Venezuelan Catholic society jokes about Hugo Chavez's death

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The Venezuelan chapter of the Salvatorians (Society of the Divine Savior) publish a magazine called "Church and Life."

In its July-August edition, on page 25, is the following "joke."

"Un día el señor Presidente paseaba por la calle, cuando escucha una voz que dice: ‘¡Que se muera el Presidente!. Éste mira desconcertado para todos lados y, cuando ve un loro en la ventana de una casa, decide tocar la puerta. Al abrir la dueña de la vivienda, el Presidente disgustado, le dice que él pasará mañana y el loro no deberá decir eso. La señora preocupada, fue a casa del sacerdote y éste cambia con ella el loro: la señora se lleva el loro del sacerdote y el sacerdote se queda con el loro de ella. Al día siguiente pasa el Presidente y observa que el loro no dice nada. Enojado va y le dice al loro: ‘¿No vas a decir que se muera el Presidente?Â’ Y el loro contesta: ‘¡Que Dios te oiga, hijo mío, que Dios te oiga!".

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One day the señor Presidente was walking along the street, when he heard a voice that said, "May the presidente die." The president, disconcerted, looks all around, and, when he sees a parrot in the window of a house, decides to knock on the door. When the owner of the house opens the door, the presidente, irritated, tells her that when he passes by tomorrow, the parrot should not say that. The woman, concerned, goes to the house of a priest who exchanges his parrot for hers. The following day, the presidente passes by and sees that the parrot is not saying anything. Angry, the Presidente goes and says to the parrot, "Aren't you going to say 'the presidente should die?'" And the parrot replies, "May God hear you, my son. May God hear you."

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Not exactly the right timing for a joke of that nature, considering the tension between the government and the Venezuelan golpista cardinal.

[Judi Lynn]

1. That's really ugly. It's thinly veiled advocacy of assassination. A-holes.

They abuse the authority they have, in their own eyes. What a shame they have such a loud voice in Venezuela.