Monday, May 02, 2005

A speech by Hugo Chavez at the World Social Forum 2005.
Regarded as a semi-dictator and derided as a socialist lunatic by many in the press he's nonetheless a tremendous inspiration and much-loved leader to many people in his country of Venezuela and elsewhere. Read his speech and decide how true his words ring.

"The health system was privatized; that cannot be privatized because it’s a fundamental human right—health, education, water, energy, public services—they cannot be given to private capital that denies those rights to the people."