The Hugo Chavéz Show

sloopskipper says on Nov 28, 2008, 10:47:

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vladimiro says on Nov 28, 2008, 22:05:

I saw the documentary the other day. Chavez did not come off as a buffoon, but rather like one of those cool, talkative taxi drivers you often get in Medellin. That's what makes him so popular with the poor majority...he looks, and acts just like them.

Venezuela's the current foreign minister is also a (hold your nose) former bus driver :)

Obama in the recent 60min interview went at lengths to try portray himself in a similar manner and it did not come off...he still seemed like a highly educated Harvard elitist..that happened to get lucky the economy bombed just before the election :)

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Mongo says on Nov 28, 2008, 23:45:

I just finished watching the entire video. Thanks for the link Sloop.

You may not think that Chavez came off as a buffoon, but he is obviously an ego-maniac, a braggart, a bully, uneducated, impulsive, insane, a liar, and a coward!

"Here in Colombia, it's about adding life to your years, not years to your life." Brian Andrews

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lpdiver says on Nov 29, 2008, 02:16:

Agreed Mongo. And thank goodness he is no Fidel Castro. May his dictatorship end soon.

ts

"cook some rice!"

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sloopskipper says on Nov 29, 2008, 02:56:

I must go back and view the remaining segments. It seems to have been well done. But with PBS, that's no big surprise.

I read an interview with Chávez in Newsweek a few years ago, and he actually came off as as somewhat reasonable.

What sticks is my mind is his comment that he didn't hate "Americans", only Bush. He said that he could talk to Clinton, but not Bush.

However, he is not on my list of favorite people, partly due to his government's refusal to issue a permit to the Las Cristinas mining project, and later annouced nationalization, and allow a Russian company to take over what Crystallex had developed.

I have a position in Crystallex, which is now virtually worthless, due to Tio Hugo's attempt to own everything.

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billyb says on Nov 29, 2008, 13:27:

"I have a position in Crystallex, which is now virtually worthless, due to Tio Hugo's attempt to own everything."

Soory about the loss sloop, but it brings to mind a deffiniton I once heard. that a conservative is a liberal that has been mugged .

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billyb says on Nov 29, 2008, 13:30:

"Venezuela's the current foreign minister is also a (hold your nose) former bus driver :)"

What? Chavez couldn't find a street sweeper for the job?

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sloopskipper says on Nov 29, 2008, 13:33:

jaja

It would take more than being mugged.

Bus driver? no comment.

I'm on my best behavior today.
I'm just about to sit down to a belated Thanskgiving dinner with a couple Colombians.

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billyb says on Nov 29, 2008, 13:35:

Enjoy.

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sloopskipper says on Nov 29, 2008, 13:35:

Gracias!

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guacharaca says on Nov 29, 2008, 18:15:

¨¨ooooh aaaah, Chavez no se va!¨¨ That is the dam tune I had to listen to from those stupid trucks with blaring political music on Margarita island. There is a lot of stupid people in venezuela that look similar to Chavez and will vote him in because of all the little freebees he is giving them.

Colombianos: Las armas os han dado independencia, las leyes os daran libertad. (Santander)

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sloopskipper says on Nov 29, 2008, 18:25:

I booked flight & tried hotel on Margarita returning from Perú, but finally passed, paying more/traveling longer, flying Lima, Miami, San Juan.

I found those people impossible to deal with, and decided that 5 hours in Venezuela already was quite enough.

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sloopskipper says on Nov 29, 2008, 18:31:

Billy, my Colombian friends really enjoyed the gringo turkey.

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sloopskipper says on Nov 29, 2008, 18:36:

I just viewed the other segments of the Hugo Show. A sad story, but none the less, a well made documentary.

With the falling oil prices he may well be on a slippery slope.

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billyb says on Nov 29, 2008, 21:45:

"Billy, my Colombian friends really enjoyed the gringo turkey."

jaja, I had no doubt they would. But to tell you the truth, my favorite part of thnxgng, is the stuffing.


What is sad about venezuela, is that it doesn't matter if they have some corrupt right wing gov that only favors the "14 families", or a left wing idealoge like chavez, venezuela is still a poor 4th world country, and the poor will continue to suffer the most until they get a governament that cares more about all the people, instead the corrupt pieces of shit from the right and the left that they have had for the last 50 years, but the venezuelan people have to stand up and demand honest leadeship, instead of following the piece of shit who promises them the most.

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vladimiro says on Nov 30, 2008, 09:43:

With the rise of China,India and many other developing countries, oil prices should average around $100 over the next 15 years, so it does not look good for the Americans.

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sloopskipper says on Nov 30, 2008, 10:35:

It's sure going to be a growing problem. U.S. needs a lot more wind-farms, and solar.

Probably nuclear too, but I lived very close to the accident at Three Mile Island, which was unbelievably scary.

A little bit consumer discretion and wisdom would also not hurt.

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sloopskipper says on Nov 30, 2008, 10:45:

Billy, I think that I like the filling even more than the turkey, and there never seems to be enough of that, or gravy.:



The bird lost his wings, stuck to the sides of the roaster.

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