Hugo Chavez: what the media are saying

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Left Foot Forward looks at the media's reaction to the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

Left Foot Forward looks at the media’s reaction to the death of Hugo Chavez

The death of Hugo Chavez is “a body blow for the poor and the oppressed, throughout Latin America and the wider world”, writes George Galloway in today’s Independent.

Meanwhile, fellow Independent Voices writer Owen Jones has penned an article claiming that Hugo Chavez “demonstrated that it is possible to resist the neo-liberal dogma that holds sway over much of humanity”.

The BBC reports that Hugo Chavez has left the Venezuelan economy in a muddle. “So every Venezuelan now has a more equal slice of the cake. The trouble is, that cake has not been getting much bigger.”

“In the ranking of dictators, Hugo Chávez is in the welterweight class,” writes David Pryce-Jones in the Spectator.

The death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has given “free rein to fears that Cuba will plunge into an economic abyss again if Caracas halts its subsidies estimated at well above the massive aid that the Soviet Union once provided to Havana”, reports the Miami Herald.

According to the editorial of the same paper, Hugo Chávez leaves behind “a country in far worse condition than it was when he became president, its future clouded by rivals for succession in a constitutional crisis of his Bolivarian party’s making and an economy in chaos”.

“Hugo Chávez strikes me as a familiar type of Latin American caudillo whose career would probably end in tears – his own or other people’s,” writes Michael White in the Guardian.

“With the death of Hugo Chavez, Cuba also lost the longed for great political leader after the slow public demise of Fidel Castro,” reports Isaac Risco in Cuba’s Havana Times.

State-run Islamic Republic of Iran News Network TV said Chavez was “a stubborn enemy of American imperialism in Latin America.”

Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz says that Chavez’s foreign policy was “one big provocation”.

Earlier today we looked at the mixed legacy Chavez leaves behind.

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33 Responses to “Hugo Chavez: what the media are saying”

  1. Newsbot9

    As I said, you’re making excuses for a criminal, then attempting to deny it. And right, some right wing LibDems are in trouble…that reflects on your right.

    And of course you’d welcome fellow trolls here, to back you up.

  2. Newsbot9

    No, your single-state plan is YOURS. Even Chavez’s opponents admit that his elections was free and fair, and international organisations have certified them as such. The words “free and fair” are the ones you fear and hate, because they can lead to people with Unapproved Views being elected!

  3. Mick

    And the Left are lower than Griffin – they lie and glorify their disgusting heroes, as this link in the sidebar proves:

    “Best of the web

    Don’t forget there’s a dark side to Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela – James Bloodworth, The Independent”

    The Left need to be REMINDED their evil peers have a ‘dark side’. How laughably sick is that?!

  4. Mick

    Like in Zimbabwe, the ‘opposition’ say what they have to to remain safe. And rigged elections have been proved by academics there:

    http://www.vcrisis.com/index.php?content=letters/200702221623

    Plus Bloomberg have a say, praising Chavez’s corrupt rule as a good ‘Third Way elected autocrat’ regime, much like the Soviet Union! (Yup, they said that.): http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-09/chavez-s-win-proves-elected-autocrat-isn-t-an-oxymoron.html

    And finally, as you say the Left may not win an election now, it just proves what a busted flush Chavez and his socialists actually would have been with real democracy.

    But then, being an anarchist, you have sympathy with people who can’t win legitimately. Which is why there’s no so much violence with your lot. Pity poor Newsbot.

  5. Newsbot9

    Your support for a criminal? Sick. Keep calling anyone not your sort of criminal disgusting!

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