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Maradona joins the Venezuelan campaign in support of Chavism and Maduro

Thursday, April 11th 2013 - 18:25 UTC
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Venezuelan incumbent presidential candidate Nicolas Maduro’s closing campaign rally will have a special guest on Thursday with football legend Argentine Diego Maradona giving a celebrity boost to the colourful presidential elections that will test Hugo Chavez’s populist legacy. Read full article

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  • Condorito

    Another nutter on the stage. I wish our elections were this entertaining.

    Apr 11th, 2013 - 06:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • briton

    Attend he may,

    but the hand of god wont help him this time.

    Apr 11th, 2013 - 06:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • reality check

    They promised him all the coke he could drink, he said he hoped they did not think it was rude if he shoved it up his nose instead.

    Apr 11th, 2013 - 06:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    Perhaps he has The Hand Of God up Maduro's arse just to make him feel at home.

    Well, it goes with the little bird revelation and the funny hat.

    I think we should have a contest about what should be on the front of that hat, you know, like Kiss Me Quick, but in his case it could say: “I'm about to fcuk everything up, just like our glorious dead Leader”

    OR: “Pass down the bus and hold on tight – Ding Ding”

    LOLs

    Apr 11th, 2013 - 06:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • briton

    ha ha..

    tickets please
    im dead-
    tickets please
    im fxcking dead
    then get of my bus
    we dont carry dead weight ha ha .

    Apr 11th, 2013 - 06:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • reality check

    A single and a half for my friend wrapped in the Kling Film please!

    Apr 11th, 2013 - 06:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Stevie

    4
    or

    Ding Dong
    The witch is dead
    Which old witch
    The wicked old witch

    I know you are in Uruguay, you should go to Britain to appreciate the fun :)

    Apr 11th, 2013 - 06:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Faz

    #7

    The witch isn't dead, she only looks dead, its all that Botox and anti wrinkle cream... Her and Gollum make a lovely pair :-)))

    Apr 11th, 2013 - 06:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Pirate Love

    “Coke Cheats united” what a line-up!

    Apr 11th, 2013 - 07:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Stevie

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    Maggie of the Maggots used Botox as well?

    Apr 11th, 2013 - 07:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • reality check

    Of course she did, on her tongue!!!!!

    Get a lashing from that and you knew about it.

    Apr 11th, 2013 - 07:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Faz

    Maradonna looks like he has been eating too many pies, is he related to Prescott or Eric Pickles, or perhaps Maximo? Who is that little bearded bloke,, shifty looking little sod?

    Apr 11th, 2013 - 07:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Conqueror

    @7,8 You need to read this article properly. It isn't “legend”, it's “leg end”. An instruction on where to shove it in. Sideways, so that it touches the sides. Meanwhile, Tinman's comments also need to be “interpreted”. “None of that makes any sense,” said Timerman“. Infamous for his UN lecture on British ”militarisation“ of the South Atlantic in respect of the British warship that has been sailing to the Falkland Islands for 31 years. Also for the accusations about British nuclear weapons in the ”nuclear-free zone“ of the South Atlantic. Conveniently forgetting that it's possible to go around the treaty zone.
    ”Jaua stated that the bilateral agreements were “legitimate and sovereign.” Didn't say they'd been paid for though, did he?
    “Both diplomatic officials met on Wednesday yesterday for lunch at the Foreign Ministry in Buenos Aires.” Of course they did. And no doubt Jaua put the cost on his expense account because Tinman was looking quite thin.
    “Jaua confirmed his government’s intention to “deepen relations with Argentina,” Digging a grave can be quite exhausting. Especially when it's for several ”people”.

    Apr 11th, 2013 - 07:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Stevie

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    So.... Pinochet died with Botox up his arse?

    Wicked!!!

    Apr 11th, 2013 - 08:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • reality check

    Tongue lashing:

    Fig. a severe scolding. (*Typically: get ~; have ~; give someone ~.)

    Apr 11th, 2013 - 08:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Anbar

    “The former star player Maradona, an avowed supporter of Latin American so called ‘pink tide’ leaders,”

    pink tide?

    seriously?

    PINK TIDE!??

    talk about dodgy euphemisms or what? ;-)

    Apr 11th, 2013 - 09:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • briton

    ooOOOhhh
    The songs, the poems, the rhetoric, the sarcasm ,
    Boy how you Argies hate her,

    But please, facts only

    1, she beat you,
    That’s the only fact that Maggie did to you,

    All the rest is purly hatred from these who knew her not,

    After all losers always try to claim the high ground,
    Either way you lost, get over it.
    .

    Apr 11th, 2013 - 11:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Gordo1

    What with pajaritos talking to him he now needs the “Hand of God”! Desperate days for Venezuela!

    Apr 12th, 2013 - 03:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • brit abroad

    Steve, I was never a thatcher fan, hoever you and all those sad little monkeys openly celebrating her death are all behaving like little children when the teachers left the class room....ok you hate Maggie Thatcher, but why has so little be done since to change the things she put in place? 11 years in power!!!!!! if she was that bad, how did she get away with it for so long? Which excuse you going to use? same one as the RG's use over their support of the Junta???

