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Why do we say "viva" when we want someone to live, and "viva" after they have died? I guess I've always just chalked it up to wanting them physically hale forever, and then wanting their memory or spirit to live on. And, oh, crap, do I ever want that! But I'm still too killed to investigate much. Seems to me the few people I have attempted to listen to on the subject are not connecting with the weight of the catastrophe here.
I am remembering when it first dawned on me that this guy was really as wonderful as we could hardly dream for a president in South America—hell, anywhere—to be. I was filled with images of applying to him to be his body guard and security advisor. Kept seeing myself flying into his office and overcoming even language to convince him he needed me.
I loved him. The world could have lost fifty other presidents yesterday and not suffered this size loss, and I cannot describe my loathing for the SLINKING SLIMEBALLS slithering around trying to ruin his work. There isn't a word vile enough to cover it.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad paid tribute to late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez on Wednesday and hailed his close ally for “serving the people of Venezuela and defending human and revolutionary values.” In a message of condolences to Venezuelan Vice-President Nicolas Maduro, Ahmadinejad said the former leader “finally died from a suspicious illness.” The Iranian president also said Chavez “will return, along with the righteous Jesus and the perfect human.”...
Washington conspired for years to oust Chavez. He believed America wanted him dead....
He once said "If they kill me, there will be a really guilty party on this planet whose name is the president of the United States."
He had Bush in mind. He knew Obama's no different.
"I will not hide," he said. "I'm going in the streets with you. I entrust myself to God, but I know that I have been condemned to die."
Castro also named America earlier. "If Chavez is assassinated," he said, "the blame will fall on Bush. I say that as someone who has survived hundreds of the empire's (venal) plans."
Obama exceeds the worst of Bush. Perhaps he marked Chavez for death. It wouldn't surprise.
He's a war criminal multiple times over. He's guilty of high crimes. He's waging war on humanity. He's beholden to monied interests. They own him.
In 2011, Chavez suggested Washington's responsibility for a "very strange" bout of cancer. It affected Latin American leaders.
Argentina’s Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's thyroid cancer was confirmed.
Former Brazilian President Lula Da Silva had throat cancer. Current President Dilma Rousseff battled axillar lymphoma.
Others affected included Colombia's Juan Manuel Santos (prostate cancer), and Paraguay's Fernando Lugo (lymphatic cancer).
Last June, Washington's dirty hands ousted [Lugo]. A parliamentary coup replaced him. America targets all independent leaders.
Since taking office, Chavez knew what he faced. He survived an aborted April 2002 two-day coup, a 2002-03 general strike and oil management lockout, and failed August 2004 recall election.
Cancer accomplished what other strategies failed. Chavez said earlier:
"Would it be so strange that they've invented the technology to spread cancer and we won't know about it for 50 years?"
"Fidel always told me (to) take care. These people have developed technologies," he said.
"Take care what you eat, what they give you to eat. They inject you with I don't know what."
DR. MARY'S MONKEY: How the Unsolved Murder of a Doctor, a Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Monkey Viruses are Linked to Lee Harvey Oswald.
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"He [Chavez] gives them bread and bricks, so they vote for him, of course." She was disgusted by "them," the 80% of Venezuelans who are negro e indio (Black and Indian) — and poor. Chavez, himself negro e indio, had, for the first time in Venezuela's history, shifted the oil wealth from the privileged class that called themselves "Spanish," to the dark-skinned masses. ......
But then came Hugo Chavez, and now the poor in his neighborhood, he said, "get medical attention, free operations, x-rays, medicines; education also. People who never knew how to write now know how to sign their own papers."
Chavez' Robin Hood thing, shifting oil money from the rich to the poor, would have been grudgingly tolerated by the US. But Chavez, who told me, "We are no longer an oil colony," went further… too much further, in the eyes of the American corporate elite.
Venezuela had landless citizens by the millions – and unused land by the millions of acres tied up, untilled, on which a tiny elite of plantation owners squatted. Chavez' congress passed in a law in 2001 requiring untilled land to be sold to the landless. It was a program long promised by Venezuela's politicians at the urging of John F. Kennedy as part of his "Alliance for Progress."
Plantation owner Heinz Corporation didn't like that one bit. In retaliation, Heinz closed its ketchup plant in the state of Maturin and fired all the workers. Chavez seized Heinz' plant and put the workers back on the job. Chavez didn't realize that he'd just squeezed the tomatoes of America's powerful Heinz family and Mrs. Heinz' husband, Senator John Kerry, now U.S. Secretary of State.
Or, knowing Chavez as I do, he didn't give a damn.
CEMETERY, CEMETERY, GIVE US CHAVEZ BACK!
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