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01-13-2010 , 08:49 PM

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TheQuietAnarchist

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Not really sure that laughter is the appropriate response here...

01-13-2010 , 08:53 PM

#27

Borodog

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Hugo Chavez: International Economic Clown

01-13-2010 , 11:13 PM

#28

Huehuecoyotl

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Originally Posted by Borodog

Hugo Chavez: International Economic Clown

Sums up the next 10, 20, x amount of years of Venezuela's near future.

01-13-2010 , 11:21 PM

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NeBlis

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lol you think they have 10 more years of this?

01-13-2010 , 11:23 PM

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The 13th 4postle

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Originally Posted by NeBlis

lol you think they have 10 more years of this?

Castro....

enough said

01-13-2010 , 11:28 PM

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Castro....

enough said

yea, it really is dependent on how much bull$$#$5 they put up with. Castro survived a long ass time while not giving the Cuban people an ounce of progress. How long they put up with it is up to them. I mean we have put up with the Fed for a long time in spite of it soulcrushing the economy. That being said Venezuela does have an adamant pro "libertarianism " ( in the sense that they don't want the government messing with them to the extent that Chavez has) group. I hope they win out for the sake of Venezuela.

01-13-2010 , 11:29 PM

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Originally Posted by The 13th 4postle

Castro....

enough said

Chavez isnt a good as Castro, and the cubans have a longer for socialism to become ingrained, and this crash will be much worse than anything they have endured.

01-14-2010 , 12:53 AM

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Randomness28

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I wonder how much aid Chavez will be sending to Haiti for relief? I suspect nothing because they have nothing to give that doesn't directly take away from the destitute with no hope but for government subsidy.

As an aside a couple months back Chavez took by force (without recompense) ownership of all golf courses because it was thought by Chavez that golf is a game of exclusion because poorer people can't afford to play. Such ******ed neanderthal thinking by Chavez and his goofy followers. Hope they enjoy their 3 minute showers with rations of slavery living like human cattle.

01-16-2010 , 04:30 PM

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Chavez continues to not disappoint

Chavez Deems Whale Sperm, Pickles ‘Essential’ Items

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Whale sperm, pickles and the pain reliever codeine will be considered essential goods in Venezuela and receive a preferential exchange rate under President Hugo Chavez’s new currency structure

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Chavez on Jan. 8 devalued the bolivar by as much as 50 percent and created a multi-tiered exchange system to help stem an outflow of dollars.

But why oh why would dollars want to leave Venezuela?

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Other goods considered essential are elevators, dentures, vitamins, machinery, vegetables, seeds and magnifying glasses.

Non-essential goods include race horses, rabbit meat, coca leaves, truffles, ketchup, cigarettes and video games.

WTF?

01-16-2010 , 06:40 PM

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NeBlis

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WTF?

favors for favors LDO

01-17-2010 , 02:54 AM

#36

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Originally Posted by UGA_Dawg_2003

Chavez is more like Putin (and not Castro)....using the State to win elections, ban opposition, control the media, changing the constitution, etc. And just like Putin, he does have some public support.

He is basically a populist, giving out cash and other incentives to the poor which enhances his pro-poor image. Other stuff like working with Fidel and banning golf course only add to that image. Which inturn helps him gain popularity among those who have nothing and therefore hang their hopes on scheming idiots like Chavez.

Errr Castro did this too buddy.

01-17-2010 , 12:43 PM

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Originally Posted by NeBlis

favors for favors LDO

Yea I should have put

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“It’s going to become a highly politicized game, rife with corruption, impossible to manage,” said Moises Naim, the former Venezuelan minister of industry who is now editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine. “This will be a goldmine for corruption and create incentives so that the main game in town is how to get hold of the preferential rate.”

and

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together as

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favors for favors LDO

01-18-2010 , 06:28 AM

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More Chavez Lulz. What a ****ing clown.

Venezuela Nationalizes French Supermarket Chain

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CARACAS -- President Hugo Chavez ordered Sunday the seizure of a French-owned retail chain on accusations that it raised prices after Venezuela devalued the currency by half.

"Until when are we going to allow this to happen?" Mr. Chavez asked during his Sunday television program in reference to the alleged price hike by Almacenes Exito SA, headquartered in Colombia and controlled by French retailer Casino Guichard-Perrachon S.A.

The Venezuelan leader said that new law may need to be approved to carry out the nationalization. "I'm waiting for the new law to begin the expropriation process," he said. "There's no going back," he added.

