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05-27-2006, 10:41 PM
Lowell Ponte
FrontPageMagazine
26 May 06
He was hailed as the next Fidel Castro, the messianic resurrection of moribund Marxism who would unite Latin America with his fiery anti-Americanism and lead the overthrow of global capitalism.
But from Newsweek International to the New York Times, whose dishonest reporting helped install Castro almost half a century ago, a different conclusion is now emerging: Hugo Chavez, the megalomaniac Marxist dictator of Venezuela, has peaked and is now on his way down. As Newsweek reporter Ruchir Sharma wrote this week, “That Chavez Thing Is Over.”
“Much to the disappointment of the romantics” on the radical Left, wrote Sharma, it now appears likely that Hugo Chavez’s revolution will fail, “be pushed to the fringe, marginalized…the Chavez road will have led nowhere.”
Graying Reds and other leftists continue to make pilgrimages to Chavez’s socialist shrine in Caracas, as they once made on their knees to Moscow, Managua, and Havana. Among these “sandalistas” are Castro-loving actor Danny Glover, Jamaican singer Harry Belafonte, anti-war media addict Cindy Sheehan, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, and African-American pseudo-scholar Cornel West.
The San Francisco anti-capitalism group Global Exchange now arranges tours of socialist Venezuela for fashionable American leftists.
More (http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22622)
FrontPageMagazine
26 May 06
He was hailed as the next Fidel Castro, the messianic resurrection of moribund Marxism who would unite Latin America with his fiery anti-Americanism and lead the overthrow of global capitalism.
But from Newsweek International to the New York Times, whose dishonest reporting helped install Castro almost half a century ago, a different conclusion is now emerging: Hugo Chavez, the megalomaniac Marxist dictator of Venezuela, has peaked and is now on his way down. As Newsweek reporter Ruchir Sharma wrote this week, “That Chavez Thing Is Over.”
“Much to the disappointment of the romantics” on the radical Left, wrote Sharma, it now appears likely that Hugo Chavez’s revolution will fail, “be pushed to the fringe, marginalized…the Chavez road will have led nowhere.”
Graying Reds and other leftists continue to make pilgrimages to Chavez’s socialist shrine in Caracas, as they once made on their knees to Moscow, Managua, and Havana. Among these “sandalistas” are Castro-loving actor Danny Glover, Jamaican singer Harry Belafonte, anti-war media addict Cindy Sheehan, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, and African-American pseudo-scholar Cornel West.
The San Francisco anti-capitalism group Global Exchange now arranges tours of socialist Venezuela for fashionable American leftists.
More (http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22622)