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And just think, in a few years Venezuala, like Cuba, can be a market for European tourists to indulge in the sex trade with an underage female for $2 a night.
And just think, in a few years Venezuala, like Cuba, can be a market for European tourists to indulge in the sex trade with an underage female for $2 a night.
And just think, in a few years Venezuala, like Cuba, can be a market for European tourists to indulge in the sex trade with an underage female for $2 a night.
If they try real hard they can match the illegal sex trade of Israel.
Today's events have totally reversed my opinion of Hugo Chavez. Until today, I was of a somewhat favorable opinion of him and his administration, but I did have questions about his curtailment of free speech.
Still, I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt when he talked about biased news corporations.
But today:
- Supermodel Naomi Campbell met with and praised Chavez. Not a nobel prize winner. Not a political scientist. Not a head of state. Not someone renoun for their intelligence or awareness. Rather, someone who's fame is predicated solely on skin-deep external appearances and popularity based on looking pretty.
- Tens of thousands of student protestors were gassed, firehosed, and shot with rubber bullets while rallying against constitutional reforms that would allow Chavez to remain in power indefinitely.
Something is very rotten here. Where is the independant press? What's really going on in Venezuala?
And lets not forget the celebraties..Belafonte, Naomi Campbell now has jumped on the bandwagon a few others
What do you want to bet they were well shielded from seeing the slums in Caracas??
Do you think they got a tour??
Back when I lived there, during the reign of Carlos Perez, Los Barios was even worse than it is today. Venezuela was ran by a group of lily white oligarchs who treated their citizens in the most brutal of fashions. However since Perez was kissing the backside of Washington, he was given a pass on his human rights transgressions.
As I have previously stated, Chavez is no ray of sunshine but he has been elected three times by the poorest people in his country. They even managed to save him from a coup attempt by the military which it is still speculated at what level of US involvement there was.
I know many Venezuelans. Some here in the US, some who have returned to Venezuela.
To a person, they loathe Chavez. He has destroed their country's basic civil liberties, strangled free speech and the media, and eliminated his oppostion through threats, blackmail, and bribery.
He is a textbook bully and megalomaniac who is headed for ruin. Unfortunately, his people will be forced to suffer for his abuses for many years to come.
And lets not forget the celebraties..Belafonte, Naomi Campbell now has jumped on the bandwagon a few others
What do you want to bet they were well shielded from seeing the slums in Caracas??
Do you think they got a tour??
Guess what...you don't have to go thousands of miles away to see slums.
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