Hugo Chavez's Controversial Speech

"The devil came here yesterday"

Background of Chavez’s Speech
Hugo Chavez made such a controversial speech in the UN general assembly on September 2005. It addressed the issues that have been created by the George W.Bush ,the President of the United Stated who he nicknamed the "the devil". In addition Chavez characterized USA as the country of militant and capitalist. He mentioned George W.Bush abetted the international terrorism and Bush should be imprisoned by the international crime court for commiting geonocide.
Although , some may view the speech was undiplomatic because he personally attacked George W.Bush's wrongdoings but it created huge impact to the world to see a leader from a underdevelop country criticising a leader from the first world country. I personally think what Chavez said was true especially about the USA being addicted to going for Wars for no specific reason and labelling others nation as terrorisms without having a valid prove. Chavez highlighted the "imperalists sees others as extremists". Furthermore, Chaves pointed out that Bush wants to control over the world through hegemonotic system of domination. According to oxford dictionary , hegemony means the processes by which a dominant culture maintains its dominant position.
Chavez was bravely stating that UN is merely an organisation because UN do not have the power to change the terrible events that are happening around the world. He stated when the Israelli attacked Lebonan , UN just watched from far without doing anything to stop horrible act created by israelli. Shockingly, he said that the American people are deceived by their own government because they are sent to Iraq by their own government for no reason and this prove that USA restrict the freedom of the citizen through the Patriot Act. I feel so too, what sort of goverment willing to sacrifice their own nation just to fulfill their wishes in conquering the world .Chavez said the UN was found in the era of superpowers whicha are "THE SOVIET UNION" and "THE UNITED STATE". The soviet union was movement collapsed and according to Chavez The united state will go down as well in the nearest future for the best of humankind. Chavez also stated his interest to explore the nuclear energy .

Background of Chavez
Chavez borned in July 28,1954 . He is the leader of bolivarian revolution. He promotes socialism political, doctrine, latin american integrating anti-imperalism. He started his career as military officer but later on established "left wing 5th Republic movement" after his Venezuealian coup attempt in 1992 agaisnt Carlos Andrés Pérez, the former President of Venezueala. Despite that, Chavez managed to attract national spotlight. He was elected as the President in 1998 after winning his campaign that promise to cater the need of the Venezuela's pooer majority. In 2000 and 2006, he was reelected and he started his bolivarian mission that focuses to eliminate disease, illiteracy, malnutrition, poverty, and other social ills.

Chavez's style of speech

In my opinion, the speech was made Chavez was daring and controversial but managed to capture people's attention around the world. Although, it may not seem diplomatic, however I believe it is difficult to be diplomatic in addressing the issues that relating to USA ways of combating terrorism and USA want dominating world. I think his speech have created some awareness for people from the developing country who are unaware of the USA government tactic. In addition, he also inform how the USA government is deceiving their people. Furthermore, he said UN is so weak with having the authority go against the violence that are happening the world. He named USA is the superpower now that will go down and it is the best for the humanity. I believe he mentioned he wanted to explore nuclear power because he feels he should follow the footstep of Iran which could bring some good in his country technological development.Overall, I think Chavez made an informative speech by revealing what actually are occurring in the world today is created by Bush administration.



My opinion on Chavez ‘s personality
Due to his daring ,out-spoken remarks that he likes to make in his speeches, he was named one of the 100 influential people in the world.


In term of his personality, I think he's a firm believer in what he does. He stand strongly for his ideas and thoughts. The best attributes that he possesses is that he is not afraid to point out the errors made by influential and power leader like George W.Bush. Furthermore, I think he has a strong empathy toward other nations. He doesn’t seem to discriminate people from other races or backgrounds. From his speech we could see that he is strongly against any violent and oppression that occurring around the world that caused by the US and Israel. I feel like many world leaders have the same thoughts as him but they afraid to come forward and express themselves. I believe Chavez is aiming at achieving peace around the world and helping his poor nation prosper in term of economic development. He rejected the Washington Consensus because he felt the consensus will only benefit USA. Thus, he is cooperating with the other South America poorest nation in prospering their economic development together.

Bytheway,the group that presented Hugo Chavez ‘s speech did a good especially where they had Umi Khairani repeating the words “The devil here” couple of times made me curious at first but later on I understood what the speech was all about.