Sean Penn Defends Hugo Chavez!
While on Real Time with Bill Maher, Sean Penn defended Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez against critics.
Penn claims that Chavez has repeatedly won elections and even added that the critics who refer to him as a dictator should be jailed.
"There should be a bar for which one goes to prison for these kinds of biases," said the actor.
WTF?! Chavez even took the time to thank him for his comments!
Penn and the dictator president may be besties, but Sean should stick to what he knows - failed marriages!
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Re: Babouchka – BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You know what the worst part is? That EVERY Venezuelan here that said bad things about Chávez and Venezuela live in nice neighborhoods and have plenty of food for them and their family and then they go to the internet and talk like they're starving but the worst they get is that they can't take their Blackberrys out in the streets.. Venezuela has more than 20 million cellphone users and almost 10 million internet users and we are less than 30 million people.. Venezuelans have never lived better than now.. The price of the Cars are 3 times higher than in other countries and yet you see more and more traffic every day and most of the cars are new so they should just SHUT UP!
Re: marg1688 – so uneducated people shouldn't have a say in what hapens in their own country!! with that logic 2/3 of americans shouldn't be allowed to vote since they don't even know where Canada or Mexico are!!!! Not a big fan of Chavez but your argument makes no sense!!
Anyone is the US is entitled to their opinion. Mr. Penn should move to whichever country will have him because we don't need him here. I wonder if he visits Sadam's grave. Loser…
Chavez is a dictator!!! I'm a venezuelan and he has destroyed the country!! he lies, he cheats, he steals… man Sean Penn is such an ass hole he is the one who should be behind bars for making those kind of comments!!! no wonder Madonna divorced this douchebag!!
It's easy to talk when you don't live there, Penn. Not like I'm a Venezuelan, but I know random facts from newspapers,and none of the facts I read are nice.
That being said, it's funny how he comments from a country with a nice freedom of expression. So it turns out the man isn't manly enough to move to Venezuela and prove his point, hm?
sean penn is no politician! hugo chavez only wins the election because has manipulated the people of venezuela to believe and stand by his views,just like hitler did to the germans.Chavez is a dictator just like hitler!he has shown disgust towards americans and has corrupte
sean penn is no politician! hugo chavez only wins the election because has manipulated the people of venezuela to believe and stand by his views,just like hitler did to the germans.Chavez is a dictator just like hitler!he has shown disgust towards americans and has corrupted the beautiful that once was venezuela.He is has also corrupted the people of venezuela and the country is runned by the military killing those who are innocent!sean penn is a dumbass who should keep his mouth shut and stop trying to get attention because all that is coming out of his mouth is stupidity.
Re: SaintThomas92 – Why don't you leave Venezuela if things are so bad ? Making too much money - that's your problem. You are a treator and should be treated as such. Go live in the US, you'll see how things are good there if you happen to become ill and have to pay a huge medical bill. Try it !
SEAN PENN KNOWS A HELL OF A LOT MORE ABOUT POLITICS, THE LEFT AND HUGO CHAVEZ THEN YOU EVER WILL - ESCUALIDO!
OKAY FIRST OF ALL ANY VENEZUELAN WHO IS WRITING FROM MIAMI or TEXAS STFU. Clearly your family has money and privilege and you were able to leave Venezuela with it. You shitheads hate Chavez because he ended the elitist tyranny that occured in Vzla for generations prior to his arrival. Now people have equal rights in Vzla and the elites don't like it! Therefore they do not like Chavez. South America is an incredbly racist place still. They don't like Chavez because he is not white, rich and in the pockets of the USA, like previous Vzlan presidents. VIVA CHAVEZ FUERA ESCUALIDOS!!
There should be a bar for which one goes to prison for these kinds of biases," said the actor.
HAHAHAHA - He is talking about an elected official, right? I might be ignorant but do they have freedom of speech in Venezuela? So people have the right to vote but not the right to voice their opinion?
Maybe Sean can have me sent to prison for saying he is a complete asshole and we don't really give a shit what he has to say.
Re: evancalo –
I'm not trashing Venezuela's image, Venezuela is alredy trashed and it's all because of Chavez!! he's doing that to venezuela, not me.
Im not using stupid facts to detract anything, I'm stating facts to show that I know what i'm talking about. I know what living in Venezuela is like and I dont understand how people like you can defend a man like Chavez.
Re: evancalo – vete a cagar mamaguevo q yo ni blackberry tengo y aunque vivo en buena zona pq mis papas se ponen a trabajar dia y noche igual sufro de escasez de agua luz etc y lo peor el miedo constant de si tngo blackberry m lo van a robar y si no tngo m van a robar a ver si tngo y si no lo tngo me hacen algo porque no lo tengo. deja la envidia y admite q las cosas estan vueltas moerdas. siempre ha existidi la inseguridad y la corrupcion pero no de una manera tan bestial. asi que tu con blackberry vete a caminar por chacao agarra el metro con un reloj decent y ve a versi no t roban o secuestran
Re: gabypox123 – You said it yourself you live in a nice hood.. Why is it so hard to read someone poor saying those things?
