Chavez Butts In

After a weekend full of his characteristic paranoia, Hugo Chavez continued his attacks on "Mr. Danger" as he often calls George W. Bush. This time, though, he decided to look South of Mr. Danger's border and "butt in" to the Mexican presidential campaigns.

In a speech Chavez made in Carabobo, he accuses the Mexican right of using his image to attempt to stop the leftist frontrunner, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) from winning the Presidential election.

This was in response to the PAN's, a centre-right party, commercial where AMLO's statement and insulting attitude of late to the insults and speeches that Hugo Chavez used against President Fox a while back ago. This, in an attempt to portray AMLO as an intolerant person who will not only not listen to dissent but to reason. Hugo Chavez therefore becomes the emblematic symbol for "intolerance" and "lack of reason".

Now, it might be understandable why someone like me, who has written negative articles on Hugo Chavez before, would see this commercial and relate Chavez with those two things. But, why is Chavez himself acknowledging that his image isn't that of a "saviour" as he likes to think himself?

Perhaps, there is some reason behind all of his rhetoric...

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