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Viewing cable 07SANTIAGO57, MEDIA REACTION - CHAVEZ'S SOCIALIST REVOLUTION

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
07SANTIAGO57 2007-01-12 13:10 2011-08-24 01:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Santiago 
VZCZCXYZ0026
RR RUEHWEB

DE RUEHSG #0057 0121310
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 121310Z JAN 07
FM AMEMBASSY SANTIAGO
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 0696
INFO RUEHCV/AMEMBASSY CARACAS 1235
 
UNCLAS SANTIAGO 000057 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR IIP/G/WHA, INR/R/MR, WHA/BSC, WHA/PDA, INR/IAA 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: OPRC KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL VE CI
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION - CHAVEZ'S SOCIALIST REVOLUTION 
 
1. On January 11, conservative, influential newspaper-of-record "El 
Mercurio" (circ. 129,000) carried an opinion column by international 
analyst Karin Ebensperger entitled "The Conscience of the Global 
Left."  Quote: 
 
2. "OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza should not feel bad 
for becoming a member of the list of those offended by Hugo 
Chavez....  What is alarming is the weak reaction by certain 
politicians who give Chavez, and the totalitarianism that he is 
imposing under his so-called 'Twenty First Century Socialism,' the 
benefit of the doubt. These are the same ones that applaud the 
dictatorship imposed by Fidel Castro in Cuba for more than 40 
years....  The Venezuelan's revolution is something to fear...and 
what is more dangerous is that he is preparing a single educational 
system 'to demolish capitalist values.'  Should Chavez achieve 
(planting) ideology in education, then Fidel Castro could rest 
assured.  He has a successor." 
 
KELLY