Chávez inaugurates largest children’s cardiology hospital in Latin America

[1932]

CARACAS, August 20.—Today Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez inaugurated in the capital the Latin American Children’s Cardiology Hospital, considered the government’s most important achievement in the public health field.

...the center—named Gilberto Rodríguez Ochoa—has the capacity to perform 1,440 operations this year...Its stated goal is to respond in its initial years to the needs of thousands of children with heart malformations, which constitutes the second cause of childhood death in the nation.

Likewise on "Aló Presidente," the president highlighted the social and economic successes of the country, which registered GDP growth of 9.6% in the first semester.

http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/agosto/lun21/35inaugc.html

[Selatius]

1. It's sad the US gov't turned him into an enemy by trying to overthrow him

He would've been a good ally.

[Vidar]

2. Applauding Chavez.

[silverweb]

3. Beautiful.

Bravo, Chavez!

[Stargazer99]

4. This shows what can be done when people quit kissing the arse

of capitalism. Too bad I don't reside in a nation like his, perhaps my old age would be spent in peace instead of constant anxiety worring how to pay bills, etc.

[Constitution]

5. Great Leader. Wish he were ours!

[Pastiche423]

6. This is what a true leader of the people

looks like. Instead of bombing the fuck out of third world countries and ignoring the needs of his fellow citizens, like the trash that is squatting in Our Oval Office.

VIVA CHAVEZ!

[Judi Lynn]

7. Venezuela opens L. America's biggest child cardiology hospital

UPDATED: 13:11, August 21, 2006
Venezuela opens L. America's biggest child cardiology hospital

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday opened Latin America's largest child heart hospital, with a ceremony that was broadcast during his Sunday radio and television show.

The Gilberto Rodriguez Ochoa Child Cardiology Hospital is named after the Chavez administration's first health minister, a dermatologist who died in a road accident on March 10, 2002.

Chavez said he was pleased that Venezuela would now have facilities to treat heart diseases and cardiopathy -- a birth defect that could be corrected with an operation. Congenital heart problems affect two out of every 1,000 live births in Venezuela.

He also said that the center would be able to perform some 80,000 out-patient consultations a year and plan to take care of patients from across Latin America in the future.
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http://english.people.com.cn/200608/21/eng20060821_295277.html

[Mika]

8. Damned commies and their health care.

And don't forgit - that diktater Chavez is a friend of .... (are you ready?) .... CASTRO (((gASP!!)))!!!!!111111!!!!!!

This kind of axis of evildoer shit must be stopped.

In Bushworld freedom means: sick children MUST die!

CALL NEGROPONTE'S MISSION MANAGERS NOW!

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[gratuitous]

10. Got that right

Don't them Venezuelians know that they're supposed to use oil money to benefit a select few? What's with this socialized medicine? Time for another coup attempt by the Bushistas, if you ask me. Chavez needs to know what western-style capitalism is for, and it's not meant to work to the good of the society that creates the wealth, but for the good of a few ubermenschen with the will to seize that wealth.

[Canuckistanian]

13. The bastard! This is all part of his evil plan....

First, get the support of all the people and then..... uh..... well, you know the rest!

[Say_What]

14. Venezuela Leading the Race for the UN Security Council Seat

Much to the chagrin of the USSA :bounce:


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In October, elections will take place for five non-permanent UN Security Council seats to be held in 2007. One of them will be for the Latin American seat now held by Argentina. The two leading regional contenders vying to fill the opening are Venezuela and Guatemala, and the other countries in the region comprising Latin America and the Caribbean (GRULAC) will vote on which one gets it. If they're unable to reach a consensus, which may happen, the choice will be up to the General Assembly where it will take a two-thirds majority secret ballot vote process to select the winner.

It's not hard to know which country the US supports and why it's doing all it can to subvert the chances of the other one. Guatemala has been a close US ally ever since the CIA fomented a coup in 1954 to oust the country's democratically elected leader Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. Ever since, the country has been run by a succession of oppressive military and civilian governments that turned Guatemala into pariah state compiling the hemisphere's worst human rights record that never ended even after the 1996 UN brokered Peace Accords that officially ended a brutal 36 year civil conflict waged mainly against the country's indigenous Mayan majority that resulted in the state-sponsored murder of 200,000 or more of its people.

Throughout the last half century, the US treated Guatemala as a valued ally and ignored its atrocious human rights record that Amnesty International continues to document. The human rights organization finds that although Guatemala today is nominally a democratic republic, its abuses against its own people continue unabated and its electoral process leaves much to be desired. It led Amnesty to call Guatemala a "land of injustice." But that's not an issue for the Bush administration that's exerted its typical strong-arm bullying tactics to line up votes for its preferred candidate it knows will back all US proposals in the Council. That's sure not to happen if Venezuela under democratically elected President Hugo Chavez wins the seat, which is why Washington is pulling out all the stops to prevent it. Chavez is committed to building an alternative to the neoliberal Washington consensus and is undeterred by the power and threats against him by his dominant northern neighbor that wants Venezuela marginalized in the region and President Chavez ousted and replaced by someone willing to serve the interests of capital. Chavez won't and Washington knows it.

