2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHillary's e-mail 2012-06-03 04:57: CANCER THERAPY FOR PRESIDENT CHAVEZ
https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/18199
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)insta8er
(960 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)And is apparently a week after Rather reported that Chavez' situation was dire.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)It's not nice.
insta8er
(960 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)We purchased a lot of oil from them on a regular basis, for instance, and that's during both the 'w' years and the Obama years.
Hekate
(90,765 posts)Why do you think?
Mika
(17,751 posts)Revisionist history at best.
insta8er
(960 posts)That he could be seen as being a dictator. Here is an excerpt of the wiki page on him. And here is a link to the wiki page itself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez
On 12 August 1999, the new constitutional assembly voted to give themselves the power to abolish government institutions and to dismiss officials who were perceived as being corrupt or operating only in their own interests. Opponents of the Chávez regime argued that it was therefore dictatorial.[185][186] Most jurists believed that the new constitutional assembly became the country's "supreme authority" and that all other institutions were subordinate to it.[187] The assembly also declared a "judicial emergency", granting itself the power to overhaul the judicial system. The Supreme Court, which ruled that the assembly did indeed have such authority, was eventually replaced by the 1999 Constitution, which created the "Supreme Tribunal of Justice" in its place
Mika
(17,751 posts)Even the Carter institute called those elections as clean and transparent.
You must think that the Carter Institute was fronting for/appeasing a dictator.
insta8er
(960 posts)to disagree...not that it makes any difference as to what happened in Venezuela.
Mika
(17,751 posts)More revisionism.
Have at it.
gabeana
(3,166 posts)Bush Family, Clinton husband and wife, not their fault, if people vote for them what can you do
Response to insta8er (Reply #3)
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with RW talking points
The guy actually was elected more so than Bush and came back from a Bush sponsored coup
this is why people have issues with Hillary believing she is Republican lite
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Ms. Clinton, like many if not most in the Establishment, so fear socialism they are willing to let a human die -- and make war on innocent people -- just to defeat it.