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2007-01-09 Caribbean-Latin America

Chavez announces plans to move toward 'Socialist Republic of Venezuela'

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Posted by Seafarious 2007-01-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 He's not exactly hiding his intentions, is he?

Posted by Secret Master 2007-01-09 00:09|| 2007-01-09 00:09|| Front Page Top

#2 "Zimbabwe, here we come!"

Posted by PBMcL 2007-01-09 00:37|| 2007-01-09 00:37|| Front Page Top

#3 'Socialist Republic of Venezuela'

nobody saw that comming.

Posted by RD 2007-01-09 02:11|| 2007-01-09 02:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Somehow he must feel socialism will turn out differently for his country. Nut case.

Posted by gorb 2007-01-09 02:26|| 2007-01-09 02:26|| Front Page Top

#5 He doesn't, anymore than ZimBobWe does. It's just easier to get the assets into the Swiss Bank Accounts once all legal barriers to control are overridden.

Posted by Ernest Brown">Ernest Brown 2007-01-09 05:07|| saturninretrograde.blogspot.com]">[saturninretrograde.blogspot.com] 2007-01-09 05:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Maybe. Dictators of socialist countries tend to die of more natural causes than other bad forms of government, so why not. Of course, it doesn't matter how much wealth you hoard if you can't spend it. He won't be able to leave the country without being on the whole world's $hit list for whatever reason, except for perhaps Iran.

Posted by gorb 2007-01-09 05:26|| 2007-01-09 05:26|| Front Page Top

#7 We need names of Swiss Numbered account reps... names of their next of kin and a few Mafia types to liberate some ill gained loot for funding the Burg... (^8

Posted by 3dc 2007-01-09 08:49|| 2007-01-09 08:49|| Front Page Top

#8 Somehow he must feel socialism will turn out differently for his country.

No, he knows socialism will turn out well...for him and his friends.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-01-09 09:06|| 2007-01-09 09:06|| Front Page Top

#9 Ah, come on boys, its the new Venezuelan National Tourism ~~Ministry~~ Office theme for 2007 to get all the Hollyweird types to come on down and spend some of their studio subsidized millions. Hugo, the man with a pulse, is cutting into Fidels racket. Given that most Hollyweird types have to wait at least two more years before they can spend a night in the Lincoln bedroom again, its the next best thing. Che t-shirts optional.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-01-09 09:14|| 2007-01-09 09:14|| Front Page Top

#10 I'm so glad Hugo is giving socialism a try! Sure, even the Germans couldn't make it work, but eventually it's going to succeed somewhere, right???

Posted by Swamp Blondie 2007-01-09 10:01|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[ http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2007-01-09 10:01|| Front Page Top

#11 That flag needs a late 20th-century update: Pol-Pot, Castro, Mugabe.

(omit Chavez and let him know he hasn't done enough to be featured there)

Posted by Kalle (kafir forever) 2007-01-09 11:57|| 2007-01-09 11:57|| Front Page Top

#12 Try to see the positive side : think of all those apparatchiks who will eventually become milionaires in dollars, when the nationalized sector will be re-privatized after this socialist experiment fails once again.

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-01-09 12:19|| 2007-01-09 12:19|| Front Page Top

#13 Jimmuh "Crack-Peanuts" "Proto-Alzheimers" Cah-tuhh likes this guy...

Posted by BigEd 2007-01-09 12:57|| 2007-01-09 12:57|| Front Page Top

#14 Hey! Don't drag us into this mess! We likey the South GA red clay!

Posted by GA Peanuts 2007-01-09 13:41|| 2007-01-09 13:41|| Front Page Top

#15 On a different article on Fox News, Chavez declares he wants to be kind of an Evangelical Pope. For some reason I can't post it as a separate article to Rantburg, so here goes:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,238015,00.html

Try to imagine Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, dressed up as a bishop the head bishop of his own state-sponsored church.

According to media reports coming out of Latin America, President Chavez is considering a proposal that would establish him as the high priest of his own form of evangelical Christianity, convert his cabinet members into bishops of a lower rank, and submit church activities to the civil and military power of his government.

It is still unclear who is behind the proposal. Publicly, it has taken the form of a petition by leaders of Centro Cristiano de Salvación (Christian Center of Salvation). The association claims to represent 17,000 evangelical churches and 5,000,000 Venezuelans. Their request is simple: make their denomination the countrys official religion, teach it in all public schools and pay the pastors from government coffers. In turn, they will make Chavez their head bishop and promise to submit absolutely to his authority...

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-01-09 15:03|| 2007-01-09 15:03|| Front Page Top

#16

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-01-09 15:04|| 2007-01-09 15:04|| Front Page Top

#17 What's missing is a Chavez statue that rotates with the sun. Welcome to Venezuela, future source of cheap minerals and underaged prostitutes.

Posted by ed 2007-01-09 16:28|| 2007-01-09 16:28|| Front Page Top

#18 From here on up, it's downhill all the way!

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2007-01-09 22:04|| 2007-01-09 22:04|| Front Page Top

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