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| Chavez-Venezuela: Protests starting to show backlash |
| 2005-07-21 |
| Big question: How does the loudmouth handle these protests - note that the banners call for DEMOCRATIZATION. What a novel concept... Venezuelan university students march protesting a proposed legislation they fear will curtail the autonomy of public universities and reduce budget in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, July 19, 2005. Another shows that Chavez has doen something you dont do in Latin America: piss on the Catholic Church. His usual loudmouthed bullying will not work. Venezuela's Roman Catholic Church told President Hugo Chavez on Monday he had failed to behave like a head of state by using a state television broadcast to berate a cardinal who called him a dictator. I think 'ol Tubby has bitten off more than he can chew this time. Of course you heard nothign of the large protests the past few days in the MSM. God forbid they show a socialist in bad light. |
| Posted by:OldSpook |
| #4 Hard to choose allies in this country. Altho that gal with the slingshot looked trustworthy. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-07-21 10:04 |
| #3 Well, OS, it's not like the previous rounds of protests actually did anything. He can let the protests happen, and rely on the media up here to not report on them or to misreport them. (They used to have the pictures up at vcrisis of what looked like the entire population of Caracas performing a protest march). |
| Posted by: Abdominal Snowman 2005-07-21 09:56 |
| #2 Excellent. Chavez, tear down this wall! |
| Posted by: mmurray821 2005-07-21 09:15 |
| #1 this ---> Another photo shows that Chavez has doen something you dont do in Latin America: piss on the Catholic Church. His usual loudmouthed bullying will not work. <--- should be inside a hilite CSS span set - the preview was broken Fred - the button didn't do anything (Then again, I'm using Firefox on Linux, so that may be one reason). Apparently the opening "<" got munged. But the link off "photo" did work. Mods: please fix the span tag set (and delete this comment when its fixed) - thanks. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2005-07-21 08:43 |