#1 Which is pretty much unsuprizing from hugo, as people tend to forget he's an ethno-nationalist, in addition to being a marxist. Of course, he'll praise a racist, third world thug. Birds of a feather...
Since the 1920's (was it the 1922 bakou conference? Can't remember right now), revolutionary marxist has had a defintively racist component, no matter the own russian racism/xenophobia, as it projected of using non-white nationalism, notably asian ones at the time, as a force multiplier against western Imperialism™. Imperialism could only be western, what the commies did was... something else, countries they occupied & sucked dry were "liberated". Sure, why not? words have no meaning anyway, past the ones the Party gives them.
This is why international communism fusioned so well with third worldism.
So, hugo is just following those trends, and he's been using anti-white european resentment to bolster his base (IE "white venezuelans are not real venezuelans, I'll Spread the Wealth™ to you, my injuns followers, who are the true south americans"), just as morales is doing. Doesn't matter that he's supposedly a "bolivarist" (because, yeah, Simon bolivar was a marxist indian, of course), or that he's the official heir to castro, the white catalan spaniard with a classical european education from jesuits.
What I find hysterical, as an aside, is those red-brown french "wingnuts" who praise him as a bulkwark to the Empire, and get all hot and bothered when people call him a "dictator" ("stop watching teevee, he's Democratically Elected™, Loved By his People™",...)... they're basically rooting for an anti-white racist, believing that since they share common hatred (the jooooos, the USA, free-markets), then, they're allies! |
Ugandan officials say they are offended that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has praised former dictator Idi Amin.