Is Chavez, the new Bolivar of South America?

[Mowhawk]

Bush’s most hated regime in South America (along with Castro), and a committed honorable guy who is fighting against American exploitation, and a survivor of a failed CIA organized coup. Recently, he set up a powerful Spanish News channel (rival to CNN) across Latin America and has convinced many leaders in the region to cooperate closely to achieve prosperity for their citizens. Some questions to ponder are;

Did Chavez turn Venezuela into a better place? Probably yes, Venezuela has seen less torture less extra judicial killings and less limitations to free speech, less inflation and more growth than under his predecessor Caldera. The only thing that hasn't changed is rampant corruption, but it’s probably not worse than it was during the Nineties. Most of all Chavez managed to stabilize the country; 10 years without violent change of leadership is a novum for Venezuela.

Has Chavez turned Venezuela into the best place it could have been turned? Definitely not, No left-winger in South America except for powerful Brazil can fight the uphill battle against the constant subversive actions of the CIA, the inherent flaws of socialism and the corruption pest of landowners and industrial leaders, and win without loosing lots of feathers while at it. This is especially true for oil rich Venezuela which is on the US watch list permanently.

Any thoughts?

[Steeler [Crawler2]]

Remember Chavez himself was involved in a coup in Venezuela. He is hardly white handed.

The US doesn't really care too much about Venezuala as long as the oil keeps flowing. Where Chavez gets into trouble is he panders to latent Anti-Americanism for political profit. Of course that leads to repurcussions, although the coup against him was NOT sponsored by the CIA as suggested above.

[AbdiWahab252]

Bolivar, um no.

Does he have big kahunas, Si.

Chavez is an eloquent populist. However, depending on the goodwill of the masses especially the poor is a dangerous thing. Once you dash their expectations, you got serious political problems.