Do you know How Hugo Chavez is? Political thread

[elprincipe]

VonShigsy said:

 

So let me get this straight..He's bad because he's helping his poor compatriots and he's not opening the market for Big Companies to exploit another latin-america country. I don't run by this logic. Cuba is surviving without commersialism and so can Venezuela. It's ludicrous to accuse him of dictacting oil policy since it's their only export, and hope to raise their economy. In no case you can compair him to Russia, or Saudi Arabia and USA since these countries revel in the oppurtunity in blackmailing (or starting wars) for oil needs.

He is not helping anyone but himself and his cronies.  If you think he is even helping the poor of Venezuela you are buying into propaganda.  Please educate yourself on this point.  As if eliminating people's freedom is "helping" them in any case...

As for Cuba, yes, they are "surviving"...as slaves to the Cuban totalitarian state (the one Chavez seeks to emulate), and in abject poverty despite their country's rich natural and human resources. 

And don't be so naive or willfully ignorant as to say the U.S. "revels" in starting wars for oil.  If we really wanted to grab oil in the Middle East, the last thing we would have done is what we did.  And I don't know of any wars Russia or Saudi Arabia have started for oil either.