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Then on June 28, Romero headlined, "Venezuela, Like Castro, Has Brother at the Ready," saying:
"To the many comparisons....between Venezuela and Cuba - two close allies, both infused with revolutionary zeal, driven by movements that revere their leaders - consider one more: the presidential brother, stepping in during a time of illness."
Stepping in? Apparently, Romero sees something diabolical about a brother with another one during illness. Only major media hacks could manufacture scenarios out of their imagination or home office orders.
In this case, Romero called Adan Chavez "a physicist whose radical thinking has often been to the left of the president," while failing to say he supports social justice and democracy like his brother - anathema ideas, in fact, for his Times bosses.
Through July 3, Chavez was in Havana, recuperating from major surgery, in fact, expected to remain there for one or more months. However, on July 4 at 2:00AM Venezuelan time, Telesur showed him arriving home. In footage aired about five hours later, he said, "I'm fine, I'm happy. A perfect landing."
In a later telephone interview, he said he was having breakfast, "devouring everything." He also explained he went through "very difficult days" but his recovery is going well. In fact, he arrived a day before the 200th anniversary of Venezuela's declaration of independence from Spain, establishing the Republic of Venezuela.
Today's Bolivarianism, in fact, symbolizes Simon Bolivar's defeat of Spanish colonizers, liberating half of South America from what he called the imperial curse "to plague Latin America with misery in the name of liberty."
Swallowing some crow no doubt, Romero headlined, "Chavez Returns to Venezuela," saying:
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