It is very noble and charitable for you to feel sorry for a sick person who lives through hell suffering erminal cancer. i too, as well as probably many on this board have had loved ones die of that terrible painful desease. And we always support and hope for the best.
But while hugo is looked after in Castro's personal hospital with his personal phyisians in palacial surroundings , many Venezuelans have gone through the suffering and mistreatment In the hands of Hugo's personal involvement and interference of venezuelan the judicial system. take judge affinni for example. she should not be in jail. and what about her medical issues. she is a sick person. and what about all political opponents who are also in prison. i say too hell with Chavez and may god have mercy on his soul.
In a recent article it looks like the entire armed forces leaders have all been given big promotions heading maybe for a military state acontrol and possibly no need for 2012 elections
Vice Jaua led act of military promotions
. The vice president called for consolidating the unity and military people: "People linked to people in uniform, we are one."
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sábado 2 de julio de 2011 12:52 PM Saturday July 2, 2011 24:52
Caracas.-- The Executive Vice President Elias Jaua, and the People's Minister for Defense, Carlos Mata Figueroa, run this Saturday the act of promotion of officers, generals and admirals, and senior and more junior merits of the Bolivarian National Armed Force (FANB)
In the event that was held in the Court of Honor of the Military Academies of the Army and National Guard at Fort Tiuna in Caracas were promoted 164 generals, including 33 division: 12 Army, nine of the Navy, four of Aviation and eight in the National Guard.
131 brigadier generals and admirals: 39 Army, 32 Navy 25, Air Force and 35 of the National Guard. Este grupo recibió también una réplica de la espada del Libertador Simón Bolívar. This group also received a replica of the sword of Simon Bolivar.
Additionally, they were promoted the top of each component assembly: colonels, lieutenant colonels, majors, captains and first lieutenants.
. These are acts of promotion during the holiday tradition of the Declaration of Independence of Venezuela, a fact that July 5 was 200 years ago.
Jaua highlighted the military's role in the construction of the proposed supreme social happiness and tied to the struggles that historically has taken the Venezuelan people against the enemy oppressor.
". The vice president called for consolidating the unity and military people: "People linked to people in uniform, we are one."
In his words, Jaua said that the place of armed force is no longer in the covenants of the elites but in the heart and soul of the Venezuelan people, review AVN.
The president, Hugo Chavez congratulated FANB 29 June, a workshop held in Havana, "to prove their revolutionary commitment and solid strength to ensure peace in Venezuela with the people, being a structure that refused to obey the coup leaders and refuse to obey any attempt to overthrow the democratic revolution. "
Chavez said that thanks to the mystique of the new Armed Forces, the country has a military institution that is beside the village.
He mentioned the partnership with the governments of Russia and Belarus to modernize and upgrade Venezuela's military equipment.
The president is in Havana, Cuba, recovering from surgery.
