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Smackdown in VenezuelaPosted on Feb 11, 2011
In a brawl broadcast live on television and radio, Venezuelan legislators exchanged blows as members of President Hugo Chavez’s United Socialist Party tried to remove an opposition member from the parliament’s speaker’s podium. Video of the melee was seen and heard across the country through a direct link-up system often used by Chavez to broadcast his speeches. The transmission was cut after the violence began. —JCL
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By Litl Bludot, February 15, 2011 at 12:36 pm Link to this comment
rollzone,
among other things, his people saved him from a CIA etc. thug coup. You
know, the people who vote him in office by over 60%. The ones who have
better education, healthcare, land reform, access to their own country’s wealth
(rather than the rape and pillage of US global corporate fascism) He declares
emergencies when the people are suffering, recently clearing out a few posh
hotels for people who lost homes in floods. Here in the US, he gave heating oil
to our old and poor in harsh winters, as he does for other countries.
Perhaps you could explain why you’re so ignorant about the US role in
Report thisdestroying societies, cultures, ecosystems and anyone who happens to try to do
something about it. The incomparable damage we are doing to our planet, our
humanity is overwhelming and clear to anybody who has a soul left.
By Peter Knopfler, February 12, 2011 at 2:33 pm Link to this comment
Anger management failed HUGO´S thugs attack opposition
Report thisleaders, usually at night, in the dark, the wolves
attack, this time in brazen public, “It´s a good day to
woup somebody´s ass!” THE HALLS OF JUSTICE OR JUST US!
By Tesla, February 12, 2011 at 1:30 pm Link to this comment
A similar opposition if it existed in this country
would find itself infiltrated and usurped by one or
more of our “alphabet agencies”. Members and
sympathizers would be slandered, blackmailed and
possibly imprisoned.
I have no delusions about Chavez being a saint or
that he is incapable of vindictiveness on some level.
But please, explain to me, what if anything does he
do that our leaders haven’t done or currently aren’t
doing?
The American exceptionalist attitude makes for
Report thismorally bankrupt hyperbole coming from both our right
and left.
By rollzone, February 12, 2011 at 10:55 am Link to this comment
hello. this is why we need Jesse Ventura on the floor,
Report thisin the house. so, Litl Bludot, you have your moment-
explain to all us corporate plebes what is so
fabulously good about leader Chavez…
By Inherit The Wind, February 11, 2011 at 11:19 pm Link to this comment
Perhaps the good people of Venezuela will decide THEY don’t want to live 30 years under Hugo Mubark/Hosni Chavez.
Report thisBy Litl Bludot, February 11, 2011 at 7:17 pm Link to this comment
typical headline for Truthdig. Coming to see it as another frenemy site.
Pretending to be on the side of truth, transparency, democracy, but in reality, a
propaganda machine for the corporate fascists.
Chavez, like other latin leaders in Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Brazil, are not taking
the neo liberal BS anymore, so our “security” apparatus has made it clear that any
slander directing at these countries leaders would be appreciated. Truthdig is
obliging.
Disgusting.
Report thisBy TDoff, February 11, 2011 at 6:07 pm Link to this comment
Geez, you can use some of this same text when you do your article on GOProud at the conservative CPAC meeting, as I understand that several of their leaders exchanged blows, also.
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