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Hugo Chavez has Died
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Topic Started: Mar 5 2013, 05:02 PM (221 Views)
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Baldo
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Mar 5 2013, 05:02 PM
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NBC News is reporting Hugo Chavez, Venezuela President, has died.
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Mar 5 2013, 05:04 PM
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Hugo Chavez, fiery Venezuelan leader, dies at 58
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- President Hugo Chavez, the fiery populist who declared a socialist revolution in Venezuela, crusaded against U.S. influence and championed a leftist revival across Latin America, died Tuesday at age 58 after a nearly two-year bout with cancer.
Vice President Nicolas Maduro, surrounded by other government officials, announced the death in a national television broadcast. He said Chavez died at 4:25 p.m. local time.
During more than 14 years in office, Chavez routinely challenged the status quo at home and internationally. He polarized Venezuelans with his confrontational and domineering style, yet was also a masterful communicator and strategist who tapped into Venezuelan nationalism to win broad support, particularly among the poor....snipped
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_VENEZUELA_OBIT_CHAVEZ?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-03-05-16-58-10
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Kerri P.
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Mar 5 2013, 05:10 PM
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http://news.yahoo.com/venezuela-says-chavezs-breathing-problems-worsened-024327679.html Venezuela's Hugo Chavez dies from cancer: VP Reuters – 7 mins ago
CARACAS (Reuters) - 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, Vice President Nicolas Maduro said in a televised speech.
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Rusty Dog
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Mar 5 2013, 05:31 PM
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I hope he is smelling the sulphur now. More than he said he did at the UN.
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Mar 5 2013, 05:43 PM
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One can be cruel to people all their lives. One cant defend it on judgement day.
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Mar 5 2013, 06:15 PM
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Not to worry, we have his close cousin living right here in the WHITE HOUSE
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Mar 5 2013, 06:18 PM
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Not to worry, we have his close cousin living right here in the WHITE HOUSE Think we can convince him to move south?
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Mar 5 2013, 08:32 PM
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(Not sure if this has been verified) :
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Venezuela: Farewell Letter from Nancy Diaz Iriarte (his ex-wife) to Hugo Chavez.
Impressive, very deep early farewell to Nancy Diaz Iriarte (his ex-wife) to Hugo Chavez, which was published on August 9, 2011 in one of the largest circulation newspapers Venezuela: "El Universal".
Hugo, a few remarks about your death that approaches;
I do not want to go hence without first saying goodbye, because you have done a great harm to many people, you have ruined whole families, have legions of compatriots forced to emigrate to other lands, you're a mourner countless homes, those who believed they were your relentless enemies persecuted, imprisoned in cubicles unworthy even to animals, insults, humbled, the deceived, not only because they thought you were powerful, but also immortal ... Because the end of time does not reach you.
But your time has come, the time ran out, your contract comes to an end, your "life cycle" goes out slowly and not in the best way, probably die on a bed, surrounded by your family, scared, because you will have to account once you give your last breath, share this life full of anguish and fear, there will be priests who persecuted and insulted, the representatives of this Church outraged for pleasure, of course that will give you extreme unction and the holy oils, not once but many times, but you know that and they are all for naught, but only to calm the panic that your soul is trapped before the moment that defines everything.
Patient die, suffering the eviction of immunological complications, the terrible side effects of promised cures that lengthen your life, your organs begin to deteriorate, one by one, your mental faculties are losing the brilliance that characterized the latter, your liquids and fluids are collected in plastic bags with the stench of death that disgusts you so much.
Tell me right now, before you apply a new injection to ease the pain of unbearable suffering, it is worth not tell me that you can take dance - ah! - Travel the world, the marvelous palaces that you have received, the military parades in your honor, the limos, the titles, the floors of the five-star hotels, the sumptuous scenes of state ... Tell me now that the vomiting pumpkin porridge that nurses give you in the mouth, it was about that it was his life, as the sparkles and sequins no longer appear on the monitors and resuscitation machines around you, and gears Now the cheers are mere beeps and alarms from sensors that regulate your vital signs to become weaker.
You can listen to the people of your country outside of your room? ... Must be your imagination or the effects of morphine, are not you in your homeland, you're on the other hand, far away, among people who do not know ... Yes, you're dying in your own exile, among a bunch of kids to whom he entrusted to deliver your own country, your last moments will be passed between pimps and crooks, and between your cohort of sycophants who only show you affection because they davas money and power; You all look worried and angry, never let any of them could have the opportunity to follow thee, now homeless and leave them to your country to the brink of civil war ... That's what you wanted? That was your mission in life? Forget about the number of poor, there are now poorer than when you came to power, forget yourself justice and equality when you just hand the country over to a foreign power that now we have to forcibly evict and cost more lives .
I have the slight impression that now that I know wrong; believed in passing on a story and I judged revolutionary, revolutionary and being ... immortal, called for the dead on your side, your heroes, those ghosts who also thought they had life, Bolivar, Che Guevara, Fidel, and that Marx never met, and recommend its reading ... Walking with the dead led you to the magic and babalaos, you screwed yourself violating graves and make offerings to a cohort of demons and evil spirits that now surround you ... You feel their presence in the room? Charge you are coming to collect the only thing that you should appreciate in your life and you threw that so eerily in the dark and evil, your soul.
Well, I say goodbye, just wanted you to know that to go over the history of your country as a traitor and a coward for not having rectified could you and your behavior when you let go of your pride for your misguided ideals, for thy sinister ideology, renouncing the most cherished values, your liberty and freedom of others, and freedom makes us more human. MAY GOD HAVE MERCY OF IT!
"Socialism only works in two places: in heaven, where they need it and hell is where the rule of those who suffer."
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Baldo
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Mar 5 2013, 09:28 PM
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Hollywood checks in!
Sean Penn on Hugo Chavez's Death: 'I Lost a Friend'
"Today the people of the United States lost a friend it never knew it had. And poor people around the world lost a champion." says Penn in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter. "I lost a friend I was blessed to have. My thoughts are with the family of President Chavez and the people of Venezuela."
"I mourn a great hero," said Oliver Stone of the Venezuelan president who died on Tuesday after a long bout with cancer.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hugo-chavez-dead-sean-penn-426205
Edited by Baldo, Mar 5 2013, 09:29 PM.
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Baldo
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Mar 5 2013, 11:12 PM
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More Hollywood in mourning
Michael Moore posts

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Mar 6 2013, 05:10 AM
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