I believe SK was saying Chavez's government is just another dictatorship. Chavez is talking of making changes to the country's constitution so he can stay in power for another 25 years.
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Chavez said Friday that he said he might seek "indefinite" re-election through a referendum if the opposition boycotts the presidential vote.
"I would call a national referendum to have the people decide if I can continue here indefinitely or if I have to go after six years," he said.
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http://abcnews.go.com/International/...ory?id=1932342
Is he a nazi? I don't know if he believes in racial purity and racial superiority. But I do believe he encourages hatred between indigenous indians, dark skin latinos and light skin latinos. Is he an anti-semite? I don't know. It's possible. Maybe he was referring to powerful people in general. Many people in Latin America inherit their power and wealth so maybe he was alluding to it by speaking of 'decendents'.
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The speech was given on Christmas Eve, and the key passage reads: "The world has enough for all. But it turned out that some minorities, descendants of those who crucified Christ, descendants of those who threw Bolívar out of here and also crucified him in their own way in Santa Marta, there in Colombia.
"A minority took the world's riches for themselves, a minority appropriated the world's gold, its silver, its minerals, its water, it's fertile land, its oil, took its riches, then concentrated that wealth in the hands of a few: fewer than ten per cent of the population of the world owns more than half the world's wealth."
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=BLOGDETAIL&grid=P30&blog=newsdesk& xml=/news/2006/01/23/bleurope23.xml
I disagree that the US media and admin focus so much on him. The Bush admin has pretty much publically ignored him until this recent stunt of offering to sell F-16 fighter jets to Iran. Chavez seeks attention and the more he has been ignored by the US and the more he ruins things in his own country the louder he shouts for attention and the more he seeks diversions away from his domestic problems. The US media give him attention because he knocks Bush, because they want to document his unraveling and they want to be there when he finally goes crazy in public. No one can be sure when it will happen. Las Vegas bookmakers may be able to give odds on this which inturn would provide a general timeframe.
In what light should the food shortages and the resulting suffering he created be seen? He doubled the price to be paid to coffee growers while maintaining the price set for the sale of the roasted coffee. I'd guess the result was coffee roasters didn't buy any raw coffee from the growers and they sat on their existing inventory to see what would happen. The growers in the meantime had to store their beans at their expense without any income from sales. I wonder what percentage of the beans molded while sitting in possesion of the growers? Is this ineptitude, romanticism run amok or intimidation and destruction of his enemies' economic resources? If I give him the benefit of the doubt and say it is the latter should the people suffer during his policy of destroying his enemies' resources? Is Chavez for peaceful co-existence of the classes and races or is he promoting a 'your turn in the barrel' mentality?
edited: I removed a line in the first paragraph.