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Sean Penn Attends Vigil for Hugo Chavez in Bolivia | ||
2012-12-12 | ||
"Thank you, Sean," said Gonzalez, "for joining us and for wanting to be here. We know President Chavez is a good friend of yours, and you didn't hesitate one second about coming here with us to this vigil." "He's one of the most important forces we've had on this planet," said Penn. "And I'll wish him nothing but that great strength he has shown over and over again. I do it in love, and I do it in gratitude. "I just want to say, from my very American point of view, of my friend President Chavez: It is only possible to be so inspiring as he is, as a two-way street. And he would say that his inspiration is the people." Penn has openly expressed his admiration and support for the left-wing government of Venezuela in the past, and declared U.S. audiences have been "hypnotized" by big media corporations regarding Chavez's democratic credentials. "Who do you know here who's gone through 14 of the most transparent elections on the globe and has been elected democratically, as Hugo Chavez?" he stated in 2010. Since then, Chavez has won yet another presidential election this year against opposition candidate Henrique Capriles. Penn was in Bolivia this week to attend a hearing for the release of businessman Jacob Ostreicher, who has spent 18 months in a maximum security local prison with no trial or sentence, under charges of money laundering. | ||
Posted by:Steve White |
#7 #4,672 in the line to bang Madonna |
Posted by: Frank G 2012-12-12 21:37 |
#6 Sean who? |
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2012-12-12 21:07 |
#5 Awwww Prog and Toad are friends. |
Posted by: swksvolFF 2012-12-12 20:35 |
#4 ??????????????????????????? That's all I've got to say :-) |
Posted by: Raider 2012-12-12 12:47 |
#3 watch out Danny Glover! Somebody else really wants that useful idiot of the year award... |
Posted by: Broadhead6 2012-12-12 11:21 |
#2 Fun fact: Sean Penn is the guy who wished his critics would "die screaming of rectal cancer." That was in 2010, a year before Chavez was diagnosed. Karma! |
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2012-12-12 07:55 |
#1 Spicoli's old teacher Mr. Hand weighs in... |
Posted by: tu3031 2012-12-12 01:11 |