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Why? Because the business of America is war and grand theft. People are increasingly on their own sink or swim. Duopoly power governs. Rigged elections defile democratic governance. Banker bailouts, imperial wars, policies favoring wealth and power, and repressive police state laws define their agenda.
In contrast, Chavez wages war on imperialism, poverty, hunger, underdevelopment, and human need. About 60% of Venezuela's annual budgets go for social spending. Emphasis is on healthcare, education, housing, social security, job creation and training, food subsidies, science and technology, agricultural production, culture, community media, direct monthly transfers to poor single mothers, and subsidies for thousands of direct democracy communal councils.
No wonder Venezuelans support him, and why America hates him. His good example exposes its duplicity. Washington calls it a threat.
Last month, Obama addressed the Venezuela/Iran relationship, saying:
"Ultimately, it is up to the Venezuelan people to determine what they gain from a relationship with a country that violates universal human rights and is isolated from much of the world. Here in the Americas, we take Iranian activities, including in Venezuela, very seriously."He also accused Chavez of "erod(ing) the separation of powers....restrict(ing) the universal rights of the Venezuelan people, threaten(ing) basic democratic values, and fail(ing) to contribute to the security of the region." At the same time, he claimed Washington doesn't "pretend to dictate" policies to sovereign nations.
In response, Chavez called Obama a fraud, an embarrassment. He's that and much more. So is America, the world's leading global bully and human rights abuser.
Besides ravaging the world one country at a time, it created tyranny at home through draconian police state laws. The latest came December 31. It gives presidents diktat power to order US citizens arrested, thrown in military dungeons, and left to rot indefinitely based on spurious terrorism connection charges or none at all.
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