Good riddance.

enough time to set up that region of the world to be able resist the expected invasion of the Global Oil Cartels and who will try to turn back the clock to the days before Chavez rightfully took back Venezuela's resources and use them to help the people who own them. Of course the corrupt, right wing criminals who plagued SA for so long, were furious over losing their control on not only Venezuela, but on other countries who also began to retake their countries and their sovereignty. No more Western supported dictators there. I think Chavez succeeded in making it very difficult for them to do that again.

As for Castro, did you know that only in America is there this obsessive hatred for the man? In Europe eg, first Europeans are free to travel to any country they want to, including Cuba, and he is recognized as the ouster of another one of our brutal dictator allies. Like Aristedes in Haiti, also hated by the right wingers here in the US because he ousted another of our dictator buddies.

Why is it that the US always supports right wing dictators? Why are we still supporting criminals like Uribe and Karamov in Uzbekistan among others?

Matters not.

were too smart and informed for that. Well, we USED to be!

It's not like they don't know they're full of it.

so I doubt they get any converts. I have read that millions have been spent on spreading the lies about Chavez. It must be frustrating to spend that much money and fail so miserably to achieve much of anything. He is the most popular leader in S. America and will probably be even more so now. What a waste of our tax dollars.

http://www.infoamerica.org/primera/lb_2011.pdf

never have a word to say about the US's favorite and real dictators, people like Karamov eg, a man who boils his people in oil, who is guilty of genocide against his own people, who WE supply with money and arms. Uribe, a war criminal, another one the Chavez haters love and our country supported in every way.

We do love our dictators here in the US. But we don't like democratically elected leaders chosen by their own people, especially when they come from oil producing countries and have the nerve to spend the revenues on the people who own that oil.

I'm actually laughing at how hard you are working. Stop, it's not working. The only statistic that counts where Chavez is concerned is the one that is provable, the multiple elections he won in spite of all the money spent to try to defeat him.

I don't read propaganda from unreliable sources. I look at election results and I love them. Finally, S. America begins to rid itself of Western dictators and their right wing allies.

then perhaps you should desist spewing nonsensical flapdoodle about his popularity throughout the region.

over the region, in their own words as revealed by Wikileaks' cables. Like I said, I look for factual material and pay very little attention to the Corporate Media. Wikileaks certainly replaced the Corporate Media for anyone actually interested in FACTS, for which they have received many journalistic awards.

Chavez's ideas for strengthening the region against another invasion by Western Corps were long overdue. I have no idea whether he was personally popular, that is irrelevant, but his ideas to protect the region from Western Corporate theft of their resources most certainly were and are.

Hopefully there has been enough time to put those protections in place to prevent a return of the corrupt, global Corporations and a repeat of their installed dictator puppets. I think he did enough work to prevent such a disaster from happening once again.

Google turned up nothing for me.

The word 'dictator' is mild when it comes to Karamov. Proves my point about the propaganda from the Western media against Latin American leaders. You won't have any problem googling them together the false charge 'dictator'.

It's not as if there haven't been hundreds of comments regarding his filthy behavior over many years, starting with the _{George W Bush} pResidency, right here at D.U.

Boiling:

The government of Uzbekistan under the regime of Islam Karimov[18] has boiled a number of political dissidents. The British ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, explains in his memoir Murder in Samarkand that he obtained photos of the corpse of Muzafar Avazov and sent them to a forensic pathologist in Britain, who concluded that the visible injuries were consistent with a living person having been immersed in boiling water.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_by_boiling

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Human rights and press freedom

The international community [27] has repeatedly criticized the Karimov administration's record on human rights and press freedom. In particular, Craig Murray, the British Ambassador from 2002 to 2004, described widespread torture, kidnapping, murder, rape by the police, financial corruption, religious persecution, censorship, and other human rights abuses. This included the case of Karimov's security forces executing prisoners Muzafar Avazov and Khuzniddin Alimov by boiling them alive in 2002.[25] Murray became noted within the British government for memos disagreeing with official UK & US policy, which was at the time to back up Karimov as part of the global war on terror. Uzbekistan was used for extraordinary rendition and for the air base in Karshi-Khanabad. Murray wrote a memoir about his experiences; Murder in Samarkand, retitled Dirty Diplomacy in the United States.[26]

In response, the Uzbek government criticized Murray for not behaving like a genuine British ambassador. It informally stated that diplomacy is more about mutual compromise rather than one-handed harsh criticism. The British government replaced him in 2005.[citation needed]

The United Nations found torture "institutionalized, systematic, and rampant" in Uzbekistan's judicial system.[27] For several years, Parade magazine has selected Karimov as one of the world's worst dictators, citing his tactics of torture, media censorship, and fake elections.[28]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_Karimov

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Uzbek Dictator Shifts From Boiling People to Freezing Them
John Glaser, November 04, 2011

The psycho dictator of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov, became notorious for boiling his detainees alive after torturing them brutally. Well, no it seems he’s gone in the other direction. And just in time, too, for the Obama administration to fully embrace them with aid and weapons.

Abdurakhmon Tashanov of the Tashkent-based Ezgulik (Goodness) human rights center told Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty recently that his organization has “information about the existence of special torture cells that are extremely cold and in which the guards and interrogators put cold water on the floors to increase the suffering of the inmates.”

And it gets much worse than that. Read the whole piece for details on what kind of torture prisoners in Uzbekistan have to endure under America’s new favorite authoritarian.

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http://antiwar.com/blog/2011/11/04/uzbek-dictator-shifts-from-boiling-people-to-freezing-them/

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Our new best friends boil dissidents alive
Peter Hitchens
Last updated at 12:16 23 April 2004

They boil people to death here.

They also beat them up in the street, suffocate them, drag them to mental hospitals and forcibly inject them with drugs, ram bottles up their behinds in squalid prisons and plant drugs on them, not to mention all the usual things such as censoring the newspapers and rigging the elections.

Of course, there is no shortage of nations where this sort of thing goes on.

Human rights organisations complain about it and we are shocked. But what makes Uzbekistan different is that President Islam Karimov is an ally of the free, democratic West, which fights under such mottos as 'enduring freedom'.

He is an official friend of Britain and the United States and so we must overlook his little faults; the occasional boiling, the far-from-occasional execution, the odd unexplained death in custody, an estimated 6,000 political prisoners in a country of 25 million people and the almost total lack of genuine liberty, law or democracy. These things are just not as important as the higher purpose of our national interest.

More:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/columnists/article-228241/Our-new-best-friends-boil-dissidents-alive.html