Venezuela on Track to Win Based On Chavez's Opposition to US Dominance

At this stage in the campaign, Venezuela looks on track to win the Council seat although it's likely to be a close vote. In lobbying for support, Venezuela has built its campaign on the need to counter the Global North's one-sided brave new world order agenda and especially to neutralize Washington's dominance and misuse of power in the region and wanting to continue exploiting it for its own imperial gain. Venezuela's Permanent Mission of the Bolivarian Republic to the UN put it in terms of hoping to "be an element of balance against hegemonic trends, in favor of the interests of countries from the South with an independent position." The country's former Foreign Minister Ali Rodriguez Araque put it in terms that: "This has become an issue of national dignity, because a superpower launched a campaign and exerts pressure on foreign countries." And Vice-Foreign Minister for North America Mari Pili Hernandez added that his country deserves the seat because it "respects the sovereignty of all nations (and) has demonstrated that it is an independent country that does not accept pressure from any (other) state."

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1799

[KansDem]

9. Now, what has Bush done?

Anybody?







Hello...???

[gorbal]

12. He has made a horrible example of unchecked capitalism and free trade

He is very influential in convincing people NOT to have a government like ours. That we can thank him for.

[stepnw1f]

11. Shame On Chavez for not Privatizing Venezuela's Oil

Only the wealthy should benefit.... socialism is for Jesus hippies. :sarcasm:

[Peace Patriot]

15. This is what oil profits COULD BE doing here, too--if they had not been

monopolized by giant oil conglomerates for the profit of the few, and further, if these conglomerates were not THE major influence on our government in fomenting their oil corporate war in the Middle East. They have, in essence, hijacked our government, our military, our federal taxes and our future--$10 TRILLION debt--to further enrich and empower themselves. We get less than nothing in return--flag draped coffins, oil price gouging, fascist government, more tax cuts for the rich, stolen elections, and all the ills of the Bush junta.

Venezuela's oil was nationalized prior to Chavez. But he has taken the position that oil giants should pay fair taxes, and that the profits that accrue to the government should be used FOR THE PEOPLE.

If we ever get our country back (concerning which we must FIRST restore our right to vote--which I think is still doable), we can do this, too. We can either drive a harder bargain with the oil giants, or dismantle them and seize their assets for the common good. These corporations have no inherent right to exist. WE, as the sovereign people of this land, have ALL the rights. We can take whatever collective action is needed in our own interest. If we need to, we can nullify the 2004 election for its complete lack of transparency, and revoke any Bush junta appointments--to the Supreme Court, for instance. We also have the power, under the Constitution, to ADD justices to the Supreme Court, in order to balance out Bush's rightwing/corporate appointees (if we don't want to just kick them out). There are a lot of options, provided we are able to restore transparent vote counting and majority rule.

As to that, it has taken about a decade to achieve transparent elections in Latin America--and a lot of hard work by the OAS, the Carter Center, EU election monitoring groups and local civic groups. As is evident by the millions of election protesters in Mexico, the process is not yet complete, but it has so far had remarkable success, with leftist (majorityist) governments getting elected in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Venezuela and Bolivia--virtually the entire continent has gone "blue" --with strong leftist political movements in Peru, Nicaragua, Mexico and other places.

This children's hospital in Venezuela is typical of the goals of this movement--providing health care, education, community infrastructure, wise policy (such as self-sufficiency in food production), labor rights, support for small businesses and cooperatives, and a political voice to Latin America's previously disregarded, vast, poor and mostly brown and indigenous population. This is a huge and unstoppable movement. It cannot be assassinated--as Negroponte no doubt is scheming over.

As Bolivia's first indigenous president, Evo Morales (elected this year), has said: "The time of the people has come."

The other theme of this movement is SEVERANCE from U.S. domination--and national and regional self-determination. I am pretty sure we are going to see Venezuela seated on the UN Security Council in 2007, elected by its neighbors--in defiance of the Bush junta (which is trying every strong arm tactic in its arsenal to prevent it)--precisely because Venezuela's president, Hugo Chavez, is such an eloquent spokesman for Latin American self-determination. And we really have to wonder at how little self-determination that we, the American people, now have--and how few friends the U.S. has left in our own hemisphere as well as abroad.

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Throw Diebold, ES&S and all election theft machines into 'Boston Harbor' NOW! Vote by Absentee Ballot this November! FLOOD election officials with PAPER BALLOTS! Put them on notice that we will not put up with this electronics crap ANY LONGER! We want to SEE the votes COUNTED!