News and Politics | August 18, 2006 | Comment on this video (3)

Hugo Chavez

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VC2 producer Manuel Contreras explores the divided opinions on Venezuela's outspoken leader, Hugo Chavez.
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  • amieres
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      amieres  

    • This piece is too simplistic IMHO. Just interviews with two families of different socio-economic status. It's an obvious attempt to portrait the archetypical class struggle: the rich against the poor which is a preferred theme of the goverment's propaganda and a tool for the hate mongering promoted by Chavez himself.

    • 4 years ago
  • mcamargo
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      mcamargo  

    • I've talked about Chavez with Venezuelans living in self-imposed exile. I have also talked about Chavez with Colombians currently living in Venezuela.
      Yet, I can't really make up my mind in regards to this highly controversial character. He is without a doubt a populist figure who's built a cult of personality around himself.
      Seeing how grateful the lower and impoverished classes are with his alleged socialist revolution. I can't help but be reminded of Cuba and the fiasco that revolution turned out to be.

    • 4 years ago
  • HenryG
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      HenryG  

    • How much of US coverage of Hugo Chavez's regime is colored by an imperialist perspective? I feel like it's really hard to make a judgement about his relationship with his own people and the world at large, because all the information I have about him is so mediated...

    • 4 years ago
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