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Hugo Chavez has died

  • 05-03-2013 10:06pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,591 ✭✭✭✭


    Popular socialist President of Venezuela for 14 years has passed on after a battle with cancer.

    Breaking all over twitter at the moment. Confirmed by BBC.
    Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has died, his vice-president has announced.

    Mr Chavez had not appeared in public since he returned to Venezuela last month after cancer treatment in Cuba.

    An emotional Nicolas Maduro made the announcement on Tuesday evening, flanked by leading Venezuelan political and military leaders.

    Earlier, he said the 58-year-old Venezuelan leader had a new, severe respiratory infection and had entered "his most difficult hours".

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-21679053
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  • Posts: 11,331 [Deleted User]


    who ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Seemed like a decent man. RIP


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    I've only ever met two Venezuelans in my life, and neither of them will shed a tear for him. So I won't either.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    tajd wrote: »
    who ?

    Hugo Chavez. RIP.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    who ?

    Hugo Chavez.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,848 ✭✭✭Andy-Pandy


    I'm not one for conspiracy theories but i wouldn't be surprised that in a few years we find out he was poisoned.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Mr Bush you are a Donkey!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,124 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    He should be made a saint just for calling George Bush a donkey.
    Andy-Pandy wrote: »
    I'm not one for conspiracy theories but i wouldn't be surprised that in a few years we find out he was poisoned.

    He had cancer for 3 years. Was no real secret that he was on the way out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    Interesting times ahead in Central America so.

    Odds on some kind of a right wing coup?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,302 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Maybe someone else will get a go on Venezuelan TV now.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    No loss.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Great striker when he was at Madrid

    RIP


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    anncoates wrote: »
    Great striker when he was at Madrid

    RIP

    Don't be so stupid, the poor man is dead.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,484 ✭✭✭lee_baby_simms


    George Galloway will be gutted.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 11,521 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hammer Archer


    RIP.
    He had his faults, without a doubt. But he was loved by masses of poor in Venezuela who had been repeatedly trodden on by countless previous regimes.

    For anyone interested, I'd suggest watching the documentary "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" which focuses on the attempted coup against Chavez back in 2002.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,849 ✭✭✭lintdrummer


    Sad to see him go. For those who want an insight into his life their is a riveting Irish documentary called "the revolution will not be televised". Well worth watching.

    Edit: beat me to it Hammer Archer!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,818 ✭✭✭dmc17


    Don't be so stupid, the poor man is dead.

    He may be dead but he ain't poor


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,109 ✭✭✭Cavehill Red


    He served his people. There are very few national leaders one can say that about. We could have used a leader of his ilk here in recent years.
    RIP Hugo Chavez.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates



    Don't be so stupid, the poor man is dead.

    Your sanctimony arouses us all.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,430 ✭✭✭Ilik Urgee


    Why do I keep hearing loud farting noises every time I see RIP?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,848 ✭✭✭Andy-Pandy


    He should be made a saint just for calling George Bush a donkey.



    He had cancer for 3 years. Was no real secret that he was on the way out.

    There is a very high rate of cancer among leftwing south American leaders. I'm sure it's just coincidental, but is quite odd.


  • Posts: 11,331 [Deleted User]


    never heard him


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭Prodigious


    Don't be so stupid, the poor man is dead.

    Says your man who goes around making Madeline McCann jokes....


  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 1,518 ✭✭✭Ciaran_B


    A great man.

    RIP.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,214 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Very sad

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,037 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Expect a rise in the price of petrol


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 420 ✭✭Green Diesel


    Andy-Pandy wrote: »
    There is a very high rate of cancer among leftwing south American leaders. I'm sure it's just coincidental, but is quite odd.

    I blame the flouride... :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    tajd wrote: »
    never heard him

    Well he was on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,327 ✭✭✭Madam_X


    never heard him
    There's loads on the internet about him would you believe.

    Not sure he turned out to be the saviour people thought he'd be either...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,351 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    What does Mourinho think of it?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 595 ✭✭✭Steve O


    Madam_X wrote: »
    There's loads on the internet about him.

