Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 08:08:03 +1100
Subject: Re: AUT: Left Greens on Chavez
From: Thiago Oppermann <difference_3ngine-AT-yahoo.com.br>


On 9/12/2004 9:54 PM, "Martin Hardie" <hardie-AT-euskalnet.net> wrote:

> On Thursday 09 Dec 2004 11:43, Thiago Oppermann wrote:
>> Dude, he's like Fidel and
>> Evita rolled into the one package.
> 
> This sounds cool .... i might get hooked and pull out my red circulos
> boliviarnos hat
> 
> but can you speak further to this becoming of fidel and evita??
> -- 

He's got this incredibly schmaltzy air about him - he will talk about amor y
caridad for fifteen minutes and occasionally refers to el pueblito. Then he
turns to the defense of the revolution. He's got a national TV spot in
Venezuela where occasionally he breaks into song. He talks endlessly.

I think he's the real deal with all this nutty and to my middle class
Brazilian ears, awful, personna. People really love him, and I'll hand it to
him - he is not a boring technocrat. He is not Ricardo Lagos, thank a
million fucks. But he's not a revolutionary either. I'd say that he is a
kind of pan-Latin, or properly speaking Bolivarian, nationalist. A sort of
Cielito Lindo version of Nasser. Que bueno!

Thiago



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