VENEZUELA’S CONTROVERSIAL LEADER HUGO CHAVEZ HAS DIED AFTER BATTLE WITH CANCER

Another commie dies, and only other commies care. Venezuela is now a wrecked, once free country. Word to the wise.

President Hugo Chavez, the fiery populist who declared a socialist revolution in Venezuela, crusaded against U.S. influence and championed a leftist revival across Latin America, died Tuesday at age 58 after a nearly two-year bout with cancer.

Vice President Nicolas Maduro, surrounded by other government officials, announced the death in a national television broadcast. He said Chavez died at 4:25 p.m. local time.

During more than 14 years in office, Chavez polarized Venezuelans with his confrontational and domineering style, yet was also a masterful communicator and strategist who tapped into Venezuelan nationalism to win broad support, particularly among the poor.

As an army paratroop commander, he led a failed coup in 1992, then was pardoned and elected president in 1998. He survived a coup against his own presidency in 2002 and won re-election two more times.

Despite his controversial and questionable politics, Chavez electrified crowds with his booming voice, often wearing the bright red of his United Socialist Party of Venezuela or the fatigues and red beret of his army days. Before his struggle with cancer, he appeared on television almost daily, talking for hours at a time and often breaking into song of philosophical discourse.

The poor who voted for him, went from living decently to a life of utter squalor. Chavez stole all the oil money he could stash while the poor waited for hours for a ration of milk. Learn the lesson well.

CHAVEZ ON THE BRINK: Venezuela Blames Cancer On Foreign Plot, Expels US Attaché

Venezuelan state TV just gave what was billed as an update on President Hugo Chavez’s health.

In the address, Vice President Nicolás Maduro assured the country that Chavez was still alive, but was facing serious complications in his battle against cancer.

However, much of the statement focused on a U.S.-led conspiracy against the country.

Maduro says that the government had discovered that an officer of the U.S. Embassy was acting against Venezuela’s military, getting in touch with officers and proposing a plan to destabilize the country.

The man is reportedly an Air Force attaché named “David del Monaco,” and he has been given 24 hours to get out of the country. Maduro says that “special measures” will be taken to avoid right wing conspiracies.

It’s worth noting that the Venezuelan government accused the U.S. of a similar plot in 2008, and expelled then-Ambassador Patrick Duddy. The vice president has also previously told the press that he has been the subject of an assassination plot.

Maduro also used the address to say Chavez’s enemies had hurt his health with lies and rumors, comparing it to the death of Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader who some believe was poisoned.

Maduro says that a “scientific commission” will eventually find proof that Chavez’s illness was caused by poison.

According to CNN, Information Minister Ernesto Villegas announced Chavez was battling a new infection on Monday.

“There is a worsening of the respiratory function, related to the state of his depressed immune system,” Villegas said on state-run VTV.

Obummer’s Buddy: Chavez Returns To Venezuela

And he tweets …

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned home to Venezuela early Monday after more than two months of medical treatment in Cuba following cancer surgery.

Chavez’s return was announced in a series of message on his Twitter account, saying “we will continue our treatment here.”

“We’ve arrived once again in our Venezuelan homeland. Thank you, my God!!” the first of the three messages said.

They were the first messages to appear on Chavez’s Twitter account since Nov. 1.

“I’m clinging to Christ and trusting in my doctors and nurses,” Chavez said in another tweet. “Onward toward victory always!! We will live and we will triumph!!”

Vice President Nicolas Maduro said on television that Chavez at arrived at 2:30 a.m. and was taken to the Carlos Arvelo Military Hospital in Caracas, where he will continue his treatment.

Why does the leader always come home in the wee hours?

SOTU Show Featuring Our Very Own Shuck And Jive Man, Obummer

I decided to write up my review early. It’s easy, just lie lie lie and lie some more show off your fancy foot work, at the street corner and continue with the lies.

It’s what tyrants like Hugo Chavez, and Fidel Castro do. And if you don’t applaud they have you shot in the morning. It’s about as long as these windbags give and about as truthful.

