Hugo Chavez to Visit NYC Hall
12:24 pm By Maegan La Mala · Controversia| New York City| Politics| Venezuela
22 Sep 2008
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is going to be in NYC this week for the UN Summit. While we all wait with to see what metaphor for the U.S. empire Chavez will come up with this time, NYC Councilman Charles Barron is extending an invitation for Chavez to stop by City Hall.
Barron has called Chavez:
a shining example of a humanitarian.
This of course has other NYC politicos not too pleased. Peter Vallone Jr.,told the Daily News,
“If he wants to invite despotic dictators, he should invite them to his own house. They don’t belong at the home of democracy in New York City.”
Former Mayor Ed Koch said:
Barron has a right to invite anybody he wants, and everybody else has a right to moon him.
Ed Koch mooning? There’s an image I don’t want.
Via / Gothamist
- Tags: Charles barron, Ed Koch, Hugo Chavez, UN Summit
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1 Response to Hugo Chavez to Visit NYC Hall
justthefactssir
September 23rd, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Well… you are wrong about that. Hugo Chavez is in China.
Where “China is showing the world and has shown the world that it isn’t necessary to harm anyone to be a great power,” Chavez told reporters upon his arrival in Beijing. “They’re soldiers of peace.”
– “Venezuela’s Chavez in China, 1st Leg of Int’l Tour”
AP story by C. Bodeen (09.23.2008)