ethics
06-30-2007, 06:16 PM
And again, not posting this in Sports forum because this has little to do with sports.
Last night, there was a soccer match in Maracaibo, Venezuela. Usually, and I mean usually for the last years of Bush doctrine, you would see, hear, and even feel anti-US sentiment. Especially, if one of the teams was US. But something weird and eerie happened in a country that is run by Chavez, the newly elected tyrant of South American country.
The International Herald Tribune (http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/29/america/LA-GEN-Venezuela-Soccer-Protest.php) reported:
Politics penetrated a South American soccer championship when thousands of Venezuelan soccer fans rose to their feet and loudly chanted "Freedom!" in a clear affront to President Hugo Chavez.
The chants — which included "This government is going to fall!" — began shortly into the second half of Thursday's match between the U.S. and Argentina in the western city of Maracaibo, a stronghold of opposition to Chavez.
Chavez opponents are hoping the arrival of thousands of tourists for the Copa America tournament will draw attention to their protests against the president's refusal to renew the license of a popular opposition-aligned television channel.
"We want the world to know we're not all with Chavez," said Gabriel Gonzalez, a business student at the University of Zulia, who attended Thursday's match.
About half the crowd of 40,000 appeared to join in the chants, which filled the stadium for about three minutes...
The chants on Thursday followed a heckling incident two days earlier, when a small number of fans booed Chavez as he attended a ceremony. But none of that has detracted much from the tournament.
But hear it for yourselves (Libertad is Freedom in Spanish):
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Last night, there was a soccer match in Maracaibo, Venezuela. Usually, and I mean usually for the last years of Bush doctrine, you would see, hear, and even feel anti-US sentiment. Especially, if one of the teams was US. But something weird and eerie happened in a country that is run by Chavez, the newly elected tyrant of South American country.
The International Herald Tribune (http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/29/america/LA-GEN-Venezuela-Soccer-Protest.php) reported:
Politics penetrated a South American soccer championship when thousands of Venezuelan soccer fans rose to their feet and loudly chanted "Freedom!" in a clear affront to President Hugo Chavez.
The chants — which included "This government is going to fall!" — began shortly into the second half of Thursday's match between the U.S. and Argentina in the western city of Maracaibo, a stronghold of opposition to Chavez.
Chavez opponents are hoping the arrival of thousands of tourists for the Copa America tournament will draw attention to their protests against the president's refusal to renew the license of a popular opposition-aligned television channel.
"We want the world to know we're not all with Chavez," said Gabriel Gonzalez, a business student at the University of Zulia, who attended Thursday's match.
About half the crowd of 40,000 appeared to join in the chants, which filled the stadium for about three minutes...
The chants on Thursday followed a heckling incident two days earlier, when a small number of fans booed Chavez as he attended a ceremony. But none of that has detracted much from the tournament.
But hear it for yourselves (Libertad is Freedom in Spanish):
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