Why chavez hates the us

A Pew survey released in December found support for the US had soared in Europe following Barack Obama's election as president - even though a significant "values gap" remained over attitudes towards cultural and religious issues. Bush's "cowboy demeanour" made it easier to meld distaste for American culture and society with opposition to US foreign policy, says Brendon O'Connor of the University of Sydney and author of The Rise of Anti-Americanism.

Oddly, the most recent international figure to have been accused of anti-Americanism is the South Korean pop star Psy, best known for his global hit Gangnam Style. The rapper apologised after it emerged that in he had performed a song that described killing "Yankees" who had tortured Iraqi prisoners and killing their families "slowly and painfully". You can follow the Magazine on Twitter and on Facebook. Anti-US feelings remain strong in much of the Muslim world.

Obama's election in coincided with a change in attitudes towards the US. Psy apologised for his attack on "Yankees". This may have been going too far even for Hugo Chavez. So Venezuela has a strange political culture where being friendly with the U. But the United States had all sorts of contact with the coup plotters before they made their move against Chavez in But immediately after the overthrow, the Bush administration blamed Mr.

Yes, the United States was hosting people involved in the coup before it happened. There was involvement of U. And in the immediate aftermath of the coup, the United States government said that it was a resignation, not a coup, effectively recognizing the government that took office very briefly until President Chavez returned. And we know that the United States made quick efforts to have the coup government recognized as legitimate.

The Bush government, immediately after the coup, blamed it on Chavez. And some of the coup plotters met with officials at the U.

Donate today to be a part of this important mission. We trust these people to inform us? Chavez has been elected several times by a majority of the Venezuelan people and this proves that the U.

Our foreign policy in many countries has created a certain hostility towards the U. The U. The difficulties that we have with Chavez are of our own making and we have only ourselves to blame for it. Government as the Venezuelan people, based on recent history, might just blame the U.

In this case the U. But experts are divided on whether chavismo can outlive its charismatic namesake. Some foreign policy observers believe that, even if Maduro wins, ties could improve between the U. The vice president Maduro is not pro-U. Still, the U.

Dan Restrepo, a former senior Latin American affairs advisor in the Obama administration, told Univision that Maduro's decision to expel U. Nobody knows exactly how different and what direction that's going to go," he added. Eric Farnsworth, vice president of the Council of the Americas and Americas Society, said that it's in Maduro's political self-interest to maintain Venezuela's current tack against the United States.

He's got to keep tensions high with the United States. In a statement, President Barack Obama said his administration would seek to build a "constructive relationship with the Venezuelan government" moving forward, adding that the U.

In , Chavez helped scuttle the U. As a Latin American alternative to the U. In , Chavez again played a major role with the creation of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, made up of hemispheric partners, excluding the United States and Canada. The Bank of the South, also promoted by Chavez, seeks greater South-South monetary and financial autonomy. With stops and starts, these initiatives have moved regional integration forward outside the historic model of U.

What happens next? Venezuela held an emotional funeral on March 8 and is planning for April elections. Most predict that Vice President Nicolas Maduro, selected by Chavez as his successor, will win easily. The State Department views dimly the prospect of an improved U. It disappointed us. The Venezuelan government also announced the expulsion of two U.