Chavez calls Honduran cardinal a 'clown'

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Chavez calls Honduran cardinal a ‘clown’
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CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez called a cardinal from Honduras an “imperialist clown” after the Roman Catholic prelate warned of increasing authoritarianism under the Venezuelan leader.

“Another parrot of imperialism appeared, this time dressed as a cardinal. That’s to say, another imperialist clown,” Chavez was quoted as saying in a bulletin posted Tuesday on the state-run news agency’s Web site.

Chavez — a close ally of Cuba’s Fidel Castro — was responding to criticism from Honduran Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, who said in a recent interview cited by Venezuela’s Bolivarian News Agency that Chavez “thinks he’s God and can trample upon other people.”

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JW10631 said:
His mouth works a lot better than his brain.
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Unfortunately this is true. Running his mouth might be annoying for us, or more frequently entertaining. More important is what he does with the rest of the country. His moves toward media censorship and restrictions of basic democratic rights are worrying, but even more instructive is a comparison with Russia, which has been taking similar actions: In Russia, in spite of the negatives we just mentioned, Putin has at least been working to strengthen the economy.

Chavez is instead frittering away his country’s budget surpluses from petroleum by funding leftist movements in other Latin American countries, providing subsidized oil/gasoline to American Indian reservations, etc, all while failing to reinvest in the oil infrastructure in Venezuela. IIRC, output is actually falling in that country at a time when it would make sense to try to increase it to take advantage of prices.
 
If a clown’s traditional role is to speak the hard truth forthrightly to the rulers and bring them down to earth, then I would say that Chavez is, ironically, onto something accurate in his assessment. For this reality of roles has understandably angered him by pricking his conscience and calling to public attention that the emperor has no clothes. The Cardinal should take this statement as a clear compliment and acknowledgement of effectiveness in evangelization. All hail the Clown of God!
 
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