Showing posts with label Hugo Chavez. Show all posts
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Monday, January 19, 2015

Collectivism at its finest

January 19, 2015 Andrew Rosati , Bloomberg News 0 Comments
Venezuelans Throng Grocery Stores Under Military Protection

Andrew Rosati and Noris Soto, Jan. 9, 2015, Bloomberg

“I’ve visited six stores already today looking for detergent -- I can’t find it anywhere,” said Lisbeth Elsa, a 27-year-old janitor, waiting in line outside a supermarket in eastern Caracas. “We’re wearing our dirty clothes again because we can’t find it. At this point I’ll buy whatever I can find.”

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Sunday, May 11, 2014

Sean Penn Defends Venezuela's Leftist Leader, Compares to Obama --Penn's in mid-season form

May 11, 2014 Christian Toto , Hugo Chavez 1 Comments
Sean Penn
Photo Source:  Sean Penn Facebook Fan Page
By Christian Toto, May 10, 2014, Newsbusters.org

Sean Penn is taking a page out of President Barack Obama's playbook but twisting it to his own socialist-friendly liking. Obama has gotten plenty of mileage for blaming his predecessor for the country's woes.

Now, Penn is blaming Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro's problems on what the leader inherited from his predecessor--Hugo Chavez. Only Penn doesn't blame his late friend at all, preferring to spin a yarn about paranoia and relationships meant to excuse the late leader from guilt.

Confused? Wait until Penn compares Venezuela's collapsing economy with that of America's stagnant fiscal house. The Mystic River star talked politics with the little-seen Al Jazeera network and gave his views on the current Venezuela crisis.


President Maduro inherited a lot of the growing pains that were left, and the problems that came of a country largely forced into paranoia, largely forced into certain relationships that maybe are distasteful,” Penn said.

He added that Maduro is similar to Chavez in that he is “in love with his people and his country.” When he was asked if he thought the Venezuelan people were in love with Maduro, Penn said it was important to “be careful.”

“Are they demonstrating in Venezuela over oppression, or are they demonstrating because they’re on economic hard times? It’s the latter,” Penn insisted. “We’re all on economic hard times.

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