hugo chavez did pass away today at the age of fifty eight he's been battling
cancer for uh... quite a while now and uh... you know there was a lot of
speculation about him coming close to an end and that you know today's the day
that he passed away
uh... just to give you some information about the uh... you know the
implications
uh... of course it's gonna have implications of venice well at this is
also could have implications worldwide in the united states
in bolivia ecuador are which received a significant amount of aid from venice
well up
and also cuba would get tough welfare virtually free from venezuela the very
very cheap oil of a lot of people are wondering what this means for the united
states because that as well but also export oil add to our country as well
and you know i i feel like uh... does he is more of an expert on this than i am
so does he take it away well i have no expert on venezuela but you know i do
know that right now with an israel is going through the heavy too deep
uncertainty they have a lot of violence very high crime rate very high inflation
but from what i understand it's expected that vice presidents and the dura nickel
necklace for the derail his his chosen successor in that
it seems very unlikely that he's going to be elected they have to have an ounce
election within thirty days now
so when that happens it's very likely that
you know midora will be elected now probably continue the
uh... overall
dr policies that schott has had the money some changes that specifically as
it relates to all l
uh... nino idoc
think there'll be a huge change with the venezuelan imports to the united states
but one thing too is really interesting in the keystone excel pipeline a report
that was put out by the state department
and last week that you know
quite a bit of uh... environmentalists at a problem with but one of the things
that in that state department report
the state apartment is equally
tacitly said explicitly i should say explicitly says
that with declining imports from venezuela and other south american
countries
that we really want the act he still excel pipeline to come through so that
we can continue to give u_s_ refiners plenty of supply
so that they can keep their and keep their operations up and continue to make
high profit vacillate it doesn't seem like they expect there to be any
destruction and supply from venezuela
out here it's hot as it is you know
basically they're they're a lot of mixed responses about it because although up
of course there a tremendous amount of people that were unhappy with his
presidency
of course i one thing that he was very well known for was helping the poorest
individuals in the country so even the people that are the most look better
definitely against him were always reference that say you know what he did
do a lot for the poor in venezuela but you know he was an interesting character
first of all he changed the constitution venezuela so um... presidents can get
reelected indefinitely trip and he didn't get reelected for the fourth time
or elected for the fourth time i recently and just months into his uh...
reelection
on he passed away
uh... also as you mentioned you know that as well it does have high-crime
high inflation
even though he did send a significant amount of money
fort education venice well of the schools are still falling behind and
other countries
and um... he hadn't left to run certain things and uh... you know american
politicians faces
for instance he worked closely with qaddafi before he died
uh... aqui dena shot and also uh... he supplied will to the charla side
uh... syria awhile you know me he was basically murdering robles
like crazy
on selling you know me not nothing as black-and-white you can't really look
back at you know his presidency and say he was all
batterer all good you know that there were good parts of his presidency bat
boxes presidency uh... and i kinda sound like c_n_n_ saying that so announcement
by ralph castro in cuba that he is going to step down at the end of his at his
current term in five years from now
it seems kinda feels like there is this transition from these
in a firebrand socialism
i had uh...
icons i guess and i don't want to cater to sell the consent as was
democratically elected but
the idea that there may be some sort of shift coming on and on our plan
uh... making that up or not but it just seems like that that's a possible
meaning we've seen into other areas of the world that would change comes there
sons tend to be some sort of domino effect where changed one person can
influence other versions of specially if
you know what i was interested to sort of more democratic form of government at
all the sudden you know western powers are
are sending in money and they're investing in that country and that's
very appealing to the neighboring countries and so that they have
sort of a spill-over that on the senate leader people venice weller kinda
worried about what will happen is it's going to instability
um... the only time will tell so you know world will fill you in on that
story is a continues to develop