Hugo Chavez Dead

It's okay mate - I lived in the capitalist playground of the Caribbean for the best part of a decade and used to drive past bare-foot women queueing for the water standpipe to be turned on for an hour a day while the guy in the hacienda next door used to water his plants with an always on sprayer.

No one is saying that Venezuela is a paradise. I have been there and I know it's not. I simply wish to create some balance in assessing the life of Hugo Chavez. He was fairly elected. He cared about the poor and disenfranchised and he did a lot to promote a measure of social improvement for those who normally get ignored in Latin America.

Insulting his mother and celebrating his death is beneath you.


Who is insulting his mother? It's a common expresion used in latin american dialect to describe a jerk.

Like I pointed out in the CCC toll thread, and as Joseph Stallin said:
"It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."