this inst really a good thread to put on a gaming web page, but im really interest in knowing how nose how hugo chavez is?

Good friend of Castro. I dont get this thread.

i just wanted to know is people know how hi is, im a venezuela, right know there are protests everywhere for the shut down of a tv stacion, a 54 year old tv station.

My roommates from Venezuela, both his parents lost their jobs and had to move to Canada because of the crazy situation going on down there. I always wanted to go but he said its really inconvenient for Americans to to get in and out and generally do much of anything.

Hugo Chavez is destroying his own country. Many people are fleeing avoid having to turn over their property to the government.

Hmm, the country doing not bad economically (maybe luck, because of high oil-price). Chavez strengthens the rights of the indian minority. On the bad side he is clearly anti-US (not anti-american, he is himself an south-american). So he is surely very controversial. But let the people from Venezuela decide who'S best for them. It'S a democracy they have. And they clearly voted for Chavez. That may be change, like in every other democracy.

yes hi has created a very anti-us sociaty, thats very wrong, and you are very right his very lucky that the oil is up, thats why the economi here is we could say good, but his allways creating inestability in the country, thats why people are leaving venezuela

betsfro said: i just wanted to know is people know how hi is, im a venezuela, right know there are protests everywhere for the shut down of a tv stacion, a 54 year old tv station.

 

I can't vouch for in the US, but here in Canada he's a regular in the news for his contraversal decisions (like closing a TV station that doesn't agree with his policies) and his anti-US stance. I have a friend in Venezuela (whom I'm visiting later this year) so I know he's still very popular with the majority of people there.  Love him or hate him, he's definately a character everyone should be paying attention too, as he tries to steer South America away from US influence.

Here in the US, he is a very hot topic.

The TV station is just the beginning, soon all civil liberties will be in danger, including videogames.

I went to high school in a city known for its Venezuelan population. My graduating class had more people born in Venezuela than the US. My history teacher for all four years was Venezuelan. So, yeah, I'm little familiar with Chavez.

Chavez is like the anti-Reagan. Where Reagan wanted to give too much support to the upper-class, causing a larger and larger gap between the rich and the poor, Chavez wants to cut too much away from the upper class, driving them and all of their capitol out of the country. He gets re-elected because the people who disagree with him and *can* leave, generally do. When I was 16 and we were poised to invade Iraq, he was one of my bigger reasons for staying out: if our hands are tied, he can do whatever he wants with virtually no fear of retribution.

It's kinda funny: my two countries are back-stabbing each other. While the US gets most of its foreign oil from Iraq, Iran, and Saudi Arabia (countries which would sooner attack Israel than trade for oil), Israel is forced to get all of their oil from Venezuela, basically by default. It takes less than a day by barge to get from Venezuela to the US Gulf Coast. A pipe (from English occupation) is already existent to pump oil from Iraq into Israel (the pipe is blocked and unused for obvious reasons). It would be so much more efficient to just trade enemies for a while. Wouldn't it?