Hugo Chavez: The Neo-Imperialist
What delicious irony!
Hugo Chavez has managed to replace George W. Bush as the imperialist specter.
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Now at last, Mr. Chavez is the object of a growing backlash from leaders around Latin America — from Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Mexico and Nicaragua, among other countries. In part, the politicians are responding to foolish overreaching by Mr. Chavez, who has been busy trying to turn Bolivia into a satellite state while suggesting he has similar plans for much of the rest of the continent. Latin Americans don’t like imperialism, whether it comes from Washington or Caracas.
¡Viva el neo-imperialismo bolivariano!
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This opinion is not worth the paper it’s printed on. The imperialism of the US, apparently with the goal of making rich corporations even richer, the local populations be damned, is completely different from the economic policy of Chavez, who seeks economic cooperation between states for the benefit of the little guy, with corporations tagging along if they can keep up. Sending discounted oil to Cuba (much needed by the people during this period) in return for 20,000 health care professionals in Venezuela to care for the poor does not make one an imperialist. There is no irony here, only mindless world drool.
I’m going to have to disagree with you somewhat on this one, Curtis. I think Chávez is quite ambitious when it comes to his influence in the Western Hemisphere. He has carefully associated himself with Castro and positioned himself to be Castro’s ideological successor. Chávez has twice extended his term limits and supplanted Lula as the premier Latin American chief of state. While the U.S. hasn’t been on the best of terms with Venezuela since the mid-1990’s, much of Europe is now becoming somewhat disillusioned with the regime and its rhetoric. Without diminishing the oftentimes arrogant stance of the U.S., I must agree with the Post editorial in that Chávez is getting a bit too big for his britches.