    Grow up! Shut up! Move on!

    Apr 12th, 2013 - 04:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Stevie

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    I don't hare nobody. I'm merely giving her the same treatment you lot gave Chavez. He was 14 years in power and lots more people agreed with him than with Thatcher. Still you spit at his grave. Why the hypocresy?

    Apr 12th, 2013 - 07:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • reality check

    I would never spit on his grave, I bloody hate queues.

    Apr 12th, 2013 - 07:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • brit abroad

    So you agree to being childish, in so far as you are justifying the celebration of a death by using “eye for an eye” thinking.

    Anyway, clearly you dont know me, andwill be unable to find one post where i riducule Chavez, whether alive or dead, i therefor do not belong in the same group as “you lot”.

    Question: If thatcher had been killed in the bomb attack in Brighton, would all the thatcher haters have celebrated?????

    If so they would have championed terrorism, or can you only celebrate someones death if they die naturally?????

    Back to Steve:

    i would like you to show some reference of “us lot” dancing in streets drinking wine out of bottle and parading a huge sign celebrating the death of Chavez. i can not recall any facebook pages, i can not recall people organising street parties.

    In addition, although chavez was around a bit and his followers liked him/politics very dearly, i do not believe the two leaders can share the same podium. I would argue that in the annuls of history, thatcher upstages chavez tenfold.

    Apr 12th, 2013 - 08:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • golfcronie

    @16
    “ pink tide ” I think lost in translation should be “ pink tied ” as in pink tie around neck. Ought to be a rope.

    Apr 12th, 2013 - 08:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Stevie

    22
    Don't pretend to be what you are not.
    I didn't read a single post of yours condemning the vile rantings of your fellow ideologists when Chavez was on the headlines.
    What is this newfound humanity of yours? And how come it only kicks in on selected occasions?

    Don't be a hypocrite...

    Apr 12th, 2013 - 08:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • brit abroad

    So then Steve Top Cat.......what am i?? You seem to know me well!!

    which is amazing....youre almost as good as marcos, except without the pasted links!!

    Who are my fellow ideologists? where are they? Why am i in the same grouping? Do we live in the same place?

    Please explain when/where i illustrated inhumanity....pretty please!

    FYI,

    1) I actually (bar some stuff in his later career) think Chavez did some great things for his country, and I do not have the spite towards chavez as you imply (unless you can prove otherwise).
    2) I am not a conservative, and not a great fan of Thatcher at all, but that doesnt mean i want to celebrate her death. however (i did agree, 100%, with her defence of the falkland islands)

    So Steve ESP, how......i mean how?????????????? Does that make me a hypocrite!

    Oh....re your last question: “And how come it only kicks in on selected occasions?”.....I make posts on here, if i i can find the time, and if i find something worth posting about. I read your comments and thought it right to make a post.

    Do i really have to explain myself to you???????? Jeezzz

    Apr 12th, 2013 - 08:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Stevie

    The very fact that you choose to make a critical statement on the celebrations of Thatcher's death, but kept your selective mouth shut on the celebrations of Chavez', is quite hypocritical.

    And no, you don't have to explain yourself to me. Regardless what, I will point out your hypocresy whenever I see it.
    If you want to play the humanist, do it properly. Selective humanism will get you nowhere.

    Apr 12th, 2013 - 09:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • brit abroad

    hehe, i didnt even read the articles about his death...i merely read the headlines as that is all i thought was important. So now, my little simian friend, does that still make me a hypocrite?

    I repeat (as your one brain cell is clearly straining) a section of my last post (yawwwwwn):

    “I make posts on here, if i i can find the time, and if i find something worth posting about. I read your comments and thought it right to make a post.”

    I add to this post that i didnt read the posts relating to Chavez death.

    I would like to suggest that before you start lording-it-up over me (and probably others) one should really get ones facts in order and not make loose assumptions.

    BTW, can you define your idea of “humanism”? and how it relates to this and the related posts? Do you consider yourself a “humanist”?

    Apr 13th, 2013 - 09:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Stevie

    27
    Great, so now we should all adapt ourselves according to what is important to you. We should respect your dead because death shouldn't be celebrated, all while you lot celebrate our dead. Which is fine, as long as you don't read about it.
    I suggest you have a look at what was posted in the comment sections upon Chavez' death, then you tell your simian brothers the same as you are saying now.

    For me, a humanist concentrates on the values of a human being, judges him by his character and not by anything else.
    A philosophy that embraces nature as part of the human race and, without other tools than rational thinking, sets the foundation for our behaviour against eachother.
    I consider humanism as an end goal. As things are today, there is a long way to walk before we could even agree on what morals to follow...

    Apr 13th, 2013 - 11:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    I think the new Christian Chavez should have holy water poured over his coffin.

    I am just the person to do that, once it has passed through my kidneys.

    LOLs

    Apr 13th, 2013 - 04:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0

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