Who is Hugo Chavez?
Who, you say? No, Hugo.
Seeing as this guy will be helping shape US foreign policy into the next decade, we might as well find out who he is.
WHY DICK CHENEY WON'T PLAY IN HUGO CHAVEZ' BAND
http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=452&row=0
"...77% of Venezuela's farmland is owned by 3% of the population, the 'hacendados.'...That week, Chavez himself handed me a copy of the "socialist" manifesto that so rattled the man in the Jag. It was a new law passed by Venezuela's Congress which gave land to the landless. The Chavez law transferred only fields from the giant haciendas which had been left unused and abandoned..."
Mattie Weiss: Robertson's not alone in his dislike of Chavez
http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/5581661.html
"What I saw, in the enormous city of Caracas and the rural towns of Monagas state, were huge numbers of people who, for the first time in their lives, have free and adequate health care, the opportunity to attend university, access to land grants and work contracts, constitutionally assured rights for women and indigenous people, and free breakfast programs for children. And with all this, a sense of dignity and ownership over their lives."
Don't believe the hype. Find out the truth.
Oh, and if you read Greg Palast's article, you'll see why our gas prices are so high.
- Vox
Seeing as this guy will be helping shape US foreign policy into the next decade, we might as well find out who he is.
WHY DICK CHENEY WON'T PLAY IN HUGO CHAVEZ' BAND
http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=452&row=0
"...77% of Venezuela's farmland is owned by 3% of the population, the 'hacendados.'...That week, Chavez himself handed me a copy of the "socialist" manifesto that so rattled the man in the Jag. It was a new law passed by Venezuela's Congress which gave land to the landless. The Chavez law transferred only fields from the giant haciendas which had been left unused and abandoned..."
Mattie Weiss: Robertson's not alone in his dislike of Chavez
http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/5581661.html
"What I saw, in the enormous city of Caracas and the rural towns of Monagas state, were huge numbers of people who, for the first time in their lives, have free and adequate health care, the opportunity to attend university, access to land grants and work contracts, constitutionally assured rights for women and indigenous people, and free breakfast programs for children. And with all this, a sense of dignity and ownership over their lives."
Don't believe the hype. Find out the truth.
Oh, and if you read Greg Palast's article, you'll see why our gas prices are so high.
- Vox
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