Bravo for Chavez! 

Here is a world leader with the guts to stand up to the Americans and their corporate/military imperialism that has done nothing but enrich a fraction of their people, while devestating the world’s financial system and environment, not to mention putting us all on the brink of neverending war.

It’s little wonder that Latin and South America as well as Africa and Asia have had it with America’s calamitous history of sticking its nose into every other country’s business while ignoring at its peril the havoc it’s created for its own people and economy.

Truthdig is on the money when it comes to news about the United States. Too bad I can’t say the same when they talk about Latin America!!

The direction of this article is a shameful display of what I expect from TRUTHDIG. Cameron, you said it well, because this is American main stream media propaganda. We could really use for someone like Chavez to lead us right now.

Seriously… “the worldwide financial crisis and the rise of China have shaken the conventional wisdom that capitalism and democracy are superior to the alternatives” ...seriously?

We Americans, of all people on the planet today, should by now be PAINFULLY aware that capitalism and democracy are diametrically opposed in both method and motive. Meanwhile, elements within our sputtering “democratic republic” have tried repeatedly to overthrow - by coup and by recall - this immensely popular and democratically elected president of Venezuela.

The Wilson Quarterly with this article surely makes Woodrow spin in his grave with his internationalist spirit, and ‘journalist’ Kucera conveniently forgets that Hosni Mubarak and Moammar Gadhafi were both once warmly supported allies of both red and blue US administrations, just as were Saddam Hussein, Ferdinand Marcos, General Suharto, the Shah of Iran and dozens of other brutal dictators whose abuses ushered in popular sentiment against our successive governments here in America. Our misguided and persistent support for them has stained our ‘beacon to the world’ for all time.

The shameful list of democratically elected leaders that our national government has overthrown is also quite long, and it’s obvious that any true democracy emerging in the Middle East would result in our getting the firm boot in the pants on the way out the door.

Our respect for democracy is such that a wealthy oil-connected televangelist and presidential candidate retained his national standing after openly calling - on his nationwide television program - for the extrajudicial assassination of Chavez (citing the petroleum resources of Venezuela as a major reason to kill its president).

This article is so far beneath the standards that Truthdig regularly lives up to, that I must regard it as a singular aberration. I can only hope this variety of petty screed appears with increasing rarity.