Did I miss anything important? Nope, it’s good.

Just remember — Our economic collapse is not a single event. From here on, it’s all downhill.

But other than that, everything is rainbows, unicorns and lollipops, right?

Later I will post video of what our Tea Party Senator Marco Rubio has to say about it all.

(Rubio video)
UPDATE:

Florida Senator Marco Rubio Republican response to 2013 State of the Union Address

The Blaze has a nice side by side … The Blaze.

Chavez’s Cancer May Put Venezuela Devaluation On Hold

As a once prosperous country’s heads for the ground, All Rooters worries about is Hugo Chavez and his likely fatal cancer.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s battle with cancer and the possibility of a new presidential election look likely to delay key economic policy decisions including a sharp currency devaluation needed to shore up public finances.

Chavez spent heavily this year in giving new apartments, home appliances and cash payments to poor Venezuelans to ensure his re-election, weakening the South American OPEC nation’s fiscal position.

Yep, he like Obama bought the election with governmental goodies for the illiterate voters.

Whee, look at us!!! look at our new Obama-phones. Whee, whee!!!!

I was over at Walmart yesterday, I noted they seemed to have new employees, from South America, they were. Part Timers so that Walmart didn’t need no Obama care. Imagine that. So they just spread the wealth amongst part time employees. Just what Walmart said they would do. Now they are all part time, and still they are poor.

And then, and then, and then, the people suffer. The currency adjustment is coming, who wants to lend more money to busted Venezuela?

Economists have widely predicted the devaluation would come this month or in early 2013 because the spending spree expanded a yawning fiscal deficit. Devaluing eases fiscal pressure by giving the government more local bolivar currency for each dollar brought in by oil exports.

But devaluation plans, along with potential cuts to enormous subsidies that also weigh heavily on state finances, now appear to be on hold as Chavez – famous for his micro-managing style – recovers from his cancer operation in Cuba.

Read more here …

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Battling Bone Metastasis, Report Says

A recurrence and spread of the pelvic tumor was detected in a test performed in Havana.

The 58-year-old president first underwent cancer treatment in Cuba in June 2011 and suffered a relapse in February. He has since said he’s recovered from the pelvic cancer and won re-election in October.

Throughout his previous chemotherapy and radiation treatments, Chavez kept many details of his illness secret, including the type of cancer and the precise location of the tumors.

Cuba’s official newspaper Granma said that Chavez arrived on the island Tuesday at the break of dawn, “in order to continue medical treatment following as part of strengthening their health, which will include several sessions oxygenation hyperbaric.”

No Photos:

There were no photos of his arrival in Havana or departure from Caracas, unlike other times he’s made the trip.

Venezuelan officials did not say how long he will stay in Havana, though they said he would be back by Jan. 10, when he is being sworn in for a fourth term.

Obama’s Bud Not Doing Well: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Battling Bone Metastasis

But I bet if anybody knows count on the CUba Commie Hospitals to give the best of care.

Fox News reports:

Venezuela President Hugo Chávez is now battling bone metastasis from his pelvic cancer, according to a report by Spanish newspaper ABC. Citing an unnamed intelligence source, ABC’s Washington correspondent Emil J. Blasco says there has been a recurrence and spread of the tumor, which was detected in a test performed on a trip to Havana just after the elections on October 7.

Venezuela Official Inflation Just Under 20%

Commies always have the same plan…QE it’s called. Oh wait Obama is doing that as well.

LAHT writes:

According to the government’s National Institute of Statistics (INE), Venezuela’s September inflation came in at 1.6%, above the value in August of 1.1%. Factoring in September’s rate, inflation for the first nine months of the year has been 11.5%. One-year inflation stands at 19.98%.
Elias Eljuri, head of INE, predicted that inflation is likely to remain at 18% in 2012, and that single-digit inflation remains an attainable goal because of price controls and productivity improvements.

