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Hugo Chávez kept his promise to the people of Venezuela
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Wednesday March 06, 2013 17:40 by Elric
The late Venezuelan president's Bolívarian revolution has been crucial to a wider Latin American philosophy
The Commandante is dead but the Revolution continues. If there is an afterlife then Chavez is in Valhalla.
External Links: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (a.k.a. Chavez: Inside the Coup) is a 2002 documentary about the April 2002 Venezuelan coup attempt which briefly deposed Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. A television crew from Ireland’s Radio Telifís Éireann happened to be recording a documentary about Chávez during the events of April 11, 2002.
Nicaragua is one of Venezuela's allies in Alba, the organisation constituted at Chávez's initiative to counter neoliberalism in the region, alongside Cuba, Ecuador and Bolivia. It has now acquired a life of its own having invited a number of Caribbean countries and Mexico to join, with Vietnam as an observer. It will be a most enduring legacy, a concrete embodiment of Chávez's words and historical vision. The Bolívarian revolution has been crucial to the wider philosophy shared and applied by many Latin American governments. Its aim is to overcome global problems through local and regional interventions by engaging with democracy and the state in order to transform the relation between these and the people, rather than withdrawing from the state or trying to destroy it.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15An inspiration to many people who aspire to a better fairer world.
And a man with the balls to stand up to the US and to Israel and call a spade a spade.
We need more men like Hugo. His voice will be missed.
As a tribute, here is the infamous documentary "The revolution will not be televised":
This is a sad day because Hugo Chavez was the one person who kept the flame alive for a better world and who was trying to do something about it.
We should note that he himself suspected that his cancer was caused by the CIA using some kind of personnel biological weapon designed to give cancer and which would have been easily injected by some operative. As we know his friend Fidel Castro was the target of hundreds of assassination attempts by the CIA.
Hugo Chavez gave his all to raise the people of Venezuela from the horrific conditions US imperialism had put them in. In the process, he raised the hopes and courage of all of South America, and of the whole world. The loss of Al Gaddafi has been catastrophic for the hopes of all of Africa. We can only hope and pray that Hugo's death will not mean the same imperialist onslaught for South America. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam ró-uasal.
The Real News Network, Paul Jay.
"Venezuela's Real Division Over Who Benefits from Oil Wealth
Alex Main: American "Mainstream" media accuses Chavez of leaving Venezuela "divided and polarized", but Venezuela is not divided over Chavez's personality, it's whether oil wealth will go to the people or the elite"
Video News Link below;
He was a beacon of hope in a world of poverty, injustice and war. Let us hope his successor will carry on his good work. RIP Comrade!
several well known viruses are known to cause cancer including several strains of the common HPV virus.
Given the Irish STI statistics, our previous "jim corr" commenter probably even has it himself!! ;-)
It's perfectly manageable to introduce a strain of this virus to somebody you don't like. Anyone could do it. It's highly contagious.
It might conceiveably (translation: already done by US military) be engineered to amplify it's cancer causing properties, making it a very handy and plausibly deniable personal assassination bioweapon.
We're talking basic genetic engineering applied to a very well known common virus here, not conspiracy theory.
Hugo was not being all that unreasonable in considering this as a possibility given the huge amount of oil involved and the previous behaviour of the US towards Fidel Castro and towards Venezuela in the past, not to mention the huge and very questionable investment in the US on research into biological weapons.
Press Release
SIPTU President expresses regret at death of Hugo Chavez
Date Released: 06 March 2013
SIPTU General President, Jack O’Connor, has expressed his deep regret at the tragic death of the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez.
“I want to express my deep regret at the death of Hugo Chavez whose passing is a tragedy for the Venezuelan people and the oppressed and downtrodden of Latin America and the wider world.”
“His vision of an egalitarian society for which he strove so earnestly offered a humane and radical alternative to the collapsing edifice of the neo-liberal project which has wreaked such havoc across the globe.
“His death from cancer at such a young age is a sad loss for all progressive people and movements that aspire to fairness and justice in society.”
Here is the opening paragraph from the Socialist Party commenting on the death of Chavez...
Hugo Chavez dies - the struggle continues
Written by Tony Saunois
Wednesday, 06 March 2013 13:00
Millions of Venezuelan workers, the poor and youth will mourn the death of Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez on Tuesday 5 March. Thousands reportedly took to the streets in Caracas chanting “Todos somos Chavez”, ‘we are all Chavez’.
In an era when the gap between establishment politicians, who defend big business and the super-rich, and the masses seems to widen inexorably Chavez stood out. In fact in the age of austerity the measures he took to alleviate poverty stood out like a beacon.
The workers and youth in Venezuela will be joined by many around the globe who have been inspired to support Hugo Chavez’s regime as offering an alternative to imperialism, neoliberalism and capitalism.
Meanwhile the most pernicious right-wing capitalist commentators have wasted neither time nor ink in their outpourings of hatred of his regime.
The mourning of his passing and anger at these attacks must be channelled into a new stage of working class struggle for socialism in Venezuela and internationally...
The full text can be found on the SP website at the link below
And here is the libertarian reflections on Chavez....
