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“I’m not Chavez, but I’m his son” Maduro tells his followers
“I’m not (Hugo) Chavez, but I’m his son”, Venezuelan acting president Nicolas Maduro said on Monday on making official his candidacy before the Electoral Tribunal for the April 14 snap election to choose a successor to the deceased charismatic leader. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesWe are all Chavez! But not Maduro, he's our son! Now it gets complicated...
Mar 12th, 2013 - 07:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0NO!!!! I'm Chavez!!!
Mar 12th, 2013 - 07:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0lets hope they can have a fair and democratic election now, just use the Falklands referendum as a blue print of how to do it.
Mar 12th, 2013 - 08:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0For all Chavez's faults, he didn't start a religion. Maduro seems to be starting one though.
Mar 12th, 2013 - 08:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0We have a father.
We have a son.
And if chavismo is the holy spirit?
Then AMEN!
I'm Chavez! And so's my wife!
Mar 12th, 2013 - 08:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0(with a nod to Monty Python) :D
@5 beat me to it, brian.
Mar 12th, 2013 - 09:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0all sounds very inbred either way you cut it......
you have to love populist south america, they are all gullable as f*ck.
I wonder how Mrs Chavez feels about her husband's indiscretions. I mean, how many more sons are going to crawl out of the woodwork? Will they expect her to cook dinner for them every night? Are there any extraneous daughters out there to help with the washing-up?
Mar 12th, 2013 - 10:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0@6 It is an interesting point you make there. Simón Bolívar's plan was to create a United States of South America and a democracy until he realised it would never work there, so he declared himself a dictator. (Though he later resigned that position intending to return to Europe). He realised that the Catholic masses there were more receptive to being told what to do and think. Add to that the indulgence in myths and tales that seem to walk hand in hand with Catholicism and you can see why his Plan B worked. Dictatorships under any guise seem to go down a treat there.
Mar 12th, 2013 - 11:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0Loving the Life of Brian jokes. What a twit Maduro is. “I am Chavez, no wait, I am his son” He should go on the Jeremy Kyle show and get a DNA test.
The nod is less to Python and more to Douglas et al:
Mar 12th, 2013 - 11:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0Not-Douglas ... “I'm Spartacus!”
Not-Douglas ... “I'm Spartacus!”
Not-Douglas ... “I'm Spartacus!”
Douglas ... “I'm the one keeping my mouth shut”
It's a sound election tactic - possibly even a long term strategy, like Peronism.
'Son of Chavez' is really aiming for the long term: “One million years ..”.
This is a thousand times longer than even Hitler claimed for his 7 year dynasty.
'Bombast' ... over-estimation, absurdity, empty-talk, magniloquence, ridiculousness, boastfulness.
Maximo? Strong resemblance
Mar 12th, 2013 - 11:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0I'm not a Chavez, if I send him the wool, will he knit me one?
Mar 12th, 2013 - 12:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“We are all Chavez, workers of the fatherland, Chavez for ever!”
Mar 12th, 2013 - 01:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“We are all Peron, workers of the fatherland, Peron for ever!”
“We are all Hitler, workers of the Fatherland, Hilter for ever!”
“We are all Mao, workers of the fatherland, Mao for ever!”
Same odious bile, different shovel.
Oh dear, it's Kim Jong Un all over again. You get rid of one porky little despot, like Chubby Chávez and another pops up to take his place. What is it with this recent spate of fat psycho dictators? Not to be outdone, now KFC's grooming Maximo to continue Nestor's ruling dynasty.
Mar 12th, 2013 - 01:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@13 He's being turned into a waxwork like Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung too! Then starving-crying Venezuelans can queue up to throw plastic flowers at him before returning home for some shoe-soup while their political classes stuff their faces on various rich meats.
Mar 12th, 2013 - 01:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Don't you just love communism for delivering equality, regardless of how veiled.
One should be afraid, VERY afraid, when, in the opening electoral gambit, ”Son of Sam, uh Chavez, says “if necessary we will resort to arms to defend the revolution of Commander Chavez” North American reporters (VICE) say that the streets of Caracas are perilous now. Get ready. By the time the smoke clears, there may not be much of a population left to govern or carry on this grand revolution cause they're already slaughtering each other, according to those reports. Seems that any sensible Venezuelan would be thinking hard about becoimng expatriate to save his/her life.
Mar 12th, 2013 - 01:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I like the look of the new president: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BFGCEUlCYAEQTyn.jpg:large
Mar 12th, 2013 - 02:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'm not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant pluckers son...
Mar 12th, 2013 - 03:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“I’m not Chavez, but I’m his son” Maduro.
