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Chavez expells Human rights activist - talk | baltimoresun.com
Http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080919/...uela_rights_dc
Venezuela brusquely expelled two activists from U.S.-based Human Rights Watch on Friday who criticized President Hugo Chavez for political intolerance and for eroding democracy during nearly 10 years in power.
State television played a video of officials reading an expulsion order to activists Jose Miguel Vivanco and Daniel Wilkinson, who were filmed packing their bags and being escorted on to a plane that took off just after midnight.The move highlighted the leftist leader's intolerance of international criticism and will further strain ties with the United States, Venezuela's main oil customer, a week after Chavez also ejected the U.S.
Ambassador.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called Venezuela an autocracy on Thursday.
Human Rights Watch is an independent group, but Chavez says it collaborates with the Bush administration in a campaign to unseat him and ignores his government's advances in reducing poverty."These groups, dressed up as human rights defenders, are financed by the United States," said Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro.
"They are aligned with a policy of attacking countries that are building new economic models."Human Rights Watch is also fiercely critical of the rights record of Venezuela's neighbor Colombia, whose right-wing government is a close Washington ally.
Politically motivated murder is common in Colombia The activists said they were forced to hurriedly check out of their hotel by the police around midnight.
Government officials said they were put on the first flight leaving Caracas."Our phones were confiscated and we were denied permission to call our ambassadors," Wilkinson said, speaking minutes before their flight took off for Sao Paolo and using a cellphone they had managed to hide from authorities.Vivanco and Wilkinson were in Venezuela to present a report on rights problems after a decade of Chavez government.
They said Chavez encouraged discrimination against political opponents, stacked the courts and dampened freedom of expression.
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Neither their allegations nor Chavez's treatement of them should surprise anyone.
Socialism, by its very nature, must eventually devolve to some form of totalitarianism.
Note: this is not a denial that socialistic elements can work in a government.
Rather, it is an indictment of the purer forms of socialism that people find it necessary to experiment with over and over again, despite the fact that a quick reading of the historical record would discourage them if they had any brains.
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Quote: : Yoda Neither their allegations nor Chavez's treatement of them should surprise anyone.
Socialism, by its very nature, must eventually devolve to some form of totalitarianism.
Note: this is not a denial that socialistic elements can work in a government.
Rather, it is an indictment of the purer forms of socialism that people find it necessary to experiment with over and over again, despite the fact that a quick reading of the historical record would discourage them if they had any brains.
You got it.Right after the USA election Soviet planes and Naval vessels begin arriving in Venezuela.The so called oil dividend that Chavez said was going to the poor is in reality being used to buy Soviet Planes and submarines
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Sulfur? Do I smell sulfur?
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You wanna piss off Chavez?
IGNORE him. Don't post about him.
He is a carbuncle on the butt of the planet.
He should be the subject of light-hearted humor and nothing more.
When I pee I pretend his ugly mug is in the toilet, and I find I've been happier lately.
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I will post about him because the poor and disadvantaged in Venezuela,Cuba,Nicaragua and Boliva need to know Chavez as the scam artist for what he is.
But we should not make Chavez a CIA martyr either!
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Quote: : You wanna piss off Chavez?
IGNORE him. Don't post about him.
He is a carbuncle on the butt of the planet.
He should be the subject of light-hearted humor and nothing more.
When I pee I pretend his ugly mug is in the toilet, and I find I've been happier lately.
You do have the bigger point!
I think everyone, esp those he rules know and feels the same way.
Excluding those on the left that would probably extoll him for king of the world.
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Quote: : Henneman I will post about him because the poor and disadvantaged in Venezuela,Cuba,Nicaragua and Boliva need to know Chavez as the scam artist for what he is.
But we should not make Chavez a CIA martyr either!
I see your point John and I stand by you.
Forgive me for speaking off the cuff.
Chavez just pisses me off.
I need to govern my passions.
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