Is Chavez smelling his own "sulfur"?

[Roudy]

This is ridiculous. How does an Islamist / communist sympathizer suddenly ask Jesus for help?

'Jesus ... do not take me yet,' Chavez weeps - World news - Venezuela - msnbc.com

'Jesus ... do not take me yet,' Hugo Chavez weeps

'Give me your crown, Jesus. Give me your cross, your thorns so that I may bleed. But give me life, because I have more to do for this country'

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wept and asked God to spare his life during a pre-Easter Mass after returning from his latest session of cancer treatment in Cuba.

Very little is known about the 57-year-old socialist leader's condition, including even what type of cancer he has. Chavez has undergone three operations in less than a year, and received two sessions of radiation treatment.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

Hugo Chavez has always been a Roman Catholic.

 

[Conservative]

This is ridiculous. How does an Islamist / communist sympathizer suddenly ask Jesus for help?

'Jesus ... do not take me yet,' Chavez weeps - World news - Venezuela - msnbc.com

'Jesus ... do not take me yet,' Hugo Chavez weeps

'Give me your crown, Jesus. Give me your cross, your thorns so that I may bleed. But give me life, because I have more to do for this country'

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wept and asked God to spare his life during a pre-Easter Mass after returning from his latest session of cancer treatment in Cuba.

Very little is known about the 57-year-old socialist leader's condition, including even what type of cancer he has. Chavez has undergone three operations in less than a year, and received two sessions of radiation treatment.

'Give me your crown, Jesus. Give me your cross, your thorns so that I may bleed. But give me life, because I have more to do TO this country'

corrected.

 

[bitterlyclingin]

If SS guards could ask Jesus' help finding an escaped prisoner, Hugo can most certainly ask for help from Christ. Although it would probably behoove Hugo to be fitted with some special asbestos underwear for his coming journey. Its likely to be awhile before he comes across the idyllic springtime day.

 

[WillowTree]

he a bad bad bad man.

 

[waltky]

Plannin' for when Chavez finally kicks off...

Waiting for post-Chavez Venezuela
January 11th, 2013 - They don't get much more anti-American than Venezuela's Hugo Chavez.

For many Americans, the Latin American president is embodied by his 2006 lashing out at then-U.S. President George W. Bush. "Yesterday the devil came here and it still smells of sulfur today." For the United States, the socialist Chavez has been a diplomatic troublemaker ever since he took office for the first time in 1999. But that doesn't mean the United States has given up on Venezuela. Especially with Chavez - who is undergoing cancer treatment in a Cuban hospital and battling complications - being too sick to attend his own inauguration for a new six-year term. Asked Thursday to comment about Chavez, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters that the United States has "put forward some ideas about how this relationship could be improved on a step-by-step basis." "Our sense is that at the moment they are very much preoccupied with internal affairs," she said. "So we are standing by and when they are ready to talk to us about improving things, we're ready for those conversations."

For 14 years, Chavez made it his mission to lambaste the United States for meddling in his country and the region. But Washington does want a better relationship with Venezuela, the fourth biggest supplier of oil to the U.S., providing 10% of oil imports into the U.S. There are several things, Security Clearance has learned, that the Obama administration wants to work with Venezuela on, including counter-narcotics efforts, fighting terrorism, energy and the rule of law. But Washington is taking a go-slow approach. After all, even when Chavez is gone, his left-wing ideology, "Chavismo," will live on at least for a while. And his supporters, the "Chavistas," hold all the major levers of power in the country. "He controls the courts and the media and other institutions," said Michael Shifter, president of the Inter-American Dialogue and adjunct professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. "There are a lot of Venezuelans who view him very sympathetically, see him as the savior of the country even though the conditions are very, very bad in the country."

The U.S. has been talking with Venezuelan officials as well as officials from other Latin American countries during the past few weeks and that has fueled speculation that Washington is trying to engineer a transition to a leader more friendly to the United States. Memories run deep of a coup in 2002 that removed Chavez from office for 48 hours. He blamed the U.S. for trying to overthrow him but Washington has always denied any involvement. The State Department insists it's strictly hands-off. Washington wants a "democratic ... transparent" transition, Nuland said, adding that "it's going to be for Venezuelans to decide how that happens." Shifter said the U.S. is watching from afar. "I don't think there is any evidence the United States is up to anything," he said. "I think it would be counter-productive. The Obama administration has been very restrained in its position toward Venezuela and has been very careful, I think, to just let the situation play out."

Chavez is friendly with Iran, North Korea, Belarus and Syria but, in spite of that, commercial ties between the U.S. and Venezuela are strong. "The U.S. is Venezuela's most important trading partner, with U.S. goods accounting for about 24% of imports and approximately 42% of Venezuelan exports going to the United States," according to the State Department. Venezuela has played a game of musical chairs with ambassadors. More than four years ago, Chavez ordered the expulsion of the U.S. ambassador. In return, the U.S. kicked out the Venezuelan ambassador. A year later, both ambassadors returned to their posts, but in 2010, the Venezuelan government refused to accept the credentials of the new U.S. ambassador. Washington took the same action against the Venezuelan ambassador. Even if relations improve, don't look for the U.S. to send its ambassador back anytime soon. Chavez, by some reports, is nearing death, but "Chavismo" is still alive and well in his Venezuela.