Mar 12th, 2013 - 04:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0come off it we all know who your real father is.
http://bearcat8.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/gaz.jpg
and the co-breeder,
http://bearcat8.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/gaz.jpg
Its an exclusive you heard it hear first.
@16 Looks more like Mugabe!
Mar 12th, 2013 - 05:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@18 The little one is dead now as well, I think it must have been the shock of waking up next to TMBOA.
LOLs folks.
Wow! Chavez born in 1954. Maduro born in 1962. What was Chavez up to when he was 8? Is an 8-year old even capable? Always good to start with an obvious lie.
Mar 12th, 2013 - 05:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@7 lol
Mar 12th, 2013 - 05:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@8 Good analysis. I'm thinking much of the population there had Inca practices pre-Catholicism, so for them that IS a step UP.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_Inca_Empire
Their practices previous to Catholicism included a lot of negs: curses, belief in 'bad luck', and appeasement of “negative spirits”, & oh yeah, mass sacrifice of LIFE..
So they've made progress.
I am SoO GLAD to see the beginnings of personal empowerment there, thats the way out of authoritarianism! The mindset of even Catholicism is predicted to be functionally gone by 2075.
You beat me to it Raven.
Mar 12th, 2013 - 07:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0'I'm not a Chavenista, I'm a Chavenista's son
And I keep on screwing people 'til the Chavenistin's done.'
I’m not Chavez, but I’m his son
Mar 12th, 2013 - 07:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0prove it,
birth cert please,
all these lies and he aint even in power yet.
“I’m not Chavez, but I’m his son” Maduro
Mar 12th, 2013 - 07:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ahhh....that explains why i saw chavez's wife breastfeeding him......Bitty!!!
does his son go on youtube ripping up $100 bills unapologetically too, like his daughter?
Mar 12th, 2013 - 07:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Venezuela is launching a formal inveztigation into the U.S. region giving Chavez, his health problemos.
Mar 12th, 2013 - 09:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ok, had this discussion w a friend yesterday. She said Chavez wasn't morbidly obese. That means he had an extra 100 pounds on his 5'8 frame, or about 235 pounds. He totally was: http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://i800.photobucket.com/albums/yy281/donherrera12/2011-12-28T021221Z_59163129_GM1E7CS.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2826098/posts&usg=__YbbH1pdtm43TSvuegifx_bMU4dY=&h=356&w=512&sz=33&hl=en&start=22&zoom=1&tbnid=G-Xb-1jp_O1lGM:&tbnh=91&tbnw=131&ei=JJ0_Ud2GNMTo2AWTloH4AQ&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dchavez%2Bfat%26start%3D20%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26tbm%3Disch&itbs=1&sa=X&ved=0CAoQrQMwATgU
He's not the Messiah - he's a very naughty boy!
Mar 12th, 2013 - 09:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Here's the working photo link-a pic of him & the Arg president: http://m800.photobucket.com/albumview/albums/donherrera12/2011-12-28T021221Z_59163129_GM1E7CS.jpg.html?o=79
Mar 12th, 2013 - 09:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Maduro is not his son, but he could have been his bitch! :o)
Mar 12th, 2013 - 09:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The loyal bus-driver speaks.
Mar 13th, 2013 - 05:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0HABEMUS TROLL
Mar 13th, 2013 - 06:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0LEPRecon #27
Mar 14th, 2013 - 11:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0... ah, the memories! My kids see much less of the humour that bowled us over at the time. For me, it never dates.
It seems that they cannot embalm Chavez as they left it too long after he died. Hmmmm. I wonder how long he was dead before they announced it?
Mar 14th, 2013 - 05:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You set a goal
Mar 14th, 2013 - 08:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You get a goal
Unless you're Maduro http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/14/world/americas/venezuela-chavez-embalm/index.html
So Maduro is a stupid bastard after all!
Mar 14th, 2013 - 08:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Maduro and Morales are as thick as two short planks.
Mar 14th, 2013 - 08:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I called your embalming lies when you made them public, now that your lies are exposed, it is, as usual, someone elses fault. Sad little lives on a sad little place, and worse is, you're merely borrowing it.
Mar 15th, 2013 - 07:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0PMSL
Mar 15th, 2013 - 12:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Chavez has rotted too much to be embalmed? Oh this is too funny.
I told them they would need a backup generator for the fridge with the unreliable electricity supply. Or perhaps they should have embalmed him earlier when he died in Cuba.
Now I won't be able to pop over to Caracas when I'm in Colombia next and pay my “respects” to his face.
I'm still laughing. Thanks ElaineB. Made my night.
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