. Furthermore, Chavez is taking the state's revenues from its main export, oil, and providing loans and grants to neighboring states; however Venezuela's money has strings attached.
Chavez has used Venezuela's money to fund campaigns of left-leaning (socialist) leaders throughout Central and South America and is a cohort of longtime American foe Fidel Castro. The purpose for Chavez to support anti-American foreign leaders is to create an opposition strong enough to cause the USA to be submissive to trade issues.

Answer 4

i might basically choose to remark on Mr. Joe's answer: i think of that President Bush basically considers Hugo Chavez a noisy mouth and an immature and fairly extraordinarily stupid individual. isn't that the pot calling the kettle black? a minimum of Chavez has the balls to stand up and tell the fact approximately Bush while something of the international somewhat suck his as$.

Answer 5

he practise's free speach and republicans like G W BUSH do not like that .. they dont want the truth heard .. i dont care much for chavez but i do like his courage the USA will try to or succeed in assasinating him if they decide to shut him up, thats the way of this and previous governments. will be in the future as well. untill the citizens put a stop to it.

chavez knows what it is to lead and how too. a lesson bush needs to learn. remember those who steal power fear the truth . it always brings them crashing down

Answer 6

He's a national leader who speaks plainly and honestly about George Bush. Republicans don't like that... because the press covers Chavez... and the whole world's attention is drawn to Chavez's take on Bush.

Which is accurate. :)

Answer 7

Not opressing his people???? Get real!

People (and mostly educated people with money) are starting to flee that country because of Chavez. He has shut down opposing voices in the media, panders to the ignorant and uneducated, and is doing nothing about the violence, poverty, and corruption in that country. He sounds like some of the democrats here in the USA.

Answer 8

Oil. He's a threat not just because he has oil but also because he has talked about changing the currency for payment for it from dollars to euors. if other countries follow suit, this will have a significant effect on the US economy.

Answer 9

Changing the oil curency to the Euro is very bad for the US dollar

Answer 10

Everybody loves to have an ideological enemy, and the Republicans cannot let go of the cold war, well, not easily. He is, of course, no threat to capitalism or to America in any way.