Cowboy in Caracas, by Charlie Hardy: on Foreign Policy


Charlie Hardy: I support peaceful revolution; Chavez is not a dictator

After the 2002 coup attempt, wife Susana told me there was no need to hurry back to Venezuela. At that moment maybe I could do more for the country within the US. I returned to Cheyenne. There I saw an editorial: "Venezuela's Chavez must be confronted", in the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle. In her editorial, she tried to portray Chavez as a dictator. [I wrote an opposing editorial] but I was given the impression that anyone who would write something in favor of the Chavez government was off his rocker.

At the same time, another newspaper, Vheadline.com, contacted me to ask if they could reprint the editorial. I don't know how they had gotten hold of it, but with that my life took a turn. For forty years I had tried to be an advocate for the oppressed throughout the world.

In light of all the negative reporting in the U.S. press I decided that I should try to put my writing talents to work in favor of the peaceful revolution that was happening in Venezuela.

Source: Cowboy in Caracas, by Charles Hardy,p. 67-8 Apr 1, 2007

  • The above quotations are from Cowboy in Caracas
    A North American's Memoir of Venezuela's Democratic Revolution
    by Charles Hardy    .
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