WHY DICK CHENEY WON'T PLAY IN HUGO CHAVEZ' BAND

Here is the real story behind the "anti-US Venezuala." I'd hate to say I ... ;-)

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WHY DICK CHENEY WON'T PLAY IN HUGO CHAVEZ' BAND

For BBC Television and the Guardian newspapers of Britain, Greg Palast has conducted two award-winning investigations of both Pat Robertson and Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela. To understand who these guys are -- why Robertson would shoot at Chavez, and why Chavez would laugh at Robertson, read on …


There's so much BS and baloney thrown around about Venezuela that I may be violating some rule of US journalism by providing some facts. Let's begin with this: 77% of Venezuela's farmland is owned by 3% of the population, the 'hacendados.'

I met one of these farmlords in Caracas at an anti-Chavez protest march. Oddest demonstration I've ever seen: frosted blondes in high heels clutching designer bags, screeching, "Chavez - dic-ta-dor!" The plantation owner griped about the "socialismo" of Chavez, then jumped into his Jaguar convertible.


Palast interviews Pres. Chavez, Caracas [BBC TV Newsnight]

That week, Chavez himself handed me a copy of the "socialist" manifesto that so rattled the man in the Jag. It was a new law passed by Venezuela's Congress which gave land to the landless. The Chavez law transferred only fields from the giant haciendas which had been left unused and abandoned.