Why I, an American, Support Hugo Chavez

I know you rarely see a proud American such as myself openly endorsing Hugo Chavez. but I do. And so should you. I know the corporate controlled mass media in America has saturated the airways with misinformation about Venezuela and Hugo Chavez but you have to put this out of your mind in order to see the truth about what happened in Venezuela. President Chavez is a socialist by his own admission but is this so terrible? I know when you hear the word socialist it conjures up images of some totalitarian state where freedom is denied and everyone blindly obeys an all powerful dictatorship. Why do you think that when you hear the term socialist? Because you have been conditioned too from the corporate controlled government and the corporate dominated media. So it is no surprise that you may have a misguided view of Hugo Chavez and his new Venezuelan reforms and may dismiss it as another oppressive regime trying to seize power. But his view is just simple minded and downright wrong especially when you take into account the history of the Venezuelan revolution.