Would this be Venezuela's future?

"I'm a one-person crusade. I must speak for those who did not survive and for those who still suffer. Since coming to America, I have visited Cambodia three times to evaluate the ongoing Cambodian crisis. The problems Cambodia faces are not only political but also economical and social. The Khmer Rouge have brought Cambodia back to year zero and that's why I'm trying to bring the Khmer Rouge leaders to the World Court. Like one of my heroes, Elie Wiesel, who alerts the world to the horrors of the Jewish holocaust, I try to awaken the world to the holocaust of Cambodia, for all tragedies have universal implications.

Part of my life is saving life. I don't consider myself a politician or a hero. I'm a messenger. If Cambodia is to survive, she needs many voices."

- DithPran

Back to year zero sounds too Chavista for my taste, don't you think?

I recently saw a movie about the life of this man that chilled my spine, it's called "The Killing Fields", and I think it should be a absolute must to watch by every Venezuelan, specially those who are infatuated with Chavez and the Vichy opposition, who think they still can have some type of understanding with the communist who want to destroy our country.



I wonder if this can happen in Venezuela in the future. After all, Chavez is salivating into indoctrinating kids the same way Pol Pot did, converting them into cruel little killing machines for no reason.

This video has original footage of the movie, and the powerful lyrics of the rap are composed and sung by 23 year old Cambodian-American Prach Ly. I am posting the lyrics since I think they should need to be read by all. The bolds are mine, and are just a highlight on how the communist regime of Hugo Chavez is following the same path of the Khmer Rouge. Mr.Chavez always like to drop the race element here and there, what can I say about their recruiting methods, populism to the most needed, and what about their ideas about property rights, religion, and their indoctrinating plan they have towards children.

" Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge were back up by the Viet Cong
and the North Vietnamese.
They were sent out to purify the Khmer race,
by creating a classless society.
They rose to power by taking over rural provinces.
By recruiting soldiers, poor illiterate peasants.
By the time Pol Pot took the capital Phnom Penh.
His military has reached over thirty thousands.
They emptied cities, bomb banks, and cleared out prisons.
Separated families, eliminated private property, and outlaw religions.
There was no warning shot, what's told was never twice.
It was total chaos, they destroy all aspects of social and cultural life.
Soldiers demanded that all families pack up small supplies, of food and clothes.
They was told, "they'll be back in due time."
To leave their homes and march out of town in a single file line.
They said that: "the United States was going to bomb Phnom Penh's heart."
But it was a lie, it was more like a dying death march.
It's about POWER, TERRITORY, and RICE,
And of course that comes with a hefty price.
Whenever there's WAR, there's always sacrifice,
And it's usually the innocent who lose their life.
They target all intellectuals, survivors.
Prisoners often ditch their eye glasses,
Teachers try to pass as taxi drivers.
No one was told who was running the country but ah,
Only that those in power was call "Angka".
Children's was brainwash into believing in them,
They was taught that: "there's no such thing as parents."
At camps, most execution occurred at night.
Soldiers awoke prisoners suspected of any crimes.
And quietly lead them into the field or forests,
Ordered them to dig their own grave those who mark for death.
They're either stab, beaten or bury alive to save bullets. "This ain't no bullshit".
In the next four years, the horror of the killing fields rise,
With almost everyone in the country force to grow rice.
It was a tragedy base in part of the mistaken idea it seem,
they thought that that the ancient reservoirs was a giant rice growing machines.
It's about POWER, TERRITORY, and RICE,
And of course that comes with a hefty price.
Whenever there WAR, there always sacrifice,
And it's usually the innocent who lose their life."

We can say in the Venezuelan case that this is all about Power, Territory and Oil.

Would they go all the way on his path of ignorance and division thay they would kill their own the same way that Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge did?

I wonder of there's any quote from Chavez praising Pol Pot, after all he pronounced himself recently as Idi Amin's devil advocate.

It would be nice if somebody invite Mr. DithPran for a forum in Venezuela.

Every dictator have a white monkey...

Darn! Funny to read Caracas Chronicles' latest post. I also went to see the "Last King of Scotland" a few days ago and was planning to write about it, but Quico got the lead. It's OK though, because my commentary is different than his.

Besides the fantastic acting of Forrest Whitaker who led him to win an Oscar for best actor, I thought the movie not only caught Dictator Idi Amin Dada's personal madness, but also Uganda's at that time (driven by the madness of one). And of course, Venezuelans should be very surprised in an ugly kind of way to find out many characteristics of their beloved leader Hugo Chavez on the persona of Idi Amin Dada. The Chavezesque charming Amin possessed, his love for singing, to entertain foreign correspondents, to make them laugh and treat them very good, to be very nice to the rest of the world but a sick degenerate for his own people. Only that the international charm for Amin Dada's didn't last as long as it's going on for Chavez.

There's no question that these two characters share a lot in common. A LOT.

Now, is Chavez eating hearts of their opponents like Amin did and keeping their head on the fridge? Not that I know, BUT, he said he will "fry the heads of their opponents on hot oil"... well, maybe a joke, you know. What is definitely NO JOKE is this militia Chavista group that slowly but surely is becoming one with Hugo Chavez. One of their members talked to the press saying that if they have to shot people Che-style they will do it. Another joke?

Something else I found really interesting in this movie was the character of Nicholas Garrigan, who was based very loosely on the life of Idi Amin Dada's "advisor" Bob Astles. Astles was called the White Rat of Uganda, he was not a idealistic young guy as the movie portraits the fictional character of Garrigan, but yes, he was somebody who went up for an adventure on a different kind of zoo, and stayed there. Somehow Astles managed to gain Amin's trust and stayed as his side. Astles came to be the second most dangerous man in Uganda at the time of Amin, plus both were about the same age. My though is that the director wanted to portrait Garrigan as a young, smart and educated person from the 1st world for a good reason. These idealist from developed countries, from your local college kid with the Che Guevara, Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro t-shirt, to "important" journalist (like Barbara Walters, yes), show how much ignorance and idealism can hurt. Looks like still, a whole bunch of smart human beings all over the world haven't learn zippo.

Idi Amin kept its white monkey alive and close to him, he could have gotten rid of him, but he didn't. The reason, maybe to help him build some international PR around this idiotic world.

Think about the international crowd of white monkeys that Hugo Chavez is keeping handy. Same reason. The last of those white monkeys is Ms. Barbara Walters. I happily and intentionally missed the interview but I found very interesting all the comments it produced on fellow bloggers Quico, Miguel, MacPerro and Daniel among others. You wanna think Ms. Walters, today, March 2007, know a little bit better than what she did when she interviewed Fidel some decades ago. She shown to me, doing this interview to Hugo Chavez, that she cannot care less of the Cuban people dying of hunger for the madness of one, and less about the people of Venezuela. Barbara Walters and her crowd of rich liberals, too much Park Avenue and Wilshire Blvd, too much insulation, Babba. What's next? Hugo coming to "The View" for a little coffee talk? Rosie teaching Hugo how to cope with stress hanging upside down? The sad thing is that if Mrs. Walters were Venezuelan, she would be prosecuted by treasonous behaviour by the Chavista government for her little exercise of free-speech interviewing a leader hostile to their "cause", not even hostile to Venezuelan interest. Can you imagine Pres. Bush prosecuting Walters for treason only because she is not politically the same than the president? No, right? And, if you are American citizen reading this, would you accept the figure of the Pres. of the USA, democrat or republican, prosecuting anybody for his or her journalism?