Word: socialist
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...film's chief subject, Hugo Chávez. To some on the European (and American) Left, the President of Venezuela is a hero for his redistribution of wealth and truculent stance toward the U.S. under George W. Bush, whom he famously called the Devil. To others, his socialist agenda is tainted by human-rights violations and suppression of the opposition press. So if Chávez wanted to see the film at its world premiere, he'd have to fly here...
...Fernando Lugo, Ecuador's Rafael Correa, Argentina's Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Bolivia's Evo Morales and the grand old man of social revolution, Raúl Castro. (Stone profiled Raúl's brother in a similarly indulgent 2003 poli-doc, Commandante.) The only missing socialist leader is Daniel Ortega, President of Nicaragua - a regime whose electoral council outlawed the two main opposition groups from participating in the 2008 election and barred outside observers from monitoring the vote, which was widely criticized as rigged...
...could assist the President, a request that some saw as an attempt to inject politics into the classroom. Jim Greer, Florida's GOP party chairman, kicked off the controversy a week ago when he condemned the President's "use of taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate America's children to his socialist agenda." (Read about some schools' opposition to Obama's speech...
...that calling an overthrow a military coup requires certification by Congress - where Obama and Clinton foresee a fight they'd rather avoid. Conservative Republicans are angry at Obama's support of Zelaya, who they insist was trying to remove presidential term limits in Honduras and usher in a socialist government like that of his oil-rich left-wing ally, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. As a result, they're blocking a number of the White House's State Department appointees, including Arturo Valenzuela, Obama's pick to oversee western hemisphere affairs...
...President Obama plans to deliver to U.S. primary and secondary students via webcast and C-Span next Tuesday, Sept. 8. In perhaps the most over-the-top performance, state Republican chairman Jim Greer called it an attempt to use "our children to spread liberal propaganda" and "President Obama's socialist ideology...