Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez dead, VP says

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Fox News:

CARACAS, Venezuela – President Hugo Chavez, the fiery populist who declared a socialist revolution in Venezuela, crusaded against U.S. influence and championed a leftist revival across Latin America, died Tuesday at age 58 after a nearly two-year bout with cancer.

Vice President Nicolas Maduro, surrounded by other government officials, announced the death in a national television broadcast. He said Chavez died at 4:25 p.m. local time.

During more than 14 years in office, Chavez routinely challenged the status quo at home and internationally. He polarized Venezuelans with his confrontational and domineering style, yet was also a masterful communicator and strategist who tapped into Venezuelan nationalism to win broad support, particularly among the poor.

Chavez repeatedly proved himself a political survivor. As an army paratroop commander, he led a failed coup in 1992, then was pardoned and elected president in 1998. He survived a coup against his own presidency in 2002 and won re-election two more times.

The burly president electrified crowds with his booming voice, often wearing the bright red of his United Socialist Party of Venezuela or the fatigues and red beret of his army days. Before his struggle with cancer, he appeared on television almost daily, talking for hours at a time and often breaking into song of philosophical discourse.

Chavez used his country's vast oil wealth to launch social programs that include state-run food markets, new public housing, free health clinics and education programs. Poverty declined during Chavez's presidency amid a historic boom in oil earnings, but critics said he failed to use the windfall of hundreds of billions of dollars to develop the country's economy.

Inflation soared and the homicide rate rose to among the highest in the world.

Chavez underwent surgery in Cuba in June 2011 to remove what he said was a baseball-size tumor from his pelvic region, and the cancer returned repeatedly over the next 18 months despite more surgery, chemotherapy and radiation treatments. He kept secret key details of his illness, including the type of cancer and the precise location of the tumors.

"El Comandante," as he was known, stayed in touch with the Venezuelan people during his treatment via Twitter and phone calls broadcast on television, but even those messages dropped off as his health deteriorated.

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Ding dong, the SOB is dead.

[Valin]

You know sometimes in the middle of doom & gloom, a little ray of sunshine breaks through.

[quantim]

Well, Ted has a new drinking buddy.

[Valin]

WSJ: Hugo Chávez

The lesson is to beware the rule of charismatic demagogues.

3/5/13

 

When Hugo Chávez was elected President of Venezuela in December 1998, the country had endured nearly two decades of political and economic turmoil, including violent rioting, high inflation, huge foreign debts, a president impeached on corruption charges, and two failed 1992 coups—one of them led, and the other inspired, by a brash and ambitious army colonel named Hugo Chávez.

 

Yet when the Chávez era finally drew to a close Tuesday with his death from cancer at age 58, life for Venezuelans had only become worse. As life stories go, the lesson of Chávez's is to beware charismatic demagogues peddling socialist policies at home and revolution abroad.

 

That's a lesson one would have thought the world had learned by the time Chávez came to power. By 1998, the Soviet Union was a memory, Latin American countries from Mexico to Chile were successfully adopting free-market policies, and Chávez's friend and role model—Cuba's Fidel Castro—was a discredited dinosaur.

 

(Snip)

[righteousmomma]

"Another one bites the dust"

[Valin]

Sean Penn Mourns Death of Hugo Chavez

3/6/13

 

Sean Penn and Oliver Stone, two vocal supporters of controversial Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, released statements following Chavez’s death on Tuesday at the age of 58.

 

“Today the people of the United States lost a friend it never knew it had. And poor people around the world lost a champion,” Penn said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter. “I lost a friend I was blessed to have. My thoughts are with the family of President Chavez and the people of Venezuela.”

 

(Snip)

 

Oliver Stone, who championed Chavez in his 2009 film ”South of the Border,” said on Tuesday, ”I mourn a great hero to the majority of his people and those who struggle throughout the world for a place.”

 

Stone’s statement continued, “Hated by the entrenched classes, Hugo Chavez will live forever in history.” He closed his comments with, “My friend, rest finally in a peace long earned.”

 

 

 

Words cannot express my loathing for these two.....expletive deleted people.

[cudjo]

Sean Penn Mourns Death of Hugo Chavez

3/6/13

 

Sean Penn and Oliver Stone, two vocal supporters of controversial Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, released statements following Chavez's death on Tuesday at the age of 58.

 

"Today the people of the United States lost a friend it never knew it had. And poor people around the world lost a champion," Penn said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter. "I lost a friend I was blessed to have. My thoughts are with the family of President Chavez and the people of Venezuela."

