It is encouraging to witness the representation of true democracy in action in Latin America. I beleive Bachelet and Chavez have the ethical and moral standards that are so necessary, though conspicuously absent within the ranks of so many Western governments, to provide their respective populations with fair, decent and egalitarian societies. I am sorry to say that here in Australia, the extreme right wing government of Prime Minister John Howard exemplifies the tragic absence of such qualities of leadership all too clearly.

To quote Hugo Chavez, " This is a different Venezuela, where the wretched of the earth know that they can free themselves from their past. And this is a different Latin America".

Chavez is my hero, plain and simple.

This has got to set the teeth of the people in the Neo-Con white house right on edge!



A king can stand people fighting but he can't last long if
people start thinking.

YES!!! Chavez is the leader we have all been waiting for. It's funny how when white American liberals and progressives get together to talk about leadership, we all talk about white Americans. Silly us. We have so much to learn from the people we have treated as inferior for so long. What did Washington expect? We, the US, are now officially recognized for what we have become, a predatory rogue state, by the other nations of this hemisphere. When one person calls you a donkey, you can ignore him. Two may give pause for thought. When a third neighbor calls you a donkey, check the length of your ears. If you want to hear the truth about American foreign policy in the Americas, better learn Spanish. Víva la Revolución! Oh, and while kudos certainly are due for Chavez and Bachelet, please don't leave brave little Cuba's Castro out.