Reply #4: Gustavo Coronel: How many lies can you get in one page?

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Here is a sampler by Hugo Chavez on its letter published in The Washington Post, last week " Ready for a Recall Vote " by Hugo Chavez.

1."The coup leaders told Venezuela and the world that. I had resigned".

We all heard this statement on national TV, from the mouth of General Lucas
Rincon, then the Chief of the Armed Forces and today the Minister of the
Interior of Chavez. What is a leader of the coup doing in Chavez's Cabinet?

2. "Millions of Venezuelans took to the street".

Hundreds of violent followers of Chavez took to the streets to sack and burn modest shops in the poor sections of the city of Caracas, after the military had put Chavez back in power.

3. "This near-death experience changed me".

But not for the better. If anything, today's Chavez is more authoritarian and violent than the one who was briefly ousted.

4. "My opponents, most of whom are from the upper classes".

In a country where 80% of the population is poor and where 65% or more of the population opposes the regime, how can the majority of opponents belong to the upper classes? This is a mathematical impossibility.

5. "My opponents shut down the government oil company last year".

On the contrary, he provoked the crisis that led to the oil stoppage, as he
confessed in January of this year in a speech before the National Assembly,
by naming a totally unqualified person as President of the company. This
company, by the way, is not "the government oil company". This company
belongs to the Venezuelan nation, not to the government.

6. "Venezuelas'National Electoral Council--- a body as independent as the
Federal Election Commission in the United States".

The Board of this Council has a majority of Chavez's unconditional followers, who have decided on the maneuvers designed to block the referendum.

7. The Council "found that an additional 800000 (signatures) had similar
handwriting".

The signatures did not have similar handwriting. The persons assisting the signatories at the centers of signature recollection filled the accompanying data in many instances, a mechanism not forbidden by the Council until after the fact and one which has always been used in Venezuelan electoral events.

http://www.petroleumworld.com/EdJune0104.htm








Powell urges members of OAS to promote democracy

BY NANCY SAN MARTIN

Knight Ridder Newspapers


QUITO, Ecuador - (KRT) - Secretary of State Colin Powell on Monday called on the Organization of American States to continue to enforce democratic principles in the hemisphere so that elections produce accountable leaders.

Powell also said the 34 member countries of the OAS should be ready to step in to help neighboring countries "when their own democracies suffer setbacks."

"My friends, democracy is at a critical juncture in our hemisphere," Powell said. "The progress we have made and could yet make is at risk. ... We must make good on the commitments that we have given our citizens to put democracy's principles into daily practice, lest our people lose their hope in democracy's promise of a better life."

Powell's comments before the annual general assembly came as delegates elected a former Costa Rican president to head the organization. Secretary General-elect Miguel Angel Rodriguez, who assumes the post in September, pledged to promote liberty, justice and progress.

Rodriguez also praised the work of outgoing Secretary General Cesar Gaviria, pointing to the recent signature verification process in Venezuela that paves the way for a recall referendum against leftist President Hugo Chavez, which is expected in mid-August.

The recall is meant to put an end to more than two years of political crisis that's divided Venezuela and claimed dozens of lives.

A top OAS diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, expressed concern about potential problems surfacing with the recall drive.

http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/world/8863548.htm



I'm not sure what's going on, others are far more knowledgeable but I do know one thing Powell assisted in the overthrow of Aristide and I'm not too happy about that.

EVERY DEATH CREATES NEW ENEMIES
MORE TERRORISTS
MORE DANGER
MORE DEATH
AND REMEMBER...
HE IS JUST GETTING STARTED...
BUSH'S PLAN FOR PEACE
IS THE PEACE OF THE COMMON GRAVE

http://www.bushflash.com/pax.html


Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.

(America never was America to me.)

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed--
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above.

(It never was America to me.)

O, let my land be a land where Liberty
Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath,
But opportunity is real, and life is free,
Equality is in the air we breathe.

(There's never been equality for me,
Nor freedom in this "homeland of the free.")

Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark?
And who are you that draws your veil across the stars?

I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,
I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars.
I am the red man driven from the land,
I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek--
And finding only the same old stupid plan
Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.

I am the young man, full of strength and hope,
Tangled in that ancient endless chain
Of profit, power, gain, of grab the land!
Of grab the gold! Of grab the ways of satisfying need!
Of work the men! Of take the pay!
Of owning everything for one's own greed!

I am the farmer, bondsman to the soil.
I am the worker sold to the machine.
I am the Negro, servant to you all.
I am the people, humble, hungry, mean--
Hungry yet today despite the dream.
Beaten yet today--O, Pioneers!
I am the man who never got ahead,
The poorest worker bartered through the years.

Yet I'm the one who dreamt our basic dream
In the Old World while still a serf of kings,
Who dreamt a dream so strong, so brave, so true,
That even yet its mighty daring sings
In every brick and stone, in every furrow turned
That's made America the land it has become.
O, I'm the man who sailed those early seas
In search of what I meant to be my home--
For I'm the one who left dark Ireland's shore,
And Poland's plain, and England's grassy lea,
And torn from Black Africa's strand I came
To build a "homeland of the free."

The free?

Who said the free? Not me?
Surely not me? The millions on relief today?
The millions shot down when we strike?
The millions who have nothing for our pay?
For all the dreams we've dreamed
And all the songs we've sung
And all the hopes we've held
And all the flags we've hung,
The millions who have nothing for our pay--
Except the dream that's almost dead today.

O, let America be America again--
The land that never has been yet--
And yet must be--the land where every man is free.
The land that's mine--the poor man's, Indian's, Negro's, ME--
Who made America,
Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,
Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain,
Must bring back our mighty dream again.

Sure, call me any ugly name you choose--
The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people's lives,
We must take back our land again,
America!

O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath--
America will be!

Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain--
All, all the stretch of these great green states--
And make America again!

Let America be America Again...by Langston Hughes