He says some inflammatory things, but he says them in Spanish so I have to rely on the American media to translate them and put them in context...and given the American media's history of misrepresenting politics in South America to protect American interests or diminish the effects of US meddling, I really have no reason to believe the hype.
I've heard and can understand him in the original Spanish, and I can tell you that what he's said is pretty well as craptacular as the media translates it to be. Granted that the US media tends to focus on the times he's being anti-american, so the fact that they're reporting factually on him at those times doesn't preclude the reality that their reporting would still be biased.
But yeah, the guy is a dangerous fuckhead. Mainly because he's such an egomaniac that he couldn't possibly bear being out of the spotlight in a quiet retirement. It just wouldn't be in him. The only way he'll go is if he's forced out, either by his own people, the military, or some outside force.
His first reaction to the referendum going against him, apparently, was to rant and rave and threaten to ignore the results, until (allegedly) he underwent some gentle "convincing" by the armed forces implying that they wouldn't back him if he tried this.
So now, he's trying to do the runaround on this.
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