A still recovering Hugo Chavez spoke directly about the protestors of “Occupy Wall Street” last night and the crowds erupted in joy.
The South American strongman condemned the repression of the protestors and added, “This movement of popular outrage is expanding to 10 cities and the repression is horrible, I don't know how many are in prison now," Chavez said in comments at a political meeting in his Caracas presidential palace shown on state TV.”
Chavez’s comments spread through the crowd in New York as well as other cities and elated demonstrators cheered. As Chavez's speech from Venezuela was played on electronic devices in the crowd a giant hammer and sickle was hoisted in New York.
Brandt Hayes a 21 year old college student cheered Chavez and told the EP, “See that’s a people’s revolutionary, that’s my leader!
Chants for Chavez spontaneously broke out during and after the speech at cities across the US after comments such as, "Poverty's growing, the misery is getting worse," he said, referring to the causes of the U.S. protests.
A 22 year old woman who has camped out for 2 weeks in New York and said her name was “Cadre” was also visibly elated to hear Chavez. Cadre said she quit her job in order to be a part of OWS and added, “if sicko Christians want to pray, let them pray that we have a leader like Hugo Chavez! The future belongs to the people and so do the minds of American children who will one day bask in a workers paradise free from the chains of their brainwashed American parents!
Sunday morning Occupy movements were still abuzz with rebroadcasts of Chavez’s address. Excitement among the crowd of protestors also began to build as word spread that a representative from North Korea was planning to address the group later this week.
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