says (that 75% of the people want Chavez dead).
See
Poll: Hugo Chavez Is 5 Thousand Times More Popular Than Bushhttp://www.borev.net/2008/10/poll_hugo_chavez_is_5_thousand.htmlAnd it makes sense. 75% of the people of Venezuela are poor to extremely poor. Chavez has reduced extreme poverty by 30%, poured money into schools, adult literacy programs and retraining, medical care care for all, small businesses, local manufacturing and many other bootstrapping projects. Why would they hate him? He is doing what they elected him to do--and has also produced a nearly 10% economic growth rate over the last five years, with the most growth in the
private sector (not including oil). He has also saved nearly $40 billion in international cash reserves, renegotiated oil contracts to give Venezuela a better split of the profits, and taken other wise measures to cushion Venezuela against the Bushwhacks' financial 9/11.
I thought his popularity was running about 60%--not as good as Paraguay's news leftist president (90%!), Ecuador's leftist president (80%) or Bolivia's leftist president (nearly 70%)--but still very high. This poll says he's up there in the stratosphere with the best of them.
I'd say this guy is indeed hanging out with the rich who complain about their servants getting uppity. I would not be surprised if 75% of
that crowd wants Chavez dead. In fact, that ilk is forever hatching assassination plots to make him dead. See, Chavez makes them pay their taxes, and treats the poor, the workers, the less privileged as equal citizens, with a right to have a voice in the government and a right to government services. These are outrages to Venezuela's rich elite. Their raw hatred of the poor is very Bushwhacky. It brings to mind Bush remark to the fatcat billionaires gathered at a glitzy fundraising dinner,"I'm glad to be here with the have's and the have more's" (--recorded in Michael Moore's film "Fahrenheit 9/11), and like the glitterati who gathered at the Waldorf-Astoria in the 1920s, for a "Hobo's Ball," where New York's richest people all dressed up like the homeless, and ate and drank and danced the night away, while their brother and sister Americans died of cold and hunger outside on the streets. Same crowd that wanted FDR dead.