For the Hugo Chavez Admirers

[Don Juan]

We've better be cautious with this Castro clone!

Personally, I don't like the bastard, but you'd have to give him a "thumbs up" for the way he has handle the very corrupt bourgeois elite in VZ gov.
His modus operandi leaves a lot to be desired. This man does not know the meaning of tact or political correctness. What he does know is the number of poor people in need of the most basic stuff. And he hasn't forgotten them.

I can only wish we, in DR, had someone with the "cojones" to do away with all the parasitic blood suckers in our own gov./military, and help out the poor to the extent he has.
The man obviously has communist tendencies and wants to right wrongs by any means necessary and that's what's so scary. The more power he garners, the more influence he'll have on other Latin nations.
We in DR need to be extremely careful as to how we deal with this guy.
His oil trump-card can be used at any time to control/smother/stifle our way of life.
We'll need to find alternate sources of oil, or produce our own needs in the form of renewable energies, or we'll be at his mercy (if we're not already), for the duration of his tyranny.
Shutting down the opposition's voice, legally or not, is one of the early signs of more trouble to come for us in DR and the rest of the Americas!

 

[Mirador]

....My prediction is some kind of deal will be worked out between the government and the tv station. ...QUOTE]


Actually, the Bolivarian Government of Venezuela has arrived at some deal with the other three member of the "four horsemen of the apocalypse", as the four media groups were called who participated in the 2002 coup, including Venevision, owned by Gustavo Cisneros, Latinamerica's richest man, after Mexico's Carlos Slim.

 

[cobraboy]

Hey Cobra your Marxist/Socialist boggie man thing does not work anymore. The cold war anachronism long gone.

No bogey man, AH, just an accurate description of a political/economic philosophy that makes some here start sporting giddy wood...

 

[GringoCArlos]

Gee, so Hipolito taking over the Listin Diario to become his own bully pulpit was a GOOOD thing! Hipolito didn't have the right to do so, the laws weren't followed, but he and his government did it anyway. OK, I got it. Following the law of the land, in a land where free elections with observers, like what my buddy Hugo is going to do, is a BAAD thing..

Personally, I think it's morally wrong for leaders of a country (that stole an election, depend on the kindness of other countries to sell them enough oil to keep prices low for their voters, and have demonstrated that they themselves have no moral compass,) to try and dictate what other countries do or don't do, depending on their own twisted views.

For example, Venezuela. For example, Nicaragua. For example, Cuba. For example, Bolivia. For example, Sudan.

I prefer a country to have a leader that will stand up for what they believe is right, than one who will immediately drop to their knees and become a lapdog. For example, the DR (the last 2 presidents anyway). For example, Colombia. For example, the Bahamas. For example, Mexico.

 

[Hillbilly]

Gentlemen:
My sister in law does not think much of the current Venezuelan government. But then again, she won't live in the DR.

This is a Dominican related website, so i am afraid that we have to close this discussion of mr chavez's pros or cons.

Sorry. But hey, have a Happy New Year...


HB