What fun! Made me get up and dance!

A fantastic voice from a President who has helped his nation and Latin America to stand up to the hegemony of the USA. Venezuelans are flamboyant and as all Latin Americans they love to dance and sing so it is fitting for their President to display some of their talents.

its great... ii believe other politicians should learn from him.. to

Hey wow, he surprised me with that good voice!

It surprised me Mr. Chavez didn't sang in Russian. He had to be prepared for this event...

patriot, i agree with you that chavez is playing a very important, and hopefully historical, role in world politics. apparently putin understands the scope for a mutli-polar world and i can only hope that putin sees in chavez some of the hope of the revolution lost

Patriot, May I ask a question? "Why are there so many Latin Americans, Central Americans, and South Americans living both legally and illegally in the USA if Chavez is so wonderful"? What amazes me too, is when you ask some of these people, which I had the chance in the hospital last week in Atlanta going for cancer surgery, Many are on "Uncle Sam's" welfare roles and are getting better health care than in Venezuela and when one Venezuelan told me, he steals and robs in America and then get treated for his illnesses for free and then goes home, couldn't YOU at least acknowledge that some good come out the monster called America? Unbelieveable!

Dictator from hell. I invite all of you to come live in Venezuela for a year and experience Chavez first hand. Venezuela is currently the second most dangerous city in the world because of crime. We are loosing out freedom to protest, our freedom of speech, the freedom to think differently from a government that insults, arrests, belittles anybody that's not in accord with the government. Chavez only cares for power, while he's singing around the world and giving away money we are starving in venezuela! how about us venezuelans? how about giving venezuela new ambulances instead of giving them to Bolivia? our hospitals are falling apart. How about building new hospitals here and not in other countries abroad to buy people's loyalties that aren't even venezuelans? how about the opposition leaders we elected at the end of 2008? they being undermined and persecuted by the government. How about all the drug trafficking the government of venezuela is involved in at the highest levels? how about the lack of independence of powers in venezuela? chavez does whatever the hell he wants with venezuela, but whatever he has been doing for the last 10 years is sure not working. he has divided the country, created hate among the social classes, split the country in two, even families. I have family that's split, they won't talk to each other because some support chavez and others don't. chavez has been the worst thing that has ever happened to my country.

It is amazing how folks with different perspectives often clash, without realizing that their perspective are not necessarity the issue of right and wrong. All may be true, as we idividually collect what fits our cognitive paradigm. But what has been discredited, along with the "liberal" economies, is this gratuitous heaping of the "criticism" that amounts to a comedy. "The dictator from hell and the last dictator in Europe...." Comical. Criticism is healthy, when it is not self-serving. I am sure that Venezuela has many problems, as the centuries of governance that removed assets from Latin America cannot be wiped out in one generation. Here is something that perhaps is worth sharing. Since 2003, the year Venezuela took control of oil company, the GDP grew by 94.7% in 5 years, or 13.5% annualy. Most growth in non-oil, and non-government sector. Poverty rate cut by 1/2, from 54% households in 2003, to 26% at end of 2008. Infant mortality fell by 1/3, and the number of primary physicians grew twelve-fold. Enrollment in higher education tripled. Unemployment fell from 13.3 to 7.8, and the old age pension number of beneficiaries doubled. In 10 years, total government public debt fell from 30.7% GDP to 14.3% GDP. Foreign debt fell even more, from 25.6% to 9.8%. of GDP. Source: Center for Economic Policy Research, Washington, DC. Notable advisory Board Members, Nobel Prize winners Robert Solow and Joseph Stiglitz, Rich Freeman, Professor of Economics, Harvard.

My country is the most corrupt country and the world. The war on drugs is just a facade to bring drugs into the country, launder it and finance high levels of government. This is all documented. Our foreign policy is one of world domination (Pentagon's Full Spectrum Dominance), destruction, colonialism, blood and corruption. Our game is DECPTION, preaching freedom and democracy while we bring death and colonialism to the third world countries which have resources we covet. It's about time someone like Chavez stands up to the big hegemonic corrupter. Those who demonize Chavez are just sound bytes and parrots of the US corporate main stream which play a psychological war (psycho-ops) against country like Venezuela who dare walks its own destiny. Kudos to Chavez.

Chavez is alright. Much better than Calderon

To Sierra, The reason for immigration to the US is NAFTA. http://www.citizen.org/nafta, http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/nafta, http://www.citizen.org/nafta, http://www.gp.ca/nafta

Bravooo!

Peter said it just right and expresses my sentiments perfectly.

HUGO IS VERY FUNNY.

Hugo is like many hidden dictators with this cult of personality. He is worshipped as a hero for overthrowing the previous corrupt government and getting money from exploiting his nations oil and using it against other nations. As a pawn of Fidel Castro, he spread his communist agenda, which started off as a socialist one, but he then essentially revealed was communist, when he expelled dissidents and banned anti-Chavez radio/TV within the last few years. To the naked eye, Chavez is a people's person and a great leader, but when you dig deep, the man has many tricks up his sleeve. He wants Cuba's communist influence to spread, the dollar to fail and essentially for the Americas to become socialist. He's continuing to spread his influence in Bolivia, Nicaragua, Ecuador, El Salvador, Uruguay, Chile, Guyana and Peru. He was a supporter of FARC, a terrorist organization who has openly kidnapped thousands and uses violence to spread their message of Marxist-Leninism throughout South America, but mainly in Colombia. You may see this video and think to yourself, "gee, this guy seems like a nice and friendly guy", but believe it or not he is using minor brainwashing to distract you from his agenda of retaining power and influence in Latin America. He created an enemy (America, the "empire"), he rallied people up and fed his propaganda at the Latin American summits and convinced people that if they follow him and his socialist ideology and take down the U.S., that they would flourish. Take a look at South America. It is still poor and the money is now spread thin. The richest nation is Brazil and that is because of it's resources in the Amazon, but it still is very poor and corrupt. Following Chavez is not the solution, you are just creating a monster and allowing yourself to be brainwashed.

hmm... I posted a pretty long comment explaining Chavez's cult of personality and hidden agenda, but it isn't here anymore. Are Chavez's forces at work here?

So, Roberto Meza, how do you explain this: "I am sure that Venezuela has many problems, as the centuries of governance that removed assets from Latin America cannot be wiped out in one generation. Here is something that perhaps is worth sharing. Since 2003, the year Venezuela took control of oil company, the GDP grew by 94.7% in 5 years, or 13.5% annualy. Most growth in non-oil, and non-government sector. Poverty rate cut by 1/2, from 54% households in 2003, to 26% at end of 2008. Infant mortality fell by 1/3, and the number of primary physicians grew twelve-fold. Enrollment in higher education tripled. Unemployment fell from 13.3 to 7.8, and the old age pension number of beneficiaries doubled. In 10 years, total government public debt fell from 30.7% GDP to 14.3% GDP. Foreign debt fell even more, from 25.6% to 9.8%. of GDP. Source: Center for Economic Policy Research, Washington, DC. Notable advisory Board Members, Nobel Prize winners Robert Solow and Joseph Stiglitz, Rich Freeman, Professor of Economics, Harvard." By the way, President of France has just appointed Joseph Stiglitz to head his newly formed body on the economy. Is Sarkozi also some "hidden" communist?