Hugo Chavez sends solidarity to Gaddafi, Syria

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Saturday he was praying for Libya's deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi and also sent a message of solidarity to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad against "Yankee" aggression.

Chavez -- who has inherited Fidel Castro's mantle as Washington's main irritant in Latin America -- views the wave of uprisings in the Arab world as Western-led destabilization and has been a strong ally of Gaddafi.

"The Libyans are resisting the invasion and aggression. I ask God to protect the life of our brother Muammar Gaddafi. They're hunting him down to kill him," he said.

"No one knows where Gaddafi is, I think he went off to the desert ... to lead the resistance. What else can he do?"

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/02/us-venezuela-chavez-idUSTRE7901QW20111002

[madinmaryland]

1. This should be good.

:popcorn:

[Archae]

2. Chavez knows his fellow brutal dictators...

Not to mention his BFF Ahmeananutjob...

[rpannier]

3. Hold on a minute

I thought Gim Jeong-il in the PDK (N Korea) was his best friend
I must have missed the falling out

[TxIndVoter]

12. Chavez is naive, but no "dictator"

Not hardly. There's an active opposition press in Venezuela. How active? They actually took part in the coup attempt against him, and weren't even punished.

And Chavez has won in one free and fair election after another. That's two more than GWB can claim.

He's naive in believing in anyone who poses as "anti imperialist". Being naive doesn't make you dictator yourself.

[naaman fletcher]

4. Hugo Chavez sends his solidarity to ‘brothers’ Qaddafi and Assad

Source: Al-Alarabiya

With a presidential vote scheduled for Venezuela in 2012, Chavez’s opponents have leaped on his support for Arab strongmen – and friendship with Qaddafi – as a sign of autocratic tendencies. But he has been undeterred, and even sent support to the government of Syria.

“I spoke yesterday with the president of Syria, our brother President Bashar al-Assad,” Chavez said.

“From here, we send our solidarity to the Syrian people, to President Bashar. They are resisting imperial aggression, the attacks of the Yankee empire and its European allies.”

Latin America’s ALBA block of leftist nations would soon send a mediation team to Syria to try to help promote a negotiated solution to the unrest, Chavez added. “This warlike madness is intended by President Obama and his imperial allies to destroy the Syrian people,” he said.

Read more: http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/10/02/169717.html

[dipsydoodle]

5. Duplicate LBN

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x5012855

[RZM]

6. So the US and Europe are behind the unrest in Syria now, huh?

Who knew? I guess that accounts for all of the US flags, Union Jacks, and Tricolors you see in the crowds there.

:sarcasm:

[Posteritatis]

18. Remember, mere foreigners never have any agency of their own! All is foreign plots! (nt)

[Mudoria]

7. This will be good.. waiting for the spinmasters to arrive

:popcorn:

[TxIndVoter]

13. Anyone who calls Chavez a "dictator" falls for rightwing spin

They're already here. The first ones to claim he's a "dictator." They fall for rightwing spin.

You can't be a dictator if you keep winning one free election after another.

[totodeinhere]

16. What do you think of his support for Gaddafi and Assad? Whether Chavez is a dictator or not,

why is he supporting a fascist thug like Assad who is murdering his own people right and left?

[slackmaster]

8. Life is getting tough for Presidents For Life and their ilk

:rofl:

[formercia]

9. Fuck Chavez

What little respect I had for him is gone.

[Heywood J]

15. +1

From a former supporter, fuck him and the dictators he stands with.

[COLGATE4]

10. Poor Hugo. Desperately trying to be relevant in today's world.

[DinahMoeHum]

11. What a dildo.

n/t

[PavePusher]

21. Nah, dildo's are useful. And reuseable... n/t

[iandhr]

14. What are Chavez fans...

...smoking. He supports the Assad regime that has no problems murdering their own people. Maybe this is the road that Chavez might take if there is even a Egypt style protest in Venezuela. And no doubt if that happens there will be people on this site defending him.

[Zorro]

17. Hugo has a lot in common with congressional Republicans

Anything Obama is for, he's against it.

[pam4water]

19. When Bush kidnapped Chavez he must have given him a crazy shot XD

[UTUSN]

20. K&R #3 (for now) for, well of *course* he does!1 n/t

[classysassy]

22. The western press and their shills

continue to spew lies like verbal bullets,defending wealthy criminals that plot against countries that have riches they desire.Our ill informed citizens believe most of the crap the propaganda specialists print or send out over the airways.Very sad indeed of the evil that exist in the world.

[Dreamer Tatum]

23. K&R for comrade Chavez, who speaks truth to power. Yanqui go home! Viva Bolivar!

Sorry - just wanted to try it on for a minute.