CNSNews.com - Hugo Chavez Says Venezuelan Socialism Has Begun to Reach U.S. under Obama

CNSNews.com - Hugo Chavez Says Venezuelan Socialism Has Begun to Reach U.S. under Obama: "(CNSNews.com) - Inspired by his meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama at the Americas Summit, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez declared on Sunday that Venezuelan socialism has begun to reach the United States under the Obama administration.

“I am coming back from Trinidad and Tobago, from the Americas Summit where, without a doubt, the position that Venezuela and its government has always defended, especially starting 10 years ago, of resistance, dignity, sovereignty and independence has obtained in Port of Spain, one of the biggest victories of our history,” Chavez said."

“It would seem that the changes that started in Venezuela in the last decade of the 20th century have begun to reach North America,” he added.


“We have assumed the commitment to direct the Bolivarian Revolution towards socialism and to contribute to the socialist path, with a new socialism; a socialism of the 21st century which is based in solidarity, in fraternity, in love, in justice, in liberty and in equality,” Chavez said in a speech in mid-2006, according to the Venezuelan government’s official Web site.

Venezuelan opposition to the Chavez administration criticized President Obama on Sunday for warming up to Chavez before demonstrating concern about Venezuela’s democracy, apporrea.org, a Venezuelan news outlet reported.

“The president’s (Chavez) authoritarianism, which grows by the day, has to be discussed,” Milos Alcalay, former Venezuelan ambassador to the U.N., who resigned in 2004 due to differences with Chavez, told aporrea.org.

The U.S. needs to talk to “the opposition, church representatives and others, who are really concerned about the democracy in Venezuela,” added Alcalay.

According to the U.S. State Department and other official government sources, the Venezuelan government has been guilty of numerous human rights violations under Chavez's rule.

“Politicization of the judiciary and official harassment of the political opposition and the media characterized the human rights situation during the year,” said the State Department's Country Report on Human Rights in Venezuela for 2008 that was released last month.

The report credits the Chavez regime with unlawful killings, arbitrary arrests and detention, discrimination based on political grounds, widespread corruption at all levels of government, official intimidation and attacks on the independent media.

“According to HRW [Human Rights Watch], ‘Government officials have removed scores of detractors from the career civil service, purged dissidents employees from the national oil company, denied citizens access to social programs based on their political opinions, and denounced critics as subversives deserving of discriminatory treatment," says the State Department report.

A recent report by the Congressional Research Service also outlined human rights concerns in Chavez's Venezuela.

“Under the populist rule of President Hugo Chavez … Venezuela has undergone enormous political changes, with a new constitution and unicameral legislature, and a new name for the country, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,” states a Feb. 5, 2009 CRS report.

“U.S. officials and human rights organizations have expressed concerns about the deterioration of democratic institutions,” the report adds, “and threats to freedom of expression under President Chavez, who has survived several attempts to remove him from power.”



These are excerpts from the article and I encourage all to read it in it's entirety. But I do agree that Obama has done much to move us to this socialistic regime as described. Sadly even the National newspaper of Venezuela criticized Obama for embracing Chavez because of the inhumane treatment of it's citizens. They have no doubt seen that this is a very dangerous step for the people of Venezuela> The people of Venezuela needed a strong ally not another dictator shaking hands.

Weeks ago I compared Obama and his wife to Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos. I see only more of it in the way that Obama is defending himself against criticism coming from those in the U.S. who disapprove of talks with Chavez, said, “Venezuela is a country whose defense budget is probably one six-hundredths of the United States. They own Citgo [oil refinery and retailer]. “It’s unlikely that as a consequence of me shaking hands or having polite conversation with Mr. Chavez, we are endangering the strategic interest of the United States,” Obama told reporters.

He is making sure that he is friendly with OIL companies and that is the bottom line. It adds to his power and wealth even though he has decried the use of oil in the United States and plans to make it more expensive through his cap and trade budget taxes on all Americans.
yet he himself wants to be loved admired and on friendly terms with dictators all around the world.

His policies seek to emulate theirs as well we have recently seen from the FBI spying on Americans who oppose him in TEA parties.
What else has Chavez done we may watch out for from Obama?

Last February, Venezuelan voters approved a constitutional amendment that eliminates presidential term limits, thus allowing Chavez to run the country for an unlimited succession of 6-year terms as long as he can win a majority of the vote in a Venezuelan election.

Will Americans be foolish enough to allow Obama to exceed existing term limits because they are ignorant of his deeds, policies and agenda that is being helped along with the MSM like Chris Matthews, Susan Roesgen and Keith Oberman of MSNBC who are left wing radical socialists in journalists clothing?