Unshocking Revelation: Huey's A Hypocrite
As law of the land, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has announced a new way to deal with any foreigner who visits and publicly criticizes his government—immediate deportation. Huey explains:
No foreigner, whoever it is, can come here to attack us. How long are we going to allow a person, from any country in the world, to come to our own house to say there’s a dictatorship here, that the president is a tyrant, and no one does anything about it?
The article goes on to mislabel the irony here, saying Chávez would have been deported last year for calling President Bush a devil in New York if the policy were an American one. We recall the incident as well, but figure that’s not where the hipocrisy lies. How about the fact that a leader claiming not to be a tyrant threatens to banish people who speak their mind? We swear this self-contradiction doesn’t come from the company Huey keeps. Honest. (We also wonder what exactly was the occasion for the above pic. A pair of old chums just farting around?)
In Venezuela, Speak No Ill Of Hugo [Time]
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does it surprise you? the man is a tyrant
remember cindy sheehan? at a conference in venezuela she said she’d “rather have hugo chavez for president than george bush”
um…wtf? count your blessings. let’s hope she never runs for president.
Posted by lisa | July 25, 2007
Ay, dios! Shave the beard, Fidel, & you’ll look like my Italian grandfather. I suppose it’s true what they know in Europe then: Latinos aren’t just Spanish-origin. (Portuguese, French, Italian… Romanian (!), stop right up.)
Also, about Chavy’s “huele de sulfur” appearance, technically, the U.N. building is sovereign territory. Sure, the U.S. “lets” the U.N. locate on prime Manhattan real-estate & could, theoretically, kick out the U.N., but outside of Bob Smith’s (R-N.H.) wet-dreams, that is not going to happen. I do see your point, though, about Chavy’s attempting to subvert a foreign head-of-state in that HOS’s home area, & how Chavy would not allow that if, say, the U.N. were in Caracas.
Posted by Biggie Smalls | July 25, 2007
First they came for the arepas, and I did not speak out, because I wasn’t an arepa…
Posted by Bosrican | July 25, 2007