70 Replies to “How Deep, Señor Chavez?”

  1. “Hugo Chávez, who transformed Venezuela from a deeply flawed democracy into a nearly flawless autocracy, is dead at 58.
    My thoughts on the way Fidel Castro shaped his political imagination are in The New Republic. My review of the way the chavista cult of personality warped Venezuela’s public sphere is in The Atlantic.”
    from Juan Cristobal Nagel writing at Caracas Chronicles…
    http://caracaschronicles.com/2013/03/05/hugo-chavez-is-dead/

  2. It will be interesting to see who seizes the nations oil wealth now. I’m guessing certain powerful interests who sell oil and have been salivating over the resources this clown was selling at super discount prices, will now buy themselves an “el presiente” to replace Chavez and put that oil on the markets at the “right” price. Yes, all is going to plan.
    Meanwhile back on the home front the zombie hordes will be hold midnight candle black masses bemoaning the loss of another commie tyrant then go home and turn up the thermostat to get the chill off, without thinking about the global energy war raging under their noses.

  3. From Gustavo Coronel, petroleum engineer and ex member of the board of directors of PDVSA
    “The official announcement of the death of Chavez is a relief for Venezuela. He had died some time ago. He destroyed most of the country, material and spiritually. It will take many years for Venezuela to recover from this nightmare.”
    http://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.ca

  4. The view from el Universal, the only real english translation of a national paper in Venezuela.
    http://www.eluniversal.com/eng_index.shtml
    “Seven day national mourning in Venezuela”
    “Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Elías Jaua declared on Tuesday a seven-day national mourning. Both classes at all education levels and activities in public institutions were suspended for three days, from 6-8 March.”

  5. I’m not so happy, the life of Chavez is over.
    Once again, we’ve witnessed the demise of freedoms within a country, the destroying of a national asset (the national oil company, PDVSA), the rewarding of mediocracy.
    Chavez is dead, but who pays for it? those left behind, with the horrifically flawed electorial process, a gutted manufacturing base (hundreds of companies taken over by the government, producing nothing) an agricultural sector that produces only a small percentage of food necessary within the country.
    It would have been more helpful to those that praise small government and liberty, if the country’s wealth had been completely lost. “Lost at sea” … Lost. and those remaining were able to pull the country up again and produce something they actually had to work for.
    Instead, Chavez is dead, and woe will be those remaining that face life without the guiding hand of Hugo. Those on the left, the Torstar / CBC idiocy will see what happened as what wasn’t able to be completed by Hugo, not what was destroyed.
    It would have been better, if Hugo’s legacy was a completely crashed country, summed up with the picture pasted around the globe of Hugo being dragged through the streets by his feet with the noose freshly broken.
    There’s a reason these tyrants are sometimes thrown into the sea. Their shrine, a broken country – rather than the mausoleum of marble for the leftists to cry on.
    …
    El Universal’s top 10 Chavez moments:
    http://www.eluniversal.com/nacional-y-politica/130223/14-years-of-corruption

  7. The Twitter feed from Alvaro Uribe… the President of Colombia for 8 of Hugo’s 14 years at the helm, and with whom they shared a great dislike for each other… ‎
    “A los designios de Dios respeto”. ALVARO URIBE VÉLEZ a través de su cuenta de Twitter.
    “Respect the designs of God”.

  9. Hogwash. If Chavez had succeeded in driving Venezuela as thoroughly into the ground as Robert Mugabe has Rhodesia, the press would have simply denied they ever spoke well of him, when they bothered to speak of him at all—which they would do as little as they could help.
    Exposing the international communist and Muslim conspiracies and their plans to destroy Christian civilization is not something mainstream journalists have ever done when they had a choice. Why should they? Christianity got in the way of their drinking sprees and committing disgusting acts in public bathrooms. When the plain people of Christendom are being hauled off in chains to be sold as slaves in Dubai, Team Torstar’s plan is to have cushy gigs at Al-Jazeera, reporting on trading volumes in the slave market, and trying not to laugh themselves sick at the sight of a Protestant slavewoman screaming in vain for mercy.