 

(Snip)

 

Oliver Stone, who championed Chavez in his 2009 film "South of the Border," said on Tuesday, "I mourn a great hero to the majority of his people and those who struggle throughout the world for a place."

 

Stone's statement continued, "Hated by the entrenched classes, Hugo Chavez will live forever in history." He closed his comments with, "My friend, rest finally in a peace long earned."

 

 

 

Words cannot express my loathing for these two.....expletive deleted people.

 

Those two idiots belong in the same category as Dennis Rodman, ugh

[Valin]

Sean Penn Mourns Death of Hugo Chavez

3/6/13

 

Sean Penn and Oliver Stone, two vocal supporters of controversial Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, released statements following Chavez's death on Tuesday at the age of 58.

 

"Today the people of the United States lost a friend it never knew it had. And poor people around the world lost a champion," Penn said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter. "I lost a friend I was blessed to have. My thoughts are with the family of President Chavez and the people of Venezuela."

 

(Snip)

 

Oliver Stone, who championed Chavez in his 2009 film "South of the Border," said on Tuesday, "I mourn a great hero to the majority of his people and those who struggle throughout the world for a place."

 

Stone's statement continued, "Hated by the entrenched classes, Hugo Chavez will live forever in history." He closed his comments with, "My friend, rest finally in a peace long earned."

 

 

 

Words cannot express my loathing for these two.....expletive deleted people.

 

Those two idiots belong in the same category as Dennis Rodman, ugh

 

Dennis Prager was talking about this....Ya just want to smack em.

[righteousmomma]

Rush was playing excerpts from the media today and their gushing over the loss of " a champion of the poor", " a beloved leader", "the opposite of Bush" , left his country better off. Ad nauseum.

Pitiful and shameful but then we always knew that most of our media and celebrities are socialist bent.

[Valin]

Hugo Chávez divides Venezuela in death as in life amid fears of violence

 

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The United Nations Human Rights Council, now chaired by Cuba, held a minute's silence in tribute to Mr Chavez. Its Cuban chairman said: "On behalf of the Latin American and Caribbean states, we wish to express our deep solidarity with the people and government of Venezuela."

 

 

 

[Pepper]

Sean Penn and Oliver Stone, two vocal supporters of controversial Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, released statements following Chavez's death on Tuesday at the age of 58.

"Today the people of the United States lost a friend it never knew it had. And poor people around the world lost a champion," Penn said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter. "I lost a friend I was blessed to have. My thoughts are with the family of President Chavez and the people of Venezuela."

(Snip)

Oliver Stone, who championed Chavez in his 2009 film "South of the Border," said on Tuesday, "I mourn a great hero to the majority of his people and those who struggle throughout the world for a place."

Stone's statement continued, "Hated by the entrenched classes, Hugo Chavez will live forever in history." He closed his comments with, "My friend, rest finally in a peace long earned."

 

@cudjo

@Valin

 

If Hitler had died today, the Left would be issuing these statements

 

"The world has lost a great man who was cut short in his career as a budding artist."

 

"The world has lost a dear friend who has had a tremendous influence on automobile safety and cars for the common man "

 

"The world has lost a not only a good vegetarian but a reformed smoker and a great friend of the animals "

[Valin]

Sean Penn and Oliver Stone, two vocal supporters of controversial Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, released statements following Chavez's death on Tuesday at the age of 58.

"Today the people of the United States lost a friend it never knew it had. And poor people around the world lost a champion," Penn said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter. "I lost a friend I was blessed to have. My thoughts are with the family of President Chavez and the people of Venezuela."

(Snip)

Oliver Stone, who championed Chavez in his 2009 film "South of the Border," said on Tuesday, "I mourn a great hero to the majority of his people and those who struggle throughout the world for a place."

Stone's statement continued, "Hated by the entrenched classes, Hugo Chavez will live forever in history." He closed his comments with, "My friend, rest finally in a peace long earned."

 

@cudjo

@Valin

 

If Hitler had died today, the Left would be issuing these statements

 

"The world has lost a great man who was cut short in his career as a budding artist."

 

"The world has lost a dear friend who has had a tremendous influence on automobile safety and cars for the common man "

 

"The world has lost a not only a good vegetarian but a reformed smoker and a great friend of the animals "

 

I was thinking something similar this morning.

Good Job!!!