[Marie2]

It's horrible to see this happening. It's like watching someone drown.

Poor Venezuelans.

[Farmer Dean]

I'll be amazed if Chavez lives through 2008.

[cripplecreek]

So shut off the oil sluggo. Show us what ya got.

[yldstrk]

Chavez' long slide into mental illness.

[AmericanMade1776]

Chavez is a big fish in a little pond, who thinks that he matters in the whole scope of things.

[highlander_UW]

Why don't we hear any concern from the Left in our country at the precipitous elimination of freedom and democracy in Venezuela? Would it be because that is their plan in the US and they don't want their hand to be revealed so soon?

[romanesq]

el jefe has spoken

easy there lil guy

[muir_redwoods]

When Chaves says "Go to Hell" it means he is inviting you to the Venezuela he is building. It'll be hell soon enough

[windsorknot]

Senior Chavez, I have no intention of "going to Hell"; I have no plans to visit Venezuela.

[jiggyboy]

I'm amazed that oil didn't jump two bucks a barrel last Tuesday after he announced he was going to nationalize the oil industry too. Does the world think he's not nuts and there's simply no possibility that he'll just stop selling oil just to spite the U.S.?

[JerseyJohn61]

Pat Robertson "caught Hell" a while back for his Chavez
assassination comment, but doesn't he look like a genius
now?!

Those idiots who elected him to power a while back, will
live to regret it....JJ61

[Dick Vomer]

Chavez.......you first, hermano.

[Rosemont]

Pat Robertson was right about Chavez.

[RightOnline]

Hey Chavez.........you'll be pushing up daisies soon. Bye, asshole.

[BenLurkin]

If he really thinks we are the devil ... then let's send him to hell. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PkzeX0_uTM

[NordP]

Hi Kaslin!

Headline = Right back attcha!

[jordan8]

Screw the Venezuelans, they deserve it. Throw up the fence and hire 50,000 immigration agents to ruthlessly hunt down illegals with bonuses for every successful capture before we get our own Chavez. Note that he didn't use the word American, he used the racial hate term "gringos." The dirty little secret of the turn to the left in much of Latin America is that it is a race war by another name, just as politics often is in any multicultural nation or empire.

[John Semmens]

Chavez Pledges “Socialist Paradise” at Swearing In Ceremony

Invoking Castro as his socialist model, President Hugo Chavez began his third term by declaring that socialism, not capitalism, is the future for Venezuela and the world. “It may take time,” Chavez said, “but we will replicate the socialist paradise Castro has built for the people of Cuba. We will crush the capitalist exploiters who tempt the Venezuelan people with material abundance. We will light a shining beacon for the world to follow.”

In fulfillment of his pledge, Chavez has already announced the nationalization of electricity and telephone service. Chavez said he plans to file a bill in Parliament that will grant him absolute authority to seize capitalist property “for the benefit of the state.” Called the “Enabling Act,” Chavez’s bill is modeled on a similarly named 1933 German measure. The Act will enable Chavez to enact laws without the participation of the Parliament.

Lamero de la Botas, a deputy in Venezuela’s National Assembly, praised the proposed measure. “Instead of constant arguing over policy one voice will speak for Venezuela,” de la Botas said. “The rest of us will merely have to obey. I can’t tell you how relieved I am to not have to face the tedium of reading all these bills brought up in the Assembly. When a country has a genius like Hugo at the helm it is an honor to be a ‘yes-man.’”

To prevent “capitalist propagandists” from thwarting his drive toward a “workers’ paradise,” Chavez has said he will shutdown opposition media beginning with Radio Caracas Television. “We cannot make a socialist revolution with dissenters in our midst,” Chavez declared. “Radio Caracas cannot be permitted to spread lies. This broadcasting prerogative must be reserved for the government.”

Radio Caracas is among a number of private TV and radio networks that in recent years have strongly criticized Chavez’ government.

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