Wednesday, March 19, 2008
President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela is not an angel ... neither is he the tyrant and dictator that some have tried to paint him
Some detractors of Chávez -- and they are many, ranging across the spectrum of thinkers and observers -- claim that his dispersal of oil revenues for education and health care is a short-term solution to long-standing and deep problems. If the oil money dries up or if Chávez decides to do an about-face on his commitment to helping the poor, that criticism may prove correct. But even if it is short-lived, what is wrong with poor people becoming literate and gaining access to health care? How could they not be better off, in even some minimal way, in the long run?
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These claims are even more criminally-hypocritical than they look. They are the words of paid apologists (or just plain fools) trying to confuse the unwary as to the proper use of state funds. The aim is to aid their masters, the Rich of the Imperium, in trying to turn the tables on the people, and re-take the wealth they were stealing all those wasted decades of funneling resources anywhere but where they were supposed to go -- i.e. into developing the country and raising the people out of squalor.
ReplyDeleteAnd so we should rejoice at the green venom of these vicious idiots. Stew away, assholes. That money is staying where it is. But you're welcome to come try and take it.
If you take a look at Mr. Chavez's successes and achievements as president you will realized that's precisely the image that most people from around the world have made of him. What you see, is what you get, a president that from day one his goal was to liberate a country and save a sovereign democracy that was threaten by a hegemonic regime.
ReplyDeleteUp to this moment he has lived up to it by bringing a total social transformation of the country
the recovering of all access to an excelent health care service, all levels of Education, affordable housing, basic services, modern ways of rail transportation, energy and telecomunications and other infrastructures vital to the nation economy and security, by the way this national security is fundamentally based on its own national resources.
Unfortunately, for some developed nations their economic and national security have been depending on foreign resources or on other nations sovereign patrimoney.
This sense of ownership towards other sovereignities has led to
brutal invasions and violent attacks ranging from human rights violations to the loss of innoncent lives.