| | Stockholm Spectator GroupBlog » Expressen: Milquetoast on Chavez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | In the run-up to tomorrow’s recall election in Caracas, the busy-bodies in Ung Vänster plastered the city with posters admonishing BUSH (the President’s name is frequently capitalized, to underscore his malevolence) and his cabal of neo-con imperialists to keep their grubby mitts off of Venezuela. |
 | | Writing in yesterday’s Expressen, Magnus Linton, former editor of the Marxist "workers" (read: student") paper Arbetaren, offered muted criticism of Chavez the leader, while praising Chavez the man: "Hugo Chavez is a good-hearted soldier but an incompetent politician
Nevertheless—and herein lies the tragedy—he is better than the alternatives. |
 | | It is, of course, smart politics: blaming the United States for your problems creates an instant constituency abroad. |
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