In terms of groups, Education led with a 4% increase, followed by Restaurants and Hotels with a 1.9% increase, together with Food and Beverages, up 1.9%, followed by Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco, up 1.7%, and transportation, up 1.6%.

According to Venezuela Central Bank President Nelson Merentes, the country needs to “work hard” to increase production and avoid price speculation to achieve his goal of bringing inflation down to the single digits within 3 years. However, experts point out that Venezuela is widely expected to devalue its currency against the dollar at the beginning of 2013, meaning that inflation is likely to increase.

“A devaluation is likely in the last week of the year, or the first one of the New Year,” says Miguel Octavio, head of research at Venezuelan investment bank BBO. “How large the devaluation will be is anybody’s guess, as Jorge Giordani will make the decision alone. The last time he did that, the rate was changed from Bs. 2.6 per US dollar to Bs. 4.3, much larger than anyone expected. This was clearly done to allow the Government to avoid devaluing until after the Presidential election. We suspect this time around the devaluation will be large enough to avoid another one for at least two years. “

Chavez re-Election, It’s All on The LIne

Election Presents Venezuelan Voters with Stark Choice – Venezuelans go to the polls on Sunday to decide whether to give socialist incumbent Hugo Chavez another six years as president or to sharply change course with challenger Henrique Capriles

Venezuelans are in their second day of reflection before going to the polls on Sunday to decide whether to give socialist incumbent Hugo Chavez another six years as president or to sharply change course with challenger Henrique Capriles.

After 14 years in power and 1½ years undergoing operations and treatments for cancer, Chavez has no intention of relinquishing power until 2020, in order to solidify his particular brand of socialism in the country.

Left-wing incumbent Hugo Chavez, first elected in 1998, is being challenged by opposition leader Henrique Capriles.

Mr Chavez wants to continue what he calls his socialist revolution while Mr Capriles has promised to restore economic growth.

As with Obama it pits the moron vote against free people. So far Chavez has not been able to deliver anything but long lines for government rations…. Haha…

Venezuela is a major oil producer and high oil prices over the past decade have allowed his government to fund health-care, education programs and social housing.

He says he needs another term to complete his “Bolivarian Revolution” towards socialism.

Idolized by some as a defender of democracy with a social conscience and accused by others of being one more populist dictator only concerned about himself, Chavez faces his third presidential reelection with his popularity at over 50 percent and with most surveys seeming to favor his chances.

Since 1998, all that has happened in this South American nation has had some prepositional tie with Chavez. All is done by, against, without, with, for, according to, under or before the president-commander of Venezuela. Whether for or against him, no Venezuelan can talk about the country’s daily life without mentioning him.

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So they have a choice the Chavez commie dictator they have, the one who promises free stuff that just seems to never come,  or the new shiny democracy Henrique Capriles they like. We should know more by tonight. The people are battened down in their homes for now…  Venezuela used to be a free nation before Chavez… Will they turn back now, stay tuned.

The Way Chavez Does It: Death Toll Rises to 3 in Attack on Opposition in Venezuela

Another person has died as a result of the attack on supporters of opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles over the weekend near the western Venezuelan city of Barinas, raising the death toll from the incident to three, opposition Congressman Julio Borges said.

The opposition member died a few hours after the shooting on Saturday, the congressman said.

“What we want is justice. What we are asking is that it not go unpunished,” Borges, leader of the conservative Justice First, or PJ, party, said Sunday.

The congressman, however, did not identify the victim.

National Assembly speaker Diosdado Cabello said earlier in the day that “the person that fired the shots on Saturday has been arrested.”

The Attorney General’s Office said three suspects were arrested in connection with the shooting.

Jonathan Rafael Ocaña, 43, Jose Manuel Nieves Pineda, 20, and Enmanuel Lorenzo Reyes, 22, were detained for their roles in the shooting, the AG’s office said.

Environment Ministry officials and Barinas state police are “supposedly” behind the killings, Borges said.

Prosecutors did not say which of the suspects fired the shots or whether any of the men worked for the government.