It was a huge loss for Venezuela, and for the world. I'd forgotten how it would've been a loss that you felt, personally... Thank you for reminding me...
Yes. They almost certainly gave him CIA cancer - just like they did with Bob Marley. With every light to the world that they extinguish, it becomes a much darker place.
It's amazing how well President Maduro has endured and fared. Their plans didn't anticipate his strength, or that of the Venezuelan people. Viva Chavez! Viva la revolucion Bolivariana!
Just watched a documentary about Bob Marley and thought the cancer in the toe thing was pretty strange. I think you're right that they gave it to both Chavez and Marley. And plenty of others too.
I recommend a book by Alex Constantine, called "The Covert War Against Rock", published by Feral House. That one is covered. Apparently there was a gifted pair of Nikes, with a source of injury included (some kind of sharp copper wire) that was likely coated in whatever causes a cancer like that.
During my involuntary exile in Uruguay, a number of things made themselves apparent. The first one is the continuing grief for Hugo Chavez. The second one is the admiration of the endurance of Nícolas Maduro. The third, is the immeasurable disappointment about Pepe Mujica. Of all the Venezuelanos I met, the majority was talking ill about their own country and their presidents. I was painfully reminded of Cubans that live in Miami. However, the one grief that refuses to leave my soul, is the grief about the lies that saturate societies in Southern America - coming from a cabal of psychopaths that are as evil as they are criminally corrupt. As a matter of fact, the system is so rotten now, that humanity stands little chance to overcome its chokehold by unelected officials, paper clip bureaucrats and completely deranged billionaires everywhere.
The one quote I will forever remember, is from Hugo Chavez, speaking after George W. Bush at the United Nations in New York: "It smells like sulfur here." ("Olfió sulfúro." - as far as I remember, but my memory has suffered badly since Uruguay from the bio-weapon).
In the end, each member of the so called 'majority' (rigging aside), that has voted for the policies devised in the West since 1945, will have to answer for the support of violence, mass murder, war crimes and crimes against humanity - all of which are contained in the murder of those who bear the light, hold up the truth over the lies of corrupted souls and those who already sold their's to the original sulfur smelling entity.
Vaya con paz Hugo Chavez. I didn't become aware of him really until 2009, as a result of yet another Us coup attempt that year, I think? And the constant slanders spewed by US media. He was a hero of mine too (I think I've said that). Amazing and wonderful you got to meet and talk to him!
And yeah, what would the world be like now if he had lived? I think Maduro, given the constant economic and slanderous assaults on Venezuela from the US (with puppet juan guaido as a particularly farcical episode), is doing pretty well. And he certainly is making the right noises about the zionist entity. But Chavez was one of a kind.
My favorite memory from law school was going to the Venezuelan Embassy to watch The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. That was such an awesome event. The film was great, but to see it there and be able to participate in the cheering was so incredible. So wonderful to be around like-minded people. The second time I went to the Venezuelan Embassy was to sign the condolence book when Comrade Hugo died. My husband and I both went to pay our respects. Such a great loss for so many.
Great tribute, Cindy, and well deserved! I regularly bought CITGO gas as my direct support, but now that entire company was kidnapped by the forces of imperialism.
We had our Chavez once. FDR solved all problems that could be solved with politics, and rebuilt the country and the economy from Wall Street's scorched earth. His reforms lasted, gradually fading, until Nixon smashed the country again to serve Wall Street. FDR was loved in the same way as Chavez. Now his memory is defiled and betrayed by the evil "Green New Deal", which is just Nixon relabeled.
Chavez was literally born in a shack with dirt floors.
He didn't come from the "elite" (in fact, he called them, the Squalids--like my Garbage People) and he definitely wasn't trying to save those squalid ones.
