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Chavez, Castro, Lenin take over Coimbatore
India Gazette
Friday 28th March, 2008
(IANS)
This bustling town in Tamil Nadu has new visitors: Lenin, Fidel Castro and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
The roads leading to the SRN Auditorium where the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) begins its party congress Saturday are decked up with red flags and huge cut-outs of Indian and international Communist leaders.
Although smiling pictures of CPI-M general secretary Prakash Karat and senior leader Sitaram Yechury occupy most of the space, ailing comrades Jyoti Basu and Harkishen Singh Surjeet are also there.
Chavez, known for his diatribe against US President George W. Bush, Castro, Lenin, Stalin and Karl Marx also adorn many hoardings on both sides of the roads here.
Interestingly, Che Guevara is missing.
A total of 722 delegates, mainly from West Bengal (175) and Kerala (170), as well as 70 observers from communist countries and fraternal delegations are also attending the congress.
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Comments on this story
| By Gypsyboy, 03-29-08, 08:16 AM |
Chavez, Castro, Lenin take over CoimbatoreOf all the nerve! Georgie Bush, Dickie Cheney not honored. Why, that UnAmerican!
Is it any wonder why this two characters were not honored? But than again, they aren’t even honored in their own country. |
| By nellie, 03-30-08, 07:57 PM |
idiotAnd why, I ask, should they be honored?
Can you please re-read the article!
IT’S A COMMUNIST CONVENTION!
America is NOT communist!
And by the way, why are you not at that convention, you should have been one of the honered. After all, you sound like a communist. |
| By Venezuela, 03-31-08, 07:08 PM |
Despots and TyrantsAs a Venezuelan, what I have learned about communists is that they are corrupt, just as our previous non-communists governments, but even more so, and not as smart -and thus more incompetent- to the greater detriment of all our people.
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." -Winston Churchill-
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| By waltky, 04-04-08, 05:42 PM |
| Granny says Hugo needs to lay off the coca paste...
:p
Hugo Chavez Nationalizes Cement Industry
April 4, 2008 - Venezuelan Leader Says Move Necessary To Supply Materials To Solve Housing Shortage
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President Hugo Chavez ordered the nationalization of Venezuela’s cement industry, saying his government cannot allow businesses to continue exporting raw materials needed to help tackle a domestic housing shortage. Speaking during a nationally televised address Thursday, Chavez said the affected cement companies, which include Mexico’s Cemex SAB, France’s Lafarge SA and Switzerland’s Holcim Ltd, will be paid fair compensation in the state takeover.
“We are going to prepare a plan to modernize these cement plants," he said. Chavez, who says he is leading Venezuela toward “21st century socialism," said the nationalization would take place in the “short term," but did not provide specific dates. Chavez spent much of 2007 promoting his revolutionary vision of a new Venezuela, and he began by nationalizing the country’s electricity, telecommunications, natural gas and oil industries.
But Chavez began toning down his rhetoric after a stinging electoral defeat in December, when his opponents voted down proposed reforms that would have allowed him to enshrine his socialist agenda in Venezuela’s Constitution and push forward with an agenda for revolutionary change. Thursday’s takeover order represents his most radical nationalization move since then. Most of the cement market in this South American country, which has suffered from a severe housing shortage for decades, is supplied by foreign companies.
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