Hugo Chavez has not been seen in public since June 10, when he underwent surgery in Cuba. The Venezuelan government insists he was successfully treated for a pelvic abscess, but there are consistent rumors that the strongman has prostate cancer. The opposition is demanding answers, while the government says Chavez is ruling from Havana.
The country has not heard at all from Chavez except for one phone call to a state television program. His mother and daughter flew to Cuba to visit him, giving the impression that his illness is more severe than is being portrayed. The Vice Foreign Minister shot down rumors about his health, tweeting, “President Chavez is recovering well from his surgery. His enemies should stop dreaming and his friends should stop worrying.”
Thor Halvorssen, President of the Human Rights Foundation, told FrontPage that he is cautious about reports of Chavez’s impending death because it may reflect wishful thinking, and rumors about the demise of tyrants are common. However, “something of consequence is occurring when the Venezuelan president has vanished from the public eye after working 12 years to become the center of the universe in Venezuela complete with a cult of personality.”
Chavez may or may not be seriously ill, but his absence is having a negative political effect on the government. Time Magazine says, “[M]any Venezuelans are fretting about who’s in charge of their government,” and the Vice President is refusing to become the temporary leader as required by the constitution. The opposition is criticizing the government for not being forthcoming about his absence.
Halvorssen said that there is also a psychological affect on Chavez’s supporters.
“The minions of Chavez had, up until the beginning of this month, considered him a permanent fixture. He is mortal. They had never fully realized that, without him, the entire Chavez ‘revolution’ crumbles and their sinecures vanish,” he said.
He added, “There are no alternatives to him, no substitutes, no possible replacements. And why would there be if the intention was for Chavez to rule, as he has often said, until 2050?”
Alek Boyd, a Venezuelan activist in London and founder of VCrisis.com, told FrontPage that “none of the reports circulating are credible” about Chavez’s health, but wrote that his stay in Havana proves that “Venezuela, as of today, is effectively a Cuban colony.”
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How utterly vile that Democrats like Joe Kennedy, a plethora of Hollywood lefties, the mainstream media, and the Unions…celebrate this autocrat…while Colombia, a truly democratic country aligned with America, is viciously maligned by Democrats and their union masters.
I'm thinking a Venezuelan surgeon just took one for Freedom.
Whey don't you take some poison, you sawed-off Nazi.
Sorry, I don't speak gibberish.
Why would you want Whey, the nutritional supplement, to take poison? How can a nutritional supplement be a Nazi?
What a hateful little schmuck.
Can anyone explain why he has gone to a Cuban hospital for treatment? Surely there are effective hospitals in Venezuela he could use?
Don't you remember the movie Sicko!? Cuba professes to be the ultimate in Communist medicine. Why hasn't Venezuela been able to…?
I am hoping some pro-liberty faction or coalition is ready to seize the moment and take Venezuela back for the human beings.
Don't call on others to carry-out your diabolical wishes, little man. Why don't you sliver down to Venezuela and volunteer? Hopefully it will be your dead body coming back.
Or, if you love your hero chavez so much why don't you go there and don't come back – whether dead or alive. Please note, I'm not wishing death on you as is your wont, but then I'm not a left wing hater!
"little man": Projection on your part, obviously.
Diabolical wishes – meaning your love of the enslavement of an entire nation?
Whatever he's got, I hope he's suffering really badly.
Whether Venezuela's democratically elected president Hugo Chavez will return to Venezuela ( which I both expect and hope for) or not the struggle against US Imperialism will go on, in Venezuela, across Latin America, and across the world.
Here's hoping that Hugo Chavez will continue to experience body rot in the great state of cuba. I understand Sean Penn is offering a feces transplant to the great hugo. I wonder if they have compatible poop.
"democratically elected", Hitler was demcratically elected as well.
So was George w bush! The first time round anyway!!!
I am hopeful that all on the left receive their medical care in cuba.
Dictators eventually fall. The Leftists and the LIberals claim to champion the principles of freedom, democracy, liberalism, and feminism, and yet support both communism, and Islamist dictatorships, which implement none of these principles. Proverbs 16: 18 Pride goes before destruction, a Haughty spirit before a fall.
I hope he gets another whiff of sulfur real soon.
I think God is taking out Chavez. He is so evil there are no words to describe him.
One evil dicator down and many more to go.
Sean Penn, Oliver Stone, Danny Glover, and other Hollywood stars and Entertainers are praying for his full recovery!
Why not go to a Venezuelan hospital? He either can't trust his own doctors who might accidentally perform a lobotomy or a sex change or Michael Moore is right about Cuba's superior health care!
I still can't understand why the Left is supporting the Arab Spring and yet they are silent on Fidel, the Dictator in power now for over fifty years! They cry for elections and democracy all over the world except in Cuba. Can you imagine the tears flowing when Fidel, or Hugo, bite the big one? I wouldn't doubt that Obama and Hillary would attend the service. "He was a transitional figure and he helped his people. Long Live Fidel. Long Live Hugo!"
Matt Damon.
These names are added to the list on a golden plate fastened to the Great Wall Of Lies.
Which is anywhere from the great wall of Chikom to the Berlin Wall.
Long live Hugo Chavez and long live the revolution!!
If he is it's because of idiot socialist programs that screw the independent thinkers as opposed to the sheep-like trolls on the left that get a union job and after a while don't do anything except sit on their asses.
Hmmmm. Could it be Hugo may have the same incurable malady that Arafat had?
Kate Moss
Kevin Spacey
Courtney Love
I doubt I'll shed any tears if Hugo Chavez does kick the bucket. Most Venezuelans probably won't either.
Not sure hunh?
Perhaps, Hugo will get to meet the real "devil",soon. (:
Anyone who's against ZOG is OK by me.
Well, well, well, if it ain't our resident neo-nazi troll.
Don't you Stormfront and VNN white trash have anything better to do than show off your idiocy and hypocrisy, or am I detecting some sympathy for an ailing neo-communist dictator? It ain't like you fascist traitors to love commies…
could we pray that he meets his maker — like real soon!!!
Croak soon enuf, Pigpen.
Oink, Oink !
Let's hope the plane that take Hugo home is as poor as venezuelan helth care…
lETS HOPE THAT HUGO FLIES HOME ON AN AIR FRANCE AIRBUS OR ILYUSHIN.
That's another time you've called someone "little man."
Clear case of projection.
"bozo"
I see you have a compulsion to call others what you really think of yourself.
I think it's an elaborate ruse to goad people into thinking the worst, eventually he will triumphantly emerge as the indestructible President for Life.
He has cancer. critical but stable