Waiting for post-Chavez Venezuela – CNN Security Clearance - CNN.com Blogs

 

[waltky]

Granny says, "Dat's right - he got one foot inna grave an' the other onna banana peel...

Doctors refuse to let Morales see ailing ally Chavez
Fri, Feb 22, 2013 - Doctors of ailing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez refused to let Bolivian President Evo Morales see his close ally when he went to Caracas this week, Morales said on Wednesday.

“We have been speaking with the doctors — they tell us he is resting, he is still under treatment,” Morales said of his mercy mission to Caracas on Tuesday. “I wasn’t able to meet him, I was only able to meet his head doctor and with his family, but my understanding is that they are very encouraged,” he added. “You must understand that he has gone through the most difficult moments of his life.” The Bolivian president made a special stopover in Caracas on his way to meetings at the UN headquarters in New York. Chavez returned to Venezuela on Monday after several rounds of cancer surgery in Cuba.

Widespread fears have been expressed for the life of the radical Latin American leader. “There are days when his health situation is very difficult, according to the information from his ministers, but now he has returned to Caracas and that is a great relief,” Morales said. “Sometimes disease and illness are difficult to fight, but of course we hope that we will be together soon to be able to continue working together as we have done up to now,” he added.

Morales, Chavez and Cuba’s veteran former president Fidel Castro, who stood down in 2006 for health reasons, have formed a radical alliance in Latin America, strongly critical of the US. “Let me say again how much respect and admiration I have for Fidel and Hugo,” Morales said, highlighting support from Chavez and Castro for the left-wing policies he pursued after becoming president in 2006. “It really does pain me that Fidel Castro is no longer president, particularly now that my brother President Chavez is in a very difficult spot with his health,” he said. “Both of them told me, ‘Evo, you have to look after yourself, you have to rest.’ They were telling me to rest and I was not listening to them, but now I see that they were not resting either,” Morales added.

Chavez has not been seen in public since he left for Havana on Dec. 10, last year, to undergo his latest round of surgery. On Friday last week, the government released photos of Chavez bedridden but smiling. Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro said in broadcast remarks on Wednesday that Chavez had planned his return and chose to announce it via Twitter to “quell rumors” about his health. As Chavez’s handpicked political heir, Maduro has essentially been running Venezuela in the leader’s absence.

Doctors refuse to let Morales see ailing ally Chavez - Taipei Times

 

[S.J.]

I trust God to decide his fate.

 

[Political Junky]

Cons would have preferred that the US go in and kill Chavez and install a right wing regime in Venezuela, like they did with Allende in Chile.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d'état

 

[ABikerSailor]

Question...........................Chavez smelled sulphur at the UN when he followed after the U.S.

Does that mean he is hoping to live long enough to get away from the Devil?

He does have some debts to pay.............................

 

[konradv]

This is ridiculous. How does an Islamist / communist sympathizer suddenly ask Jesus for help?

I guess you need to study up on Jesus.

 

[American_Jihad]

"Huelo azufre y pronto voy a tener cuernos."​

 

[Cowman]

I trust God to decide his fate.

Not that I like the guy, but dying wouldn't be any indicator of anything other than death of an illness.

 

[American_Jihad]

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[Avatar4321]

I trust God to decide his fate.

As do I. I think we need to trust God to decide the fate of alot of people. We are quick to judge.

 

[Roudy]

His fate has been judged!

 

[konradv]

His fate has been judged!

You may be jumping to conclusions. Absolution on the death bed and he'd be sitting at the right hand of God waiting for you!

 

[Roudy]

His fate has been judged!

You may be jumping to conclusions. Absolution on the death bed and he'd be sitting at the right hand of God waiting for you!

On the other hand, I may not be. If there is such a thing as Hell, then Chavez would be there now.

 

[t_polkow]

Funny how the cons have their christian revenge fantasy's

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Hugo Chavez has always been a Roman Catholic.

There is no such thing as a Marxist Christian. Nor is there such a thing as a communist Catholic. Not according to the Roman Catholic Vatican decree forbidding it.

Let me post it for you, hold on..

Alright, I've got it:

According to the July 28, 1949 decree of the Holy Office of the Roman Catholic Church, the following categories of Catholics are to be excommunicated:

Whosoever ever belongs to the Communist Party;
Whosoever makes propaganda for it in any way;
Whosoever votes for it and its candidates;
Whosoever writes for the Communist press, reads and spreads it;

Whosoever remains a member of a Communist organization;
Whosoever confesses the materialistic and anti christian teaching of atheist communism;
Whosoever defends and spreads it;
this punishment applies also to parties that make common cause with Communism.

By this you see that any Catholic who is involved in any way with Marxist Communism should be ex communicated from the Church. No Marxist or Communist can claim to believe and serve Jesus Christ. They must repent and abandon such blasphemy.

-Jeremiah