The people you support are the ones who fucked Venezuela up not Chávez.. Or you don't remember when in 02/27/1989 people were starving and stealing everthing on the streets and that hundreds died that day because of Carlos Andrés Pérez? I bet your parents didn't say anything at that moment cause you people love to see Chávez flaws but you don't see yours.. You had your chance to run the country and you messed it up in more ways that anyone could have imagined.. I've been hearing about thiefs and murderers since i'm a child and i always met someone that got killed because of the insecurity that has been our breakfast for the past 30 years.. WRITE THE TRUTH and don't hide the flaws you don't want these gringos to read
Go to jail for freedom of speech?! If that was the case, Sean Penn would be doing 5 or 6 life sentences!!!!! Like most actors who think they have a special insight into the world of politics, Penn just winds up showing how naive he is, not to mention uninformed. Why doesn't he try doing something like Brad Pitt is for New Orleans? Or George Clooney for Darfur? Sean went to New Orleans for a RollingStone photo-op! Long story short, he's a bratty goofball! Ok, Sean! Slap the cuffs on me and throw me in jail for my opinion!
re=4839327]Re: evancalo[/re] Re: evancalo – I do remember but im guessing u dont remember The closure of RCTV,The general strike of 2002( El paro petrolero del 2002), the excessive inscrease of the DAILY death toll in Venezuela since he started his presidency, his links with narcoterrorists organizations, such as FARC, the fact that The violations of civil, political and human rights under Hugo Chavez's presidency, have also been amply documented by reputed human rights associations, such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, as well as by hemispheric multilateral bodies, 11 de Abril 2002.All the fucking deaths each day, the lack of respect for police officers cause we're just scared of them now, The lack of mantaince of prisons… Neither the less all the things that are fucked up due to lack of manteinance such as when the bridge connecting the Caracas-La Guaira route fell down, the lack of maintance of the Guri cause you cant blame it all on "The Niño" a phenomenon that has existed for at least hundreds of year and specially since he was lent ALOT of money in 2009 to fix that…
Re: evancalo – The fact that he's friend with A DICTATOR fidel castro, the fact that there are Cedulas(id cards) that have been copied resulting in 2 different people with the same ID, or dead people still walking around VOTING FOR … GUESS WHO CHAVEZ??? THE FACT that he spent ALOT of money changing flags and shields cause he wanted to add a fucking star and change the position of a horse instead of taking care of more important things the fact that even the king of spain had to shut him the fuck up, his undiplomatic way of speech towards other countries and world leaders, and so many MANY MANY other things that I dont recall cause I was fucking 8 when he came into presidency and IM STILL LIVING WITH THE SAME CRAP WHEN I SHOULD BE EXPERIENCING AT LEAST A 3RD NEW PRESIDENT SO CUT THE CRAP this country is fucked up. whats great about here is the food and that we've been living here so deep down we like it we have our friends and family your culture, but we must NOT forget all the crap that we have been through OH AND remember chavez banned "violent videogames" INSTEAD OF DOING THAT WHY DOESNT HE prohibit the posession of weapons in the street??
Re: evancalo – duude seriously Chavez has had pleanty of time to govern properly and he hasnt. And I feel embarrased to be represented by someone like him
so Sean Penn is ok with killing free speech? interesting.
what an ass.
Re: gabypox123 –
TOTALLY AGREE!!!!!!!
Re: evancalo – Thank you for your point of view.
We are very lucky to be able to say whatever we want and when we want to say it.
I consider Sean Penn a traitor and he needs to live in Venezulela and then see how wonderful Chavez is there.
Wasn't this guy some kind of an actor?
Re: Babouchka – just so you know I left to Spain because Im spanish too!! and is not so easy for others to leave!! and I was not making too much money!! and oh poor you having to pay bills!! what about trying to pay the rescue of your family because is kidnapped, you're such an asshole, typical ignorant who lives too pampered in the US!!
the ones who think that sean has the reason are so fckn ignorants…
i'm from Venezuela & i'm saying the truth in this matter..
the reason why sean defends Hugo Chavez is beacause Chavez gave him money to produce his new movie THAT'S IT!
Chavez is a dictator & he wants to put us like the people in Cuba..
if they don't like a tv channel they close it .. he wanna make us poor the corruption is so obviuous, the theft and the abduction are thinks that happens everyday, everytime ..
we can't say what we think because we are afraid of what could happen.. do you think that's freedom?
we wants to make a legacy and rule our country FOREVER!
btw if u don't know about politics don't talk about it ..
cause everyday we are more and more poor..
the shortage of foor is growing
sometimes we don't have watter for all the weakend
or light .. that's worst!
SO DON'T TALK ABOUT THIS BECAUSE' U NEVER LIVED LIKE THIS!
i'm so fuckn angry !
some of u people don't know NOTHING!
i come from venezuela and if sean penn defends him he should go to venezuela and see the truth going on in that counrty…people dont have jobs everything is too expensive and he dose nothing to help others only bribes people and doesnt complete his promises to any one. sean penn needs a reality check or hes been acepting money from chavez to say that on air. and what perez syas is right sean penn should stick to what he knows about failed marriage because seriously that dick head chavez is turing a beautiful country into hell..
Do people even listen to Sean Penn? God I hope not! Do people not remember this is the guy who carried a GUN around while "helping" out after hurricane Katrina? He's a fucking whack job.. everybody should know this.
sean penn is a complete and total fucking tool. who cares what he thinks about anything?
Re: jewdea – Yeah, not when you have family in both Cuba and Venezuela and know the suffering that they have undergone in the past and are still suffering to this day. YOU get your facts straight and stop listening to Michael Moore, that closeted capitalist.