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RonPaulFanInGA
02-27-2013, 08:49 PM
http://www.cnnchile.com/noticia/2013/02/27/ex-embajador-de-panama-en-la-oea-hugo-chavez-esta-muerto


Ex Embajador de Panamá en la OEA: "Hugo Chávez está muerto"

sailingaway
02-27-2013, 08:51 PM
CNN Chile: Former Panamanian OAS Ambassador Says That Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez Is Dead

http://networkedblogs.com/IKhvF


Tonight CNN Chile reported that Guillermo Cochez, the former Panamanian ambassador to the Organization of American States who was removed in January for confronting his Venezuelan counterpart at an OAS meeting, told the network that Venezuela President Hugo Chávez is dead. Meanwhile, posts from U.S. media outlets are already questioning this, waiting for a second confirmation, while at the same time calling CNN Chile “one of the more obscure outposts of the CNN empire.”

According the the CNN Chile report, Cochez said that Chávez was declared brain dead in Cuba on December 30, and that is why Chávez returned to Venezuela last week. He also claims that no one who has wanted to visit Chávez in the hospital has not been able to see him. He also questioned the recent photos of Chávez that were published by the Venezuelan government.

The information, according to the former ambassador, came from “internal sources from the Venezuelan government,” and that the news of Chávez being brain dead had been privately circulating for weeks. He also said the following, “I challenge the Venezuelan government, that they show President Chávez and only then will people know if what I am saying is true or not.”

Cochez also said that Chávez died four days ago after his daughters asked to have his artificial respirator disconnected. He also said that he is a journalist and that his sources were solid. He repeated several times in the CNN Chile interview that President Chávez is dead, and told CNN Chile that if he is a liar, prove it.

According to a report on January 17, when Cochez was still Panamanian ambassador to the OAS, he was criticized by Panama’s government for criticizing Venezuela and for confronting the OAS’ Venezuelan ambassador:

Panama’s Foreign Minister Rómulo Roux on Wednesday disavowed the actions of his country’s ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS), Guillermo Cochez, who questioned the fact that the body has kept quiet via-à-vis a possible violation of the Constitution in Venezuela.

“Statement by Amb (Ambassador, William) Cochez in OAS today (Wednesday) was not authorized,” Roux wrote in his Twitter account. The Panamanian Foreign Ministry confirmed this message to AFP.

Subsequently, the Foreign Ministry issued a statement rejecting Cochez’s stance.


“The Government of Panama rejects categorically the unconsulted statements provided by the Ambassador of Panama to the OAS Guillermo Cochez,” the Foreign Ministry said.

According to official communiqué, Guillermo Cochez’s opinion is “far from the stance of the national government (of Panama.)”
In the document, Panama reaffirmed that “it will continue its position of respect for domestic political processes.” In connection with Venezuela, “we wish President Hugo Chávez a quick recovery.”

RonPaulFanInGA
02-27-2013, 08:52 PM
Maybe dead. Not as definitive as the thread title suggests.

UWDude
02-27-2013, 09:01 PM
Haven't we seen this thread title before? And it was wrong two months ago too.

anaconda
02-27-2013, 09:03 PM
I guess it would not be a huge surprise. The man has not exactly been in great health as of late.

GunnyFreedom
02-27-2013, 09:06 PM
WaaaHOOOO!!!!

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Oh wait, doesn't this guy 'die' like every few months?

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HOLLYWOOD
02-27-2013, 09:23 PM
Fidel outlasted the following in office; Eisenhower, Kennedy, LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton, George W. Bush... and up to Barry's 2nd term.

http://www.rttnews.com/2063240/raul-castro-re-elected-cuba-s-president.aspx?type=pn

Raul Castro Re-elected Cuba's President
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2/24/2013 11:33 PM ET

Cuba's National Assembly on Sunday re-elected President Raul Castro for a second five-year term in office, and selected Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez as his first vice-president.
"The National Assembly of People's Power today approved, in this capital, Army General Raul Castro Ruz as president of the Council of State, and elected Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, as its first vice president," Cuba's state-run National Information Agency (AIN) reported Sunday.
Following his election to the top post, Raul Castro, who turns 82 in June, said he would step down once his second term in office ends in 2018. Incidentally, he had earlier called for setting age limits for political posts, and limiting the terms of all public offices, including presidency, to two.
"I was not chosen to be president to restore capitalism to Cuba. I was elected to defend, maintain and continue to perfect socialism, not destroy it," Raul Castro told the Assembly after his re-election.
Since assuming power in 2008, Raul Castro has launched widespread economic reforms in Cuba, under which ordinary Cubans were given the rights to own small business (http://www.rttnews.com/Content/Business.aspx)es and to buy and sell cars. He has also freed some of the detained dissidents as demanded by the international community, and recently relaxed restrictions on Cuban citizens traveling abroad.
His brother and former Cuban leader, Fidel Castro, was present at Sunday's Assembly session. The last time Fidel, who was Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and President from 1976 to 2008, was seen in public was when he voted in the parliamentary elections held earlier this month. Fidel had ceded power to his brother Raul in February 2008, following an emergency stomach surgery in July 2006. He has made very few public appearances since then.

Diaz-Canel, who is widely seen as Raul Catro's successor in the single-party communist state, is a qualified electrical engineer and a former education minister. The 52-year-old has also served as First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party (CCP) for the central province of Villa Clara and the eastern province of Holguin.
To date, Cuba, under Castro brothers, has survived more than four decades of US sanctions. Despite several political and economic reforms initiated by Raul Castro after he assumed power from his brother Fidel in February 2008, Cuba still remains a one-party state and one of Communism's last remaining outposts.
Cuba has been the target of an economic and trade embargo imposed by the U.S. since 1962. But in 2009, President Barack Obama lifted some travel restrictions imposed on Cuban-Americans, allowing them to visit relatives in that country and remit money.
Obama, however, retained the 47-year-old U.S. trade embargo on Cuba, indicating that it would not be lifted until the island-nation took notable steps toward democracy, including the release of remaining political dissidents currently jailed in the communist nation.

ronpaulfollower999
02-27-2013, 09:23 PM
R.I.P. Hugo.

:(

brushfire
02-27-2013, 09:23 PM
Impossible, I had just seen him officiating a wedding in Vegas.