Posts Tagged ‘socialism’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxGiehkgFXs

I have 2 excellent talks he gave when he was our guest at the dept of economics at Rollins College.

Check out my youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/DearBalak

 

One is a hard-core revolutionary hip-hop artist and the other a conspiracy “nut” right?
NO! listen to this and tell me it’s not way more sophisticated and scholarly than anything you you get on mainstream media.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hUPdkxsOV8

Here’s a good documentary on Chavez in the broader context of Latin America’s 500+ years genocide, slavery, exploitation, and poverty. There are many other sources on this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6vBlV5TUI64

 

So we are looking for available air-time to discuss this and examine the big picture. Also, I will write a very short obituary in the East Orlando Post as soon as I can…

In the meantime, check out these 2 articles:

Defending Chavez: http://www.thenation.com/article/173212/legacy-hugo-chavez

Most well-meaning (but somewhat misinformed) people relied on this one to establish how bad Chavez was: http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/03/05/venezuela-chavez-s-authoritarian-legacy (I’m very disappointed in Human Rights Watch for providing information with NO CONTEXT AT ALL–Fox/MSNBC style)

 

Like all great men he was a complicated man in a complicated situation. But he created the first democracy in Latin America and even enabled the wave of liberty and justice beyond his own Venezuela. Also, he was the first indigenous leader to overcome the racist colonial and postcolonial regimes in the region for 500+ years since the Spanish conquest.