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Wow! The great man gone.
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Wonder who the next madman to live a life of luxury on the back of the coutry's oil will be?
Cant believe he was 85, I remember his overhead kick for Monaco when I was younger.
He wasn't a mad man, he invested the oil money in his people. very good man.
Wonder if that means all his clothes stores will close over here ?
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-21679053
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-21679053
anyone that takes the piss out of george w bush will be missed!
fidel has outlasted another one
if i was in venuzala now id be filling up at 3 p a litre
if i was in venuzala now id be filling up at 3 p a litre
RIP Hugo 
"The devil was here yesterday at this podium..you can still smell the sulphur"
"The devil was here yesterday at this podium..you can still smell the sulphur"
loui 05 Mar 13 22:19
he hated bush, thats good enough for me
What about Brazilians?
he hated bush, thats good enough for me
What about Brazilians?
He wasn't perfect, infact, far from it. But some facts:
Venezuelans went to the polls on Sunday for the 15th time since Hugo Chavez was first elected in 1999: all of those previous elections were judged as free by international observers, including ex-US President Jimmy Carter, who described the country’s election process as “the best in the world”. When Chavez lost a constitutional referendum in 2007, he accepted the result. Before his massive registration drives, many poor people could not vote. In stark contrast to most Western democracies, over 80 per cent of Venezuelans turned out to vote in Sunday’s presidential elections.
Even opponents of Chavez told me that he is the first Venezuelan president to care about the poor. Since his landslide victory in 1998, extreme poverty has dropped from nearly a quarter to 8.6 per cent last year; unemployment has halved; and GDP per capita has more than doubled. Rather than ruining the economy – as his critics allege – oil exports have surged from $14.4bn to $60bn in 2011, providing revenue to spend on Chavez’s ambitious social programmes, the so-called “missions”.
Venezuela’s oligarchs froth at the mouth with their hatred of Chavez, but the truth is his government has barely touched them. The top rate of tax is just 34 per cent, and tax evasion is rampant. Why do they despise him? As Chavez’s vice-minister for Europe, Temir Porras, puts it to me, it’s because “the people who clean their houses are now politically more important than them”. Under Chavez, the poor have become a political power that cannot be ignored: no wonder even Capriles at least claimed he would leave the social programmes intact.
Chavez’s critics in the West are entitled to passionately disagree with him. But it’s time they stopped pretending he is a dictator. Chavez has won fair and square. Despite formidable obstacles, he has proved it is possible to lead a popular, progressive government that breaks with neo-liberal dogma. Perhaps that is why he is so hated after all.
RIP AMIGO
Venezuelans went to the polls on Sunday for the 15th time since Hugo Chavez was first elected in 1999: all of those previous elections were judged as free by international observers, including ex-US President Jimmy Carter, who described the country’s election process as “the best in the world”. When Chavez lost a constitutional referendum in 2007, he accepted the result. Before his massive registration drives, many poor people could not vote. In stark contrast to most Western democracies, over 80 per cent of Venezuelans turned out to vote in Sunday’s presidential elections.
Even opponents of Chavez told me that he is the first Venezuelan president to care about the poor. Since his landslide victory in 1998, extreme poverty has dropped from nearly a quarter to 8.6 per cent last year; unemployment has halved; and GDP per capita has more than doubled. Rather than ruining the economy – as his critics allege – oil exports have surged from $14.4bn to $60bn in 2011, providing revenue to spend on Chavez’s ambitious social programmes, the so-called “missions”.
Venezuela’s oligarchs froth at the mouth with their hatred of Chavez, but the truth is his government has barely touched them. The top rate of tax is just 34 per cent, and tax evasion is rampant. Why do they despise him? As Chavez’s vice-minister for Europe, Temir Porras, puts it to me, it’s because “the people who clean their houses are now politically more important than them”. Under Chavez, the poor have become a political power that cannot be ignored: no wonder even Capriles at least claimed he would leave the social programmes intact.
Chavez’s critics in the West are entitled to passionately disagree with him. But it’s time they stopped pretending he is a dictator. Chavez has won fair and square. Despite formidable obstacles, he has proved it is possible to lead a popular, progressive government that breaks with neo-liberal dogma. Perhaps that is why he is so hated after all.
RIP AMIGO
Are you lot on the right guy here, this man offered to help Argentina during the Falkands war
the yanks better not get one of their stooges in to replace him.
Chavez joins the list of revolutionaries who've fought American imperialism.
And your country SAFC Mac, plundered many nations, divided many lands and persecuted their people.
Any one NAIVE enough to believe he was anything other than an EVIL dictator, and then have the VILE audacity to call him a 'COMRADE', should move to a country which rejoices in DESPOTISM, if he can find one.............
between 1998, when he came to power, and 2008, the oil price increased about 600% in Venezuela. But the oil still always sold at the massively increased prices, because it was a fair market price. Another Chavez will not be allowed to assume power, revert to the old policy of selling oil cheap to the US
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