Frenetic ramblings from the start of the "War on Terror" logging my attempts to film outside Finsbury park mosque over 3 years and sitting through all the subsequent court cases. These days I am usually on Post Factual Society on Facebuk. Do visit Youtube.com/malungtvnews
Funny how articles like that always say "critics point to an increasingly authoritarian streak." without ever pointing out, or even referring to, anything "authoritarian" that Chavez has actually done.
When I was in Caracas, the vast majority of those that I met fully supported Chavez, but not all.
Of those that were against him, not one of them said "because he is too authoritarian" or anything even remotely like that.
The criticism were always something like "there is still too much poverty", "the minimum wage isn't high enough" etc.
Meanwhile, the youth on the streets informed me that violent police oppression has never been as bad as it was before Chavez.
It paints Chavez' Alo Presidente as an egocentric diatribe, where his people would probably present it as "an accesible president". We should go over for a while and do some filming.
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Funny how articles like that always say "critics point to an increasingly authoritarian streak." without ever pointing out, or even referring to, anything "authoritarian" that Chavez has actually done.
When I was in Caracas, the vast majority of those that I met fully supported Chavez, but not all.
Of those that were against him, not one of them said "because he is too authoritarian" or anything even remotely like that.
The criticism were always something like "there is still too much poverty", "the minimum wage isn't high enough" etc.
Meanwhile, the youth on the streets informed me that violent police oppression has never been as bad as it was before Chavez.
This is a similar view to that express in the excellent film The Old Man and Jesus: Prophets of Rebellion that I'm showing at The Synergy Centre on Thursday...
I linked to your blog on Sparkles comments. I've asked Charlie to debate Chavez with them but he's not interested.
I wouldn't expect either of you to bother. Its up to you. Did you see the Channel 4 piece? It does seem to include both sides no?
It paints Chavez' Alo Presidente as an egocentric diatribe, where his people would probably present it as "an accesible president". We should go over for a while and do some filming.
"Getting" authoritarian? lol.
He is a nut. I liked his latest about using poison arrows against imaginary American invaders.
me too and the "you are a donkey" bit. he'd have my vote just on that.
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