Comments on: Venice Film Festival: A Movie Star Reception For Hugo Chavez

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By: CapnRick

CapnRick — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:34:48 +0000

Well… at last… something we can agree upon. The media… including the blogs… are satisfying their basic need to corrupt, spin and propagandize the news. That's why I troll a lot of radical sites… I feel I have to piece together the truth from the Huffington Post, Media Matters, Al-Jazeera, the BBC, the Root, the Kos and various radical left and Iraqi/Iranian bloggers… on the right, I read Fox News, Breitbart, the survival blogs from the US and (my personal favorite blog by a fiend of mine – a 30 yo architect and professor in the southern barrios of BsAs – Surviving Argentina). I also try to keep up with economic policy news with the Baseline economist blog. What I have found is…
. The truth is hard to figure out.
. As a militant Centerist, I find that the middle-of-the-road position shifts a lot… ebbs and flows, expands and contracts as Centerists find some issues upon which they feel passionate draws them closer to the left or right. That's as it should be.
. The world needs guys like you, working down in the mud with campesinos and indiginas, while I am flying over you at 4 km in a helicopter (out of the most effective man-portable missile range) with a load of corrupt and aggressive military and oligarchy-supporting capitalist tools. I work from the inside, and you work from the outside… I'm fine with that.
. The left does not withhold support from radicals because, if they are leftist, they can do no wrong. Van Jones is just the most recent example.
. BO hiring guys that openly espouse the overthrow of the Constitution of the US (he swore to protect and defend that document) and espousing Chavez-type control of the media leading to total government control of the media is going to bring the Center… a majority currently in the US… snug up along side the Right. This is a shame, because bowing to the radical Left will jeopardize the really good stuff he wants to do – such as Universal (not single-payer) health care, green jobs, etc.
. I am personally sick to my stomach of what BO wants to do in bring education closer to the radical left. We cannot allow that to happen.
. I like the way Argentina pays for a collage education for any student who could pass the requisite exams. Chavez and Castro have also done some really good and laudable things in education… but, I don't appreciate how they have turned the schools into madrassa-like political tools, radicalizing the young. That can not be allowed to happen in the US. The Right won't be allowed to do it, either.
. I am a big supporter of citizens doing government service as a way of paying back for their education. I am a beneficiary of that via the US military. My children were beneficiaries of the Americorp plan in conjunction with the Texas A&M School of Oceanography. I would like to see that program expanded for the good of the country, with the proviso that NO political agenda be imposed upon such programs.
. If Chavez is successful in becoming a full on dictator in VZ and Iraq is successful in seriously destabilizing the middle East, we may be looking at some fairly destructive wars. The Center never wants war. Chavez is helping Iran by selling gasoline in defiance of UN sanctions.
. Chavez is destabilizing the region by supporting leftist radical groups and narcotraficantes. He has not responded to the Swedish diplomatic demand as to why the serial numbers of anti-aircraft munitions sold by Sweden to Chavez were recovered in raids against the FARC in CO and EQ.

The list goes on and on. The bottom line is that if you insist on vehemently supporting leftist ideals in the face of violation of the ideals of the common good, you will be resisted. I didn't need your permission to go to war to support freedom, and you don't need my permission to spew leftist opinion on blogs. Nice, huh?

By: El_Gordo

El_Gordo — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:52:10 +0000

To be honest, he might probably go work for Chavez. He´s a bit of a mercenary. But Vorenus would suffer a crisis of conscience. And then Pullo would kill Chavez over a woman, or because Hugo insulted the XIII Legion, and get rid of the body in the sewers. I´d call that a happy ending.

By: sim

sim — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:16:58 +0000

Well, I am a Latin American specialist with 19 years experience in the region (starting when I was 12); I work with rural indigenous people on cultural and linguistic issues (and I speak Portuguese, Quechua and 2 other indigenous languages in addition to Spanish and this helps me to speak to people other than urban government sectors). I am married to an Ecuadorian lady and live in Ecuador. I mean, as long as we are playing the authenticity game.
I often criticize Chavez, Correa and other leaders when I have a reason to. But there is a difference between speaking one's mind and distortion or defamation. The US press about Latin America has tended to be the latter – this does not serve the purpose of government criticism because serious criticism is based on fact. You live in Argentina – do you think people in the US can get an accurate picture of what it is like there from the press?
Also, I did not ask you to go to war on my behalf. I appreciate your effort, but please don't hold it over my head.

By: sim

sim — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:37:42 +0000

You gotta lot of bile to spew. Sore LOSER?
Some of us are enjoying being on better terms with our neighbors under a new administration – and we don't really care if we dominate the hemisphere or not. We like their bananas anyway, why not be nice to those little banana republics you seem to hate so much?

By: Nicholas Contompasis

Nicholas Contompasis — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:42:24 +0000

I say it all here. thanks. http://shutking.blogspot.com/

By: rlaWTX

rlaWTX — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:44:39 +0000

Yet again, I do not understand the leftist/statist/liberal "thought" processes. I don't get it. I've tried to at least see their points – but they are anti-intuitive. But, I'll try again…

Please, one of y'all that claim Chavez as your own (norteamericano o otro), explain to me why you want someone who demands you agree or… well, there's no OR, just a demand for agreement. Someone who gets elected and then changes the rules to make himself non-unelectible (is there a word for that, other than dictator or tyrant?). Please explain this to me!!!
Thanks.

By: Bohemond

Bohemond — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:29:06 +0000

"hello the radio stations are a threat to social order"

Gee, where have we heard that before?