Billeder fra begravelsesoptoget i Caracas

Millioner af mennesker tog afsked med Hugo Chávez i hovedstaden Caracas den 6. marts 2013:

Bolivias præsident  Evo Morales

Et udpluk af citater fra Venezuelas præsident Hugo Chávez:

"We go from summit to summit, while our people go from abyss to abyss." - At the World Summit for Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002

"You are an ignoramus, you are a burro, Mr. Danger ... or to say it to you in my bad English: (switching to English) You are a donkey, Mr. Danger. You are a donkey, Mr. George W Bush. (Back to Spanish) You are a coward, a killer, a (perpetrator of) genocide, an alcoholic, a drunk, a liar, an immoral person, Mr. Danger. You are the worst, Mr. Danger. The worst of this planet.... A psychologically sick man, I know it."  - Comment made during a nationally televized speech in 2006. Image shows Chávez at a campaign rally in November of 2006.

"Mr. King, I will tell you the following: We have been here for 500 years and we will never shut up, much less at the demand of a monarch." - On Nov. 14, 2007 after Spanish King Juan Carlos told him "why don't you shut up"

"Being rich is bad. It is inhuman." - In 2005 on his personal television show "Aló Presidente"

"You are an imperialist pawn. ... Go straight to hell." - In reference to then British Prime Minister Tony Blair in 2006

Billeder og citater er fra det tyske ugemagasin Der Spiegel og dagbladet Junge Welt.

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Relateret

Participatory Socialist International?: Critique of Michael Albert and Hugo Chavez - on Internationals - hos libcom.org.

Latinamerikas progressive regeringer ved skillevejen - hos modkrafts Kontradoxa.