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corysub -> RE: Venezuela's Chavez wants to jail rival (10/27/2008 4:53:23 PM)
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ORIGINAL: meatcleaver
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ORIGINAL: corysub
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ORIGINAL: Sanity
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatened on Saturday to imprison his main political rival, intensifying a campaign against a man he calls a crime boss just a month before he faces tough regional elections.
Opposition leader Manuel Rosales, who lost to Chavez in the 2006 presidential vote, is governor of the oil producing state of Zulia and is running for mayor of its capital Maracaibo.
"I am determined to put Manuel Rosales behind bars. A swine like that has to be in prison," Chavez said.
(Click the link for the full article)
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE49O2FL20081025?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&rpc=22&sp=true
Not a surprise, is it! That's what radical socialists do, consolidate power, destroy the opposition and control peoples lives.
I think you enjoy not understanding why there are reactions against the rightwing in S America. Go there. Look at the poverty, the exploitation, the subjugation of the poor. Look at the super rich hidden in their villas behind high fences, with private armies to protect them from the people they have robbed. Only rightwing Americans could possibly not see the injustice that causes the lurch of the poor towards the far left. America loves South American dictators and murderers, as long as they are of the rightwing variety of course. I don't remember Americans complaining about Pinoche or Galteiri when they were murdering their own people. Chavez isn't murdering his own people but do you notice how he gets more of a reaction from America than the two mass murderers did?
I understand full well the exploitation of people in all the countries south of the Rio Grande..from Mexico to Chile
However, I thought this thread topic was about Chavez seeking to imprison opposition, and that's what my comments addressed. If you want to discuss Chile that might be an interesting thread. Personally, I think power politics involves forming coalitions of friendly like minded people, and unfriendly people who are unfriendly towards our enemies too. Along those lines,I would send money to support the overthrow of Chavez the way the United States supported the overthrow of Allende by Pinochet. Not ideal, not the best of all worlds...but I would rather "our guy" in there than a Marxist.
And no, I don't think the killing of innocent people who are generally apolitical is tolerable, and I would condemn those actions from either a Marxist like Allende, a Fascist like Pinochet....or a radical terrorist who thinks he is above the law, and the ends justify the means. It's a nasty mean jungle out there...and life, unfortunately, is not a "box of chocolates" for most of the worlds population. Be well...
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