[A-List] Hugo and Mahmoud

["Henry C.K. Liu" <hliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The WSJ ran an editorial on Wednesday January 17, 2007 entitled Hugo and 
Mahmound, in which Hugo Chavez and all other Latin American leftist 
government leaders such as Daniel Ortaga of Nicaragua, Ecuador's Rafael 
Correa, Bolivia's Evo Morales and of course Cuba, were listed as not 
only a menace to the well being of their people but also a threat to US 
security interests in the Western hemisphere and beyond, based on recent 
the diplomatic offensive of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran aimed at these 
governments.    The editorial named Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut, 
an announced presidential candidate for 2008, Congressman Bill Delahunt 
of the 10th District of Massachusetts who praised Venezuela's offer of 
cut rate oil for poor US citizens, and Jimmy Carter for calling Chavez 
as democratically elected leader, as enablers of Chavez repression.  
Again, socialism in developing nations is condemned as human rights 
violation which of course will stimulate a chorus of attacks from the US 
left. Patrick Bond is probably burning midnight oil composing polemics 
defending democracy against these tyrants.

Henry C.K. Liu