Do you support the Pro-Freedom Venezuelan Demonstrators?

[Guiscard]

What the f*ck has that got to do with anything?

It's the xtratabasco school of debate.

Oh right... didn't realise the beaners had spread so far...

(never did work out why they were called beaners)

They eat a lot of refried beans = "Beaners"
it's not too deep.

It is considering we don't have too many mexicans or, for the matter, re-dried beans in the UK.

[The1exile]

Actually, it's more Bostonians (Bostonians = "not Latin Americans", for the record) that fancy the refried beans, "Latin Americans" (or "beaners", as XtraGuiscard so artfully described them) prefer the fresh, better kind.

The More You Know...

I thought it was "the more you eat... the more you fart the more you fart the more you eat the more you sit on the toilet seat."

[Stopper]

Quoted from the Al Jazeera english news site:
Chavez said: "If the Venezuelan oligarchy ... does not accept this call to live together in peace that we are making, if it keeps on attacking using the things it still controls, it will keep losing those things one by one." http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/51EC4421-C697-43C4-A5B8-808B067BE1B9.htm

I love the quote from the telecommunications minister "democratizing the broadcast spectrum" that is sooo funny! This sounds like something you'd hear from a North Korean official, it is that absurd!

Spoken like a true Tyrant!
Seik Heil! Hugo

Ksslemp, since you keep harping on about this, can we take it, then, that you approve of privately-owned TV stations encouraging the overthrow of democratically-elected governments?

Answer: NO
I'd be interested in viewing the broadcast in which the station stated that the people should overthrow the gov't. and if this viewpoint was expressed as an opinion by a T.V. anchor and if they have laws which say that is illegal, then by all means arrest that person. What i am saying is that it would depend on how they encouraged the overthrow to be accomplished. If it was by legal means, i.e. impeachment, new elections or asking for his resignation, i would deem that to be acceptable.
What did you think of Hugos statement? Does it sound Democratic to you?

Apart from what Guiscard and spurgistan have already said, the italicised above indicates to me that you're actually quite uncertain about the details of this situation.

This is what really bothers me about your arguments on this thread. You seem quite happy to start a biased anti-Chavez poll on this subject without being sure you're actually in the right here.

I don't want to give the impression I'm pro-Chavez, but nor do I accept the American Right's position on him - the agenda you seem to be pushing. After all, the American government and right-wing media has form in demonizing foreign leaders for their own purposes.

I'll probably reply to the rest later on; I'm only on here briefly because I'm at work, but I wanted to mention this. Sorry if I've just rehashed anything anyone else might have said.