Reply #27: "The man has become despicable." And what of the vast majority of the Venezuelan [View All]

[Peace Patriot]

people who support him and his government? Do you find THEM despicable?

Rightwing corporate news monopolies, and the global corporate predators they serve, often use this tactic of personalizing a social justice movement, by dwelling excessively on its leader or spokesperson, all the better to inspire hatred of an individual, so that they can topple (remove, "swift-boat," kidnap, assassinate) that leader, with impunity. That's what they're doing to this vast social justice movement--the Bolivarian Revolution--that has swept the Andes region of South America, with their hit pieces on Chavez. They ignore the huge support that this movement has; they ignore the millions of people involved in it; they ignore its tremendous benefits to the poor, and to society as a whole, and demonize a leader, to provide a context for obscure and criminal, U.S./Bush-backed, rightwing plots to destabilize countries with truly democratic, leftist (majorityist) governments (and, not incidentally, rich in oil, gas, minerals, forests, fresh water and other resources)--in this case, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and Argentina--and to covertly destroy their alliance, their democratic governance and their leadership, so that rightwing dictatorships can be re-installed.

You are buying into this "demonization" tactic, or at least promulgating it, by saying, "The man has become despicable," which is about as informative as the AP article that is quoted above. What of his recent 63% election win? What of his 70% approval rating? And what in fact did he really say? (The AP article is suspiciously empty of quotation marks.) And what do the vast majority of Venezuelans, who support this government, think of this educational policy? That is the important information, in my opinion--not what a government proposes, but how and why the policy was developed, and what the people think of it--information that is entirely absent from this article (by design), with UNATTRIBUTED "opposition" criticism as the ONLY comment. I don't give a rat's ass what ANONYMOUS "opponents" of the president think of it. I want to know about the opinions of Venezuelan educators, and ordinary citizens, with QUOTED, ATTRIBUTED sources, so that I can evaluate what they say about the proposal. This article is an empty sack, as to Venezuelan opinion, and a set-up for the UNATTRIBUTED "indoctrination of young Venezuelans" phrase in the last paragraph--which the OP fails to include. (See my analysis of the article, below.)

AP thus creates the impression (--that's what they trade in--impressions!) that Chavez is IMPOSING a policy that is somehow arbitrary and dictatorial, a man with a 70% approval rating, who keeps getting re-elected by the Venezuelan people, by ever increasing margins, no matter how many shit-fits Condi Rice throws and no matter how many millions of our tax dollars the Bush-purged CIA pours into Venezuela's small, rightwing "opposition."

As the Beatles once said, Chavez is more popular than Jesus. And the global corporate predators that AP shills for are increasingly on the outs, in South America, and about as popular as Lucifer (Chavez was right about that). People there have had it with Bushitism, and decades of murder and torture and exploitation. So AP tries to create the impression that Chavez is a "dictator" because, surely, all of these millions of people could not genuinely hate U.S. corporations and be genuinely acting, in concert, to rid their continent of these malefactors. They must be hypnotized by a demagogue!

Har-har!

So what do you find so "despicable" about Chavez? Do tell.