The Aztec vampire princess Qonzilqointec wept when she heard the news of the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
Chavez had been her Comrade-in-Arms as she fought to help the conditions of the poor, workers and peasants of Latin America.
He had been a dear friend.
Qonzilqointec buried her head in her pillow.
Her tears poured out like rain.
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Magog Rhys Petley drank a silent toast- in buttermilk- to his dear friend Hugo Chavez- his Comrade.
Although Chavez- particularly in the last few years of his life- had talked openly about his belief in Christ- a subject of irritation to Petley who was a true atheistic materialistic Marxist- he still admired the man.
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"Hugo Chavez was a great man," Dracul Van Helsing said to Hyung, "I didn't agree with all of his policies but he wasn't the ogre the brainless American right (to say nothing of our idiotic Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper) made him out to be. He truly cared about the poor of his country and realized that an extreme form of laissez-faire capitalism like that espoused by those walking undead who make up the far U.S. Republican right wouldn't help them. An all-embracing Marxism isn't the way either but Chavez never did impose an all-embracing Marxism on Venezuela like Lenin did in Russia or Mao in China or Pol Pot in Cambodia. And he did believe in Jesus Christ- something not true of most Marxists who are atheists."
"What will happen in Venezuela now?" Hyung asked.
"I don't know," Dracul said, "but I think history will judge it a tragic thing that Chavez succumbed to his cancer and wasn't able to complete his Presidency. What happens now could spell a dark future. But as for Chavez, a government statement issued hours before he died said that he was "clinging to Christ". And that's who we all should cling to. So I say of Hugo Chavez, Rest eternal grant him O Lord and may Light perpetual shine upon him."
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