Chavez compares Ahmadinejad with a murdering despot
Given that right and left are possibly out-dated terms, it’s perhaps nice to see a parade of South American leaders greeting an unpopular right-wing politician with troubles at home.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Bolivian President Evo Morales
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Ahmadinejad and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
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Next stop Venezuela!
However, Ahmadinejad might be slightly concerned about the PR job being done by Chavez prior to his arrival…
Hugo Chávez has defended the jailed Venezuelan terrorist Carlos the Jackal as a freedom fighter and said his life sentence for murder was an injustice.
Venezuela’s president said Carlos, whose real name is Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, was a champion of the Palestinian cause. “I defend him. I don’t care what they say tomorrow in Europe,” Chávez said.
Chávez also praised Zimbabwe’s president, Robert Mugabe, and Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as “brothers” and said the late Ugandan dictator, Idi Amin, may have been a misunderstood patriot.
One may disagree with Chavez’s political preferences, but his ability to spot an oppressive leader from a distance is unquestionably superb.
Comments
| 25 November 2009, 2:18 am |
Fascists will always be attracted to one another.
Live long and keep fighting for freedom.
| 25 November 2009, 6:51 am |
Doesn’t Chavez know that he is making life difficult hard for all those who want to present him as a left wing hero? Doesn’t he have people to advise him about such things?
| 25 November 2009, 7:12 am |
More courageous, strong and indefatigable great leaders. Where’s Galloway?
| 25 November 2009, 9:55 am |
Fascists will always be attracted to one another.
Quite right, this is nothing to do with supporting the left or the right. As someone said, human rights are not about left or right, but about right and wrong. Ahmadinejad stoled an election, that’s par for the course for Chavez. But Lula?
You have to question the man’s sanity.