Hoy leí un artículo que considero hace un pequeño resumen de lo que realmente representa Chávez y las cosas generales que ha hecho últimamente. Me refiero al artículo escrito por el periodista Andrés Oppenheimer como respuesta a Chávez, el cual hizo referencia a los artículos de Oppenheimer en días pasados. Copio el artículo en ingles para la mayor difusión de la información.
Italiano:
Oggi ho letto un articolo che considero fa un piccolo riassunto di quello che veramente rappresenta Chávez e le cose generali che ha fatto negli ultimi tempi. Mi riferisco all'articolo scritto dal giornalista Andrés Oppenheimer come risposta a Chavéz, il cui ha fatto riferimento agli articoli di Oppenheimer nei passati giorni. Faccio la coppia dell'articolo in inglese per la maggiore diffusione dell'informazione." Rombet E. Camperos F.
THE OPPENHEIMER REPORT
Some questions for Chávez from `deep-thinking analyst'
BY ANDRES OPPENHEIMER
aoppenheimer@MiamiHerald.com
I admit it! After calling Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez a ''narcissist-Leninist'' leader in my columns for more than a year, I couldn't help feeling a slight swelling of my ego when Chávez mentioned my name six times -- granted, in not too flattering ways -- in his daily radio and television show this week.
In his March 13 Aló Presidente broadcast, Chávez referred ironically to the ''big intellectuals'' and ''deep-thinking analysts'' who commented on President Bush's recently concluded five-nation Latin American tour, and on Chávez's anti-Bush counter-tour.
Chávez read on the air much of my March 11 column entitled ''Release of rights reports undermines Bush's trip,'' saying he wanted to comment on an article by a ''right-winger who writes a lot against us, Oppenheimer, Andrés Oppenheimer.'' (Funny, because I left my native Argentina fleeing from a right-wing dictatorship, have spent much of my time in recent years beating up on Bush and get criticized by a majority of my U.S. readers for allegedly being a lefty.)
'Here goes another new ideological current invented by Oppenheimer, `narcissist-Leninist.' . . . I love it! These [analysts] really make my day!'' Chávez said.
Chávez read the first paragraph of my column, in which I stated that Bush had started his Latin American tour on the wrong foot, because the State Department, in a textbook case of bad judgment, had released its annual report on human rights violations around the world only three days before his trip.
SELECTIVE READING
But Chávez, manipulating the column's content, failed to read the next few paragraphs, which he said ``are not worth mentioning.''
The omitted paragraphs said the report was widely seen as an exercise of political arrogance by the country that tortured prisoners in Abu Ghraib and denied their rights to prisoners in Guantánamo -- a line that would have undermined Chávez's claim that I only stress the bad things about Venezuela, and not about Washington.
My reaction? No, President Chávez, I'm no ''right-winger.'' On the contrary, I am somebody who doesn't like army officers who stage coups, like you did in 1992, and who has an even bigger distaste for retired military officers who, once elected president, hold annual military parades in honor of their coup attempts, like you did last month.
Furthermore, I don't like presidents who shut down television channels, like you are doing now with RCTV, or who use their countries' national radio and television stations for up to 40 hours a week -- as the Reuters news agency said happens in Venezuela -- as if they personally owned the airwaves.
I don't sympathize with presidents who refuse to allow human rights observers into their countries, like you are doing with the Organization of American States' Human Rights Commission.
I don't appreciate heads of state who give a hero's welcome to fascist Iranian presidents who deny the existence of the Holocaust, like you did a few weeks ago, or leaders who glorify Cuba, a decrepit dictatorship that for nearly 50 years has denied its people the right to vote, travel or to read what they want.
And I have little sympathy for leaders who have their entirely pro-government Congress give them ''special powers'' to act as they please, as recently happened in your country.
Neither, for that matter, do I admire presidents who spend their country's record oil income on self-promotional tours abroad, arms purchases and cash subsidies, instead of modernizing their nations and creating a base for long-term growth once oil prices fall.
SOME QUESTIONS
So with all due respect, I would like to pose the following questions: If you are so democratic, why do you glorify military coups? If you are so progressive, why do you close down independent television stations? If your hero Fidel Castro is so popular in Cuba, why doesn't he allow a free election? If you respect human rights, why don't you allow OAS human rights inspectors into your country?
And, finally, if you are so convinced of what you say, why do you only grant interviews to nonchallenging reporters? Last time we met and I respectfully asked you for an interview, you told me to go to hell.
I challenge you to answer all these questions personally. We would get a great audience -- fit for a ''narcissist-Leninist'' and an aspiring ``deep-thinking analyst.''
(Original article in Spanish and English)
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