Chavez: No one Can Halt Cuban/Venezuelan Advancement - Political Fever

Comrade Joe · #1 (**permalink**) 06-19-2008, 10:01 AM

Fate dictates that the empire will lose in the battle for ideas. I suspect Cuba and Venezuela will be at te front of this victory for the people of the world. The warm words towards Fidel are humble but fitting. At this moment i am reminded of the words of George Galloway MP, "He's already a legend and he's already lit a path which others are following.....you can't get elected now in Latin America unless you are a friend of Fidel and an opponent of George Bush"

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Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez Frías said today that the revolutions in Cuba and his country are successfully moving forward and affirmed that this triumphant advance will not be halted by Yankee imperialism.

The Cuban Revolution will soon be celebrating its 50th anniversary and the Bolivarian its 10th and, whatever the initiatives of U.S. imperialism may be, we will continue to defeat them, declared the president on his arrival in this capital for a working visit with the Cuban government.

Chávez spoke at length with journalists after being received by Carlos Lage, vice president of the Council of State and secretary of the executive committee of the Council of Ministers, and by Felipe Pérez Roque, minister for foreign relations.

“How wonderful to be in Havana!” were his first words on arriving at the José Martí International Airport, after which he recalled that on a day such as this in 1954, violence consumed the Guatemala of President Jacobo Arbenz.

Dressed in an olive green jacket, black trousers and red T-shirt, the Bolivarian leader specified that Ernesto Che Guevara had been there at the time, while Fidel Castro was imprisoned for the events at the Moncada garrison and he (Chávez) was about to be born.

The revolutions in Latin America have been thus, they have been one and the same, started by Simón Bolívar and José Martí, and continuing with Fidel and Che, he said.

Fidel is the father of all Latin American revolutionaries, he affirmed.

Chávez commented that his second trip to Cuba this year is for the purpose of reviewing the state of bilateral relations with Raúl, Fidel and the executive of the Cuban government, as well as discussing the current world situation.

“Some days ago, I received a note from Fidel in which he referred to the worsening of the energy, food and financial crisis throughout the world,” Chávez said, “as well as the increase of poverty, famine and other critical situations caused by climate change and other threats.

“Fidel calls this situation the mother of all crisis and, in short, is a crisis of ideas, of governments, of the model, of capitalism in general; we’re going to discuss all of this,” stated the president.

Asked by journalists about the possibility of a U.S. base being installed in Colombia, Chávez declared that the administration in Washington has an imperialist strategy that continues to threaten the peoples of the continent.

He explained that there are right now aircraft, ships and troops at a base in Curacao, as well as at the Manta base within Ecuadorian territory, but that whatever actions the U.S. takes, it will be defeated.

“We will celebrate 50 years of the Cuban revolution with life, with victory, growth and expansion of this process,”.......

He spoke of the visit he made to Santiago de Cuba this past December and how, upon seeing the sea of people who came out to greet him and Raúl, he had said, “Now, more than ever, this Revolution is alive.”

He likewise commented that the Bolivarian revolution has its “flags waving and drums beating” after having suffered the coup d’état, sabotage of the oil industry and other acts of aggression and attacks by the imperialists and their oligarchic lackeys........

Chávez asked reporters where the Bolivarian revolution would be without the Cuban revolution and stated that the struggle in his country had benefited from the experience, the generosity and the spirit offered by Fidel and the Cuban people.

granma.cu -Chávez: No one can halt the triumphant advance of Cuba and Venezuela

Donkey Jote · #2 (**permalink**) 06-19-2008, 12:41 PM

Honestly I find Chavez a bit of a bore.

Correa, for example, is much more exciting.

Comrade Joe · #3 (**permalink**) 06-19-2008, 12:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Donkey Jote

Honestly I find Chavez a bit of a bore.

Correa, for example, is much more exciting.

I like Correa, but more exciting than Chavez ? That's pushing it quite a bit.

Donkey Jote · #4 (**permalink**) 06-19-2008, 01:01 PM

As far as flamboyance and rhetoric? naw, certainly not. As far as gettin' sht done, yeah.

