Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez A Savior To America's Poor
Robert Paul Reyes
November 24, 2005
Venezuela's President, Hugo Chavez, is dismissed by the Bush administration as a communist seeking to destabilize Latin America.
Has President Chavez been a destabilizing force in Latin America? Sure, if you consider selling fuel on preferential terms to poor countries across Latin America an act of subversion.
Chavez is perceived as such a threat to American hegemony south of the border that Bush's evangelical lackey, Pat Robertson, called for his assassination.
To powerful and wealthy conservatives Chavez may be a communist bogeyman, but to the poor in this country he is regarded as a benevolent leader.
President Chavez won many friends in America with his plans to ship cheap heating oil to low-income people in New York and Massachusetts.
Oil shipments are due to reach tens of thousands families starting next month, and hospitals, homeless shelters and other facilities in poor communities will also be receiving oil at prices well below market value.
Chavez's critics in Venezuela and America call it a political stunt aimed at needling President Bush, but to poor residents in this country who have to decide whether to spend their hard-earned money on heating oil or food -- it's a magnanimous gesture.
What a tragic and pathetic state of affairs, when the poor in this country have to rely on a compassionate foreign leader for help in paying their heating bills.
President Chavez's generous gesture or publicity stunt, call it what you will, points out the utter failure of the Bush administration's to address the vexing problem of high oil prices.
This Thanksgiving, I'm sure the poor in New York and Massachusetts, are grateful for Chavez's generous socialism and dismissive of Bush's "compassionate conservatism."
Has President Chavez been a destabilizing force in Latin America? Sure, if you consider selling fuel on preferential terms to poor countries across Latin America an act of subversion.
Chavez is perceived as such a threat to American hegemony south of the border that Bush's evangelical lackey, Pat Robertson, called for his assassination.
To powerful and wealthy conservatives Chavez may be a communist bogeyman, but to the poor in this country he is regarded as a benevolent leader.
President Chavez won many friends in America with his plans to ship cheap heating oil to low-income people in New York and Massachusetts.
Oil shipments are due to reach tens of thousands families starting next month, and hospitals, homeless shelters and other facilities in poor communities will also be receiving oil at prices well below market value.
Chavez's critics in Venezuela and America call it a political stunt aimed at needling President Bush, but to poor residents in this country who have to decide whether to spend their hard-earned money on heating oil or food -- it's a magnanimous gesture.
What a tragic and pathetic state of affairs, when the poor in this country have to rely on a compassionate foreign leader for help in paying their heating bills.
President Chavez's generous gesture or publicity stunt, call it what you will, points out the utter failure of the Bush administration's to address the vexing problem of high oil prices.
This Thanksgiving, I'm sure the poor in New York and Massachusetts, are grateful for Chavez's generous socialism and dismissive of Bush's "compassionate conservatism."
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