Late this afternoon Nicolás Maduro, on behalf of the government of Venezuela, informed the country and the world of some news which though not unexpected nevertheless came as a shock: Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías had died.
We will no longer see one of the most important men in Latin America in the last decade. It is impossible not to be somewhat shaken by this fact. We do not doubt that they will be celebrating with the most expensive champagne in Chacao [1]. Naturally that is not our feeling, nor is it that of the Venezuelan masses. We can only feel solidarity with them in their sense of grief over the passing of one who in recent years was their undisputed leader and benchmark for the popular movement across the continent.
Full text at link
here's another good article on counterpunch outlining the work chavez has done in Venezuela
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/03/06/the-chavez-legacy/
Chávez Won't Go
By Farooque Chowdhury
http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury060313.htm
Chávez won't go. Class conflict ridden history shall not allow Chávez to go. He is part of history, part of people struggling against dispossession, exploitation and poverty, part of people struggling for democracy and dignity. “Those who die for life, can't be called dead,” said Nicolas Maduro, the Venezuelan vice-president. This makes Chávez live for ever among the people
The Revolution Within The Revolution Will Continue
By Kevin Zeese & Margaret Flowers
http://www.countercurrents.org/zeese060313.htm
If the United States and the oligarchs think the death of Chávez means the end of the Bolivarian Revolution he led, they are in for a disappointment. This revolution, which is not limited to Venezuela, is likely to show to itself and the world that it is deep and strong. The people-powered transformation with which Chávez was in solidarity will continue
Seeing Chavez Inside Ourselves
By Billy Wharton
http://www.countercurrents.org/wharton060313.htm
Ultimately the life of Hugo Chavez challenges us to look at our own lives. To see in ourselves, as he saw in himself and other common people, the spark of humanity capable of changing the world. If Chavez initiated a new kind of socialism for the 21st century, he did so with the implicit understanding that it was not his movement to complete. He merely offered a glimpse into a future where the needs and desires of the people, regular people like us, are more important than those of the 1% who seek to rule the world. The world changing message offered by Hugo Chavez is that another future is possible and that future begins with us
On The Legacy Of Hugo Chávez
By Greg Grandin
http://www.countercurrents.org/grandin060313.htm
Over the last fourteen years, Chávez has submitted himself and his agenda to fourteen national votes, winning thirteen of them by large margins, in polling deemed by Jimmy Carter to be “best in the world” out of the ninety-two elections that he has monitored
no matter what the media say. political pundits bets. Chavez Spirit wasn't one person it was a nation. aslong as there is oppression alienation exploitation. working class spirit of resistance will always be there
Heh! it was funny looking at the right wing captured media trying to diss chavez, but failing miserably because everything they said was bad about him was worse in their own country and in the US. And they still had to justify years of constant negative reporting on Chavez on their channels, despite the clear successes of Chavez for his people.
"He was an evil dictator"....erm....but the elections were the fairest and most monitored in the WORLD. He gave free heating oil to US citizens, housed the poor, taught them to read, kicked out greedy landowners and corporate types, helped pay off IMF debts of other countries like Argentina, free healthcare, subsidised food, free education, 5.8% unemployment, Hey.....I want some of that stuff. How come we don't have any of that here... what is this austerity shit?
"But he imprisoned some people unfairly"....ERM *cough* Guantanamo *cough* Belmarsh *cough* abu ghraib *cough* Saudi Arabia *cough* Israel
*cough* US has highest per capita privatised prison population in the known universe! *choke*
"his friends were evil Libya, Syria, North Korea, Iran, Cuba, Bolivia" Erm...you mean all the countries that wouldn't roll over and play ball with the US corporate vultures with their exploitative "free trade" agreements, privatisation of public utilities and financial speculation. What was the fate of all the countries who did roll over. Ah...Mr Perkins, ex economic hitman who previously worked in Latin America is here to tell us all about THAT process....
You could visibly see it was sticking in their throats that undeniably Chavez made things better for his people.
the only thing bad they could truthfully say was that the murder rate in Venezuela was high so they kept going on about that all the time.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran arrived in Caracas early this morning for the funeral of Hugo Chavez . Ahmadinejad said that he would greatly miss the Venezuelan leader "He was a dear friend to all the countries of the world. To us, President Chavez's loss is very painful because we've lost a friend - a close friend - and a revolutionary and just leader."
In 2007, in the face of a deluge of lurid anti-Iranian propaganda in the western media –much of it directed against Ahmadinejad personally - President Chavez defiantly declared an "axis of unity" between Venezuela and Iran against US imperialism : The Chavez message of solidarity to Iran came two weeks after he had expelled two U.S. oil giants from Venezuela with the words , “This is the unity of the Persian Gulf and the Caribbean Sea." .
despite the US bussing in lots of absentee voters to vote for Capriles:
http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_23020971/venez...ndays
and despite US funding for the "free market" opposition,
MADURO HAS WON!!!!!
VIVA MADURO, VIVA CHAVEZ,
VIVA LA BOLIVARIAN REVOLUTION!!