Chavez foe leads massive march in Venezuela

[sabrina 1]

142. You mean like the OP. But I thought you didn't have to be there to

know what a great time they were having?? I agree with you, people need to be there. My friends in Venezuela were at many of those rallies, they blogged to us eg, when they were lining up to vote for Chavez I remember, taking questions from us to ask the people who were nearby. Everyone was ecstatic to be able to vote for him that day. He spoke to one elderly woman who wanted him to tell us that she had never learned to read and she was holding a book in her hand. She said that Chavez had promised to focus on education when he first ran for office and not just for children, for everyone. She said he kept that promise. She learned to read and, my friend, Vino, told us, she had tears in her eyes because she had learned so much and realized that she, a woman, (Chavez has done so much more there, than our politicians here for women's rights) needed to be involved in politics. That all her life she had been told she did not need to bother with politics.

I felt like we were there with them, it was a very exciting day. He won, of course because the people wanted him as their president.

It is none of our business what other countries do but for far too long our government has supported the worst dictators in the world, and would do so again in South American if they could. The problem for them now is young people here know a lot more than they did in the past. Most Americans had no idea of what was going in S. America, our secret wars, the torture programs, but they are finding out and they do not like it at all.

The rich oligarchs hate Chavez because now they have share Venezuela's resources with the rest of the people. It is so obvious who hates him and why and thank to Wikileaks we know a lot more about where all the negative propaganda is coming from. When you have to pay to get your 'message' not the facts, the 'message' you are generally lying.