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Venezuela's Chavez dies, officials call for unity [Miami station paints Chavez as statesman]
WSVN-TV ^ | 3/5/13

Posted on 03/06/2013 2:05:40 AM PST by SoFloFreeper

Some in anguish, some in fear, Venezuelans raced for home on Tuesday after the government announced the death of President Hugo Chavez, the firebrand socialist who led the nation for 14 years.

Vice President Nicolas Maduro's voice broke and tears ran down his face as he appeared on national television to announce that Chavez died at 4:25 p.m. local time (3:55 p.m EST; 1755 GMT) "after battling hard against an illness over nearly two years."

(Excerpt) Read more at wsvn.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: bias; dictator; media; totalitarian
Get a load of the graphics....the murderous dictator is portrayed as a military hero, tall and proud and saluting....not at all the way he is viewed by the Venezuelans here.....

Just saw a reporter on the local Fox station here say he gave the people "free health care".

1 posted on 03/06/2013 2:05:46 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

Yes a real statesman. He had over $2B of the peoples money in his own account.


2 posted on 03/06/2013 2:14:48 AM PST by DeaconRed (I owe my life to ZERO. I plan to live to see the SOB brought DOWN. . .)
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To: DeaconRed

No mention of Hugo’s pilfering of the treasury in the local report.


3 posted on 03/06/2013 2:43:12 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: DeaconRed

No mention of Hugo’s pilfering of the treasury in the local report.


4 posted on 03/06/2013 2:44:10 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

Maybe if they paint him with lead oxide they can keep him from smelling a little longer.

Alternatively, they can drink the stuff.


5 posted on 03/06/2013 2:54:26 AM PST by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Vendetta))
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To: SoFloFreeper

As coroner, I must aver
I thoroughly examined him
And he’s not only merely dead
he’s really, most sincerely dead!

Sic semper tyrannis!!


6 posted on 03/06/2013 3:00:21 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Don’t cry for me Venezuela...


7 posted on 03/06/2013 3:07:38 AM PST by Daveinyork (."Trusting government with power and money is like trusting teenaged boys with whiskey and car keys,)
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To: Daveinyork

Hey-—Drinks are on the house.

I guess Sean Penn is devastated.

John F’in will go to the funeral I am sure. One of his Commie friends bit the dust.


8 posted on 03/06/2013 4:02:21 AM PST by Venturer
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To: SoFloFreeper

Let the assassination conspiracy theories begin.

Personally, I hope that he was poisoned by thorium or some other nasty substance and suffered while lingering and waiting to die.


9 posted on 03/06/2013 4:40:49 AM PST by BuffaloJack (Gun Control is the Key to totalitarianism and genocide.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

At this point it really doesn’t matter how the nutty left paints him. He’s dead, gone, expired and assumed room temerature. That is all that matters. Oh, and he’s currently finding out how wrong he was...


10 posted on 03/06/2013 4:54:03 AM PST by Russ (Repeal the 17th amendment)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Viva Venezuela!
Chavez es muerto y expropiado por el diablo.


11 posted on 03/06/2013 5:14:47 AM PST by Tugo (357SIG)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Last night on Telemundo, which is part of NBC, they were doing these little “Salutes to Hugo Chavez” between the telenovelas.


12 posted on 03/06/2013 5:37:43 AM PST by sockmonkey (Of Course I didn't read the article. After all, this is FreeRepublic..)
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To: SoFloFreeper

13 posted on 03/06/2013 5:58:16 AM PST by mirkwood (project gutenberg)
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