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AP: VP of Venezuela Has Announced Hugo Chavez has Died

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Just got an update form the VP to my phone saying the VP of Venezuela has announced that Hugo Chavez has died.
Articles and link to come soon.

RIP Hugo Chavez. You were a great president and a great leader of Venezuela and did many great things for your country.
 
I guess O'reilly is going to have to find a new third word leader to demonize when he has nothing else to report on but feels in a pissy mood.........
 
Just got an update form the VP to my phone saying the VP of Venezuela has announced that Hugo Chavez has died.
Articles and link to come soon.

RIP Hugo Chavez. You were a great president and a great leader of Venezuela and did many great things for your country.

Thats one less "Rogue" leader for the US to worry about, as if Chavez had been any threat to the US at all. :roll:
 
Well, at least we no longer hear of him running to Support Iran. Lets hope Venezuela can figure things out with their new Election and open up ties to work with us.
 
Wasn't the Venezuelan media pushing propaganda that Chavez was fine?

I wonder if the cancer did him in.
 
I eagerly await the dramatic pictures of Venezuelan women crushed by grief.
 
I eagerly await the dramatic pictures of Venezuelan women crushed by grief.

I eagerly await the photo-shopped meme remakes...

:mrgreen:
 
I eagerly await the dramatic pictures of Venezuelan women crushed by grief.

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His Daughters don't look so grief Stricken.....today that is! ;)
 
Wasn't the Venezuelan media pushing propaganda that Chavez was fine?

I wonder if the cancer did him in.


Or the smug VP announcing his death.

Wait! It is a CIA plot involving unmanned drones owned by BP!
 
I am sorry for the person Chavez, for his family and loved ones and for the people who supported him as president. As a citizen of the world I am not sad that president Chavez has passed. He was too extreme in a lot of his actions and his beliefs.
 
Good riddance to bad garbage. With the Chavez cult of personality out of the way, hopefully the Venezuelans will now be able to elect someone sane to office, who won't spend the next decade systematically raping their economy and political system in the name of poorly thought out Leftist sloganeering and anti-American rabble rousing.

Then again, this is Latin America we're talking about here, so it's probably not a good idea to get my hopes up. :lol:
 
Wasn't the Venezuelan media pushing propaganda that Chavez was fine?

I wonder if the cancer did him in.

They reported for about 2 months that he was not dead and was battling, and the last couple weeks they reported he was "battling for his life"
 
I wonder if the Obamas will attend the funeral.
 
The lives of the poorest in Venezuela improved a hell of a lot under Chavez thanks to the Bolivarian missions.

infant mortality fell by 18%
poverty was cut by 50%, extreme poverty was cut from 21% to 10%
more than 1 million Venezuelans became literate

and of course, he was democratically elected and elections met all international standards.
 
Well, at least we no longer hear of him running to Support Iran.
"Support"? Is one giving "support" to a country when they still hold diplomatic and economic ties with each-other?
 
rest in peace. I hate to see anyone die of this disease.
 
I wonder if the Obamas will attend the funeral.

Why would one visit the funeral of a man who saw them as their enemy? And I am pretty sure the Obama's or the Obama adminstration where not that fond (real extremely not fond) of Hugo Chavez.
 
hopefully the Venezuelans will now be able to elect someone sane to office, who won't spend the next decade systematically raping their economy and political system in the name of poorly thought out Leftist sloganeering and anti-American rabble rousing.
:lamo
Yes he "raped their economy" but drastically improving it and the people of the countries lives!
http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/venezuela-2009-02.pdf

-"The current economic expansion began when the government got control over the national oil company in the first quarter of 2003. Since then, real (inflationadjusted) GDP has nearly doubled, growing by 94.7 percent in 5.25 years, or 13.5 percent annually."
-"During the current economic expansion, the poverty rate has been cut by more than half, from 54 percent of households in the first half of 2003 to 26 percent at the end of 2008. Extreme poverty has fallen even more, by 72 percent. These poverty rates measure only cash income, and does take into account increased access to health care or education."
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Over the entire decade, the percentage of households in poverty has been reduced by 39 percent, and extreme poverty by more than half."
-"
Inequality, as measured by the Gini index, has also fallen substantially. The index has fallen to 41 in 2008, from 48.1 in 2003 and 47 in 1999. This represents a large reduction in inequality."
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The labor market also improved substantially over the last decade, with unemployment dropping from 11.3 percent to 7.8 percent. During the current expansion it has fallen by more than half. Other labor market indicators also show substantial gains."
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Over the decade, the government's total public debt has fallen from 30.7 to 14.3 percent of GDP. The foreign public debt has fallen even more, from 25.6 to 9.8 percent of GDP."



