Reply #6: With all due respect, Hugo has no leverage inside Iran. [View All]

[Selatius]

As a person whose parents lived under a communist dictatorship, my sympathies go to Iranian protesters. Now, if Hugo were selling tanks, warplanes, and bombs to Iran or sending over riot police to help crush demonstrators in Iran, then I would be singing a different tune. However, as far as I know, Hugo, although I disagree with his Ministry's statement, has not gone that far. He offers words, offensive they may be. Talk is cheap. Always has been. Always will be.

Hugo Chavez has drifted beyond what I had hoped out of him, but that's another story, and I'm speaking as somebody that favors more left wing reforms. The point here is that as far as the Miami Herald goes, I found FAIR to be a more accurate source of information historically speaking than the Herald, but then again, it would be unfair to single out the Miami Herald if I also didn't single out all the networks in the US that really fell down on the job when it came to covering the 2002 coup that attempted to install a pro-corporate military dictatorship in Venezuela.