Hugo Chávez hints at US cancer plot

[lestatdark]

Kasz216 said:

lestatdark said:

Kasz216 said:

lestatdark said:

Slimebeast said:

lestatdark said:

Slimebeast said:

lestatdark said:
Anyone that heeds any word that this madman ever says should do a brain check.

Having lived in Venezuela for most of my life and having to, literally, run away from the country after this bastard took over, destroying all the hard work that my family had for more than 4 generations, the only wish I have regarding him is that he dies as fast and as painful as he could possibly do.

Why did you move to the portugese speaking Portugal instead of Spain?

Because I was born here, but moved to Venezuela when I was 2 years old. Most of my family from my mother side is from here and my father's family is from Venezuela.

Cool. Btw, do portuguese people speak/understand spanish?

Yeah most of the times. Both languages are pretty similar in phonetics, pronounciation and way of speaking. It isn't hard to switch from one language to the other even in the same sentence.

Yeah, I hear the iberian languages are like the eastern europeon languages in that way.

Indeed, and even in cultural aspects both countries are pretty similar, mostly because historically they steem from the both source (the county of Portucale was part of the Kingdom of Leon which later became the kingdom of Spain three centuries after Portugal became it's own kingdom).

True, although really, "Countries" back then were a much more nebulous thing then they are now with different parts of countries seemingly changing hands all the time.

Then again I believe it was fairly rare I beleive that someone made themselves king like Alfonso did.

That's true too. The three counties of the iberian peninsula back them were made of ficticious demarcations, mostly because the large portion of the iberian peninsula was, back then, conquered by the moors. 

Alfonso not only chased the moors of the entire portucale county, he also did it while facing his mother and step-father who wanted to take back the county and re-annex it to the county of Leon. If only Portugal had followed it's rich history from the 12th to 15th century, today it would have been a very different (and probably better) country...instead it only had shitty decisions since the 1500s.