Hugo Chavez:"Carlos the Jackal a great revolutionary"

**~~BlackPirate~~** · November 21, 2009, 08:30 PM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8372250.stm

Hugo Chavez not only defended Carlos the Jackal, but Idi Amin for whom he said was a great patriot.Well to me all these strange opinions and the try to create a crises in Andes proves the fact that he wants people globally to talk about him.With these opinions he has managed to climb to the edge of most controversial Latin American leaders such as Peron or Fidel Castro.The more noise covers his name the more powerfull he becomes

**Dr Zoidberg** · November 21, 2009, 08:33 PM

Just another nail in the coffin of Chavez's sanity. The man is a nut-job and his own biggest fan. This problem could be solved if international media simply ignored him.

**justicar5** · November 21, 2009, 09:06 PM

I'd have maybe given him Carlos the jackal, if only because we tolerate/hail as heroes assasins who kill for our reasons, so we can hardly talk. However Mugabe just plain needs killing, and I'd take a texan defence on anyone who did.

**Bovril** · November 21, 2009, 09:56 PM

Chavez is so wierd. He's essentially a comedy politician, but his government does all sorts of really amazing stuff. Of course, there is a tiny grain of truth is what he says, Carlos really did fight for a national liberation struggle against his own best pecuniary interests on a very few occasions, Mugabe really did fight a horrific racist government, etc.

Then again, praising evil bastards is incredibly mainstream in politics. Its not like them there leaders of the great Satan shy away from it. Mussolini was famously described by Franklin D. Roosevelt as "that admirable Italian gentleman" to give one of very, very many examples. At least Chavez doesn't have the power to install dictators.

**corpse helvetica** · November 22, 2009, 12:09 AM

Chavez plays himself more and more to corner as his more and more radical "reforms" and statements frighten away his moderate supporters.

**Bovril** · November 22, 2009, 12:35 AM

Originally Posted by corpse helvetica

Chavez plays himself more and more to corner as his more and more radical "reforms" and statements frighten away his moderate supporters.

Using the term 'moderate' to talk about Venezuelans in the west is difficult, since the supporters of the coup against Chavez were described as 'moderates'. Besides, the whole idea of the moderate comits the falacy of the middle ground.

**corpse helvetica** · November 22, 2009, 01:50 AM

"moderate" - I used it for nonradical, not so political, yeah, for more middle ground supporters. There have been in (popular) science, political, etc journals some articles by former officials who admitted that they fully supported Chavez during his first term and believed in his ideas. But as time progressed, so progressed dissapointment on Chavez among of educated officials whose work was to carry out orders or to create "flesh" for many actually vague albeit populist ideas.