Castro: Venezuela will burn if Chávez is killed

[ChangoLoa]

“Chávez knows what to do,” the former Cuban president said, referring to the speech delivered by the Venezuelan president on Thursday at the Venezuelan National Assembly. Chávez asked Venezuelan lawmakers to pass laws punishing opposition actions

WESTERN HEMISPHERE

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro warned that the assassination of President Hugo Chávez would lead to "bloody clashes" in Venezuela as the massive riots that followed the assassination in Bogota of Colombian candidate Jorge Eliécer Gaitán (known as El Bogotazo). Therefore, any move by the United States in this regard would be a "stupid" thing to do, Castro said, as reported by local newspapers.

"I do not think that the United States is cherishing such a stupid thing as encouraging the murder of Chávez, because it would be like a burning Bogotá," said the former Cuban president during a meeting with a group of Latin American scholars on Wednesday. Castro's remarks were quoted on Friday in Granma, the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party, AFP reported.

http://english.eluniversal.com/2010/11/26/en_pol_esp_castro:-venezuela-wi_26A4780411.shtml

[social_critic]

1. Do they have an official paper for the opposition in Cuba?

If the communist party has a paper, which evidently is printed using state resources, can the Cuban opposition have a similar paper, so they can make fun of what Castro says?

[Zorro]

2. Zorro: Venezuela will burn if Chavez is voted out of office

I seriously doubt he will leave office graciously.