Reply #92: Who on the left is embracing Chavez?

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Congressman Serrano? I don't think I'd heard his name twice before he had Chavez come to his district to announce the Citgo plan.

Danny Glover?

Add Reverand Jesse Jackson to the list and you have all the people on the left who have embraced Chavez, and they don't get any publicity for doing so. If I didn't read DU I wouldn't even know about those three. Perhaps the fact that the US media refuses to publicize support of Chavez mean I should be less suspicious of him? What are they trying to hide from the public?

It seems to me that Chavez doesn't get the recognitiion he deserves from the left.

As for Amazon and Human Rights Watch, someone listed their complaints about Venezuela and most of them were from before 1998. Chavez was sworn in in January 1999, so I have no idea how their complaints count against Chavez.

As for the claim that he's controlling the press, I return to my quesiton in my previous post: the press vocally criticizes him for the most absurd things and not a single person is in jail because of it. Can't really call that controlling or strong-arming the press, can you?