Venezuela After The Death Of Hugo Chavez
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2013-03-06/venezuela-after-death-hugo-chavez
Venezuela after Chavez: What the death of the Socialist leader will mean for the country, the region and the U.S.
Guests
Moises Naim
senior associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, chief international columnist, El Pais, and author of "The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being in Charge Isn't What It Used to Be."
Tom Gjelten
NPR national security correspondent and author of "Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba: The Biography of a Cause."
Geoff Thale
program director of Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA).
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In addition to the export of doctors and the inflow of oil from Venezuela, Cuba is trying to encourage the inflow of tourists.
"See See Havana",
www.efn.org/~hkrieger/cuba.htm
I have a hard time understanding why Diane thinks Moises Naim represents any kind of impartial analysis concerning Venezuela. He represents the rich, formerly ruling elite. So why does Diane never get anyone on to represent the other side?
On this and previous programs he has disparaged the fairness of the electoral process in Venezuela since Chavez.
I would suggest that Jimmy Carter is as close to a balanced observer as we are likely to find about the elections. He said last fall: "As a matter of fact, of the 92 elections that we've monitored, I would say that the election process in Venezuela is the best in the world."
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/04-9
Democracy Now had a full panel on Chavez this morning with guests Greg Grandin, Eva Golinger, Gregory Wilpert, Michael Shifter, and Miguel Tinker Salas - anyone of these guests would have been 100 times better than the panel on today's DR show. Very disappointed by the crazed anti-Chavez bias of Gjeltin and Moises Naim.
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/3/6/hugo_chvez_dead_venezuelan_leader_l...
Tom Gjelten and Moises Naim did not seem capable of an inclusive, reflective or frankly, even historical world view of the legacy of Hugo Chavez -- not this morning, at least. Their comments left a breezily negative impression. Their dismissal of liberation theology, and Chavez's possible conversion to it, was particularly breathtaking. It is normal and fitting to try to better "understand" the recently departed by reflecting on their faith and core beliefs as a way of remembering them and showing respect. Gjelton and Naim struck me as particularly hardened considering the timing and context of their remarks so soon after Chavez’ death.
For your producers, it’s important to understand what commentators like this give the show, and what they take away. Their orientation is towards State Department men's club-style politics, where everything is viewed dispassionately according to some analysis. This can be helpful in understanding some world situations but can impede our understanding of others. In this case, it seemed inappropriate. It would have been nice to hear more about the personal aspects of Chavez’ life – maybe more personal insights into his education and formative moments, his rise to power, his struggle with cancer or his larger than life personality – but Gjelton and Naim seemed determined not to have any strand of Chavez’s life and work remembered kindly. I’d love to see this show repeated with more well-rounded and sensitive guests. A better choice might have been young Joe Kennedy, who knows oil and knew Chavez personally, and doubtless would have delivered a less jaded performance. I tuned in because this show's topic was important and timely -- but it ultimately disappointed. Very little of value was revealed.
Alaska,U.S.A. has the Alaska Permanent Fund.A plan that refunds to Alaska residents part of the wealth from oil production. Created by Republicans decades ago. They love it.They remain loyal Republicans. Sharing the wealth from the resources that truly belong to the citizens.It`s not evil,it`s smart. Better a share to the people,than to export all the profit to another nation.
This plan has been labeled SOCIALISM..In the U.S.A. we charge big oil pennies for the oil,and give them billions in subsides.. "STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES"
Diane, great show and good selection of people to talk about Venezuela.
The fact is that Venezuela today is weaker and economically broke. Civil liberties are violated every day. To all people saying wonderful things about a dictator, go and live in Venezuela where you can be killed in the streets and the killers are not prosecuted. We have today more misery, less opportunities and a divided country. He was a negative leader; he used insults to whoever would have a different point of view. Chavez was a tyrant, not Robin Hood.
Martha: if everything is so good and Chavez is so wonderful, why dont you move to Venezuela? I bet you have no idea that living in Venezuela
is hell with no opportunities and street violence. There are not checks and balances in public powers, there is corruption in the name of the poor who are more misareble than ever before. The legacy that Chavez left is a broke economy, a discourse of hate, and high levels of crime in all Venezuela. There is nothing here to rescue. There is a legacy of hate.
"jordan88 wrote:
Not much interest in folks who close their eyes to the world around them and pretend that the US can do no wrong.
March 6, 2013 - 11:06 am"
Yeah, or are (deliberately) deaf and blind to our own problems.
I would take notes, but there usually is so much to dispute that I don't bother.
Today I did take a few-
1) POLARIZED!!!
2) COURTS NOT INDEPENDENT!!!
3) 45% DIDN'T VOTE FOR CHAVEZ!!!
4) DEBT!!!!!!!!!!
5) RUTHLESS TO OPPOSITION!!!!!
6) HAS WEAKENED UNIONS!!!!
7) MOSES---"DEMOCRATIC PERIOD"!!!!
Monte Haun mchaun@hotmail.com
"THALE
10:29:45
I mean, at the same time, I think it's important to emphasize, he did build support from the poor majority. He won re-election three times, in elections that, by and large, were seen as PRETTY UNFAIR. And so, you know, I think it's important to see that there's a balance to this view about what's going on and what's going on in Venezuela."
Try this---
He won re-election three times, in elections that, by and large, were seen as FREE AND FAIR.
Monte Haun mchaun@hotmail.com