Hugo Chavez "The Killer"--In Case You Missed It

NewsMax, Thursday, Sept. 15, 2005 12:52 a.m. EDT
Hugo Chavez 'The Killer'

Media in the U.S. were quick to report on – and loudly criticize – Pat Robertson’s call for America to neutralize Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

Why, then, have they remained silent about a recent conference in Venezuela where delegates called for the death of President Bush, asks Thor Halvorssen, president of the New York-based Human Rights Foundation?

The Chavez government expressed outrage over Robertson’s remarks and has accused the U.S. of plotting to assassinate him.

But in an opinion piece headlined "Chavez the Killer,” Halvorssen points out that Chavez himself twice tried to kill a head of state – the president of Venezuela...

...Now Chavez’s government is calling for the death of President Bush.

The 16th World Youth and Students Festival – a "communist gathering,” notes Halvorssen – was held in August in Venezuela and funded by the Chavez government.

The festival included an "international tribunal” presided over by Venezuela’s Vice President Jose Vincente Rangel, during which Chavez "testified” that George Bush was the cause of the world’s terrorism.

Delegates were seen on film chanting "Death to America” and holding signs that read, "Death to Bush.”

Writes Halvorssen: "How can the Venezuelan government justify condemning Robertson when it spends millions of dollars hosting a conference that promotes violence, hate and assassination? And why does the U.S. media, which blitzed Robertson, give Chavez a free pass?

Now there's a couple of fine questions, if you ask me.

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