Welcome to reality.. Not that anti-venezuela dictator "terrorist supporter" **** the used to play on the media day in and day out on TV
 
"Support"? Is one giving "support" to a country when they still hold diplomatic and economic ties with each-other?

I am talking about the Ego Support that he gives with the media When Iran says something stupid and we respond. Course with the PC world around us, maybe some are deaf as to whats said, huh?
 
Good riddance to bad garbage. With the Chavez cult of personality out of the way, hopefully the Venezuelans will now be able to elect someone sane to office, who won't spend the next decade systematically raping their economy and political system in the name of poorly thought out Leftist sloganeering and anti-American rabble rousing.

Then again, this is Latin America we're talking about here, so it's probably not a good idea to get my hopes up. :lol:

Yeah in this case.....it didn't take long to see much hasn't improved here with us. Evidenced.....

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's vice president called in the nation's top leaders Tuesday hours after ailing President Hugo Chavez apparently took a turn for the worse, and announced on national television that a U.S. Embassy attache was being expelled for meeting with military officers and planning to destabilize the country.

Foreign Minister Elias Jaua also announced the expulsion of a second U.S. official, also a U.S. Air Force attache.

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Vice President Nicolas Maduro told Venezuela's high military command and civilian leaders that the U.S. Embassy's Air Force attache, Col. David Delmonaco, had 24 hours to leave the country. He said the official had been spying on Venezuela's military.

U.S. Embassy spokesman Greg Adams confirmed Delmonaco's identity but had no immediate comment.

In Washington, Army Lt. Col. Todd Breasseale, a Pentagon spokesman, said, "We are aware of the allegations made by Venezuelan Vice President Maduro over state-run television in Caracas, and can confirm that our Air Attache ... is en route back to the United States.".....snip~

Venezuela expels 2 US officials as Chavez worsens - Yahoo! News

It appears their VP is accusing one of our Air Force Attache of Spying. We didn't take long to get him out of there either.
 
Let's hope the next ruler of Venezuela has better management sense than to put his advisers on television in order to pin them in to a corner to make himself look amazing.
 
Yeah in this case.....it didn't take long to see much hasn't improved here with us. Evidenced.....

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's vice president called in the nation's top leaders Tuesday hours after ailing President Hugo Chavez apparently took a turn for the worse, and announced on national television that a U.S. Embassy attache was being expelled for meeting with military officers and planning to destabilize the country.

Foreign Minister Elias Jaua also announced the expulsion of a second U.S. official, also a U.S. Air Force attache.

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Vice President Nicolas Maduro told Venezuela's high military command and civilian leaders that the U.S. Embassy's Air Force attache, Col. David Delmonaco, had 24 hours to leave the country. He said the official had been spying on Venezuela's military.

U.S. Embassy spokesman Greg Adams confirmed Delmonaco's identity but had no immediate comment.

In Washington, Army Lt. Col. Todd Breasseale, a Pentagon spokesman, said, "We are aware of the allegations made by Venezuelan Vice President Maduro over state-run television in Caracas, and can confirm that our Air Attache ... is en route back to the United States.".....snip~

Venezuela expels 2 US officials as Chavez worsens - Yahoo! News

It appears their VP is accusing one of our Air Force Attache of Spying. We didn't take long to get him out of there either.

Wouldn't be surprised if the whole country goes on lockdown for a while. Tends to happen when cult-of-personality dictators die. If I were Maduro, I'd find a bullet-proof vest and get a food taster.
 
Good riddance to bad garbage. With the Chavez cult of personality out of the way, hopefully the Venezuelans will now be able to elect someone sane to office, who won't spend the next decade systematically raping their economy and political system in the name of poorly thought out Leftist sloganeering and anti-American rabble rousing.

Then again, this is Latin America we're talking about here, so it's probably not a good idea to get my hopes up. :lol:

Hopefully the United States can keep its hands out of Latin American affairs for once.
 
He's dead? GOOD.

Perhaps there is a chance for the people to take back their country. I doubt it, as probably someone worse will take over. And in the mean time we can watch american socialists rant on about what a god the man was... funny, they still live here, not there. Tells you all you need to know, eh?
 
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