| osed125 said: Everything he said is correct. And I'm the source here. |
With all due respect, you're not more or less valid as a source to me than all the people that live in Venezuela and cried over Chávez's death.
As someone that lives in Uruguay, I have a good idea of what both sides of the argument claim, and I've seen my fair share of news all these years on this matter. Kinda hard to avoid it, given how much time all media in Latin America dedicated to anything he did or what others said about him.
And no, that video is not correct on many ways. The opposition in Venezuela has actually manifested itself in the country without violent retalliation, as evidenced by how they did it during the elections, for example. And those elections have been proven to be clean by international organizations, with the only criticism I've heard about being the unequal use of the media, which is something I can agree with, from what I know. In addition, the country is objectively better in some ways, like when it comes to the distribution of wealth and poverty. What the video mentions about the food issues is a much complex issue than what he mentions and not entirely the fault of the goverment. And finally, he omits many good things he did regarding aid to other Latin American countries (including my own) and how he was trying to unite the continent, even though I was somewhat skeptical about his reasons to do so. Or the coup d'état (golpe de estado) that tried to take him out of the goverment.
The wikipedia article on Chávez is a much better read than this video, for both the "good" and "bad" about his actions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez
As I said before, there's plenty of things I didn't agree with Chávez, like the way he dealt with criticism, the way he handled the media, his confrontational attitude towards some countries while having good relationships with other rather questionable ones, some of his decisions regarding private property from corporations, etc. All these doesn't erase all the good things he did, at least to me.
This is my last post on this issue. This is quite a long discussion which is even related to other bigger topics, such as economic systems or Latin American history, so as I said before, I don't want to get into it, specially here. I'll read anything you want to add, but I won't reply again.
