And Kevin Spacey goes to my boycott list.

Check out Amnesty International and see how they feel about Chavez"

http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR530032004?open&of=ENG-VEN

 

How is this different?

 

Coffee is for closers only.

 

You have all convinced me to revisit my position on Chavez. The more I have drilled down beyond rhetoric he seems like a great guy who really wants to just help his people.

 

It's actually quite similar, in that both Putin and Chavez were democratically elected at one point but have steadily worked to consolidate power, silence opposition and ensure a perpetual presidency.

 

Glad to hear it, Boom. For more information on America's gentle historic hand in South America, check out this article from the latest issue of Portfolio. Who knew Chiquita financed right-wing death squads?


http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/international-news/portfolio/2007/09/17/Chiquita-Death-Squads

 

I had to go to work, so I never got to answer IJAG.
Pompano nailed it above.
And, yes, Cranberry, Hugo has shut down a TV station that didn't toe his line.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/28/AR2007052800161.html

A dictator is a dictator is a dictator.
Why does Spacey even want to do business with this clown?

 

The guy is a ass but I don't see Americans accusing other Americans of self hatred when businessman/politician X meets with Saudi leaders. Its a one way street when people get accused of hating America.

 

No, don't you guys get it? Bush is just as bad as Chavez is!

Idiots.

Chavez is Castro 2.0. Except he's got a lot more oil.

 

I'm Chiquita Bananna and I've come to say I'll cut your throat out if you don't do it my way.

 

And we've twisted our domestic politics into a knot over Castro for 50 years and it's produced nothing except a shortage of good cigars.
I would cite the 2008 Olympics as a considerably more important example than Kevin Spacey's meeting Hugo Chavez on the why-do-we-do-business-with-the-likes-of-them? front, but I wouldn't want to piss off the dictators to whom President Stupid has sublet our economy.