Almacenes Exito saw some of its stores closed this week by government authorities on accusations that it was increasing prices regardless of Mr. Chavez's orders that retailers were not to adjust prices after he devalued the currency to 4.3 bolivars per dollar from the previous rate of 2.15 bolivars.

Almacenes Exito, which also runs Colombia's largest retail chain, controls six hypermarkets and around 32 supermarkets in Venezuela.

Gonzalo Velasquez, Exito's director of communications, said his company won't comment. He added France's Casino owns a majority stake in the Venezuelan supermarket chain.

In the past Gonzalo Restrepo, Exito's Chief Executive, had said Exito had set apart 45 billion Colombian pesos ($23 million) for its minority stake in the Venezuelan retailer to write off the assets if needed.

Separately, Mr. Chavez also ordered the nationalization of a large shopping-mall recently built in a downtown district in Caracas. The stores controlled by Exito and the shopping mall will be used to build up Comerso, a new government-run retail chain which seeks to sell its products at "socialist" prices, according to the president.

During his 11 years in power Mr. Chavez has nationalized large swaths of the Venezuelan economy, including a Spanish-owned bank and an Argentine-controlled steel-mill.

In some cases the government has reached a compensation agreement with the owners, while other companies, including Cemex SA and Exxon Mobil, are mired in international arbitration proceedings to secure payment for their nationalized assets.

"Socialist" prices? Wonder what that looks like:

Spoiler:

01-18-2010 , 09:56 AM

#39

The 13th 4postle

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Now you're gonna have to wait in a line to buy anything.

01-18-2010 , 10:38 AM

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What is the mental disorder called that these so called leaders all have?

01-18-2010 , 01:28 PM

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Borodog

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Socialism.

01-21-2010 , 09:30 PM

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obsidian

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US used earthquake weapon on Haiti

01-21-2010 , 10:09 PM

#43

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hugo reads the conspiracy thread.

01-21-2010 , 10:29 PM

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US used earthquake weapon on Haiti

Well, it's good to know that they have the capability to alter the climate with these weapons. I guess we won't need to worry about global warming any more.

01-24-2010 , 06:12 PM

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Another one bites the dust

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A cable-television channel critical of President Hugo Chavez was yanked from the air early Sunday for defying new government regulations requiring it to televise some of the socialist leader's speeches.

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Under the new rules, two dozen local cable channels, including RCTV, must carry government programming when officials deem it necessary, just as channels on the open airwaves already do. Chavez regularly uses that legal power to force the country's broadcast TV and radio stations to carry his marathon speeches, which can last up to seven hours.

Thank God for America where we force the president to move his speech so we can watch Lost.

01-25-2010 , 03:59 PM

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Chavez banned the national chilean channel, lets see if our bitch is going to say anything.

edit: Dont tell any chilean I just called our president a bitch, its going to be a our secret.

01-25-2010 , 05:50 PM

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Hey! I like Chile!

Last edited by Huehuecoyotl; 01-25-2010 at 05:50 PM. Reason: Chilean women that is.

01-26-2010 , 02:18 PM

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NeBlis

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Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl

Reason: Chilean women that is

no kidding!!! ... hot hot accent in english or spanish and soooo cute on average!

02-02-2010 , 04:11 PM

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Gene Healy: South of the border, the cult of the presidency

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From afar, the Chavez regime seems like something from a comic dystopian novel. But it's no laughing matter.

Last week, Chavez ordered six TV stations off the air, ostensibly for refusing to air his frequent and interminable speeches. His real motive was to squelch dissent amid raging inflation, rolling blackouts, and growing public disgust with his lawless rule. So far, two students have died in anti-censorship protests.

Undaunted, the combative caudillo declared that Twitter criticism of the president "is terrorism," and the protesters are "seeking death."

Chavez is only the most recent example of our southern neighbors' long-running problem with authoritarian presidents who decry U.S. "imperialism" as they push for increasingly imperial powers.

Ironically, though, when Latin American autocrats blame the region's problems on Yankee influence, they may be more right than they know.

02-02-2010 , 04:16 PM

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If you think we've got it bad, pity the Venezuelans, whose strongman president, Hugo Chavez, rules the airwaves with his own talk show. "Hello, President!" airs Sundays, sometimes for up to eight hours, and it features Chavez singing, insulting his enemies, giving shout-outs to Fidel Castro, and even, on one occasion, describing a gut-wrenching bout of diarrhea he'd had while filming the show.

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op...#ixzz0ePZTE8Xh

This really is youtube gold.

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