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Message: Chavez Completes 11 Years as Venezuela's President, Predicts 11 More (days pls)
Chavez Completes 11 Years as Venezuela's President, Predicts 11 More
CARACAS – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez noted that he is 55 years old on Tuesday as he celebrated 11 years in power, and he predicted that he will serve 11 more years.
“I like that number 11,” the leftist said in a nationally broadcast speech. “I’ve lived five times 11 (years) and the next 11 I promise to take care of myself a little more and if you want I’ll be 66 and God willing (with) 22 as president.”
“But I don’t want to think about the 11 years after that because that would be 77 years and 33 (as president) and that would be too much time,” he added.
“We celebrate just barely 11 little years today. Our government is still a child, out revolution is still a child!” he exclaimed, adding that recently a priest recommended to him to quote Saint Paul and say: ‘I will consume myself gladly in service to you.’”
“So, I anchor myself to Christ, whom I’ve loved since I was a little kid and above all after the coup d’etat” that briefly deposed him in April 2002, Chavez added, going on to ask his supporters to always be on the alert to prevent that from recurring because “the devil never sleeps.”
He gave a general overview of how his presidency had progressed so far, first in a brief mandate of two years, then a complete six-year term with a new constitution and now noting that he is in the middle of his third term in office, and he went on to emphasize that “socialism resurrected itself in Bolivarian Venezuela” and that also “the work of Christ the liberator resurrected itself.”
“The true and only Christ is the redemptive socialism of this planet and it resurrected itself here,” he reiterated, adding that it didn’t matter to him if others said the opposite.
“I free myself from all personal ambition, despite what the scrawny (opposition members) say. Let them say what they want about me, I don’t pay any attention. The eagle doesn’t hunt flies, let them gab if they want to because I don’t pay them any mind,” Chavez said.
The Venezuelan leader said his government has made strides “in politics, economics, social (works), education, health, employment, pay, income, wellbeing, science (and) technology.”
Alluding to the demonstrations that in recent weeks have been staged mainly by students opposed to him, Chavez exhorted his followers to confront them “in the streets.”
“I call them into the streets, the people to the streets, the streets belong to the people and not to the oligarchy. They don’t belong to the children of the sellout oligarchy,” he said, repeating what he had declared upon being sworn into office for the first time on Feb. 2, 1999: “Let those who love the fatherland come with us.” EFE
CARACAS – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez noted that he is 55 years old on Tuesday as he celebrated 11 years in power, and he predicted that he will serve 11 more years.“I like that number 11,” the leftist said in a nationally broadcast speech. “I’ve lived five times 11 (years) and the next 11 I promise to take care of myself a little more and if you want I’ll be 66 and God willing (with) 22 as president.”
“But I don’t want to think about the 11 years after that because that would be 77 years and 33 (as president) and that would be too much time,” he added.
“We celebrate just barely 11 little years today. Our government is still a child, out revolution is still a child!” he exclaimed, adding that recently a priest recommended to him to quote Saint Paul and say: ‘I will consume myself gladly in service to you.’”
“So, I anchor myself to Christ, whom I’ve loved since I was a little kid and above all after the coup d’etat” that briefly deposed him in April 2002, Chavez added, going on to ask his supporters to always be on the alert to prevent that from recurring because “the devil never sleeps.”
He gave a general overview of how his presidency had progressed so far, first in a brief mandate of two years, then a complete six-year term with a new constitution and now noting that he is in the middle of his third term in office, and he went on to emphasize that “socialism resurrected itself in Bolivarian Venezuela” and that also “the work of Christ the liberator resurrected itself.”
“The true and only Christ is the redemptive socialism of this planet and it resurrected itself here,” he reiterated, adding that it didn’t matter to him if others said the opposite.
“I free myself from all personal ambition, despite what the scrawny (opposition members) say. Let them say what they want about me, I don’t pay any attention. The eagle doesn’t hunt flies, let them gab if they want to because I don’t pay them any mind,” Chavez said.The Venezuelan leader said his government has made strides “in politics, economics, social (works), education, health, employment, pay, income, wellbeing, science (and) technology.”
Alluding to the demonstrations that in recent weeks have been staged mainly by students opposed to him, Chavez exhorted his followers to confront them “in the streets.”
“I call them into the streets, the people to the streets, the streets belong to the people and not to the oligarchy. They don’t belong to the children of the sellout oligarchy,” he said, repeating what he had declared upon being sworn into office for the first time on Feb. 2, 1999: “Let those who love the fatherland come with us.” EFE
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