Chavez says we need to "liberate" our own nation

[Terran1212]

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0429-11.htm

Published on Friday, April 29, 2005 by the Associated Press
Venezuelan President Says He Will Not Return to U.S. Until Americans "liberate" Their Nation
by Andrea Rodriguez

HAVANA - Declaring that U.S. citizens are oppressed by their own government, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez promised Friday that he would not visit the United States again until Americans "liberate" their nation.


Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (L) and his Cuban counterpart Fidel Castro (2nd R) laugh during an anti-Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) meeting in Havana April 28, 2005. The two leaders are seeking to build an alternative to the U.S.-backed FTAA, from which Cuba is excluded. Castro declared the FTAA dead and said the U.S. proposal for a single free-trade bloc of the Americas was an 'anexionist plan' aimed at plundering Latin American resources. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo

Chavez, in Havana for trade talks, told an international gathering of activists here that before an earlier trip to Cuba, a U.S. State Department undersecretary he did not identify warned him not to go because he would no longer be received in Washington.



"I have not returned, nor do I think about returning again, until the people of the United States liberate that nation," said Chavez, saying that Americans are "oppressed" by their government and U.S. media.

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[alittlelark]

1. I'm working on liberating us from corporate hegemony

and the theocratic plutocracy that we may already have devolved into.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

3. It is already upon us: the rest of the world knows it

Now if Americans would just get it.

[K-W]

2. We're trying. EOM

[Mojambo]

4. Not the first time I've agreed with him n/t

[BeHereNow]

5. This morningI heard a report about how Chavez

had suceeded in returning his country's profits
to THE PEOPLE.
They have recently experienced somethin like a 17% increase
in their economy!
NOW, if only the good 'murikkkans were educated enough to
understand that any economic increase in this county is being
enjoyed by the SMALLEST percentage of our corporate elite
population? (As in those invested in the defense industry, as in the BUSH
dynasty and his Cabal)
While the rest of us are being driven into poverty...
VIVA CHAVEZ!!!!
DUH-
BHN

[ladjf]

8. Also, there is a large increase in the minimum wage in

Venezuela. Chavez is sharing the profits with the poor who support him in return.

[Mika]

11. Same in Cuba, where the minimum wage was recently doubled

Thread on that subject here,

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1413059








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[Freedom_from_Chains]

15. Did you also see his statement where he says

He will not have anything to do with America until the American people liberate themselves?

The rest of the world seems to get it, why can't we?

[sarcasmo]

6. Let the Chavez death watch begin. Speaking the truth gets you killed.

Chavez is the smartest President in the World but King pickle nose won't stand for speaking the truth. Look for a CIA style over throw in Venezuela.

[K-W]

7. Hopefully Chavez has learned from his predeccessors

and wont be so easy to dispatch. Its tough though, Saddam had it easy. Central America is our turf.

[PowerToThePeople]

9. my prayers go out to Chavez

May the world wake up to the humanity of the socialist system.

[cprise]

10. Maybe your handle should be 'cynic'

[Terran1212]

12. Their military is incredibly well-armed

and ours is "bogged down" in the ME. I think he should be able to survive more coup attempts like in 2002, too. Or at least I hope. It's not often you get a leader that cares about the poor.

[K-W]

14. One hardly needs to be cynical to know that the US kills leftist leaders

in latin america if it sees them as a threat to the order of things.

[Cha]

13. Thanks Chavez for getting a

burr under us~!

Bonzai..Chavez has hit the nail and sees from outside our Country what DUers have been writing about for years.