Chavez crosses line

A while back I talked about Chavez and his statements about President Bush. While I applaud his candor and open speech, which is still allowed in our country, I must say that I feel that he has crossed the line with his statement, "Go to hell, gringos!" He stated this deragatory, rascist slur after our government questioned his plan to seek special powers to legislate by decree. Another way of saying Dictator.

Bothersome as well is his sexist comment to Condeleeza Rice of "Hi Condoleezza, how are you? You've forgotten about me, my little girl?" This is another example of how his thinking is predjudiced, small-minded and, ethnocentric. He will do nothing except hurt his country in the long run.

When I first read about Chavez and the changes he wanted to implement, I thought that he might be a breath of fresh air in the "world" political arena. His comments and actions have only shown me that he wants to segregrate his country from the rest of the world, thereby hurting the citizens of Venezuela even more.

What a disappointment his comments were to me. I really thought that he would move his country into the Global Community.