Govt Slaves March 5 2013
(AP) President Hugo Chavez was a fighter. The former paratroop commander and fiery populist waged continual battle for his socialist ideals and outsmarted his rivals time and again, defeating a coup attempt, winning re-election three times and using his country’s vast oil wealth to his political advantage.
A self-described “subversive,” Chavez fashioned himself after the 19th Century independence leader Simon Bolivar and renamed his country the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
He called himself a “humble soldier” in a battle for socialism and against U.S. hegemony. He thrived on confrontation with Washington and his political opponents at home, and used those conflicts to rally his followers.
Almost the only adversary it seemed he couldn’t beat was cancer.
During more than 14 years in office, his leftist politics and grandiose style polarized Venezuelans. The barrel-chested leader electrified crowds with his booming voice, and won admiration among the poor with government social programs and a folksy, nationalistic style.
His opponents seethed at the larger-than-life character who demonized them on television and ordered the expropriation of farms and businesses. Many in the middle class cringed at his bombast and complained about rising crime, soaring inflation and government economic controls.
He wasn’t really against the US, he used it as a means to position himself as the hero against the “evil empire” and pose as the advocate for the poor at the same time. In reality the majority is starving nowdays, getting killed every hour because of a cellphone, more kids in the streets than ever, the army is used to do the bidding of other governments even if it means to turn it against the natives, all of this… while his mithologized by the blind. But anyway, there’s not enough space to describe that trauma, that deserves a whole book.
At this time of the worlds struggle any death of anyone who spoke out against U.S. cabal is extremely suspicious!!