Hugo Chavez, a real hero!!!
https://nypost.com/2019/12/14/how-the-rich-and-famous-profess-sympathy-for-left-wing-sociopaths/
The Rev. Jesse Jackson visited the embassy to deliver food to the occupiers and declared that the anti-Maduro protestors “were trying to starve them out” — utterly oblivious to the irony of his remark. (Because of Maduro’s corruption and Socialist policies, 90 percent of Venezuelans lack adequate food and, according to an interview-based study, the average citizen lost over 20 pounds in 2017.) When the billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson organized a charity concert in a Colombian border city besieged with Venezuelan refugees, his fellow Brit Roger Waters protested that, “It has nothing to do with humanitarian aid at all. It has to do with Richard Branson . . . having bought the US saying, ‘We have decided to take over Venezuela, for whatever our reasons may be.’ ”
The former Pink Floyd member insists there is “no mayhem, no murder, no apparent dictatorship” in Venezuela, even though the country’s own official statistics list its homicide rate as among the highest in the world.
The sympathy expressed for these south of the border sociopaths is particularly perverse coming from the fabulously rich and famous. Upon Chavez’s death, Sean Penn lamented that “today the people of the United States lost a friend it [sic] never knew it had,” adding that “poor people around the world lost a champion.” Indeed, Chavez loved poor people so much, his policies created millions more of them. Today, nearly 90 percent of Venezuelans live in poverty, more than double the figure before Chavez came to power.
Danny Glover commemorated the death of Chavez (“a true man of the people”) at a massive 2014 rally in Caracas, hailing “his vision of a participatory democracy, one involving all citizens.” Glover’s fellow thespians Jamie Foxx and Lukas Haas smiled and posed for photographs with Maduro in 2016, a visit that earned them a harsh rebuke from world chess champion and Russian human-rights activist Garry Kasparov, who accused the pair of putting their “financial interests” before basic decency. Director Oliver Stone made two worshipful documentaries about Chavez. “I mourn a great hero to the majority of his people and those who struggle throughout the world for a place . . . Hated by the entrenched classes, Hugo Chavez will live forever in history.”
Yes, forever as an abject lesson in how not to run a country.
https://nypost.com/2019/12/14/how-the-rich-and-famous-profess-sympathy-for-left-wing-sociopaths/
The Rev. Jesse Jackson visited the embassy to deliver food to the occupiers and declared that the anti-Maduro protestors “were trying to starve them out” — utterly oblivious to the irony of his remark. (Because of Maduro’s corruption and Socialist policies, 90 percent of Venezuelans lack adequate food and, according to an interview-based study, the average citizen lost over 20 pounds in 2017.) When the billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson organized a charity concert in a Colombian border city besieged with Venezuelan refugees, his fellow Brit Roger Waters protested that, “It has nothing to do with humanitarian aid at all. It has to do with Richard Branson . . . having bought the US saying, ‘We have decided to take over Venezuela, for whatever our reasons may be.’ ”
The former Pink Floyd member insists there is “no mayhem, no murder, no apparent dictatorship” in Venezuela, even though the country’s own official statistics list its homicide rate as among the highest in the world.
The sympathy expressed for these south of the border sociopaths is particularly perverse coming from the fabulously rich and famous. Upon Chavez’s death, Sean Penn lamented that “today the people of the United States lost a friend it [sic] never knew it had,” adding that “poor people around the world lost a champion.” Indeed, Chavez loved poor people so much, his policies created millions more of them. Today, nearly 90 percent of Venezuelans live in poverty, more than double the figure before Chavez came to power.
Danny Glover commemorated the death of Chavez (“a true man of the people”) at a massive 2014 rally in Caracas, hailing “his vision of a participatory democracy, one involving all citizens.” Glover’s fellow thespians Jamie Foxx and Lukas Haas smiled and posed for photographs with Maduro in 2016, a visit that earned them a harsh rebuke from world chess champion and Russian human-rights activist Garry Kasparov, who accused the pair of putting their “financial interests” before basic decency. Director Oliver Stone made two worshipful documentaries about Chavez. “I mourn a great hero to the majority of his people and those who struggle throughout the world for a place . . . Hated by the entrenched classes, Hugo Chavez will live forever in history.”
Yes, forever as an abject lesson in how not to run a country.
