The “Hugo Chavez is a Dictator” Lie

Commenter tulio repeats many MSM lies about Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. It’s understandable that he’s mistaken, since if all you read is the lying US press, you would come away with exactly the opinion that tulio has:

As for Venezuela’s supposed prosperity. It’s nothing more than riding the tide of rising oil. Venezuela would be doing better no matter what if their number one export is oil and it cost 3x as much as it did a decade ago. I don’t give any great accolades to Chavez for it.

All during the oil boom, 8

So, yeah, the economy might have grown without Chavez, but all of the growth would have gone to the top 2

Also we need to look around the world at oil-rich lands that are well and truly fucked, even during this recent massive oil boom. The economies of Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Angola, Colombia and Mexico have all reaped massive benefits from the oil boom. Where has all the money gone in these places? Not to the people. A tiny elite just steals every last nickel.

In Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria and Angola, the conditions of the population are appalling, with tens of millions living in absolute poverty, with no running water, electricity, plumbing, sewage treatment, roads, schools, nothing. Furthermore, many even lack food to eat – there is tremendous malnutrition in all those places. Health figures in terms of longevity, infant mortality and maternal mortality are off the charts. So really, just having oil wealth is no guarantee that you have a decent country.

It’s not true that Venezuela a dictatorship. It’s probably the freest democracy in Latin America. The opposition has 2/3 of the airwaves, all of cable and most of the newspapers and magazines. They use this to blast Chavez with the most insane and outrageous lies 24-7. It would be like Fox News X 10.

Further, the opposition, including the opposition media, are all traitors. They all supported the coup in 2002 which was organized by the US. Those traitors are lucky to not be in prison, or even to still be alive. I think Chavez should have executed them for treason, but that’s just me. The opposition media, in addition to their mind-boggling and constant lying, regularly advocates assassinating Chavez and staging another military coup.

Chavez is finally starting to have it with these threats, so a few of those outlets got shut down, but I think they just went to cable. These fuckers are really playing with fire, trying to provoke a response.

A few years back, the opposition was having regular “demonstrations” around the clock, day in and day out, to try to topple the regime. These were more like violent riots. Chavez’ cops mostly just let these idiots riot, block roads, throw rocks, set tires on fire, etc. They barely even arrested people. In the US, there would have been a massive police response at the very least.

The US has repeatedly tried to overthrow Chavez through all sorts of legal and extralegal means. All of “liberal” Obama’s fancy new military bases in Colombia are meant to threaten Chavez militarily. Chavez is right to be paranoid about US invasion, but I’m not sure if we are going to do it.

It’s often said that Chavez is a dictator because, why? He wins elections. He’s won something like eight elections so far. Why is that? Because the low income population, neglected for decades, keeps voting for him. It’s said he’s a dictator because his party controls the Legislative Branch. That’s right, they do, because the same people keep re-electing them by huge margins. It’s said Chavez is a dictator because his party has most of the mayoral, gubernatorial and city council seats. True, that’s because the same people keep voting them in.

He’s said to be a dictator for “packing the Supreme Court” but Roosevelt did the same thing, and anyway, that Court was corrupt to the core. The entire Court supported and gave legal approval to the US coup in 2002! They’re lucky they weren’t executed.

The crap you read all the time about Chavez “shutting down the media.” Recall that the entire private media was intimately involved in the 2002 coup, from planning to execution stages to everything in between. They’re lucky to be alive. Despite that, Chavez kept all the stations running.

But in addition to their lies, they’re always advocating assassinating Chavez and promoting another coup. Chavez has finally had it with this crap and he’s starting to shut them down for that. But then they just go to cable which is unregulated. And the opposition still has 2/3 of the public airwaves anyway.

Also, the government announced some new licensing rules, which involved a bunch of routine paperwork the stations had to fill in by deadline or have their licenses revoked. To provoke a crisis, a lot of these asshole opposition radio and TV stations simply refused to fill out the papers! Then when the deadline came, the government went around and shut down some of the idiots who pulled this stunt. As you can see, they are engaging in a totally provocative behavior to try to make Chavez look like a dictator and provoke a crisis.

