DU ONLY, what did your reacts about president Hugo Chavez died?

[nmbluesky]

My option about him was pity, only I remembered when oil workers protest in 2004, he ordered to shoot them.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

6. Something about an oil strike and shooting.

(I had a cousin who was stupid)

[Common Sense Party]

7. I took a semester of stupid once.

Can't remember much of it now.

[A HERETIC I AM]

20. .....

[southernyankeebelle]

31. Did you take it at Jerry Fallwell University? They are so good at stupid.

[malaise]

15. Perfect response

[cbayer]

44. Wow, that's rude. This is a wonderful DU member who's first language is not

spoken English.

IMO, he does a fantastic job of expressing himself and those that mock him can't hold a candle to him.

[elehhhhna]

46. + a brazillion

[Common Sense Party]

57. The grammar and syntax were only minor.

His first thought about Chavez was he ordered the shootings of oil workers?

Hold a candle to THAT.

[cbayer]

60. You mocked his english and called him stupid. You did not challenge his facts.

Great liberal values you've got there. I'm impressed.

[Rhiannon12866]

58. +1000!

[MineralMan]

63. Well, there's an egregious and insulting post.

The OP does not have English as a primary language. It's apparent from your response that your skills in Spanish are about equivalent.

[boomer55]

3. wether the CIA did him in. you know like they tried with Castro

http://mentalfloss.com/article/30010/10-ways-cia-tried-kill-castro

[Xipe Totec]

4. I was sad the first couple of times he died, but now i'm just meh. nt

[Whisp]

8. I was shocked. I worry for the Venezuelan people

and what foreign claws are now scraping to install someone very unlike Mr. Chavez. A dictator.

[alsame]

18. Me too. A country with oil is always

vulnerable.

[southernyankeebelle]

32. All kidding aside I was thinking about the people. They are the ones who will be screwed.

America is already putting their hands in the pot.

[Carolina]

65. exactly.

He stood up to the installed POTUS whom he rightly called the devil and won! He could not be stopped or killed by the US and its corporate masters. I still wonder if his death is really natural, really due to cancer...

[Marrah_G]

9. My reaction?

May he rest in peace and may the people of Venezuela have a smooth transition to the next administration.

[monmouth3]

10. I remember his kindness to many New Englanders a few years back who could not afford heating oil.

He sent it. I never did forget that act...

[malaise]

16. He's been ery kind to all his neighbours

Fighting the elite in this hemisphere is no easy task - only they are allowed to shoot and kill 'enemies' of the state (as defined by them).

[Little Star]

52. +1

[malaise]

17. +1,000

I am very sad

[fadedrose]

24. Seriously? I am too...

The money people in the US started crap about him because he spent so much on the people there...and even sent oil to families here too poor to buy heating oil...plus they wanted to show him the oil busines and "help" him run it.

[malaise]

29. The majority of calls, texts and FB messages on our radio stations

are calling him a friend of Jamaica and that he was. I haven't heard one negative call yet. I love leaders who can stand up to bullies.
By the way it was Chavez who destroyed Allan Stanford.

[monmouth3]

37. That alone raises his star in my book...n/t

[fadedrose]

25. Rest in peace, Hugo

You did your best for your people, and your critics are well described by devilgrrl...

Who is his successor, if you know?

[Whisp]

26. +

[madamesilverspurs]

12. Remembering Cheney's foaming outrage

when the Bushite-backed coup against Chavez was overthrown by the people of Venezuela...

I confess to wondering since then if Chavez' cancer wasn't 'assisted' by the same operatives. I hate thinking it, but there it is.

[Common Sense Party]

13. Yes, because the CIA are SOOOOO effective these days, right?

They couldn't find their navels with a flashlight, and you think that they injected Hugo with terminal cancer somehow.

[madamesilverspurs]

14. Who said anything about CIA?

Whatever...

[UTUSN]

19. From respect for my LOVED DUers who are idealistic about him, I have stayed out of their threads

But this O.P. is critical at the minimum, so I will say in this space: I detest blowhard bully tyrants from the Left equally as from the Wingnut side. When CHEENEE croaks (although his government insurance will keep him in batteries for centuries), I’ll be gravedancing about this same amount.

As the joke goes, every morning this dude would buy a newspaper from the corner stand and glance at the headline and dump the whole paper back on the stand. The seller eventually asked him why he did this. The reply was, “I’m looking for an obituary.” The seller said, “But, sir, the obituaries are in an inner section.” The dude said, “When the S.O.B. I’m looking for dies, it will be on the front page!”


That said, calling fellow DUers names for daring to have a differing opinion as has been done in this thread is not a democratic value.

[angstlessk]

22. Co sider me with a deferent opinion...Chavez was a hero for the POOR

and not the oligarchs!!

[UTUSN]

23. Neither one of us needs each other's (or anybody's) permission to have our own opinion. n/t

[rdharma]

40. "calling fellow DUers names for daring to have a differing opinion"

No name calling here, friend. But what the OP posted as "fact" is crazy rightie nutter lies and propaganda.

