Compare and Contrast: Obama’s Reaction to the Deaths of King Abdullah and Hugo Chávez
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Hugo Chávez was #elected President of Venezuela four times from 1998 through 2012 and was #admired and supported by a large majority of that country’s citizens, largely due to his policies that helped the #poor. King Abdullah was the #dictator and tyrant who ran one of the most repressive regimes on the planet.
The effusive praise being heaped on the brutal Saudi despot by western media and political figures has been nothing short of nauseating; the UK Government, which arouses itself on a daily basis by issuing self-consciously eloquent lectures to the world about #democracy, actually ordered flags flown all day at half-mast to honor this repulsive monarch. My Intercept colleague Murtaza Hussain has an excellent article about this whole spectacle, along with a real obituary, here.
I just want to focus on one aspect: a comparison of the statements President Obama issued about the 2013 death of President Chávez and the one he issued today about the Saudi ruler. Here’s the entire Obama statement about Chávez (h/t Sami Khan):