Hugo Chavez for president

In case you haven't heard, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called President Bush Mengele "the devil" and accused him of smelling like sulfur(?) during a speech to the United Nations General Assembly the other day.

Here's the take-home part courtesy of a transcript I found on Fox News' website (I know) via Wikipedia, the most accurate encyclopedia in the history of the world.

Yesterday, the devil came here. Right here. Right here. And it smells of sulfur still today, this table that I am now standing in front of.

Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the president of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the devil, came here, talking as if he owned the world. Truly. As the owner of the world.

I'd be lying if I said I was familiar with the Bible, so maybe this is a silly question, but is part of the devil's thing that he reeks of sulfur?

Or maybe President Bush really does just happen to have some sort of condition where the smell of sulfur seeps through his pores the way some homeless people happen to smell like Indian food. (Or perhaps Indian food smells like homeless people?)

After the jump is a CNN video of the incident. I'm assuming Chavez gave the speech in espanol and then CNN had some broad translate it into ingles. She did a pretty good job though.

Comments

[e]

Nice post Bol, Hugo Chavez is probably one of the more respected leaders of the latin countries(its not saying much but still) He isn't on Fidel Castros level but he is closer to Fidel than he is Vicente Fox

[raf]

first. doesnt dead shit smell like sulfur?

[the izza]

I think it's because...

fire + brimstone= sulfur

This was the same smell the X-Men's Nightcrawler left when he ">Bamf<"ed. No Jasmyne Cannick.

[Sucker Free]

classic material.

as much as I'd like to believe the shrub is the devil, i would have to give the devil a little more credit than that. the devil is a charmer, a slick talker.

the shrub is not.

the sulfur smell...maybe his breath?

[non]

brimstone = sulfur

brimstone is just an old fangled way of saying it.

[Blah, blah, blah]

I love how these 3rd World taco-bending retards wanna act like we (White America) are their worst enemies, as long as it suits their political agendas (or until they need a handout or our help.)

Hmmmm, this all sounds awfully familiar.

Ohhhh yea....thats right, it's because white america has been listening to african americans play that same ol' song for the past 60 years.

And we all see how far that got them.

[sean]

Did anyone see Chavez ether Bush in Harlem today?

Harlem!!!

[wite powur]

Correction: Third World Taco-bending retard that promotes democratic socialism, is anti-imperialism and critical of neoliberal globalization and U.S. foreign policy.

It's not "wite peeple" he's against, it's western arrogance and imperialism that even most wite peeple don't support. If you heard the speech Gee-dubya gave at the UN (and I'm sure you haven't) then you'd understand his comments (and I'm sure you don't). If you took the time to think before you opened your stupid mouth maybe all your comments wouldn't sound so short-sighted and ignorant.

[I Fux]

Blah Blah
^

If you had listened Hugo said he likes the U.S., Just not Bush, you dumb fucker .....

[I Fux]

Best stand-up comic?

BOL You need to add EarthQuake, dude was on Def Comedy Jam this past weekend and killed that shit, you can see him here closing it down

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZlyNH1N86SI

[maya0]

come bend my taco, and me and Hugo will kick your lilly white ass all over our land.

[I Fux]

this click I linked to, Earthquake is unbelievable dont take my word for it, watch it I put my life on this nigga

[Mikey Ess AKA SukedowN]

Sulfur comment might = rotten eggs/poop smell

If you've ever lived where they have shitty well/city water, and it smells like rotten eggs/diarhea straight out of the faucet, that means there is a high sulfur level in your water.
There are a lot of areas around where I live that have this problem.

Since all of Venezuela is dirt-poor, I am sure they have this water problem everywhere, and hate sulfur because of it.

[Combat Jack]

Chavez has my vote!

[anti-semites suck]

Stop dissing latinos and jewish peoples Bol. Not very nice.