Some of the worst repeals of FDR policies happened during Clinton Administration, and he signed them all. Gramm-Leach-Bliley, in 1999 effectively repealed key components of the Glass-Steagall Act. Telecommunications Act of 1996 was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on February 8, 1996, and it brought about substantial changes to telecommunications regulation. NAFTA legislation signed by Clinton was not directly a repeal of FDR policies, but for all intents and purposes destroyed much of the labor union progress due to FDR policies. https://truthout.org/articles/democracy-in-peril-twenty-years-of-media-consolidation-under-the-telecommunications-act/
Clinton, both of them, actually, are profoundly evil. It was Clinton who gave us the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act. Evil, evil legislation.
I wasn't alive, then - so my perspectives are all influenced by others. And I certainly don't spend much time trashing FDR... BUT, we tend to deify him and turn him into an icon that I don't believe he really was... Certainly he was in the same position as all Presidents - effectively handcuffed by the Federal Reserve and the courts and Congress, in many ways...
But I am aware of some serious failures of his, in office. For instance, in response to the collapse of the financial system in the early 1930's, he allowed the American people to become collateralized, in order to bail-out the bankruptcy of the Federal Government. That's an enduring response, to a temporary problem, that effectively enslaved the people, in perpetuity, to a debauched currency and financial scheme.
Additionally, while he regulated commerce, often in laudable ways, his was an aristocratic reformist approach, that essentially short-circuited the potential for more revolutionary and far-reaching change. And he did this at a time when large swathes of the population were far more radical and progressive, than they ever had or have been, before or since.
I recall a news item about Chavez subsidizing heating oil for income-strapped Americans in the Northeast during the Winter of 2003 or 2004, if memory serves, which was an extraordinarly bold and imaginative thing to do, when Señor Peligro still thought he was the "Lord of the Universe."
It was a huge loss for Venezuela, and for the world. I'd forgotten how it would've been a loss that you felt, personally... Thank you for reminding me...
Yes. They almost certainly gave him CIA cancer - just like they did with Bob Marley. With every light to the world that they extinguish, it becomes a much darker place.
It's amazing how well President Maduro has endured and fared. Their plans didn't anticipate his strength, or that of the Venezuelan people. Viva Chavez! Viva la revolucion Bolivariana!
Just watched a documentary about Bob Marley and thought the cancer in the toe thing was pretty strange. I think you're right that they gave it to both Chavez and Marley. And plenty of others too.
Like Frank Church, perhaps who led that investigation into the CIA in the mid 70s?
Now that you mention it, I bet he was one of them too.
I recommend a book by Alex Constantine, called "The Covert War Against Rock", published by Feral House. That one is covered. Apparently there was a gifted pair of Nikes, with a source of injury included (some kind of sharp copper wire) that was likely coated in whatever causes a cancer like that.
I would recommend Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippy Dream
by David McGowan
Thanks for that recommendation. No doubt John Lennon is in it too.
During my involuntary exile in Uruguay, a number of things made themselves apparent. The first one is the continuing grief for Hugo Chavez. The second one is the admiration of the endurance of Nícolas Maduro. The third, is the immeasurable disappointment about Pepe Mujica. Of all the Venezuelanos I met, the majority was talking ill about their own country and their presidents. I was painfully reminded of Cubans that live in Miami. However, the one grief that refuses to leave my soul, is the grief about the lies that saturate societies in Southern America - coming from a cabal of psychopaths that are as evil as they are criminally corrupt. As a matter of fact, the system is so rotten now, that humanity stands little chance to overcome its chokehold by unelected officials, paper clip bureaucrats and completely deranged billionaires everywhere.
The one quote I will forever remember, is from Hugo Chavez, speaking after George W. Bush at the United Nations in New York: "It smells like sulfur here." ("Olfió sulfúro." - as far as I remember, but my memory has suffered badly since Uruguay from the bio-weapon).
In the end, each member of the so called 'majority' (rigging aside), that has voted for the policies devised in the West since 1945, will have to answer for the support of violence, mass murder, war crimes and crimes against humanity - all of which are contained in the murder of those who bear the light, hold up the truth over the lies of corrupted souls and those who already sold their's to the original sulfur smelling entity.