Bourne · #5 (**permalink**) 06-19-2008, 04:05 PM

Someone needs to remind Chavez that Venezuela's economy is in trouble. Chavez should shut his mouth and get to work fixing what he broke.

Donkey Jote · #6 (**permalink**) 06-19-2008, 04:08 PM

Oh. You're back.

Bourne · #7 (**permalink**) 06-19-2008, 04:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Donkey Jote

Oh. You're back.

Miss me?

Donkey Jote · #8 (**permalink**) 06-19-2008, 04:15 PM

Nope.

Comrade Joe · #9 (**permalink**) 06-19-2008, 04:58 PM

18 succesive quarters of growth equates trouble ???

Bourne · #10 (**permalink**) 06-19-2008, 05:34 PM

Hugo is having some serious problems.

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Rengifo's predicament is a symbol of the warped economics that have taken root in Venezuela. The price of oil has more than doubled in the past year, but that has not put food on the table. Price-controlled staples are often in short supply. Beef production declined last year even as consumer demand soared.

Venezuelans are buying new cars as investments. A black market in the country's currency is thriving. Inflation hit an annualized 29 percent in April. And rents in the upper-middle-class neighborhoods of Caracas have climbed to New York levels - as much as $4,000 a month for a two-bedroom apartment.

Smoked salmon and French wines show up on store shelves, yet Chávez found it necessary to order Petróleos de Venezuela, the state-owned oil company, to form a unit that distributes beans and rice.

"Venezuela is a place of paradox right now, the paradox of plenty," said, Leopoldo López, 37, the U.S.-educated mayor of the Caracas borough of Chacao and leader of the opposition party Un Nuevo Tiempo. "There's plenty of oil, and plenty of dollars coming in from the oil industry, but we don't have enough food."

The shortages are cutting into Chávez's once-unassailable public support. His popularity rating, measured by the polling firm Datanalisis in Caracas, fell to 51.8 percent in February from 75.4 percent in June 2006. About 71 percent of Venezuelans said they disapproved of how the president had managed the food supply, up from about 38 percent in October.

Chavezs mixed blessing for Venezuelan economy - International Herald Tribune

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Were Mr Chávez the all-powerful dictator some of his critics paint him as, he might well have ignored the protests. But despite his past as a failed coup-leader, he is constrained by the need to operate within the bounds of a democracy, albeit an imperfect one. On November 23rd he will face a fresh electoral test, when the country votes for new state governors and mayors.

Amidst an economic slowdown, annual inflation of around 30% and an unprecedented crime-wave, his prospects of avoiding another humiliating defeat look slim. A new drubbing at the polls would be likely to dash any hope of reviving his plan to evade the constitutional ban on his re-election in 2012. A reaffirmation of the expiry date of his presidency would, in its turn, fire the starting gun of the race to succeed him, thereby further undermining his authority.

Hugo Chvez | Master tactician or failing bungler? | Economist.com

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Venezuela has enjoyed high economic growth for several years fuelled by skyrocketing oil prices and high public expenditures on social programs that benefit the country’s poor. However, Venezuela closed 2007 with 22.5% inflation, accompanied by a rapidly devaluation of the country’s currency, the bolivar, on the black-market.

Anti-inflationary policies introduced by the government have cut into consumer demand, causing the economy to decelerate.

Since January, the government has issued dollar-denominated local debt bonds to soak up excess liquidity in the economy that is present due to foreign exchange controls designed to prevent capital flight.

The measure has helped to strengthen the non-official rate for bolivars, from almost 7 to the dollar in December to about 3.1 per dollar in May. The bolivar officially trades at 2.15 to the dollar.

Minister El Troudi denied a plan to introduce a dual rate, which would allow essential imports like food and medicine to be purchased at the current price, while luxury good would be purchased at a devalued rate.

Other anti-inflationary measures include a reduction of government spending and an increase in imports to ease food shortages that were driving up prices.

Venezuelan Economy Grows for 18th Consecutive Quarter | venezuelanalysis.com

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