[e]

Why aren't Jeffery Ross or Norm McDonald on your list of stand up comics

[BBlizak]

So what are the chances of Venezuela ending up on the terror list? lol

[firewaterbakingsodacocaine]

Hugo Chavez is a douschebag that hides behind his oil reserves to throw pot shots at western leaders who don't spend there entire political career grandstanding. Now, am by now means a Bush supporter, but I truely think Hugo Chavez is a full of shit, megalomaniac, communist. Trust me when I say this, his tenure is limited by his ego and he will fuck up his own country like every other communist leader driven by idealism and a need for attention.

E-Fidel Castro respected in the latin world? Huh?

[geekbird]

viva la chavez!

[G's up]

Fuck Bush, fuck all bush supporting sons of bitches, and fuck that nerd fruitcake nigga Bol. 1

[NoMamesBuey]

Yo I got no problem with anyone ebeefin with Chavez and critizing his policies.

However, racism is wack. However, something is even worse, what I'll call the "retarded racists". Mofockas that didn't go to racist 101 school.

For instance, some douchebags in Texas beat up some Sikh dudes after 911 "for revenge agaisnt al qaeda". Sikhs are not muslims, douche! Like Carlos Mencia said, there's a difference bt "bupathi bupathi" & "falalalala".

Similarly, retards like Blah talking about Chavez as a taco eater. The only other country outside of Mexico reknown for tacos is the USA, you fockin dee dee dee!

If you're gonna be a racist, at least make sense in your racism.

See if I were a retard racist, I would tell Blah to go back to the outback, fuck some Kangaroos, dangle his baby in front of a crocodile, get killed by a sting ray, throw another shrimp on the barbe, and play some cricket.

For you extremly retarded racists, see I'm dissing an American white guy with Australian slurs. G'day mate beyotch!

[nom de]

Bol, did you read how he brandished a copy of Noam Chomsky's Hegemony or Survival and told everyone to read it?

[Fuck the Mexicans]

Fuck Bush and Fuck Chavez....This would be a perfect example of an enemy of my enemies is not my friend. His people live in fucking sqawler and violence while he banks billions off of oil. He beat the media down like punk bitches and locked up all his opponents. Fuck what this nutjob talking about. Still it is kind of funny to see dude carrying Bush on national television....

[ObieOneJizzonie]

All yall niggas need jobs. Word tho...

[ass out]

Bol...c'mon man you don't have to read the Bible to get the sulfer reference...shit like that is common knowledge if you've ever seen a late 70's horror film or even a fucking Looney Tunes cartoon...damn man...and you didn't know what the Boondocks was either...

[cracka]

Hell yea, chavez is a pimp. Bush probably has a smell that resembles a dirty jew thats a garbage official and has radical badical facial hair. Latinos are good in my books and so is chavez. Anyone who supports bush should be executed, no ifs, ands, or butts. Where my anit-semites at?

[cracka]

Obieone, dont front.

[g's up]

Bol crawl back up that raw sushi, and anchovie smelling pussy that ur homo ass accidently managed to slip out of. Ill push ur grown ass back in that dykes womb.

[amedawg00]

Most politically astute indidividuals know that Bush too incompetent to be the all knowing devil and that Chavez is a demagogue populist who wants to be the next Fidel. Anyone interested in Chavez and Venezuelan politics should prowl the internets for "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised". It chronicles the failed coup attempt against Chavez by business elites in Venezuela, in which Chavez alleges CIA collusion. It is a gripping docu. Bittorent is your friend!

[micguevara]

Chavez also got some nice quotes froma speech he gave in harlem yesterday(reminds me of castro's 1960's visit)

[tps12]

Oh no shit FtM, Venezualans live in squalor, huh. And that's entirely due to Chavez's policies of the last 8 years and not the West's neoliberalist policies that pretty much screwed over all of South America in the decade before that? Check it out, the people who want Chavez out of power aren't the poor people living in squalor, but the elites of the formerly oppressive business class who want their gilded age back.

