Get off the Chaves thing...

[dEMOK]

...He acts exactly like Bush.

These people are owned by the same Global Lobby's (Asia)...

Where does our nation's debt lie?

How many Chinese products do we buy???

How many American products enter the Chinese market?

[LynnTheDem]

1. Ignorance is bliss, they say.

[GreenTea]

2. May they keep our minds busy with bullshit!

[EFerrari]

3. Google is your friend. n/t

[Mandate My Ass]

4. Well, in a sense he *does* act exactly like Boosh

Bush serves the top 2% in his country and Chavez serves the bottom 98% in his. :shrug:

[MonkeyFunk]

5. and they both

use the fear of external threats to consolidate power.

[dorkulon]

9. Except that Bush really is trying to unseat Chavez. (nt)

[LynnTheDem]

7. LOL!

Next time an idiot tells me Chavez = bush, I'm gonna steal your line! :)

[Judi Lynn]

14. Beautiful! n/t

[HCE SuiGeneris]

6. WTF is a Chaves?

[Ken Burch]

8. Get off the poor spelling thing

It's CHAVEZ, not Chaves. And WTF are you talking about?

[ceile]

10. Whoa, man, don't even know where to start...

Chavez like *, you've lost it. Shutting down a station that calls for his assassination and is complicit with the coup that * sponsored--heaven forbid!

[WinkyDink]

11. You're correct about Bush. Whacked about ChaveZ. Batting .500!

[robcon]

12. I think a better analogy is Chavez=Putin

Shut down the opposition, intimidate the rest of the press.

[Ken Burch]

13. Wrong. Chavez is trying to defend the Revolution, which is the only hope Venezuela has.

Putin just wants to be an emperor.

We should be working for a Bolivarian Hemisphere. Fuck "market values". Fuck "be open to foreign investment". Neoliberalism is the enemy of justice and hope.

Chavez is nothing like Putin. And if he's taken measures some Yanquis don't like, well, let's face it, we have only ourselves to blame for that.

[EFerrari]

16. Wtf?

:wtf:

[Judi Lynn]

15. Chávez is no enemy of free speech

from the June 4, 2007 edition

Chávez is no enemy of free speech
Hugo Chávez let Radio Caracas Televisión continue to air for five years after the station supported a coup attempt.
By Bart Jones
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's refusal to renew the license of Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV) might seem to justify fears that Mr. Chávez is crushing free speech and eliminating any voices critical of him. Amnesty International; Human Rights Watch; the Committee to Protect Journalists; and members of the European Parliament, the US Senate, and even Chile's Congress have denounced the closure of RCTV, Venezuela's oldest private television network. Chávez's detractors got more ammunition last week when the president included another opposition network, Globovisión, among the "enemies of the homeland."

But the case of RCTV – like most things involving Chávez – has been caught up in a web of misinformation. While one side of the story is getting headlines around the world, the other is barely heard. The demise of RCTV is indeed a sad event in some ways for Venezuelans. Founded in 1953, it was an institution in the country, having produced the long-running political satire program "Radio Rochela" and the blisteringly realistic nighttime soap opera "Por Estas Calles." It was RCTV that broadcast the first live-from-satellite images in Venezuela when it showed Neil Armstrong walking on the moon in 1969.

But after Chávez was elected president in 1998, RCTV shifted to another endeavor: ousting a democratically elected leader from office. Controlled by members of the country's fabulously wealthy oligarchy, including RCTV chief Marcel Granier, it saw Chávez and his "Bolivarian Revolution" on behalf of Venezuela's majority poor as a threat.

RCTV's most infamous effort to topple Chávez came during the April 11, 2002, coup attempt against him. For two days before the putsch, RCTV preempted regular programming and ran wall-to-wall coverage of a general strike aimed at ousting Chávez. A stream of commentators spewed vitriolic attacks against him – while permitting no response from the government.

More:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0604/p09s01-coop.html