  10. There is a sadness which I feel, but not for the reasons which most will think.
    I am saddened that a leader of a nation that, no doubt, had the opportunity to hear the Good News of what Jesus did and went through so that Chavez wouldn’t have to get to Judgment Day and get his just reward. It is because of God’s righteous and true justice that this man who, in all likelihood, rejected the free gift of having his evil deeds (debt) already paid. Chavez only had to see and hear and follow. Instead he fill face eternal separation of the best and most brilliant relationship with the Godhead, the faithful angels and the ones who have accepted that gift forever.
    Jesus is by far the most disappointed person alive, to hear that Chavez had died…if he did not accept that gift.
    There are no tears in heaven…not sure how that can be after what was available and rejected…

  11. Dick Slater, I wasn’t thinking of Rhodesia, it was more of the Romanian end game at Christmas. No one sheds tears for the Ceausescu ruling couple.

  12. Just read this a few weeks back, thus the past post.
    Ezekiel 18:23
    New King James Version (NKJV)
    “Do I have any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?” says the Lord God, “and not that he should turn from his ways and live?”

  13. Nice to hear some good news once in a while. My preference would have been for him and his fellow commie goons to have been hoisted up like Mussolini, but this is almost as satisfying.
    Was talking to a psychiatrist last weekend about bipolar disorder and his opinion was that Saddam Hussein was clearly bipolar as was Gadaffi. The role of psychopathology in human history is quite significant when one looks at the grandiose highly energetic bipolar who becomes leader of a country. I think we can add Chavez to that list. That’s one of the reasons we have separation of powers in government so that a lunatic in one portion of the government can’t bring the whole system crashing down.
    Anyone who spends several hours/day giving speeches on Venezuelan TV has a psychiatric disorder whether it be hypomania or narcissistic personality disorder. Most likely hypomania with delusions of grandeur in his comparing himself to Simon Bolivar and thinking that people will be transfixed by his ranting for hours a day on TV. It saves the US having to invade Venezuela although I suspect that the country will likely continue its downward spiral given the degree of corruption that is endemic there now.
    The psychopathology of dictators is an interesting area and it would be nice if we had some treatment outcomes with pharmaceutical methods. Currently most treatments have involved application of large amounts of firepower and have significant side effects. Putting a grandiose hypomanic bipolar on a typical antipsychotic has a good chance of throwing them into a severe depressive state and would be an interesting experiment to try on a non-nuclear armed dictatorship.

  14. Harper’s response was proper, but Chretien’s was confusing: he liked the guy.

  16. CNN likewise had fauning memorial style comments
    Because he was the deer leader, doncha know.

  17. I reckon it’s better to be poor, fat and stupid than actually have to work your way thru life and gain a lil respect for the short time we are here. Of course now, free Hospitals, subdized grocery stores, 27 cents a gallon gas, a small check from the Gov’t. those folks ain’t gona be wanting any change. And Maduro has already stated he is no fan of Capitalism. Hmmm, seems like Obama has pretty much made that clear too.
    Well, either way, Another one bites the dust, Yeeeaaaaaa, uh uh uhuh.
    Break out the margaritas and crawfish, ‘heure d’obtenir bu’
    ;

  19. Apparently he was buried face-down so he could have a head start to his destination.

  20. All noise and rhetoric aside, it’ll be interesting to monitor the future of the Bolivarian movement without Chavez.
    His was a Tito-esque kind of rule for Venezuela: his political success lay in his popular personal appeal (and it was considerable, regardless of your opinion of him). But therein lay the weakness. Like Tito in Yugoslavia, I’m convinced Chavez’s personal monopoly of the political agenda of his country means a “Bolivarian Venezuela” probably won’t survive him very long: VP Maduro and the other hangers-on are no replacement for Chavez.
    Interesting times ahead.

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