[atjones1974]

When in Caracas back in April the sense on the street I gathered is things have been progressively getting worse through the years as Chavez grandstands and gladhands allies w/ his oil slick hands. He has exploited the populist lower vs. upper class debate to the detriment of the overall economy scaring off investors. And also to the detriment of life in Caracas. 70,000 under the age of 30 murdered in Caracas since 1998!!!

Many Chavistas have a mis-placed sense of entitlement. The poor certainly deserve justice and a better life, but that does not mean they can just take it by any means necessary. Civilization obviously just doesn't work that way.

I absolutely applaud Chavez's socialist projects and generous spirit but I fear he is doing it like a myopic lotto winner.

Well thought out sustainable growth w/ strategic investment does not seem to be part of this revolutionary's rhetoric. Neo-liberal or globalization policies have many failure's but some credibility, Chile's success, though debateable (likely only made possible by the Pinochet dictatorship) is very hard to deny. The question is how and at what rate do you open up and diversify the economy to benefit as many Venezuelans as possible while avoiding the re-occuring boom and bust cycles that have marred many a natural resource rich country? There is no one size fits all prescription.

There are some lessons to be learned from copper rich Chile, but the trick is for each country to find its' own way and w/ as much well intentioned and uncompromising help as possible. I hope Morales in Bolivia is smarter than Chavez.

The Chavistas need to get busy talking about this vs. our idiot president. A little more intellect in that opportunist arepa por favor.

[pam]

united fruit company
3% of rich white venezulans own 77% of the land
chavez bi - racial considered a black indian
think simon bolivar ,Vicente Guerrero
chavez supplies 1/5 of oil to the us
Chavez has begun to transfer fields from giant unused or abandoned haciendas to peasant hands.
Chavez has begun to target the foreign oil giants who keep about 84% of Venezuela’s oil profits.

[thea]

to atijones 1974
this was what he talked about in 2002 ( see below in quotations) ... now it is 2006 a lot has transpired in four years.. Please do not forget the oil , which is what we are killing iraqis for , and why are foreigners keeping so much of the oil profit ...

" The President of Venezuela told the fifty-seventh General Assembly this afternoon that commemorating the tragic events of 11 September with renewed solidarity to combat terrorism was not enough. The occasion also called for acknowledgement of a stark truth: current economic inequities and the frustrations born of widespread poverty and despair acted as fuel for the fires of terrorism.

As the Assembly’s general debate continued, Mr. Chávez urged world leaders to reaffirm their commitment to comprehensively address the root causes of terrorism. Condemnation of terrorism must be accompanied by condemnation of all the scourges that ignited it, he said. Effectively fighting terrorism necessitated a new decision-making process, which would also advance the war against poverty. To that end, he urged the creation of an international humanitarian fund, which could be fed from a variety of sources, including a percentage of national military expenditures; reapportionment of the debt burden of poor countries; or confiscation of monies earned from the drug trade and corruption.

Many of those sentiments were echoed this afternoon by a succession of foreign ministers who also urged world governments to address the economic and social conditions that encouraged terrorists. Those conditions often set off or exacerbated regional tensions that threatened international peace and security, they said. The Minister for Foreign Affairs of Singapore, S. Jayakumar, said many developing countries remained insufficiently integrated within the world economy. That problem could be addressed by capacity-building and infrastructure development and the elimination of trade barriers.

He added that perhaps the battle against terrorism could be fought on a more philosophical level. Some terrorists had tried to depict the current global anti-terrorism campaign as a war against Islam, feeding stereotypes and exacerbating prejudices. That was obviously untrue, but the international community should not ignore the extent to which the appeal of extremists resonated with the marginalized and disenfranchised. In times of uncertainty, organizations such as the United Nations should play a key role in promoting tolerance and understanding between nations and cultures."

As it is we have a president that we do not even know if he really won the election.
Whats even scarrier , is that the wars that are going on now in the world seem religion is the foundation ....