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11 thoughts on “The “Hugo Chavez is a Dictator” Lie”

  1. It’s amazing the MSM’s (and the US government’s) focus on ‘dictators’. Recently, Hilary Clinton gave a talk to some Middle Eastern students and they actually laughed when she started pontificating about Ahmadinejad and the dangers of dictators… the US props up nearly every dictator in the M.E! And when they elect Hamas in a free and fair election, then the people get punished for not voting for Vichy-style collaborators.

  2. Dear Robert
    The US is always strongly opposed to dictators. That’s wy the US supported the elected Allende against the military dictators. The US also tries to oust the unelected kings of Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Morocco. The US did its best to unseat the unelected Sha. The record of the US speaks for itself.
    Cheers. James

    1. Firstly Chavez is not a dictator. Secondly sometimes the USA supports dictators and sometimes it opposes them, and sometimes the USA supports democratically elected officials and sometimes it opposes them… whether or not the USA supports or opposes someone has nothing to do with whether or not they are a dictator… it has to do with their policies. Furthermore these various policies have nothing to do with the quality of lives of Americans. The USA is simple dicking around in foreign countries for no rational reason, it’s madness.

  3. What a joke it is to defend Chavez, I suppose if you ignore how he and his pals are robbing Venezuela and her people at an incredible pase evenas they destroy the economy and national infrastructure.He even has the people paying for his wasteful and ineffective proclamations through “bonos de Pdvsa” To say he has done any long term sustainable development is a joke.(probably written by one of his mindless chavistas) I hope the people soon realize what a fraud Chavez is, not to mention a clown and a poorly educated idiot..

    1. Yeah there is nothing true that he wrote.

      Is Chavez “robbing Venezuela and her people at an incredible pace”?? Huh? In what possible universe?

      Is Chavez “destroying the economy and the national infrastructure”? What does he mean by this? He is not destroying the economy, that is for sure. He’s cracking down on profiteers and crooked monopolies, big deal. The deliberately withhold supplies to create artificial scarcities to bring down the government and as protest against government price controls. They are just gougers and crooks.

      Destroying the infrastructure? Chavez has been rebuilding it. There is a long standing opposition claim that Chavez is not maintaining the oil industry and is instead funneling state money to the poor. I don’t know what to make of this, but lack of maintenance is quite common in many oil producing states.

      One interesting thing is that for the first time ever, the Venezuelan government under Chavez is looking beyond oil for when the oil runs out, to diversify the economy. They are actually planning 20-30 years out and it’s hard to do.

      Actually, Chavez is a highly intelligent man, very well read.

      Mikey’s diatribe is typical of the Venezuelan opposition. It’s sounds horrible and they are sure of themselves, but when you take it apart, there is nothing there.

      Now, if you go to Venezuela, 2/3 of the TV stations sound like Mikey 24-7, even the commercials are paid ads blasting Chavez. It’s like Rightwing Big Brother blasting at you everywhere you go, all day and night, day after day with no end in sight.

      It’s almost a fulltime job for the Chavistas just responding to the incessant lies and crap, but that’s the idea.

      I remember on the Middle East groups, those Jewish rats used to keep us running around all day and night chasing down their lies and crap. They’d always leave it up to us. Prove it! Lies! Prove it! Prove we are wrong! You spent almost all your time trying to prove that you were right or that they were wrong, and even when you got your evidence, they just rejected it.

      I think this making you run around all the time to refute nonsensical and fanciful charges must be an actual propaganda technique. It’s very wearying and tiresome to check all this stuff out. It leaves you exhausted.

  4. Hey guys, I only lived there from 2005 – 09, so I guess that makes me typical opposition. I saw the detereoration, shortages and increase in crime with my own eyes. You seem to be seeing things through “Hugo blinders” Ask anyone if they think there nice red franelas make up for the lineups for sugar,cooking oil, coffee, chicken etc. The answer is always no. Chavez and his crook friends and family are skimming @ $2usd/bbl for their personal fortunes, the rest is being wasted on his pet projects, which are nothing more than troughs for his lick spittle followers. Wake up guys !!

  5. I think one of the things Robert is addressing here is the fact that the U.S. government and its lackeys in the MSM are awfully selective about a) who gets labeled a “dictator” and b) whose “outrages” are worth getting worked up about.

    Personally, I never expect righteousness from government officials – at any level.

  6. i wonder what was the real cause of death of hugo chavez? I wonder if the CIA & Mossad had anything with his untimely death, even with his bad habits concerning eating & smoking.

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