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.
33 Responses to “Hugo Chavez: what the media are saying”
Mick
And because you keep inventing it, you always have plentiful supply!
Calm down dear. Lie back and think of Cameron.
Mick
‘Why would I take a lesson from an incompetent self-serving loser? ‘
Oh Newsbot, you do raise a laugh before bed. A loser who’s PM and had plenty of Treasury experience, unlike Newsbot. I would say people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, but I daresay Newsie hasn’t even got one of those.
And nice Anarchist insights from Newsbot – wanting the corrupt regime of Chavez gone means that I want to ban all parties I don’t like.
Newsbot9
So you’re for sexual harassment as well as chanting a mantra vs reality. The invention is yours.
Newsbot9
Ah yes, that’s why the economy is collapsing, it’s “experience”. And you’re then one trying to nuke the greenhouse.
And right, you want democratic parties gone. Thanks for admitting it!
Mick
You may want to harass poor David Cameron, the thought never came to the minds of anyone else.