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we have learned that venezuelan president hugo chavez has died at age
fifty eight in battling cancer for a couple of years until you have a little
bit of a different perspective on this that may be a lot of people uh...
because i am from argentina most makes and family still in argentina
and he looked rather than other
south american
uh... leaders are often topics of discussion is kind of interesting
because the the topics is that the the perspective on china's is often very
different argentina in the sense that
while there are many people who do you think
uh... who see him much the way that most americans do which is a guy who
uh... walt while you may believe any kind of says what he wants and isn't
afraid to say whatever he wants that there's some significant problems in
this country
and that is not going to force overall for good
uh... at the same time there are many people in argentina
uh... who who do have that that kind of point of view
uh... but it's very common in a way that i don't think is really
casual discussion here in the u_s_ to discuss either chosen to discuss
venezuela and knowing a lot of people who live there have been there
uh... i'm very curious to see what's going to happen here
fourteen years childless is president
uh... i think that
one interesting aspect of of the next couple of years or even the next six
months is
that israel is one of the few places
loosely can be considered and ally overran an iran is a country that also
now is um... i guess he did say on the brink of escalating conflict with the
u_s_ and u_s_ allies
and uh... there was some some plausible feeling that they had an ally in
venezuela now
it's not clear whether that will continue
it's not clear whether uh... whether whoever's elected in the election to be
called within thirty days and uh... as well
will continue what is somewhat oven allied type situation with iran or
whether they were will not here i think it's interesting that indian recently
now we've seen the death of kim jong il in north korea
analogy which i was in venezuela
to of a handful of need leaders with which the u_s_ has of not particularly
positive
uh... relationships now the wall street journal has reported and scalable
conventional wisdom
that nicholas mc duro will be the uh... a successor until the election is called
which will be within the next thirty days
and um... i i think that one thing i do want to touch on his for a lot of people
don't know specifically
what what are the problems with what's been going on with you go child as in
venezuela for fourteen years
and i have here actually just received that this is the human rights watch
world report from twenty thirteen
and i think i've bookmarked where it talks about venezuela and if we look at
each
section i think that this really tells us a lot of with the problems are uh...
in two thousand four cha residents legislative aides conducted a political
takeover of the supreme court when it comes to judicial independence freedom
of media
the chinese government has expanded and abused its powers to regulate the media
human rights defenders the chinese government has intensified its efforts
to marginalize the country's human rights defenders by repeatedly accusing
them of seeking to undermine democracy with support of the u_s_ government
police abuses violent crime is rampant in venezuela and extra judicial killings
by security agents are great problem this is peter visa section on the
reading the first paragraph which kind of a percent is kind of sums up
prison conditions venezuelan prisons are among the most violent in latin america
labor rights the national electoral council has the power to organize and
certify all union elections violating international standards the guarantee
workers the right to elect representatives in for freedom
and the he injured after hackers
venezuela has increasingly rejected international monitoring of its human
rights record rejecting binding rulings of the inter-american court of human
right so uncovering aspect
key international actors labor rights police prisons human rights freedom of
media and judicial independence
human rights watch is latest report
shows why we have serious problems in venezuela and the most interesting
question for me now will be after the initial reaction to the death of you
which i was uh...
uh... subsides
uh... what is going to happen with every one of those aspects which really is
about what should be most important for any government which is the people
living in that country