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In May 2007, Chavez silenced the only remaining opposition television station critical of his repression by revoking its licence. <ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/venezuela/story/0,,2085952,00.html Chávez silences critical TV station], Rory Carroll, ''The Guardian'', May 23, 2007.</ref>  Crowds of students demonstrated saying they feared for the future of human rights in Venezuala.  National Guard troops were ordered to fire tear gas and rubber bullets.  Two students were injured, a third was hit with a tear gas canister, and about 20 people needed emergency medical attention for inhaling tear gas. <ref>[http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/05/28/ap3763178.html Troops Fire Upon Protesters in Venezuela], Fabiola Sanchez, Associated Press, 05.28.07.  Retrieved from Forbes.com 05/31/07. </ref>
 
In May 2007, Chavez silenced the only remaining opposition television station critical of his repression by revoking its licence. <ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/venezuela/story/0,,2085952,00.html Chávez silences critical TV station], Rory Carroll, ''The Guardian'', May 23, 2007.</ref>  Crowds of students demonstrated saying they feared for the future of human rights in Venezuala.  National Guard troops were ordered to fire tear gas and rubber bullets.  Two students were injured, a third was hit with a tear gas canister, and about 20 people needed emergency medical attention for inhaling tear gas. <ref>[http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/05/28/ap3763178.html Troops Fire Upon Protesters in Venezuela], Fabiola Sanchez, Associated Press, 05.28.07.  Retrieved from Forbes.com 05/31/07. </ref>
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Chavez has said, “I am going to go after those who resist the revolution and eliminate them one by one.” <ref>[http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2007/jul/07/guest_commentary_we_must_help_venezuela_because_fr/ Because Freedom Matters], By U.S. Rep. Connie Mack IV and Blanquita Cullm, ''Naples Daily News'', July 7, 2007.</ref>
  
 
==Relations with US==
 
==Relations with US==

Revision as of 03:47, July 10, 2007

Hugo Chavez

Hugo Chávez (b. July 28, 1954) is the repressive dictator of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Chávez assumed power as President in 1998 and pledged to aid Venezuela's poor majority. Elections were held in 2000 and in 2006 Chavez retained power. Chávez has launched Bolivarian Missions, whose alleged goals are to combat disease, illiteracy, malnutrition, poverty, and other "social ills". Chávez openly encourages alternative models of economic development than those of "United States' Capitalism".

Human rights concerns

Hugo Chávez is a great friend of Cuban leader Fidel Castro and is said to have drawn his political style through influences such as Che Guevara, Karl Marx and Simon Bolivar. The U.S. State Department Report on Global Anti-Semitism cited Chavez in August 2004 warning citizens against following the lead of Jewish citizens in the effort to overturn his referendum victory. [1] Chavez has also embraced a number of world leaders that have hostile relations with the United States, including Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran, who Chavez has referred to as "my brother".[2] U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi said of Chavez, ""Hugo Chavez fancies himself a modern-day Simon Bolivar, but all he is is an everyday thug." [3] He is also considered to be an ally of leftist Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa, Bolivian president Evo Morales and the president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega. Correa

In May 2007, Chavez silenced the only remaining opposition television station critical of his repression by revoking its licence. [4] Crowds of students demonstrated saying they feared for the future of human rights in Venezuala. National Guard troops were ordered to fire tear gas and rubber bullets. Two students were injured, a third was hit with a tear gas canister, and about 20 people needed emergency medical attention for inhaling tear gas. [5]

Chavez has said, “I am going to go after those who resist the revolution and eliminate them one by one.” [6]

Relations with US

The United States of America and Venezuela's foreign relations are presently unstable. Chavez often criticizes the United States for its 'imperialism' on his radio segment 'Alo Presidente', and alleges the United States's supported a 2002 coup in Venezuela which toppled Chávez momentarily and later removed by Chávez supporters, also known as 'Chávistas'. Venezuela is heavily dependent upon trade revenue from oil sales to the United States.

Oil monopoly

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez with Fidel Castro.

Through Venezuela's state owned petroleum industry and membership in OPEC, Chávez has now used powers granted to him by Parliament to increase oil prices, adding revenue for the Bolivarianist projects. Countries such as the United States have criticized Chávez for the increase in cost for crude oil. Chavez is at the forefront of wanting to set crude oil prices at $60 a barrel minimum, according to the Asia Times[7]

Drug trafficing

The Associated Press reported in July 2007 that since Chavez's ascension to power, illegal narcotics passing through Venezuela from Colombia has risen by as much as 30 tons a year and now accounts for roughly a third of the world's supply of cocaine. Mildred Camero who was in charge of Venezuela's anti-drug efforts stated, "Caracas is replacing Bogota as a center of everything related to drug operations." Camero was fired in 2005 after reporting high-level corruption. [8]

Subversion

According to the Washington Post Chavez has been accused of supplying weapons to Colombian rebels, of financing Bolivian and Ecuadorian groups seeking to establish "Marxist" states, and of being, with Cuban leader Fidel Castro's guidance, a "subversive" everywhere else in the region. [9]

Quotes

  • ON closure of RCTV, claiming the network's broadcasts amounted to a "permanent attack on public morals" with cartoons that were "poisoned with hatred, violence and even sex."
  • "Private banks have to give priority to financing the industrial sectors of Venezuela at low cost...If banks don't agree with this, it's better that they go, that they turn over the banks to me."

References

  1. ↑ Report on Global Anti-Semitism U. S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, January 5, 2005.
  2. ↑ Chávez decorated in Iran; initials cooperation pacts
  3. ↑ Back to the old days, if only for a minute, Wesley Pruden, Jewish World Review, Sept. 22, 2006.
  4. ↑ Chávez silences critical TV station, Rory Carroll, The Guardian, May 23, 2007.
  5. ↑ Troops Fire Upon Protesters in Venezuela, Fabiola Sanchez, Associated Press, 05.28.07. Retrieved from Forbes.com 05/31/07.
  6. ↑ Because Freedom Matters, By U.S. Rep. Connie Mack IV and Blanquita Cullm, Naples Daily News, July 7, 2007.
  7. ↑ Bush, OPEC and Chavez of Arabia, Pepe Escobar, Asia Times, 7 December 2006.
  8. ↑ Venezuela Becomes Cocaine Conduit, By Ian James and Frank Bajak, Associated Press, 1 July 2007. Retrieved from Forbes.com 8 July 2007.
  9. ↑ Dealing With the Good and Bad Hugo Chavez, Marcela Sanchez The Washington Post 25 August 2005.

Further reading

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