If Chavez is dead, we need to be in solidarity with the people of Venezuela.

[Cleita]

36. Why do I bother?

He's the only scholar who has observed what I observed first hand. I was one of the privileged classes but I saw it was privilege obtained on the sweat and suffering of those underclasses beneath those of us who benefited from it. He's the only American who gets it. That's what he is framing, but go your own way. It's the American way. It's hard for Americans to admit that they are no better than the Romans or the British Empire. The Roman Empire collapsed as did the British Empire. We are going there if we don't start being better neighbors to the nations south of the border. We could start by reporting what Chavez and Morales are really about and who they were and are instead of the oil industry astro-turf that has been so successfully spread in our English media.