Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Hugo Chávez Dead at 58: Good Riddance!
Daily Beast ^ | Mar 5, 2013 | Michael Moynihan

Posted on 03/06/2013 6:08:36 AM PST by tflabo

This was Chávez’s reign and his legacy; extralegal, vindictive, and interested in the short-term gesture rather than the more difficult, long-term solution. From his revolutionary comrades in Cuba, he borrowed the slogan “patria, socialismo o muerte”—fatherland, socialism or death. The fatherland is a shambles, Bolivarian socialism has failed, and Comandante Chávez is dead. May the “revolution” die with him.

(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: chavezdead
Good riddance indeed.
1 posted on 03/06/2013 6:08:41 AM PST by tflabo
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: tflabo

Every autocrat, dictator, tyrant, theocrat, and oligarch needs to be seized by the ordinary people, beaten and kicked half to death and screamed at and spat upon, hanged high in public while television cameras record the scene for posterity and people dance and sing for joy, and cremated and his ashes dumped in a garbage pit.


2 posted on 03/06/2013 6:16:01 AM PST by Standing Wolf
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tflabo

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2993972/posts


3 posted on 03/06/2013 6:22:06 AM PST by humblegunner
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Standing Wolf

Hey Wolf —Mussolini went out with the send off nearly as you described however Chavez will be given honors and adorations he does not deserve. Chavez learned his craft well sitting at the feet of his cigar chomping bearded master.


4 posted on 03/06/2013 6:26:28 AM PST by tflabo (Truth or Tyranny)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: tflabo

No time to cheer, there has to be another despot in the wings ready to take over. The cash flow is there to support him. There will be blood in the streets.


5 posted on 03/06/2013 6:32:53 AM PST by Bringbackthedraft (Who remembers Ty Woods, Sean Smith, and Glenn Doherty? Forgot already?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tflabo

Is the big O going to declare a national mourning and order all US flags flown at half staff?


6 posted on 03/06/2013 7:26:28 AM PST by nonsporting
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tflabo
fatherland, socialism or death

Well he just got one of the three.

7 posted on 03/06/2013 7:29:11 AM PST by dfwgator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tflabo

Hey, Hugo, you left your “friends” behind. Please take them with you.


8 posted on 03/06/2013 7:29:11 AM PST by Lee'sGhost (Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tflabo

Good riddance to bad trash!


9 posted on 03/06/2013 7:30:44 AM PST by szweig (HYHEY!! (Have You Had Enough Yet))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tflabo
reign and his legacy; extralegal, vindictive, and interested in the short-term gesture rather than the more difficult, long-term solution

Hmmm....sound like anyone you know??


10 posted on 03/06/2013 8:12:19 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tflabo
  "extralegal, vindictive, and interested in the short-term gesture rather than the more difficult, long-term solution."

  Sounds like the obit is about The Lazy One in the oval office.

11 posted on 03/06/2013 8:14:30 AM PST by Borderline
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson