Reply #50: You know, just because we're Democrats doesn't mean we defer

[Judi Lynn]

to everything Clinton says. I can't get into V-Headline, being between computers, don't have a way to access my username, etc. to read that article, so I'll remain in the dark about it, for now, I'm afraid.

Many of us D.U.'ers have believed John Kerry was way, way off on Hugo Chavez, as well.

I do know that Bill Clinton has stayed at the home of Gustavo Cisneros, unfortunately, who is one P.O.S., and a personal friend of George H. W. Bush. A fishing buddy, actually. So, as the owner of much of Venezuelan media, he's bound to have an influence on the people who stay as his personal guests in his own house, apparently having something in common with them.

People do change in time, and it would appear Clinton's moving away from his strongest Democratic beliefs, if he ever had strong Democratic beliefs to start with. There's no way a person could both love Cisneros and care for the well-being of the Venezuelan people.

Cisneros was one of the Venezuelan coup organizers. He was given his own award for his services to humanity:

Henry Kissinger will present the award
Women Protest US Award to Venezuelan Coup Leader Gustavo Cisneros

Thursday, Jan 29, 2004

By: Global Women’s Strike / Venezuelanalysis.com

Philadelphia, Jan 29 (Venezuelanalysis.com).- The U.S. based NGO Global Women’s Strike issued a press release today protesting an award expected to be given by the Inter-American Economic Council to Gustavo Cisneros, a Venezuelan billionaire identified by sources such as Newsweek, local Venezuelan publications and analysts as one of the protagonists and financiers of the April 11, 2002 coup d’etat against President Hugo Chavez.

Cisneros is also credited with being a driving force behind the December 2002 nationwide lock-out and sabotage of the oil industry, which instead of ousting President Chávez from his elected office, drove the Venezuelan economy into the ground by causing a historical drop of 27% in the country’s GDP in the first trimester of 2003.

Cisneros is the owner of AOL, Coca-Cola, DirecTV and Pizza Hut in Latin America, Univision in the US, and Venezuela’s biggest TV network Venevision.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who according to declassified documents headed the CIA operation to overthrow Chilean democratically-elected President Salvador Allende in 1973, will be in charge of awarding fellow coup plotter Cisneros.

The Global Women’s Strike statement follows:

The Global Women’s Strike condemns the outrageous decision of the Inter-American Economic Council to honor Latin American media tycoon Gustavo Cisneros at its 2004 Winter Gala on Thirsday January 29h. It shows once more the total contempt of the US administration for people’s right to elect their own government. To recognize as a person who “has consistently sought to create an environment where business and government can work together in meaningful ways for the betterment of society,” a man who has systematically used his corporate wealth and media monopoly to illegally and violently attempt to force from office the democratically-elected government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, is particularly cynical. It is women in particular who elected and have overwhelmingly defended President Chavez, and women from the poorest areas who have most to gain from and have been most involved in the economic and social reforms Venezuela is undertaking to tackle poverty and corruption despite constant coup and assassination attempts from the likes of Cisneros.
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http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=1183