and they have received quite a few perks, like free medical attention –albeit not always the best– and basic education

You have FREE education and FREE medical attention in the US, since when. The Free medical attention is the BEST. It's from Cuba, the very best. More doctors per head of population than any country in the world. There are FREE medical centres now in every population centre in Venezuela. They barter oil for medical expertise with Cuba. No dollars.

I will be only too happy to help with any other information on Hugo. You do know that he is chief negotiator at present in a peace deal between FACH and the last US friend i...

and they have received quite a few perks, like free medical attention –albeit not always the best– and basic education

You have FREE education and FREE medical attention in the US, since when. The Free medical attention is the BEST. It's from Cuba, the very best. More doctors per head of population than any country in the world. There are FREE medical centres now in every population centre in Venezuela. They barter oil for medical expertise with Cuba. No dollars.

I will be only too happy to help with any other information on Hugo. You do know that he is chief negotiator at present in a peace deal between FACH and the last US friend in South America for now, Columbia.

Hugo has a backbone as strong as the Andes and he did served HIS country. He didn't skunk in a bar while his comrades fought in Vietnam. Remember too that racism is at the heart of Hugo's problem.

I'd really like to respond to your post, Righthand, but that's impossible since what you had to say is largely incoherent. Did you bother to read and think about the original source clipped before launching into your tirade? You begin by talking about health care in the US, but neither the clip nor original source says anything about US health care. Near the end you refer to a skunk in a bar during the Vietnam war. I have no idea what that's about either. You close by inferring that anyone who disagrees with Hugo Chávez is guilty of racism. By your ridiculous standard, I suppose that any non-Caucasian disagreeing with George Bush is also racist.

I don't mind you disagreeing with my cl...

I'd really like to respond to your post, Righthand, but that's impossible since what you had to say is largely incoherent. Did you bother to read and think about the original source clipped before launching into your tirade? You begin by talking about health care in the US, but neither the clip nor original source says anything about US health care. Near the end you refer to a skunk in a bar during the Vietnam war. I have no idea what that's about either. You close by inferring that anyone who disagrees with Hugo Chávez is guilty of racism. By your ridiculous standard, I suppose that any non-Caucasian disagreeing with George Bush is also racist.

I don't mind you disagreeing with my clip, Righthand, but how can you expect anyone to give any credibility to what you have to say when all you offer is what seems to be a stream of consciousness diatribe that only vaguely has anything to do with the original clip? Slow down, think and present a logical argument.

$50 a barrel OIL Deal on Offer DECLINED !!! Good deal now?

Guardian
April 2006


Chávez’s Plan for Development Bank Moves Ahead
New York Times
today Oct 22 2007

"Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela
— signed off on the idea of creating an institution with up to $7
billion in initial capital, ...

$50 a barrel OIL Deal on Offer DECLINED !!! Good deal now?

Guardian
April 2006


Chávez’s Plan for Development Bank Moves Ahead
New York Times
today Oct 22 2007

"Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela
— signed off on the idea of creating an institution with up to $7
billion in initial capital, paving the way for the bank to begin
operating as early as 2008.

"An eighth country, Colombia, said earlier this month that it wanted to be included as well. Colombia’s president, Álvaro Uribe,
said his country would join the new bank as long as it was an
“expression of solidarity and brotherhood,” and not a
rejection of the international lending institutions."

translated as "F--- Bush"