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Caribbean-Latin America
Chavez: Critical Foreigners to Get Boot
2007-07-23
CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that foreigners who publicly criticize him or his government while visiting Venezuela will be expelled from the country. Chavez ordered officials to closely monitor statements made by international figures during their visits to Venezuela _ and deport any outspoken critics.

"How long are we going to allow a person _ from any country in the world _ to come to our own house to say there's a dictatorship here, that the president is a tyrant, and nobody does anything about it?" Chavez asked during his weekly television and radio program.
Seems to work in the U.S. Our president gets criticized by furriners all the time in our own country and nothing much seems to happen.
The Venezuelan leader's statements came after Manuel Espino, the president of Mexico's conservative ruling party, criticized Chavez during a recent pro-democracy forum in Caracas.
Posted by:Steve White

#5  I haven't seen all of the United States yet, so I'm in no hurry to go to Venezuela. I guess that means I can call that little tinpot a$$hole dictator a little tinpot a$$hole dictator pretty freely. Hey Chavez, may your nation do Zim-bob-way one better, ok? You're already off to a good start.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2007-07-23 20:38  

#4  O.K. that's it. I'm scrapping my vacation plans. Not a place I really want to go. Chavez is poor excuse for a leader. Squelching a free press and outside criticism is the mark of an fearful, insecure dictator. This guy was made in the mold of Hitler and old style Communist heads of the former USSR.
Posted by: JohnQC   2007-07-23 17:08  

#3  I put forth the plan where the DU and Kossacks front for employment in "Hugo's Paradise". Job openings developing right now. Think of shipping out all those angry wannabe Marxists to warm and inviting Caracas away from their parents basement, university coffee shops, and work cubicles in most MSM establishments. No more Bushhitlerland. The wonders of the workers paradise await you, the true believers.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2007-07-23 08:41  

#2  Since the KKKossacks and DU-niks love Chavez so much, and Chavez has now come out foursquare in favor of "crushing of dissent", logic demands that they stop complaining about the (nonexistent) "crushing of dissent" here. Well, kids?

[crickets]
Posted by: Mike   2007-07-23 06:47  

#1  "How long are we going to allow a person _ from any country in the world _ to come to our own house to say there's a dictatorship here, that the president is a tyrant, and nobody does anything about it?"

Well, Hugo, the moment you do something about it, you'd only certify what they are saying.

You know what they say... the duck that got shot always quacks.
Posted by: twobyfour   2007-07-23 05:15  

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