    He's a pornstar?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    anncoates wrote: »
    Well he was on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.


    I hear it takes a month of fair winds to hear news of that far flung land....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    anncoates wrote: »
    Your sanctimony arouses us all.
    Methememb wrote: »
    Says your man who goes around making Madeline McCann jokes....

    I see sarcasm detection is deficient in you two.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Madam_X wrote: »
    There's loads on the internet about him.

    Not sure he turned out to be the saviour people thought he'd be either...

    No, but he tried, which puts him above the usual.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭orestes


    Madam_X wrote: »
    There's loads on the internet about him

    Pfffft, surely you don't expect any of us to actually try to find anything out for ourselves?! Spoon-feed me dammit!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Only the right wing divvies will be pleased by this news.

    R.I.P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    20,000 murders a year says he tried to change his country and made it worse


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,440 ✭✭✭Big Lar


    Was there a Mrs. Chaves?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,417 ✭✭✭GRMA


    RIP, great man and leader - flawed but far better than every other leader around the world


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,302 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    He made every single TV channel in the country carry his speeches which went on for hours and hours. Would that work for Enda here?

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/26/venezuela-protest-hugo-chavez-television

    The only surprise is that he has not lined up a family member to continue the "revolution".


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭losthorizon


    P_1 wrote: »
    Interesting times ahead in Central America so.

    Odds on some kind of a right wing coup?

    Venezuela is in South America


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    No loss.

    Really?
    Extreme poverty declined even more, from 16.6 to 7.0 percent from 1999 to 2011, or a 57.8 percent decline. Measuring from 2004, the decline is 70 percent. However, these figures do not include the most recent program, introduced in December 2011, which pays 430 BF ($100) per month for each child and pregnancy to families below the extreme poverty level. This is expected to lower the extreme poverty rate by half, to about 3.5 percent.

    It is also important to note that these poverty rates include only cash income. They do not include
    the populations’ increased access to education – for example, college enrollment has doubled since
    2004, with free tuition for many students

    http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/venezuela-2012-09.pdf


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    20,000 murders a year says he tried to change his country and made it worse
    They stopped officially reporting the figures and they are still in the top 5.

    Basketcase of a country, a perfect example of Animal Farmism if ever there was one.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    Andy-Pandy wrote: »

    There is a very high rate of cancer among leftwing south American leaders. I'm sure it's just coincidental, but is quite odd.

    All the complimentary Cuban cigars?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,102 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    R.I.P to a great man and a leader of the revolution. He actually done something for his people and was more of a politician than any of the corrupt money grabbing scum we call politicians here in the West.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    He made every single TV channel in the country carry his speeches which went on for hours and hours. Would that work for Enda here?

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/26/venezuela-protest-hugo-chavez-television

    The only surprise is that he has not lined up a family member to continue the "revolution"
    .

    Here, our politicians just line up family members for jobs.......

    Not worlds apart tbh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,847 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    A benign dictator was the soundbite I heard most used to describe him.

    RIP all the same.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,417 ✭✭✭GRMA


    padd b1975 wrote: »
    A benign dictator was the soundbite I heard most used to describe him.

    RIP all the same.
    How? He was repeatedly and fairly democratically elected.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,634 ✭✭✭Aint Eazy Being Cheezy


    RIP Hugo Chavez.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭brimal


    Chavez was rabidly anti-Semitic.

    He ran many anti-Semitic media campaigns, made several anti-Semitic speeches, and his campaign to vilify Henrique Capriles by using his Jewish roots was sickening.

    It's no wonder that since Chavez came to power anti-Semitism is on the rise in Venezuela and the Jewish population has declined by 75%.

    http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/hugo-chavezs-jewish-problem/
    http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/chavez-anti-semitism-and-today-s-venezuelan-elections.premium-1.468637
    http://www.ibtimes.com/venezuela-hugo-chavez-anti-semitic-election-campaign-214136

    How people on here can champion this man is beyond me.


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