Chavista

Last week, a court sentenced Francisco Pérez, a columnist for El Carabobeño newspaper, to three years and nine months in jail for accusing a "chavista" mayor of nepotism. ❋ Rory Carroll In Caracas (2010)

It's the feel for this kind of chavista fanaticism that I always find hardest to convey to my leftie friends back in the U.S. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Calixto is the kind of chavista pseudo democrats that loves to have an opposition in parliament as long as this one is never more than 10% of the seats and thus easily shut up. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Last week a court sentenced Francisco Pérez, a columnist for the paper El Carabobeno, to three years and nine months in jail for accusing a "chavista" mayor of nepotism. ❋ Unknown (2010)

These "chavista" officials are not remotely interested in radical change, speaking in the name of the Revolution but subverting it at every step. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Anti - chavista candidates won 52% of the popular vote, which was especially impressive considering how the rules favored Mr. Ch á vez's candidates. ❋ Unknown (2010)

OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza, a washed-up Chilean Socialist, bends to every whim of his chavista task masters. ❋ Mary Anastasia O'Grady (2011)

The more populist Mr. Capriles may be the best any anti- chavista can hope for. ❋ Mary Anastasia O'Grady (2012)

Despite a record of chavista election chicanery, the loyal opposition insists that Mr. Chávez can be beaten if the anti-Chávez vote unites behind a single candidate. ❋ Mary Anastasia O'Grady (2012)

There is a lower devaluation rate but that rate is reserved for the chavista elites only, the hoi poloi will have to put up with the real rate, still below the street rate of the country. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Since 2006, when Chávez swept to a second term, the opposition has slowly clawed back support, winning governorships and mayorships in poor urban areas such as Petare, once a "chavista" bastion, on the promise of improving security, rubbish disposal and pothole-filling. ❋ Unknown (2012)

•That several contries are trying to meddle into our soberanity by promising to send troops into our country to reinstate a fellow chavista to power ❋ Unknown (2009)

The administration is pushing a policy that divides Honduras and bolsters a chavista. ❋ Mary Anastasia O'Grady (2010)

It's hard to imagine what the U.S. thinks it achieves with a policy that divides Hondurans while strengthening the hand of a chavista. ❋ Mary Anastasia O'Grady (2010)

Venezuelan consumers know that chavista management of Polar isn't likely to be any more successful than its adventures in coffee. ❋ Unknown (2010)

See the chavistas cheer as [Hugo Chavez] steels more land and assign it to "groups of the population" and "[organized] communities" from [rural] areas. ❋ Viper (2005)

iTodos los Chavistas [juntos] como [hermanos]! iCon Chavez, Venezuela es del [pueblo]! ❋ VivaCheGuevara (2005)

the [apes] are stealing [bananas]. the apes are eating [dunky] shit ❋ Carmona (2005)

[That right there] is a chavista. ❋ A Friendly Purple Hedgehog (2006)