I live in a country where you can’t say anything nice about Hugo Chavez, “the dictator” of Venezuela. He’s so dictatorial that he allows his people to recall him at any time, and he allowed his people to reject his socialist reforms by the ballot. Some dictator!
Bush and the CIA tried overthrow Chavez, using the right-wing media channels– that call him racially charged names. He’s been called a gorilla and a monkey (he’s Afro-Venezuelan and Indigenous Venezuelan in ancestry and the media elites are as snowy white as I am). Chavez refused to renew the license of one of these right wing media stations–RCTV– and in the US he was denounced as a dictator. Venezuela has the same laws against defaming government institutions as Mexico, meaning that free speech is limited in most Latin American countries. And whenever someone gets convicted on one of those laws in Venezuela, we get the news that free speech is being repressed. Of course, if the Mexicans are arresting leftist critics of their government using those laws, we never hear a word. And the US obviously doesn’t care what is going in Colombia in terms of democratic freedoms. Hell, Bush wants us to have a free trade agreement (sic) with their thug president Alvaro Uribe!
During the coup, two Irish journalists–Kim Bartley and Donnacha O’Briain– were in the Miraflores Palace ( the Venezuelan white house), and here is the real story of the coup attempt. The people rose up against the coup, and Chavez was saved from suffering Allende’s fate.
You can find out more here.
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