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| Latin America |
| Hugo urges Columbus Day boycott |
| 2003-10-12 |
| Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has urged fellow Latin Americans not to mark Columbus Day, calling it a celebration of "genocide". The 1492 discovery of the Americas triggered a 150-year slaughter of native Indians by foreign conquerors who behaved "worse than Hitler", the populist president told a meeting in Caracas of representatives of Indian peoples from across the continent. "Christopher Columbus was the spearhead of the biggest invasion and genocide ever seen in the history of humanity." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #6 Si, Hugo! Is that why you're aiming to bring your economy back to the time of the "Indian peoples"? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-10-12 9:05:30 PM |
| #5 Sounds like he's been talking to that Saudi |
| Posted by: Not Mike Moore 2003-10-12 4:31:10 PM |
| #4 Is it just me or does hugo sound an awful lot lime the Democratic party? Maybe he is watching the Dems debate and making talking points? It has all the usual suspects: Victims, Hitler, and genocide. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-10-12 10:16:51 AM |
| #3 When Chavez (fine old Guarani name, there) makes this pronouncement in Quechua or Nahuatl or Mayan instead of Spanish, I will find it a little easier to take seriously. As for genocidal foreign intervention, what does he think his German-invented and Russian-nurtured political philosophy is? |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2003-10-12 8:44:32 AM |
| #2 Obviously a man who has never heard of the Aztecs before ... |
| Posted by: Adriane 2003-10-12 5:16:02 AM |
| #1 To atone for the sins of his ancestors, I recommend that Chavez go back to Spain permanently (he doesn't look very Indian to me). |
| Posted by: Tokyo Taro 2003-10-12 5:09:52 AM |