This whole Hugo Chavez hatred is so weird. [View All]

He's called all kinds of names and accused of all kinds of things and most people seem to have so few facts in hand. It just blows me away.

It's hatred. Why would people feel so much intense emotion against someone like Chavez -- who has been befriended by so many prominent progressives?

It's just strange.

I don't believe he's better than he is but, good God, the vitriol is amazing.

My grandfather worked under possibly the most brutal dictator in the history of El Salvador. He didn't set up hot meals for school kids or try to wrest the country's resources back from corporations or try to form a long term plan to fend of the incursions of US hegemony.

I just don't get it. Is it because he's brown and speaks a funny language? What?