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Venezuelan Ambassador Charges U.S. With “Double Standard” on Terrorism
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez is not a popular figure in the United States, even among many progressives. Chavez is bombastic, arrogant, and does not hesitate to speak the truth about the Bush Administration. Even worse from U.S. media standards, he speaks powerfully of problems of poverty and inequality, two issues that do not exactly spark excitement among corporate advertisers Venezuelan Ambassador Bernardo Alvarez Herrera was in San Francisco yesterday as part of a nationwide tour to increase U.S. understanding of his nation. Alvarez raised many important issues, including the Bush Administration’s refusal to extradite terrorist Luis Posada Carilles, who has admitted blowing up a Cuban airliner in 1973, killing 73 people. Despite George W. Bush’s claim to be waging a vigorous “war on terror,” much of the world agrees that the U.S. protection of Carilles represents a “double standard” in its approach to terrorism.
Bill Moyer’s recent PBS show on the U.S. media’s parroting of Bush Administration lies about Iraq could just as easily have been about Venezuela. Both the New York Times and Washington Post are routinely spreading negative disinformation about Hugo Chavez and Venezuela, and even have many progressives fooled.
Chavez’s “problem” is that he makes the Bush Administration look bad by insisting that low-income working people should get a greater share of resources. Our nation has taken the opposite approach, enacting policies that make the rich wealthier and the poor more destitute.
Chavez’s propensity to make grandiose statements about world affairs, his reaching out to Iran, and his holding a well-attended anti-Bush rally in Buenos Aires to protest our President’s visit has led even progressives to criticize him for being unduly provocative.
But only someone with Chavez’s large ego would have had the confidence to take on the challenge of first overthrowing, and then outpolling, the Venezuelan ruling elite responsible for the nation’s enormous economic disparities.
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Chavez’s “problem” is that he makes the Bush Administration look bad by insisting that low-income working people should get a greater share of resources. Our nation has taken the opposite approach, enacting policies that make the rich wealthier and the poor more destitute.
Chavez’s propensity to make grandiose statements about world affairs, his reaching out to Iran, and his holding a well-attended anti-Bush rally in Buenos Aires to protest our President’s visit has led even progressives to criticize him for being unduly provocative.
But only someone with Chavez’s large ego would have had the confidence to take on the challenge of first overthrowing, and then outpolling, the Venezuelan ruling elite responsible for the nation’s enormous economic disparities.
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http://beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=4497#more
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