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[eppie]

Both those links were to UK reports. Herma Marksman is a Venezuelan.

How about Human Rights Watch International?

BBC -- Venezuela steps up land seizures

Human rights watch has comments even on the Netherlands....

Like I said Chavez does questionable things....but I can't see much problems with this land seizure thing.

The question is not "Does he have a right to be against the US and the West?"

I think he is not against the west. He is rightly against mainly the US policy against development countries. And If I might say so, it is time that somebody like him steps up. His decision to quit the membership of the world bank is a very interesting one. It might just be a beginning of the real development of poor countries. I know, he can do these things because of the oil.....but than again this is what Saudi Arabia is doing as well.

The question is "Is he a dictator and a fascist?"

The answer is 100 % NO

Hitler too was a socialist when he rose to power in the German Workers Party. Benito Mussolini was a socialist who transformed from "Fasci d'azione rivoluzionaria internazionalista" into "Fasci Italiani di Combattimento".

They were no socialist.They were leaders of countries which still today have a very strong togetherness feeling. To call them socialists as well as to compare Chavez with them is absolutely despicable.
I see that in Italy also the thinking very lightly about the war period is very common. Much different in Holland which was more a victim country.
Don't confuse socialism with national socialism by the way, the name is somewhat similar but they are completely different things. I guess that if hitler would have called his party the `let's kill all the jews party' he would not be so popular.

Herma Marksman has claimed that Hugo Chavez also has abandoned the socialist cause of helping the people and instead wields his power as do other fascist dictators.

But, rather than call me names and try to discredit my post as "propaganda", why not point to where I'm wrong. I fail to see where anything I pointed out was not factual. Help me out here eppie.

I don't want to call your names. I respect you too much as a discussion partner. I just got a bit annoyed by the way in the US people are constantly badmouthing Cuba and now Venezuela....treating them like enemies that are on the brink of attacking the US. I just don't expect those kind of things from an intelligent person like you.