Chavez Is Creating A Fascist Dictatorship
“Out, Death to All”; “Damned Israel, Death”; “666” with a drawing of the devil; “Out Jews”; “We don’t want you, assassins”; a star of David, an equal sign, and a swastika.
Sound familiar? It was not the 30’s in Nazi Germany – These were the signatures left on the walls of a synagogue on January 30, 2009, in Caracas, Venezuela.
Fifteen heavily armed men stormed the Tiferet Israel synagogue located in the Mariperez neighborhood of Caracas. They robbed the premises, desecrated the temple, threw the Torah and other religious paraphernalia to the floor and then painted the obscene graffiti on the walls.
The Boston Review stated: “The event, though shocking, was neither isolated nor unprecedented. Over the past four years, Venezuela has witnessed alarming signs of state-directed anti-Semitism, including a 2005 Christmas declaration by President Hugo Chávez himself: ‘The World has enough for everybody, but some minorities, the descendants of the same people that crucified Christ, and of those that expelled Bolívar from here and in their own way crucified him. . . . have taken control of the riches of the world.’”
This month, the Chavez government has issued orders to close 32 radio stations and two television broadcasters and to support legislation that would create prison sentences for people who commit “media crimes.”
“The harassment (of journalists) is a permanent condition,” Carlos Lauria, America’s program coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists, told CNN.
The shuttering of the radio and television stations and media crimes law are part of a larger strategy that Chavez has followed since he was briefly deposed in a coup in 2002, he said.
Chavez’s goal can be described as a three-point strategy, Lauria said: to control the flow of information, stop critical reports and disseminate pro-government propaganda.
Much of the pro-government propaganda comes through Chavez’s use of state-owned media outlets, critics say.
CNN was told by Robert Rivard, chairman of the Inter-American Press Association’s Committee on Freedom of the Press and Information, that Chavez “has clearly been alienated by a free press and has seen it as a threat and a target.”
According to CNN, not only journalism advocacy groups have been vocal against Chavez.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization this month released a statement expressing concern about the closure of the radio stations.
“There can be no freedom of expression, or even democracy, in the absence of media pluralism,” UNESCO Secretary-General Koichiro Matsuura said in a statement.
The definition of Facism is: “a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.”
