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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2013 8:25:00 GMT 10
Hugo Chavez dies after cancer battleAssociated Press | 11:08AM - Wednesday, 06 March 2013 HUGO CHAVEZ: The 58-year-old has ruled Venezuela for 14 years.VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT HUGO CHAVEZ has died after a two-year battle with cancer, ending the socialist leader's 14-year rule of the South American country.
The death was announced by Vice President Nicolas Maduro said in a televised speech.
The flamboyant 58-year-old leader had undergone four operations in Cuba for a cancer that was first detected in his pelvic region in mid-2011. His last surgery was on December 11 and he had not been seen in public since.
"It's a moment of deep pain," Maduro, accompanied by senior ministers, said, his voice choking.
Chavez easily won a new 6-year term at an election in October and his death will devastate millions of supporters who adored his charismatic style, anti-US rhetoric and oil-financed policies that brought subsidised food and free health clinics to long-neglected slums.
Detractors, however, saw his one-man style, gleeful nationalizations and often harsh treatment of opponents as evidence of an egotistical dictator whose misplaced statist economics wasted a historic bonanza of oil revenues.
Chavez's death paves the way for a new election that will test whether his socialist "revolution" can live on without his dominant personality at the helm.www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/8388566/Hugo-Chavez-dies-after-cancer-battle
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2013 9:18:09 GMT 10
Quite a charachter and will be missed by Venezuelan's....more supporters than detrators, dare say the people will look towards a socialist government.
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Post by caskur on Mar 6, 2013 14:31:57 GMT 10
if the Americans hated him... he must have been one of the good guys..
or not..
he's history now!
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Post by garfield on Mar 7, 2013 12:08:46 GMT 10
Socialist fuckwit ...
Venezuela's battered oil industry bore the burden of Hugo Chávez's socialist dream. Now the charismatic leader's death gives his successors the opportunity to unlock its potential, but few in the oil industry expect an immediate renaissance.
Under Mr. Chávez's rule, a huge oil-sector strike, the firing of thousands of top engineers, poor maintenance, frequent refinery accidents and the diversion of oil revenue into social programs and subsidies to foreign allies crippled Petróleos de Venezuela SA, the national oil company.
Despite arguably having the world's largest oil reserves, Venezuela's oil output fell by nearly a third to about 2.5 million barrels—about ...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2013 12:30:03 GMT 10
Despite arguably having the world's largest oil reserves, Venezuela's oil output fell by nearly a third to about 2.5 million barrels—about ...  |
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Post by garfield on Mar 7, 2013 17:40:24 GMT 10
In a socialist country they throw the university trained proffesionals out and put someone like Spincycle and kiwi in to run things instead, and anyone that complains gets locked up, just think about that for a minute and their you have it, socialism in all its glory, scarey thought hey.
Julia Gillard is a big fan of socialism, says it all really hey ;D
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2013 19:05:41 GMT 10
Garflunkle politics is Drongoism...Deadshit Drongoism that is..
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