[atjones1974]

To Pam and Thea's points respectively:

The former: We agree inequities abound in Venezuela as it does in much of LatAm - the question is does simply giving it away a long term solution? Yes, it's a quick, theatrical and politically expedient fix(when there is little check and balance in gov't) but the land doesn't inherently produce crops.

Take Zimbabwe's hasty land reforms - suddenly the inequality is reallocated from land owning whites to the "masses" however the gov't doesn't prepare for provision of the means of production to meet the goal: feed the people, improve quality of life! No seed, no credit (fincl mkts) for seed, no machinery, no markets. Massive downturn in production, food shortage and famine followed suit.

Venezuela still imports the majority of food stuffs yet the country is ripe w/ arable land. Always has been. Oil re-investment via Pdvsa has traditionally outweighed ag interests. Chavez's land reforms may very well be short sighted yet political popular amongst the poor masses. Will he invest the oil revenues in grassroots USDA extension agent programs that helped put US Farmers in the global mkt (even before subsidies) and lead this country from ag economy -->industrial-->post modern?
As for the foreign oil interests reaping of 84% of profits, I can't comment on the accuracy w/o doing more research, but it looks suspect. check out http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/orevcoun.html

Furthermore, keep in mind the oil giants work in collaboration w/ the OPEC gov'ts and their oil companies such as Pdvsa in joint ventures for obvious reasons - someone has to extract the sh!t somehow. Nevertheless, the host is still awash in revenue - plenty to do good with and in position to negotiate a fair share for the people of the country.

Ever since OPEC (1960) member countries have had leverage over the companies in terms of supply and demand price. Typically, the rip-off has been at the hands of the host government's administrations. I just hope Chavez wisely "invests" his oil windfall vs. spending it like there's no tomorrow.

Thea - I wish Chavez repeated those words yesterday...along w/ a sarcastic note or two for Bush. He's missing a good opportunity to lead a much needed revolution by talking too damn much.

[cracka turd]

cracka will suck dick for a hit, just ask his mum

[pam]

atjones1974
i will respond to you later tonight.

[thea]

tjones1974

I think he knows his death is near , so he is getting everything off of his chest .. It might sound really simplistic , but he is angry, I would be too if i thought i was going to be killed. It's not much difference than a rappers battle , think game and rass. check out u tube , it seems he has been talking like this for a while .. If u speak or understand spanish , there seems to be some great interviews w/ latin cnn, but no translations. Don't forget a lot of people really don't know what is going on , thier first taste of chavez was yest ... check out the utube link below

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkhgttJ3hIY&mode=related&search=

[atjones1974]

Thanks Thea for the clip:

Yeah he's been talking about the assination/invasion conspiracy for a couple of years. I'd be unpleasantly surprised if he was assasinated but not shocked. I stay in tune b/c my mother is Venezuelan and I have family there still.

Honestly, I think other issues and the White House's slow implosion will preclude any overtures toward Chavez & Venezuela. Bush will continue to eat crow but not swallow till he chokes to death - he's that smart. Anyhow, I take Chavez w/ un grano de sal and would give both of them enough rope to hang themselves.

When I was in Caracas in April this year everybody was having a good laugh over Chavez's remarks about the U.S. ambassador Brownfield. Chavez had been going on and on about how the U.S. is planning to invade the country. Therefore, in terms of counter-espionage, the Venezuelans had been paying very close attention and knew exactly what the Americans were up to - to the point that he (Chavez) even knew 'where Brownfield gets his favorite Reina Pepiada - Peppered Queen - a spicy Venezuelan staple found on most corners. It would be like Bush saying we know where Chavez eats his favorite mesquite char-grilled bacon cheeseburger! Both of these guys are clowns but Chavez's hyperbole is obviously much funnier and eloquent - that goes for many other posters too. C'mon- why waste the space?

[g]

Bol crawl back up that raw sushi, and anchovie smelling pussy that ur homo ass accidently managed to slip out of. Ill push ur grown ass back in that dykes womb.

