Hugo Chavez's Daughters Refuse to Leave Presidential Party Palace

[Pterodactyl]

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Source: Vocativ

It’s hard times in Venezuela these days. The economy is in shambles, crime is spiraling, and the opposition is leading increasingly strident protests on the streets. To make matters worse, President Nicolás Maduro can’t even deal with the crisis from the comforts of the presidential palace.

Constitutionally, of course, Maduro has been able live in La Casona, a luxurious villa in the heart of the capital, since he was sworn in last year. The only problem: Almost a year after Maduro’s predecessor, Hugo Chávez, passed away, his three grown children—Maria Gabriela, Rosa Virginia and Hugo Jr.—are still living in the villa. Apparently, they have no intention of leaving.

The two daughters have allegedly converted La Casona into a social club for friends of the family. According to recent media reports, neighbors complain of “deafening” parties. Fast-food restaurants and catering agencies refuse to deliver to the mansion, allegedly, because the Chávez kids have stopped paying their bills. Even concert organizers are complaining; Chavez’s daughters allegedly force them to hand over dozens of free tickets so they can share them with their friends. (Both the country’s Information Ministry and the Chávez family were unavailable for comment.)



Read more: https://www.vocativ.com/02-2014/venezuelan-princess/

[Archae]

1. I'm not surprised in the least.

They got used to living high on the hog when Saint Daddy Hugo Gotbucks was in charge.

[certainot]

3. maybe facts & real time vs rw propaganda would be a good idea

the entire rw radio bs machine has been swiftboating chavez since he got in (years of that bullshit) - distorting everything venezualano


so you're right on par with michael savage and rush limbaugh- are you proud?

[Archae]

4. Saint Hugo and Saint Maduro can do no wrong...

If these brats were the children of a Bush, or the children of a right-wing dictator you'd be calling for their heads.

But since they are the children of oh-so-dreamy Hugo, they get a pass.

[Ken Burch]

2. If this is true, it's still a non-story.

What really matters is the efforts by the U.S. to organize violent opposition to the democratically-elected Venezuelan government and replace it with a "pro-business&quot I.e., anti-social justice and equality) regime.

The Venezuelan opposition have no positive ideas and no program other than full restoration of the privileges of the wealthy...privileges that will be enforced by soaking the streets with blood, as Carlos Andres Perez did when he murdered thousands of trade unionists just for marching against austerity.

[Judi Lynn]

5. Do you seriously expect people to buy your material as late breaking news?

How many times should a genuine news story say "alledgedly?"

This story was posted months ago, in part, in a previous attempt to smear either the late Hugo Chavez, or his daughters, or the current elected President, who was said to have offered to let them stay their for a brief time before moving everything they owned out of the residence after their father's death to their next home.

Here's this "Late Breaking News" from last December:

Venezuela: Chavez daughters won't leave president's palace

http://www.democraticunderground.com/110824411

[delrem]

6. The pro-coup propaganda is hitting DU hot and heavy.

I just hope that the pro-coup contingent, which is amazingly large at DU, saves some of their spunk for the after-coup parties.

Well, maybe I should rethink that since the after-coup parties will be .001% only affairs. Not that I give a damn about how the pro-coup contingent might feel betrayed. Adults who're still taken in by the Koch/oil/MSM/etc. apparatus don't rank high on my radar, and I doubt that very many of them would even notice the betrayal.

[Archae]

8. In case you haven't noticed...

Maduro, and the Chavez kids are human.

They aren't the first, and they sure as heck won't be the last who want to hold on to the goodies they have, and in Maduro's case, power.

This near-deification of first Hugo Chavez and now Maduro is what Maduro counts on.

And apparently this "Thou must not speak ill of our heroes" is also in effect for Yassir Arafat and the current corrupt Palestinian government.

The right-wing has this in effect for their image of Ronald Reagan. (Not the real one.)

[delrem]

9. You don't make sense to me. Perhaps you make sense to your friends.

But there's no point in your trying to initiate a conversation with me, because I can't make head or tail of your ramblings.
Sorry.

[joshcryer]

13. Indeed, if there is a coup, it will come from within.

[1000words]

10. I thought the very same thing, as I opened the thread.

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[blkmusclmachine]

11. +1

[Wilms]

7. If they have boxes in their garage I'm gonna lose it. n/t

[joshcryer]

12. This isn't really LBN material and is pretty old news.

Not to say I support a lock I'm just saying, it's nothing new, it's just a weird thing. It does show where Maduro's "place" is in the hierarchy.

[Theyletmeeatcake2]

14. Is this the Latest Breaking Bullshit(Forum)?

Apparently no intention of leaving,allegedly converting La casona into a social club for friends,deafening parties,not paying fast food bills,skiving free tickets from promoters,...................the list of heinous crimes continue..dum..dum...( ala Law and Order).

[Judi Lynn]

15. To those who bought this "Late Breaking News" (also posted last December)

as a space filler from the corporate media when they didn't have anything like a right-wing riot in Venezuela to claim is a human crisis, you might want to start reading the REAL news sometime, and find out what the rest of the world of human beings is doing.

Why not take a dare and look at the home page of the "news" outlet from which the OP was taken, why not?

http://www.vocativ.com/

[OKNancy]

16. Locking - Not breaking news

Sorry, but this is a rehash of an old story, and the site is not a mainstream news site.
Feel free to repost in another more appropriate forum.

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