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Nobel Peace Prize 2005: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez makes the final list
VHeadline.com Venezuela
Friday, September 30, 2005
Carlos Herrera
The Nobel Commission for the Peace Prize has received 199 nominations including Colin Powell, the U2 singer Bono and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
In the final highly-secret list, there are 163 individuals and 36 organizations, which is an all time record according to the commission secretary Geir Lundestad.
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Other accomplishments, which have been pushed by Chavez’ personal leadership in Venezuela are the Social Missions, all grouped under the humanitarian banner of Mision Cristo (Christ's Mission). The most important of these, Mision Robinson has taught 1.4 million Venezuelans to read and write; Mision Barrio Adentro (Neighborhood Within) offers free primary healthcare in the poor areas and is now reaching 14 million Venezuelans out of a population of approximately 25 million; Mision Mercal sells cheap staple foods and has impacted more than half the population at the time of writing.
Chavez, however, is up against some very stiff competition including Colin Powell (for his efforts to end the 21-year civil war in Sudan); the ex-governor of Illinois, George Ryan (for his campaign to abolish the death sentence in the US); Israeli Mordechai Vanunu (for denouncing the existence of nuclear weapons in his country); the Japanese Hidankyo group (survivors of the US' atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki).
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(I doubt he can win even though he deserves it.)
On a side note.. people like chavez, w00t!
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I dont actually believe in strongly any of the politial ideologies that most people do on this site. I'm putting this, since it has caused some confusion when I post. I not communist, or anarchist, etc. I do happen to enjoy much of the discussion that takes place here.
I think in comparison to Powell, Ryan, and Vanunu, Chavez already has results. Unlike Powell - the crisis in Sudan is still horrible and is getting worse, Ryan - The Death penalty still exists in the United States, and Vanunu who may have spent 18 years in prision still never accomplished to keep nukes out of Israel.
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
-Oscar Wilde
I think i could see that vanunu would also merit sutch an award. Powell was perfectly willing to go to war with iraq, he shouldnt get it.
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-Karl Marx
It is only by strengthening ourselves ideologically, inculcating in ourselves the values and ideals of the struggle and building up the ranks of the revolutionary party that we will make it.
- Ta Power
Based on what has physicall been a achived Chavez should win
Based on how much suffering for your casue was done i think Vanunu should win
A record number of women were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize this year, over 1,000. There is even a beautifully created website dedicated to that: www.1000peacwomen.org, two of which are from my beloved Puerto Rico for kicking out the destructive U.S. Navy from our island of Vieques. I wrote about them on my blog: TresCaminos
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I like the Lenin Peace Prize better, eh?
Nobel peace price is a joke. Even Hitler was nominated for it. Musollini and Stalin were nominated for it TWICE.
People like Mother Teresa and Dalai Lama got it without contributing anything to anyone. Mother Teresa basically ran off with donation hardly helping any poor people...and why was Dalai even NOMINATED?
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We shall be masters of all under heaven!
Not to mention that Dr. Henry Kissinger shared the Nobel Peace Prize for bombing Vietnam into the Stone Age.
Nobel Peace Prize = worthless piece of metal
My prize = the uplift of my people
BTW Borincano, I checked out the TresCaminos website, pretty interesting
Do u know anyother websites that can link me to other socially conscious Latinos, so as to improve our community?
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Yeah once Kissinger got it, they should have changed the name..
Something like Nobel War Prize would have been much more fitting,
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