Chavez never ordered the protesting oil workers "to be shot"!

Did the OP post this misinformation intentionally on the announcement of Chavez' passing? I don't know.

But if that's the case,.........it's in very poor taste and the OP might feel more at home over on the freeper site.

[angstlessk]

21. Oil workers belonged to the oligarchy...AND HE DID NOT SHOOT THEM!

THEY WERE FIRED

[LiberalFighter]

27. What?

[annabanana]

28. I am worried about the inevitable onslaught of the oiligarchs..

They WILL descend with their privatization and neoliberalism..

[freckleface]

30. I remember when he kept Americans in New England warm

In the winter while we were freezing them out, so to speak. He also had compassion for the poor of his country. A pundit stated earlier that "it would be better for the US if the right winger won the upcoming election. That's us...right-wingers over the people's choice. If they don't vote them in...we'll just install 'em!

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

33. The CIA and MIC are weeping at the loss of a bogeyman they can claim is a threat.

[muriel_volestrangler]

34. 'DU ONLY'? Who else do you think is going to reply to you here?

[A HERETIC I AM]

53. Well...alll the resteses of the internetsesz, of course! n/t

[Tom Rinaldo]

35. I'm thankful that I had the relative luxury of not having to fully support him

If I were a poor man in his nation I would have fully supported him regardless of some real misgivings about him.

[rdharma]

36. So, you "remember" hearing that Chavez ordered shootings of oil workers in 2004? .........

Funny thing....... IT NEVER HAPPENED!

I'm just wondering what your "sources" are for your "memories"!

[malaise]

38. And he didn't remember Condi et al announcing that he had been deposed

but the coup had been overturned by fellow soldiers.

[Yo_Mama]

39. Mixed, but I do think he became a tyrant

No human being deserves cancer. I think once he had great ideals and then power and the frustration of the real world went to his head. So sorrow that his ideals became perverted, sorrow for his fate, and relief in a way that perhaps now Venezuela's future can improve?

http://www.amnesty.org/en/region/venezuela
http://www.hrw.org/americas/venezuela

I am kind of amazed that some on DU are so unambiguously glorifying a man who was involved in a lot of things that we decry in our own country.

[rdharma]

41. "glorifying a man who was involved in a lot of things that we decry in our own country"

You bought into the rightie propaganda!

[Yo_Mama]

42. It is not rightist to believe in freedom of the press

due process, etc.

The links I provided are because I knew I'd get responses such as yours. Argue with Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, not me.

[rdharma]

48. Examples?

It seems you have some freedom of the press issues under Chavez......... examples?

Ditto with the due process........

Enlighten me. Examples?

[cbayer]

45. I have mixed feelings because his legacy is so mixed.

I listen to those that love him and those that despise him, and both sides seem so sincere.

It's like Israel/Palestine for me.

Hope you are well nmbluesky (and ignore those that are rude to you - like I said above, they can't hold a candle to you).

[rdharma]

49. "ignore those that are rude to you"

Ignore rudeness and name calling........ but please get your facts straight. Thank-you!

[cbayer]

50. That's a whole different issue.

Challenging his facts is one thing. Mocking him is quite another. The comment was not directed at you or your response.

[rdharma]

54. "comment was not directed at you or your response"

I didn't take it as such. But I just wanted to make sure.

Because "facts" are absent in the OP....... and I didn't want you to think I was just "mocking" the OP as being absurd!

[Egalitarian Thug]

47. "We all got it comin'" is my reaction to his death. As for what he has accomplished,

much more good than bad. He did take many actions that I am generally opposed to, but one has to consider the environment in which he worked.

What can't be argued with is that he remained very popular all the time he was on the stage and he did more to improve the lives of Venezuelans in that time than anybody else for centuries. Severe poverty is less than half of what is was, literacy has more than doubled, and more people are actively involved in their own communities than ever before.

[heather blossom]

51. sad

Just sad that he suffered a lot at the end. Sad for his family- it is hard to watch a loved one die from cancer. May he rest in peace.

[scheming daemons]

55. i am always happy when tyrants meet their demise

[Carolina]

66. then your happiness is displaced

on Chavez. Perhaps you should look around within the continental US at some our past "leaders!"

[nadinbrzezinski]

56. Been expecting this for four days

All but surprised.

[sakabatou]

59. Meh.

[Puzzledtraveller]

61. No opinion, I'm sure he left behind family that loved him very much

No need to disparage him upon his death.

[MineralMan]

62. A mí no me interesa.

Yo no estudio los asuntos de América del Sur. Por favor, perdóname.

[Fearless]

64. My opinion is he is irrelevant

The US makes to big a deal of his person, be it from the left or the right. Either demon or saint. Life is not that simple.

[jmg257]

67. "Shit - are they going to talk about this ALL DAY?" Then I switched stations a bunch. nt