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Chavez: an avowed marxist. (Correction, Please!(Correction Notice)
ITEM: The Miami Herald reported on November 4, 2004 that President Bush "is likely to be tested in his second term by Venezuela's feisty President Hugo Chavez."
ITEM: The Financial Times on December 7, 2004 referred to Jorge Giordani as the "planning minister and economy guru for the populist Mr. Chavez."
CORRECTION: "Feisty," "charismatic," "populist," "independent," "maverick." These and similarly positive expressions seem to be the favorite adjectives of the mainline liberal-left media when describing Venezuela's Hugo Chavez. How about Communist, Marxist-Leninist, Maoist, Castroist, or, at least, Marxist?
Since 1995, Chavez has been a leader of the Sao Paulo Forum, an international network of terrorist groups and Communist parties founded by Fidel Castro as a successor to the Tricontinental, his more famous Havana-based terrorist operation of the 1960s, '70s and '80s.
On October 12, 1999, during a visit to Beijing, President Chavez announced: "I have been very Maoist all my life." After attacking "capitalismo savaje" (savage capitalism), Comrade Chavez told the press of his admiration for the "Great Helmsman," Communist China's mass-murderer Mao Zedong. In his rhapsodic eulogy to ...
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