Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez said Saturday that Fidel really was on the verge of death a few months ago, but that the Cuban leader was more concerned about Chavez not dying than himself. Awwww.
“Fidel, when he was cofined to the bed — because he’s not in the bed anymore — was in very delicate health,” said Chavez before a crowd in an event related to the unified government party that he is creating.
Chávez said that he had told Fidel that he could not die. “But there he was, having already been in danger of dying for many days, and he said ‘Chávez, I can die now. You don’t worry about me; you are the one who can’t die.”
On Sunday, Chavez announced on his weekly radio show that he has a plan for “collective property”, which would take large “idle” parcels of land from their owners and into the hands of the Venezuelan people. Man, he was serious about that socialism thing.
Via / El Mundo and Yahoo! News
Michelle Bachelet, the Chilean president who was elected in March and is the first woman to hold this office in South America, addressed the nation yesterday from Valparaiso to announce some of the initiatives of her administration. It’s clear that Bachelet’s focus is on effecting change in the areas of Chilean society where it is most needed. She plans to take profits from Chile’s booming copper industry and invest funds into social programs for the poor, secured pensions, education and other initiatives.However, Bachelet is being cautious about how she allocates the estimated 11 billion dollars in revenue, stating:
“Latin America’s history is full of examples of how wealth created in good times was poorly administered, and how things would end in crisis,” said President Bachelet, making special reference to Chile’s own “boom” more than a century ago when saltpeter mining in the north created tremendous wealth for the country. “The price of copper today creates an opportunity for us, but it is also a challenge,” she said.
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