Posted on 10/08/2011 5:01:46 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Chavez slams "horrible repression" of U.S. protests Photo 5:48pm EDT
By Enrique Andres Pretel
CARACAS (Reuters) - Socialist firebrand Hugo Chavez condemned on Saturday the "horrible repression" of anti-Wall Street protesters and termed a Republican presidential candidate "crazy" for his criticism of Cuba and Venezuela.
Although still convalescing from cancer surgery in June followed by four rounds of chemotherapy, the 57-year-old Venezuelan president is quickly returning to the tough rhetoric and strong views that have made him famous worldwide.
Not surprisingly, Chavez expressed solidarity with American activists who have been staging rallies and marches against what they view as corporate greed by Wall Street.
The U.S. protests, which began last month in New York and have spread to Tampa, Florida, Seattle and other cities, have mostly been peaceful but sometimes resulted in confrontations. Dozens were arrested and police used pepper spray in New York earlier this week.
"This movement of popular outrage is expanding to 10 cities and the repression is horrible, I don't know how many are in prison now," Chavez said in comments at a political meeting in his Caracas presidential palace shown on state TV.
Chavez, who runs for re-election in a year's time and traditionally ramps up his anti-capitalist rhetoric to try and rally supporters before a vote, also let rip at Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, who referred to the "malign socialism" of Cuba and Venezuela in a speech on Friday.
"He's been attacking Venezuela and Cuba, and talking about the malign government of Hugo Chavez. And he has the arrogance to say that God created the United States so the United States can rule the world," Chavez said.
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gosh, how repressed:
college students and grads on the public and parents’
dole, mouthing sweet communist nothings to the tax payers that support them.
“In prison” ha, these petty violators may be in jail for a week, and they will be cleaner and better fed and cared for than they were in the fetid parks.
Let someone try protesting Chavez that way in Venezuela and see what happens to them!
REPRESSION?????
Did I miss something?
Only the heaping hypocrisy!
Thanks Chavey. Keep supporting...
No, I caught that!
Too bad Generalissimo Francisco Franco is dead! I’m sure he’d have something to say about this, too!
*SMIRK*
What a bunch of @sshats. All of them. Trust me - this is NOT helping their socialist agenda one little bit.
There is going to be a clock-cleaning the likes of which some of you have never SEEN come 2012.
Happy, Happy! :)
With Sarah Palin bowing out and Cain and Perry eating each other for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, looks more and more like the prospective clock cleaning tool will be (ugh) Mitt.
Besides, I don't see that there is any “repression”.
I see the Nazi remnants at Reuter-Rotor are still spewing Seig Heil! crap.
There is going to be a clock-cleaning the likes of which some of you have never SEEN come 2012.
Happy, Happy! :)”
Nothing is more helpful to the conservative cause than the average person, struggling to get by each and every day and doing the right thing, watching a bunch of middle and upper class white kids demanding more and more free stuff at other’s expense.
My agreement with the OccupyWallStreet protesters stops at being upset over the bailouts and crony capitalism. Yet, their solutions are worse than the problem
I thought this guy was on his last leg?
I think Bloomie let the cops wash the cruiser that was defecated.
And people that had to get permits, details, insurance, etc., to hold their own rallies and cookouts this year want their money back from cities that aren't charging these trust fund babies for these "rallies".
I just want to know what drugs Chavez is on, they must be darn good!
"Poverty's growing, the misery is getting worse," he said, referring to the causes of the U.S. protests. "But that empire is still there, still a threat ... (President Barack) Obama is on his way down, for lots of reasons. He was a big fraud."
Drop dead already..........(Chavez)
Some in New York were arrested for walking in the street when the police ordered them to stay on the sidewalk.
We should have just conquered the damn planet.
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