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Chavez loco for socialism

12:23 H | Topics: Politics - Venezuela

Now that Hugo Chavez has been re-elected as president of Venezuela, he's got one word on his tongue more than ever: socialism. It seems he can't stop talking about it and he is just as quotable as ever:

President Hugo Chávez was sworn in to a new six-year term at a ceremony here on Wednesday in which he described Jesus as “the greatest socialist in history” and pledged to speed Venezuela’s metamorphosis into a Socialist country.

Sometimes I wonder if makes this stuff up with George W. Bush (aka "Mr. Danger") in mind.

As much as he's relating Jesucristo to socialism, Chavez isn't too cozy with the Catholic church in his country:

He railed against his domestic political opponents and dissidents in the Roman Catholic Church, singling out Archbishop Roberto Luckert of Coro, who recently criticized the president’s decision not to renew the broadcast license of RCTV, one of Venezuela’s oldest television stations.

“Monsignor Luckert is going to wait for me in hell,” he said.

Why does translated Chavez sound funnier than Chavez in Spanish?

Via / NYTimes and theCardinal's Corner

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