We don't like Hugo Chavez because he's uppity in the face of our Imperial will

I see where the uppity Chavez has the same attitude with Obama appointees that he had with Bushniks.

Democracy Now reporting that

Chávez Suggests Oliver Stone, Sean Penn or Noam Chomsky Be Named Ambassador

As a diplomatic standoff between the United States and Venezuela continues, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez offered some suggestions Tuesday on whom President Obama should pick to be his ambassador in Caracas, instead of Larry Palmer, a diplomat who has openly criticized Chávez.

Hugo Chávez: "The naming of Palmer is dead, it has expired, and now they’re going to look for another candidate.

I hope they name Oliver Stone. I’d suggest that as a candidate: Oliver Stone. Or who else? Sean Penn, Oliver Stone, or [Noam] Chomsky. We have a lot of friends there. Bill Clinton!"

What is it with America and Chavez - especially if you eliminate the global corporate need for the U.S. to enforce compliance, cooperation and downright submission to business needs?

To wit, as Eva Golinger, a Venezuelan-American attorney in New York, has reported:

Since Hugo Chavez won the presidency for the first time in 1998, Washington has engaged in numerous efforts to overthrow him, including:

a failed coup d'etat in April 2002,

an oil industry strike that same year,

worldwide media campaigns and varios electoral interventions.

The State Department has also used its funding agencies, USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), to channel millions of dollars annually to anti-Chavez NGOs, political parties, journalists and media organizations in Venezuela, who have been working to undermine the Chavez administration and force him from power.

When these interventionist policies have been denounced by the Chavez government and others, Washington has repeatedly denied any efforts to isolate or act against the Venezuelan head of state. 

What's up with that?

If Chavez constituted some kind of immediate clear and present danger going back that far in time, how is it that the U.S. did not take firmer measures to eliminate the threat which presumably left the rest of Venezuela's neighbors at the same level of risk as the USA.

Our cynical foreign policy administrators going as far back in time as you care to go, have not hesitated to destroy those whom they then tried to label as tinhorn dictators and tyrants legitimately elected leaders whenever they've gotten too popular with the people.

Think Kissinger who should have been tried and imprisoned for the murder of Allende or think Reagan and all that interference in Central America ... again with those uppity Sandanistas.

Uppity to whome?

I'm still waiting for my government to make the case that Hugo Chavez is bad for his country, bad for the region and bad for the global community.

In fact I don't think my government can convince me with an array of misleading data.

Another reason why Wikileaks has done the global public a global service.