Why Do Many on the Left Love Hugo Chavez?

The evidence for these people supporting Chavez is slim to none - although Fox News ran headlines claiming it.

For instance Danny Glover has a movie which is being partially backed by the Venezuelan congress - which is based on a novel by the hugely popular Nobel Prize winning Columbian author Gabriel García Márquez.

That alone is the basis for claiming that Glover supports Chavez. Pure rank demagoguery.

Choose a better news provider.

Perhaps the Venezuelans should go back to the old system, where the USA propped up some dictator who pissed on the majority of poor people living in the barrios whilst keeping a small minority with all the money & power? Not to mention all that lovely oil that the USA got on the cheap (the USA meddling in a nation's affairs to get their oil?? Never!!). Chavez is demonized because he doesn't play ball, and he won't sell the USA cheap oil. He DOES use the revenue to help make life better for the poor of Venezuela-I've been there and seen it first hand, the only people who don't love Chavez are the elite classes.

As for him closing down tv & radio stations, again your question stinks of good old fashioned Fox news bullshite, and we all know how much the US right loves that. Let's consider RCTV, which has been proven to have been deeply involved in the 2002 coup against Chavez. It provided a great deal of pro-coup bias in its reporting, and one of the coup leaders Ramirez Perez also thanked publicly RCTV for its aid, when it was thought the coup had been successful. Yet The Venezuela Information Centre (VIC) notes: “In Britain, for example, TV and radio must adhere to the Broadcasting Code which embodies objectives that Parliament set down in the Communications Act of 2003. This states that ‘Material likely to encourage or incite the commission of crime or to lead to disorder must not be included in television or radio services‘ and that broadcasters must use their best endeavours so as not to broadcast material that could endanger lives.’ RCTV’s role in the coup would have clearly violated these laws. The irony of the all the right wing screaming in the US about Chavez closing down such networks is that if a similar event were to happen in the U.S., and TV journalists and executives were caught conspiring with coup plotters, it’s doubtful they would stay out of jail, let alone be allowed to continue to run television stations, as they have in Venezuela. Gordon Hutchinson of VIC noted that despite claims made by opponents of Chavez, there is no censorship in Venezuela, where 95% of the media is fiercely opposed to the government. This includes five privately owned TV channels controlling 90% of the market. All of the country's 118 newspaper companies, both regional and national, are held in private hands, as are 706 out of 709 radio stations.

So unless you know what you're talking about, STFU.

Contrary to what "Patois" says, left-wingers do hate America. The proof is right here on Yahoo! Answers. Every day you can see irrational rants by Liberals saying that America is evil and corrupt. They take perverse delight in hoping we will lose the fight to give the gift of democracy to Iraq. Their muddled little minds never stopped to consider that a society cannot exist when everyone insists on disrupting and interjecting their whiny, self-indulgent, pointless criticisms. Liberals must love dictators so much because Liberals have the political maturity of grade schoolers. Liberals rage blindly at a world they neither understand nor feel they belong to. Then they see the "simple" political process of a dictatorship like Cuba and think, "Wow, this is really cool. I can understand this." Ironically, they don't even come close to understanding. Mental light weights like Tim Robbins and Sean Penn are absolutely duped by these foreign governments. Talk about "useful idiots". Maybe the core reasons Liberals are so destructive to America is a form of self-loathing. On some level, they realize they don't deserve to have the great life that America gives them. They haven't worked particularly hard, nor contributed to society. Therefore, rather than suffer with the conflicted emotion of ingratitude, they are unconsciously sabotaging the country. It's just like when someone helps out a friend a little too much. The friend can't repay the kindness, and this causes him to feel very guilty. The person does not feel gratitude, but rather RESENTMENT. That's why Liberals hate America.

They love anyone who opposes the U S and it's capitalist system

Many Brits are infidels as that is were many want to be They admire the old fart in Cuba giving no thought to his actions They don't know about the memorial to Bobby Sands and the 9 others they tell us the Brits starved them to death in their jail in London They talk highly of the IRA and call the Brits murders The anti American Brits only care that he hates the U S They are hoping China over takes the U S they don't know that the Chinese know about the importation of opium the signs ''no dogs or Chinese'' That the Chinese think it's a joke the they try and save face over Hong Kong by saying ''ho the lease was up so we gave it back'' The lease was on the New Territory west of Hong Kong

Liberals support Chavez because he hates free speech and shuts down any media that doesn't agree with him.

did ANYONE see obama give chavez the "soul shake"? you know the ' we are best buds' 1970 pot smokin' dudes shake? he is selling us out to his commie buddies.