USA File: Latin American leftists mock Bush as White House nationalizes "toxic" mortgages, bank debt; Chavez: Comrade Bush is heading toward socialism
Latin America's leftist academics and politicians, like Venezuela's red dictator Hugo Chavez, are mocking US President George W. Bush for adopting socialist policies that the Republican Party has long condemned at home and abroad, especially following the US government's nationalization of two mortgage lenders and insurance giant AIG, and the passage of the US$700 billion financial industry bailout bill. "If the Venezuelan government, for example, approves a law to protect consumers, they say, 'Take notice, Chavez is a tyrant!'" Chavez taunted during his weekly televised rant-in, adding:Or they say, 'Chavez is regulating prices. He is violating the laws of the marketplace.' How many times have they criticized me for nationalizing the phone company? They say, 'The state shouldn't get involved in that.' But now they don't criticize Bush for having nationalize . . . the biggest banks in the world. Comrade Bush, how are you? Comrade Bush is heading toward socialism.
Manuel Sutherland, a senior official in the Caracas-based Latin American Association of Marxist Economists, has declared that Bush has become a "fellow traveler," that is, a communist in all but name. "He carries out nationalizations to save capitalism," Sutherland stated, "We want to sink it." In truth, Bush is helping the Red International "sink" the economic system he professes to advocate and the country he professes to love.
Pictured above, left to right: Chavez, Bolivia's President Evo Morales, Brazil's President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, and Ecuador's President Rafael Correa meet in Manaus, Brazil, on September 30 to discuss the global financial crisis and, no doubt, the anti-socialist secessionist movement in Bolivia's eastern states. "This crash of capitalism and of neoliberalism will be worse than that of 1929," Chavez pontificated there: "The world will never be the same after this crisis. A new world has to emerge, and it's a multipolar world. We are decoupling from the wagon of death."
posted by Perilous Times at 7:18 PM
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I don't think you can paint over nationalization of a private company and not call it socialism. Apparently, real open Communists are laughing at Communitarian George W. Bush for doing just that.
But I'm sure their boy Barack Obama would do more to promote socialism.
You might want to add some Latin American Communist front groups.
In recent weeks, Western Communists and Leftists have rushed to defend possible FARC funraiser Liliana Patricia Obando whom has been accused of funding FARC by the Colombian government.
There was also allegations that Obando had a possible love relationship with the deceased FARC terrorist Raul Reyes killed earlier this year.
Among the group she has been involved using as a FARC fundraising front group is a Leftist union FENSUAGRO:
http://www.fensuagro.org
It's a possible front group of a FARC recruitment group, but also the Colombia Action Network is another possible front group organized by Colombian Communist Party members:
http://www.colombiasolidarity.org/
These two groups carry sympathy for not just Obando but also for FARC terrorists as well exposing why the Colombian government might be on their tails.
Hmm, I wonder if Chavez ever picked up a history book and read how Calvin Coolidge's successor Herbert Hoover whom should really be considered a socialist like Chavez ruined the U.S. economy, and that his openly left-wing counterpart Franklin D. Roosevelt nearly made the economy even worse.
Maybe Chavez and his mini-mes ought to look in the mirror and see where their own countries are heading and how socialism just won't work. Maybe the poor countries which Chavez and his mini-mes have under their iron red fist grip need a Calvin Coolidge of their own to rescue their economies.
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