[Kico]

Fuck chavez. I'm a Latino and I hate that idiot. For all you dummies that don't know what it's like to live under a socialist government, go and live there!!!! You won't come back the same. C'mon. . . I won't stop you. Americans who love chavez are a bunch of ignorant gente. Socialists are just a bunch of Communists in wait. And now, Chavez is agreeing with Iran's president on surrounding us on a possible attack and the Harlem people support him????!!!! Wake up America!!!! Chavez is a threat and a boboso!!!! Yeah chavez, I said it!!!! Come down to Whittier, CA. chavez!!!! On calle Bright to be exact. Come and tell me to my face that you hate Americans. Come tell me to my face that you hate my president. I was a Marine for 8 years and I would rejoin if it meant killing you. Fuck you chavez and all your socialist agendas. Fuck all the people that support you chavez. I really wish I had a chance to meet you face to face so that I could tear off your head and shit down your neck.

[pam]

kico , u belong right with bush ... why in the world would u want to rip someones head off ... stop the killing man . you need to get deprogrammed, and go to the library and read ... start with voltaire , progress to zinn and chomsky .

atjones 1974
i was going to comment , but my knowledge on venz does not run that deep and after seeing that comment from kico , i lost drive to debate further ...

[Jimmy Tootoo]

Has anyone else noticed that it's usually ex-marine/army/navy etc. that are sick in the head? For example, Kico.

Your a retard Kico.

[Dave]

Why are you so anti-american. It is a shame your office wasn't located in the World Trade Center September 11, perhaps you would have a different. The situation in America is not a dress rehersal dude, this is not for play.

Hope the next time the bad guys strike they touch you or someone you love. The great thing about our great country is that you are entitled to your opinion, i believe it's called Freedom of Speech.

Next time instead of being a couch potatoe why don't you try reaching out and helping people like the First responders of the pentagon or WTC. I still remember the little 16 year old boy from Warwick PA; He was headed upto WTC with his volunteer fire department the evening of 911 to help NYFD in the search and rescue operation; he intended to go to high school the next day. You don't hear much about this kid today; he is the back-bone of america, the unsung hero.

[Dave]

I'm Venezuelan but i hate Chávez! Es un hijo de !&/( realmente no entiendo qué está haciendo con mi país, de verdad que Venezuela cada día está peor con ese señor... Dios quiera que algún día se vaya del país y seamos realmente libres :-S

[Mike]

Fuck your literature. Read your books while these
terrosists kill my family in NYC, people in our
country and throughout the world. Do you think thay
are satisfied with what they have accomplished? You
wanna deprogram someone? Start with the fucking
radical terrorists who wanna kill hundreds of college
kids, and hollywood activists who wanna protest
antiwar and anti-US shit while they continue to
support anything but what has made them who they are.
Just remember there is a lot worse shit going on here
in the US but your too busy speaking up for some shit
that doesn't matter. Yeah the situation is not good,
but until you can protect your own, the only person
you should try to "deprogram" is yourself and your
stupid hippy friends who want to stop the remaining
allegiance and patriotism we have left to protect. If
you don't believe me, just think what would happen if
you try and waive the imaginary friend flag to those
bastards and when they blow your ass up and try to take more then their share- fuck you.
Their goal is to ruin us...ruin us any way they can...
We our different. Different, respected and admired...
Blame Bush all you want. If we don't take a stand and
protect our shit then who will? Fuck you and make
sure you even though you hate me you realize I will
protect the most civilized, free country in the world
that has actually has been through some serious
shit... If you think your idealogic solutions will
take hold, you obviously live somewhere that hasn't
been through anything since this terrorist shit has begun. Peace out.

[Dictionnaire Infernal]

Mike & Kico:

well said, gentlemen

I am in complete agreement with your thoughts on the matter. The sooner someone does a number on that Castro-*sskiss, the better.