HUGO CHAVEZ: MORE THAN A "LITTLE GUY"

INATODAY.com - INTERNATIONAL NEWS ANALYSIS.com ^ | September 21, 2009 | By Toby Westerman

[Cindy]

SNIPPET: "Most importantly, Chavez has friends - powerful friends -- around the world who are assisting him in his goal of establishing communism as the dominant force in the world.

Both Russia and China are assisting Chavez in spreading the message that the United States is "the most savage, cruel, and murderous empire that has existed in the history of the world," and Chavez's solution: 21st Century Socialism."

SNIPPET: "The Moscow elite are not only supporting Chavez the dictator with weapons, but also Chavez the Marxist revolutionary with a high profile platform for his revolutionary rhetoric.

In early September 2009 Russia provided Chavez with an unusually public forum at a major university. For two and one-half hours Chavez gave an impassioned oratory denouncing the United States, while praising Vladimir Lenin and Fidel Castro. Chavez Predicts the End of America at Moscow University.

Communist China is assisting Chavez in spreading his version of Marxism by providing technical assistance for Telesur, a satellite broadcasting network which broadcasts Chavez's version of "the true face of Latin America" to the nations of Central and South America. [For greater perspective on Chavez's ideology and strategy, see this writer's book, Lies, Terror, and the Rise of the Neo-Communist Empire: Origins and Direction]

Both Russia and China are spending billions of dollars to finance increased development of Venezuela's vast oil reserves. The exploitation of these reserves will add even more billions of dollars into advancing the cause of communism, Chavez-style."