Viva la verdad. Viva la revolucíon.
Vaya con paz Hugo Chavez. I didn't become aware of him really until 2009, as a result of yet another Us coup attempt that year, I think? And the constant slanders spewed by US media. He was a hero of mine too (I think I've said that). Amazing and wonderful you got to meet and talk to him!
And yeah, what would the world be like now if he had lived? I think Maduro, given the constant economic and slanderous assaults on Venezuela from the US (with puppet juan guaido as a particularly farcical episode), is doing pretty well. And he certainly is making the right noises about the zionist entity. But Chavez was one of a kind.
My favorite memory from law school was going to the Venezuelan Embassy to watch The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. That was such an awesome event. The film was great, but to see it there and be able to participate in the cheering was so incredible. So wonderful to be around like-minded people. The second time I went to the Venezuelan Embassy was to sign the condolence book when Comrade Hugo died. My husband and I both went to pay our respects. Such a great loss for so many.
Great tribute, Cindy, and well deserved! I regularly bought CITGO gas as my direct support, but now that entire company was kidnapped by the forces of imperialism.
It was indeed a very sad day. And most certainly it was a suspicious case of cancer.
We had our Chavez once. FDR solved all problems that could be solved with politics, and rebuilt the country and the economy from Wall Street's scorched earth. His reforms lasted, gradually fading, until Nixon smashed the country again to serve Wall Street. FDR was loved in the same way as Chavez. Now his memory is defiled and betrayed by the evil "Green New Deal", which is just Nixon relabeled.
Chavez was literally born in a shack with dirt floors.
He didn't come from the "elite" (in fact, he called them, the Squalids--like my Garbage People) and he definitely wasn't trying to save those squalid ones.
Some of the worst repeals of FDR policies happened during Clinton Administration, and he signed them all. Gramm-Leach-Bliley, in 1999 effectively repealed key components of the Glass-Steagall Act. Telecommunications Act of 1996 was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on February 8, 1996, and it brought about substantial changes to telecommunications regulation. NAFTA legislation signed by Clinton was not directly a repeal of FDR policies, but for all intents and purposes destroyed much of the labor union progress due to FDR policies. https://truthout.org/articles/democracy-in-peril-twenty-years-of-media-consolidation-under-the-telecommunications-act/
Clinton, both of them, actually, are profoundly evil. It was Clinton who gave us the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act. Evil, evil legislation.
I wasn't alive, then - so my perspectives are all influenced by others. And I certainly don't spend much time trashing FDR... BUT, we tend to deify him and turn him into an icon that I don't believe he really was... Certainly he was in the same position as all Presidents - effectively handcuffed by the Federal Reserve and the courts and Congress, in many ways...
But I am aware of some serious failures of his, in office. For instance, in response to the collapse of the financial system in the early 1930's, he allowed the American people to become collateralized, in order to bail-out the bankruptcy of the Federal Government. That's an enduring response, to a temporary problem, that effectively enslaved the people, in perpetuity, to a debauched currency and financial scheme.
Additionally, while he regulated commerce, often in laudable ways, his was an aristocratic reformist approach, that essentially short-circuited the potential for more revolutionary and far-reaching change. And he did this at a time when large swathes of the population were far more radical and progressive, than they ever had or have been, before or since.
I think he was quoted as saying that the New Deal had to be passed to "save capitalism" from the growing socialist movement...
I recall a news item about Chavez subsidizing heating oil for income-strapped Americans in the Northeast during the Winter of 2003 or 2004, if memory serves, which was an extraordinarly bold and imaginative thing to do, when Señor Peligro still thought he was the "Lord of the Universe."
One of the Kennedys who was in Congress at the time reached out to all the oil companies to do this and CITGO was the only one which did.