Wednesday, September 06, 2006

A pathetic performance by Hugo Chavez

Miguel Octavio writes:

(Chavez) mentioned the problem of security again for only the second time in almost eight years. This time, he asked the people to help protect the Cuban Doctors, because one Cuban medical doctor, in Venezuela for the Barrio Adentro program, was killed with a knife in the Caracas neighborhood of Petare. 90,000 Venezuelans have been killed under Chavez’ watch, practically tripling the yearly number of 1998 when he first assumed power, Venezuela has become worse than Colombia in terms of violent deaths, 40 Venezuelans die daily in violent crimes and the number of people killed in police confrontations has gone up by a factor of five (see here), and all the autocrat seems to really care for are his political buddies and Cuban doctors.

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