Maduro calls Venezuela opposition "heirs of Hitler"

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87. Just stop with this nonsense of pretending that the opposition to PSUV has any moral ground...

... in this issue.

Reductio ad hitlerum is one of the opposition's most used phallacies. Not only in Venezuela, but everywhere the left is on power in Latin America.

Opposition media compares Chavez to Hitler, again

As it happens every so often, the Venezuelan right wing media and their international counterparts are once again raising a hue and cry over alleged threats to freedom of the media and freedom of expression in Venezuela.

So, as I walked down to the newspaper stand in Parque Central in Caracas I had visions of newspapers with blanked out front pages, as was usually the case during the IV Republic. However, what I found was very different. The front pages of most of the papers (El Universal, El Nacional, El Nuevo País, 2001, El Mundo, Reporte Diario de la Economía, La Razón, etc) were extremely critical of the decision of the national assembly to pass an Enabling Act giving Chavez emergency powers. In fact, "critical" is too soft a word to describe their reaction. Many of them were hysterically denouncing the move as dictatorial.

But, the one front page that really caught my attention was TalCual's. The daily opposition paper, edited by former leftist turned rabid reactionary Teodoro Petkoff, had a headline boldly proclaiming "Going towards a dictatorship" and a caricature of Chavez giving a Nazi-style salute.

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The concluding paragraph compares Chavez with Hitler: "This is what Adolf Hitler did. On March 24, 1933, the Reichstag, the German Parliament, gave him special powers for indefinite time and to legislate over any issue. The Reichstag never met again; from then on Hitler ruled in a dictatorial manner. With this violation of the constitution ..." The fact that granting the president enabling powers is within the constitution seems irrelevant to Petkoff.

Read more:
http://www.handsoffvenezuela.org/media_venezuela_chavez_hitler.htm





Hugo Chavez compared to Hitler after vow to rule until 2031

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Milos Alcalay, a former Venezuelan ambassador to the United Nations, told The Daily Telegraph: "It's not the first time that he says the only successor to Hugo Chavez is Hugo Chavez.

"History shows that dicatators who think they are going to last forever will only end up in the cemetery as nobody can rule eternally.
"Chavez, Hitler or Mao would not nominate their successor. Hitler also had votes but he didn't have legitimacy."

Read more:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/venezuela/8663863/Hugo-Chavez-compared-to-Hitler-after-vow-to-rule-until-2031.html