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Title: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez dead
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Published: Mar 5, 2013
Author: ap
Post Date: 2013-03-05 17:22:25 by calcon
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Comments: 33
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. Read more: www.foxnews.com/world/201...ad-vp-says/#ixzz2MhsI7B5p
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#1. To: All (#0)
Satan's probably raping him with rusty barb wire right now. Go Satan Go!!!!!!!!!!
The Leftards will probably give him a posthumous Nobel Peace Prize!!
No. We save the Nobel for folks who like to have 'kill lists' and give themselves the authority to kill their own citizens in their own beds for any reason they deem fit......;} chavez does not qualfy.
chavez does not qualfy. So what if he had lived longer and we supplied him drones?
Why do you think the USSA is the only source of drones? Chavez got Venezuela's gold back from the USSA. He's now joined the pantheon of South American Leaders: Simon Bolivar Che Guevara Fidel Castro Salvador Allende Rafael Correa Daniel Ortega Ecuador's Correa off to Venezuela Thursday for Chávez's funeral El Universal - 15 hours ago - 4 related articles » "President Correa will travel to Caracas on Thursday afternoon to say goodbye to his endearing friend Hugo Chávez," Ecuadorian FM Ricardo ... Ecuador: Is it nuts to invest here? MoneyWeek - 2 days ago - 8 related articles » # Rafael Correa Wins Re-election in Ecuador - NYTimes.com www.nytimes.com/2013/.../...-election-in-ecuador.html Feb 17, 2013 ...
I don't, but figured since he was one of Obozo's butt buddies that's where he would get some...
UR Serious
UR Serious Should I have added this [sarc]??
I guess.....but then why even post it at all. chavez improved the well being of his citizens. obama is a lap dog for the MIC/FUKUSIsrael Axis.....;}
Oh, and how did he manage this?? He's just your typical run of the mill socialist who stole the peoples money...
The Barefoot Doctor program imported from Cuba. Single Payer. Everyone in the village gets a pap smear. no exceptions. Like that. See Cuba infant mortality lowest in the Western Hemi. for details.....;} Cuba boasts lowest infant mortality rate in LatAm - Xinhua | English ... news.xinhuanet.com/englis...013-01/04/c_132079776.htm Jan 4, 2013 ... Cuba boasts lowest infant mortality rate in LatAm ... 3 (Xinhua) -- Cuba ended 2012 with an infant mortality rate of 4.6 per thousand live births, the lowest in Latin America, the Cuban News Agency .... World AIDS Day 2011 ...
Single Payer. Everyone in the village gets a pap smear. no exceptions. Like that. See Cuba infant mortality lowest in the Western Hemi. for details.....;} Another publicity stunt by the Left to show the world how great their ideology isn't!! Wonder how many people in Cuba aren't getting any treatment because all the doctors have gone to Venezuela?? Also wondering if their Healthcare has progressed past the quack stage since I was there last?? (I somehow doubt it)..
Child Mortality is a stunt? whoa....Wonder how many people in Cuba aren't getting any treatment because all the doctors have gone to Venezuela?? Excuse me? You really haven't heard that Cuba has sent more Doctors out to the World than the USSA.....;} And that Chavez WENT to Cuba for Treatment.....;}
#28. To: mcgowanjm (#27)
You support murdering children in the womb. So don't even pretend you care about the well being of children. You don't.
Another publicity stunt by the Left to show the world how great their ideology isn't!! Child Mortality is a stunt? You said that I didn't...
Excuse me? You really haven't heard that Cuba has sent more Doctors out to the World than the USSA.....;} Sending "taxpayer paid for doctors" all over the place is nothing but a stunt to "try" to get the sheeple of the world to believe that Communism is a good thing (when anybody with half a brain knows it sux)!! You know I really wonder what the "tax slaves" of Cuba feel about paying for their doctors to treat others instead of their own??
Now why in the hell would Chavez go to Cuba to get HealthCare when Castro chased all of the good doctors out of his country back in the 90s??? (Didn't do him much good now did it, he's phucking dead as a doornail)!!
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#2. To: calcon (#1)
#4. To: CZ82 (#2)
The Leftards will probably give him a posthumous Nobel Peace Prize!!
#8. To: mcgowanjm (#4)
No. We save the Nobel for folks who like to have 'kill lists' and give themselves the authority to kill their own citizens in their own beds for any reason they deem fit......;}
#11. To: CZ82 (#8)
So what if he had lived longer and we supplied him drones?
#14. To: mcgowanjm (#11)
Why do you think the USSA is the only source of drones?
#15. To: CZ82 (#14)
I don't, but figured since he was one of Obozo's butt buddies that's where he would get some...
#16. To: mcgowanjm (#15)
I don't, but figured since he was one of Obozo's butt buddies that's where he would get some...
#17. To: CZ82 (#16)
Should I have added this [sarc]??
#18. To: mcgowanjm (#17)
chavez improved the well being of his citizens.
#24. To: CZ82 (#18)
Oh, and how did he manage this??
#26. To: mcgowanjm (#24)
The Barefoot Doctor program imported from Cuba.
#27. To: CZ82 (#26)
Another publicity stunt by the Left to show the world how great their ideology isn't!!
Replies to Comment # 27. Child Mortality is a stunt?
#31. To: mcgowanjm (#27)
#32. To: mcgowanjm (#27)
whoa....Wonder how many people in Cuba aren't getting any treatment because all the doctors have gone to Venezuela??
#33. To: mcgowanjm (#27)
And that Chavez WENT to Cuba for Treatment.....;}
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