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Once again, is all about helping the poor–yeah right
26 Aug2005
If you haven’t heard by now…
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, popular with the poor at home, offered on Tuesday to help needy Americans with cheap supplies of gasoline.
“We want to sell gasoline and heating fuel directly to poor communities in the United States,” the populist leader told reporters at the end of a visit to Communist-run Cuba. (more…)
Chavez is using the same playing card that Castro has been using to win sympathy for La revolución.
Here are some of the things that make me very suspect of Chavez
-His close ties with Castro
-How democracy is being separated from the rule of law
-The fact that the AFL-CIO is in the mix down there really disturbs me.
My people, my people, my people. I cannot stress enough the importance of doing your own research behind this issue. Seek out the people who live or lived down there to get their take on the situation.
Here is a good start–
Francisco Toro is a a Ph.D. student in Innovation Economics at the United Nations University’s Institute for New Technologoes in Maastricht, the Netherlands.
(He) used to be a freelance journalist/magazine editor in Caracas.
Check out his blog Caracas Chronicles to get a on the ground perspective of the situation.
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Tremenda Trigueña
August 27th, 2005 at 11:28 pm
Duane, reading the Caracas Chronicles link here sparked me to continue a series in which I am developing a political creed for those of us who are caught between ethnicity and conservatism. If you are interested, please check out my blog Todo Chueco sueltaloquetumamatedio.blogspot.com (for non-Spanish speakers that long word at the beginning of the url translates to “shake what ya mama gave ya”….
John Lindsay
August 28th, 2005 at 6:24 am
According to Randall Robinson, leader of TransAfrica and several books, including “The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks,” in which he writes “Although there are still some problems, Cuba ahead of the US in regards to race relations.”
Thus, whom am I more likely to believe: a person of Robinson’s prominence in social justice pursuits and scholarship or Francisco Toro?
Robinson, hands down.
John L.
John Lindsay
August 28th, 2005 at 6:39 am
Tremenda Trigueña wrote:
It amazes me that with all the anti-Bush stickers, rhetoric, TV shows, politicians, anti-war protesters, (on Bush’s PROPERTY no less) we don’t have any political prisoners to show for it.
*****
Bull. Amerikkka has plenty of political prisoners. It’s “interesting” that you black conservatives conveniently overlook the disenfranchisement of thousands of Blacks in Florida in 2000; tactics in Florida by republicans to scare elderly people into not voting; placement of poll watchers/challengers in predominantly Black voting districts, etc.
Yep, ol Strom Thurmond and Trent Lott must be mighty proud of you non-thinking folks.
John L.
Duane
August 28th, 2005 at 9:00 am
And you still live here…
in good ‘ol Amerikkka.
Go figure!
John Lindsay
August 28th, 2005 at 2:27 pm
Hmmmm. Your comment “and you still live here” is no different from what many whites have said: “if you don’t like it here, leave.”
Why am I NOT a bit surprised that *you’d* write something like that?!
John L.
Duane
August 28th, 2005 at 3:10 pm
Why “I NOT” suprised you didn’t answer the question.
Please quit with this while you’re ahead. Please!!!!!!
Much more important things to talk about.
John Lindsay
August 28th, 2005 at 5:13 pm
Your question was rhetorical…it’s intent was not to question, but to make a statement.
But why criticize Chavez when nearly every American president since FDR has declared a “war on poverty?!
Where did all those billions of dollars go?
To wealthy people. That’s why poverty will never be eradicated in america.
Hence, *whom* are the real poverty pimps?!
Elite whites….not the scapegoats Jesse Lee Peterson talks about.
Just think…if I wanted to become a millionaire over night…all I have to do is start criticizing Black people. I know white republicans would pay me handsomely to lecture on the subject.
But I rather earn my money honestly.
John L.
Cynthia
August 29th, 2005 at 4:06 pm
I’m with Chavez. He was democratically elected by ordinary people and the U.S. back some dissidents who were trying to overthrow this democratically elected government. Although he is trying to raise the standard of living for all of his people, he is not against the rich. Pat Robinson supported Charles Taylor of Liberia although this man was responsible for tens of thousands of people being hacked to death, raped, and displaced. Robinson supported Charles Taylor in spite of this man’s horrendous record because he (Robinson) had a stake in the diamond minds. All of this information can be found on the information for those who don’t believe what I’m saying.
If anybody around the world had said Bush should be killed because we have the means, then they would have called them a terrorist. Pat Robinson is an unscrupulously evil man and in my opinion, doesn’t reflect what Jesus stood for.
Duane
August 29th, 2005 at 6:25 pm
I’m with Chavez. He was democratically elected by ordinary people…
Not true!
Cynthia, did you not read anything that I posted?? come on sis.
Tremenda Trigueña
August 30th, 2005 at 9:06 am
Bull. Amerikkka has plenty of political prisoners. It’s “interesting†that you black conservatives conveniently overlook the disenfranchisement of thousands of Blacks in Florida in 2000; tactics in Florida by republicans to scare elderly people into not voting; placement of poll watchers/challengers in predominantly Black voting districts, etc.
***Still not seeing the “prisoner” part of the equation… Do you know anyone who has been placed in front of a firing squad or beaten senseless because of their political beliefs? We are allowed to desecrate the presidency with absolutely NO accountability… I’d love to see that happen in Cuba, the “utopia”…. Am I a non-thinker because I don’t gobble up information just because it sounds good? Why must I be grouped with Trent Lott just because I am proud of the freedoms I enjoy in this country? That is not to say I am in 100% communion with everything the government does or has done…but WHY does it have to be to either extreme? Why can’t we dialogue without the fear of being sellouts?